Hand it to me!

I enjoy photography, and so do many of my friends. Here is one of them, who knows the value of recording our personal stories ... I think we met in 1989 or 90 ... but thats going back a bit, for me!



The other day He surprised me with this picture of my hand, taken when I was a slip of a girl, almost 20 years ago (cough).



I almost didn't recognise this smooth and slightly chubby limb as mine, so long have I been looking down at my hands of late, as a craft worker and Mummy.


These hands have seen a lot of Arts and crafts, lived in different places and nursed four daughters. They currently paint, sew, clean, carry, chop and mix and turn pages, and type - I actually like computers now! Which is handy ...

homely crafting ...

I did this home-improvement craft a while ago, and just didn't get to share it ...



a friend of mine thinks this is the best treatment for pipework ever ... I saw something like it a long time ago done with socks!

Three Eggs ... home grown ...

Three fresh eggs, three different sizes ... now we have had a wind-egg before, but what's this?



a dinosaur egg, me thinks!



And it really is a whopper, poor chicken, well done to my Buff Orpington!

House Work Again!

and the cat was ready to roll!



and the ceiling was sealed!



Meanwhile, in the Garden, after the rain had gone ...

Swing-seat Repair...

One morning at a friend's house, I sat and tore up a duvet and three pillow-cases, scored in a free-cycle win! Then set about making a new seat for this children's garden toy, a favourite of some good friends of ours!



When it is done, children quickly jump on - our little friend here is Boots, and he sat on the seat all afternoon, when we had gone home!



His sister Eleanor is looking forward to eating ice lollies and swinging again!

Hello again Edward Tulane!

feeling naked?



Mary points out all the things I have left to do on him!

no not-new plaster!

I first coated some new plaster today, plaster which was new in Feb of 2008, when Mary was still in my big belly ... so, I am pretty pleased about that!