Last weekend.....Part 4..."Flo's" trinkets

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We're back! Home from Amsterdam, we had a great time, but it's good to get back to wee Mary and the chickens. Though I'm going to miss the amazing dutch pancakes, bacon and maple syrup breakfasts I've been enjoying the last couple of days, back to porridge as they say. It's been a very lazy afternoon, perfect for catching up on the goings on in blogland, a lot can happen in a few days!

The long awaited for Part 4....Flo was a lady after my own heart, and loved a trinket or two. I was lucky enough to take these beauties home with me and they've fitted right into their new surroundings....

fish friends planter, what's not to love?

This naughty little lady ash tray, skirt in the air, her legs swinging back and forth

New comers to the deer pack

The window sill is getting crowded, I think I need a house like Raes

A lucky black cat!

And last but not least, a very cute owl air freshener

Mary enjoying the sunshine x       

                                                                                                                                         

Everything on Display

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Over Christmas I started a display wall in our bedroom, I figured what's the point in having quirky little bits and bobs if they're always hidden away? Some of the things I've pinned have meaning,history or were presents, some are things I've collected, thrifted or made, and others I just think are pretty. The centre piece for the wall, a string of coloured lights, a Christmas present from Bob and other than that I didn't have any particular plan when I was arranging stuff, it's all quite random, although I've grouped heart shaped objects together. I've been adding to the wall, so it will evolve with time, this time next year I'll look back and see how it has changed....at this rate there may be no wall left to see!!

just starting out....

Butterfly lights, battery powered, when lit flicker with fibre optic lights, a present from my da this Christmas.

The two little cherubs were a present from Alison in Lakota's Christmas swap and the Bonheur (Happiness) heart was a  Christmas gift from my friend Caroline

Guatamalan worry dolls, they come in a little bag, and before you go to sleep you tell them your worries in the morning they'll have taken them away, I've stuck mine in an Ikea frame, I hope they'll still work!

Two gorgeous antique spoons, another one of Alisons gifts to me in the swap, they're tiny!

I made this  little matchbox scene as a  present to the big lad for our going out for 10 months anniversairy nearly 13 years ago.....I love ewe

hearts are a theme....

Peek-a-boo!

The Collector

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Can't believe it's December 1st! Not many weekends before Christmas left I thought it would be a good idea to brave the Belfast high street today and get some pressies, maddness! I had to rush back to the car before the parking meter ran out! and after having looked through my purchases I've ended up with well not much really, though I do feel a little more Christmassy after that quick jaunt in town, the hussle and bussle, everyone half frozen walking around like zombies on speed, yes, I think I'll take my friends advice and start shopping online.
Back home now in the safety of the living room, and snuggled up on the sofa reading my book The Collector by John Fowles. The main character Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs of them. I'm sucked into this book here's the blurb 'Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables him to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicios than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate for her freedom, tries to understand him but cannot banish her contempt for everything anti-life that he stands for'
And on a lighter note here is my deer collection, Christmas decoration deer is the latest addiction, a freindly charity shop helper gave it to me for free.

Hope you're all a having a lovely weekend, I'm off to kidnap mary and keep her in my craft room xx