Valentines Day is here and my Husband made me Breakfast in bed & i received a card Handmade by
Marianne's craft room, so i had a lovely morning.
I've also had a bit of a change around on the blog site today, as i want it to be more movable. id like to know how i go about finding & following other peoples crafty blogs I'm sure there is a real simple way...I've just not seen it yet! so any advice would be greatly received.
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| A Tangle Ring in the making :) |
I've only made a few bits this week and since I've been in a bit of a new age kinda mood the crafty bits that i made reflected that. The Ring on the Mandrel was easy to make, the hardest bit was to make the ring shank more sturdy. i managed to do this by doubling the wire round the mandrel, from a 2 loop to 4 loop. then i started the wire work & bead threading.
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| Thumb Ring |
The Weave Ring was an easy design wrapping the wire round the Mandrel 3 times putting on the desired beads, then using pliers to curve the front of the ring to create a Weaving pattern
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| Thumb Ring & Weave Ring |
Next on the list was a Simple bead design using a double Tiara, i used 0.04 wire & thread the tiny beads on, it was quite relaxing, even though our dogs were running around like things from a Benny Hill sketch!!
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Anyhow i decided to make a Ring to match, A Swirl Ring, that is in the shape of a figure 8. This is symbol for prosperity and is said to attract money & good fortune. So ill let you know!!
So in between all this making I’ve been doing some thinking
(surprise, surprise) and it started with self-reflection, I’ve felt lost and
bereft these past few weeks. there has been a deep sense of loss at the very
core of me, a feeling I have only ever felt once before (when my Mam passed
away) so to stop us all feeling suicidal and boring you to submission I shall
tell a long process short! I started to go back to my basic core beliefs,
letting go of all I had become and believe that life has an energy of its own
and that life communicates with us every day…we just need to listen. My own
leap of faith!
Anyhow its been freezing this past week and a plant that
belonged to my mother was in the conservatory- it froze, I noticed the leaves had
turned black, when I brought it into the house it began to flop and collapse , i thought at least if it was still in the conservatory it would look alive, but that is no answer and deep down id know it was dying! I had
no choice but to do the very thing I had to do within myself….cut it back to
basics, it was so hard to cut the broken washed out steams from my Mams plant, but
I had to do it. I’m tending to its needs at the moment, watering it, keeping it
warm and loving it….this was so mirrored what was happening to me on an internal level.
There have been lots of times I have had the universe speak
to me, one particular time I recall was I had recently become single and had
taken myself away for a few days, as I walked along the beach front, thinking
of how I may never experience true love, I saw some work lorries driving in the
sand and In the sand I saw the tyres had made two hearts, I couldn’t believe
it, I took a pic (below) and thought "wow if my Mam was here now!", I turned to
look at the beach huts only to face one called “me & thee” a saying my Mam
often said! I was gob smacked. The universe was talking to me once again, a few months later I contacted
my 1st real love and now we’re married.
Obviously now is a time when i need to change my perspective on life & it happens to coincide with my colorimeter testing i had done last week, i looked through a machine and they placed coloured lights onto some text and i had to choose which colours worked best for me, some where awful, some where ok, some i couldn't even see! Anyhow it topped up i need purple lenses to help with my vision,as soon as the glasses are here i will have a new perspective on things lmao!
