Enjoyable Day.

Categories: life-in-general

Tags: making stuff

Date: 20 January 2011 16:51:39

I've not been working  - no students wanted a lesson today - so I spent a couple of hours tidying up the study, and sorting out the new crafty stuff that I bought at Noz yesterday. Noz is a shop that sells end of line things, end of promotion, damaged goods and other products that are "left over" in some way. You have to have time to look - luckily (?) yesterday I had a student cancel at very short notice, so I can charge her 15€ cancellation fee AND I had time to search Noz for craft stuff. Huzzah! I got two sets of odds and sods for scrapbooking for 1,50€ each - there are ribbons, brads, bows, buttons, braid. Really lovely, colour co-ordinated bits. Plus some card/envelope combos for 1,00€, stick-ons, skeleton leaves and other fab stuff. I was one happy Dormouse.

Then I started on Paul's Box. Danièle has asked me to decorate a box that she can put certain mementoes of Paul in - his watch, and small items like that. She requested something that is natural. I found a sheet of leaves in an art shop, so I've cut out some of them and stuck them on. I'm pretty pleased with it so far: the backing paper has gone a little wrinkly, but I think it's acceptable. I want to put some quotations inside the lid: I plan on using the one from the card that was given to Erin's (from SoF) family after her sudden death:

Our loved ones


leave behind spaces in the world


that can never be filled.


But they also leave behind


love and light in each one of us:


sparks of joy and hope


that live in our hearts


and give strength to our souls.


I want to  find some others in French as well. I'll have to search the interweb. But at the moment, the glue is drying  . I'll have to wait until Saturday  to finish it as I'm working tomorrow. But it was nice to spend the day doing crafty things and listening to Radcliffe & Maconie on the BBC Listen Again.

I also posted a recipe on my other blog (Fat Dormouse Getting Thinner) for Thai Autumn Soup. It was our lunch time winter warmer. It's cold here - we've had a sprinkling of snow - which reminds me, I'll need to put the cover on the car. We don't have a garage, but have recently bought a complete cover for the car. It saves an awful lot of scraping-ice-from-the-windscreen time in the early mornings.

So, a pleasant day being creative. I'll post photos of the box when I've finished it.