House work and treasure!

Today, after a morning out Mike decided to pull some old panelling off the stairs to see what's beneath. The paneling is wallpapered and the paper is split so there is nothing to lose!

Hidden behind the boards, on a ledge is a small taped up package. The tape is very yellow and the paper has been nibbled by our pet silverfish!

I have met these guys before! I found and photographed their graffiti under paper in two bedrooms and in the living room, where the family left another date. They papered the living room a month before they hid this note! 

 

A 44 year old coin, which probably looked very new when it was hidden, as 1971 was the year that these coins first came into circulation. It was also the year I was born ...

My garden ...

Looks like a building site again ...



These two tiny girls hefted all that stuff about!



i bought some 10mm bungee cord off eBay and fixed the ten year old trampoline - hooray! More bouncing!



one day we went out for about an hour and a half, and came back to find these poor birds in the garden, lying quite close together. Any ideas what happened? All three children looked at them, and after them for the afternoon, before their burials!

tiger tiger ....WIP - ears!

its takes 12 small pieces of fur to make 2 tiger ears ...



here they are on the head, the fuzzy things are black pipe-cleaners that I am using to facilitate some expression ...



to have also painted inside the eyes to change the blue foam to black where it might well be seen ...

ground works ....

DAY 1 - say good bye to this lovely but old and rotting front door ...



daisy mary and matty make themselves giggle by saying, 'bye-bye chimney!'
Mummy and Louise made that collaged and stitched house number ...



our man Jamie cuts through concrete, crazy pathing and digs very hard clay to make the foundations for our new porch ...



finally, the hole is deep enough ... note that part of our old tiled step has already disappeared!



Daisy spends an hour in the window sill, watching Jamie mix cement and throw it in the L-shaped hole ...



DAY 2 - The Foremen show up and scrutinise the brick laying done by Mike ...



Builders' Tea, Strong, White-with-one ... in Wessex FM Mugs ...



Jamie digs a hole in the lawn for a new soak-away ...

smaller, cuter, furrier, lower jaw ....

with an elastic strap to help attach it to the head ...

getting ahead ...

building a new fursuit foam head, adding ears and burning my fingers with my glue gun ... a rat-like muzzle is next !

better get a head ....

big thanks to my hubby steve for letting me use his 23-inch head to make this little beauty ...