Here We Are Again!

I had a "heads up" from one of my blog readers today, (Hi, Nancy!!)
asking me " Where are you, Girl!?" - and it was only then that I
realised quite how fast time has once again flown by. I'm well and good,
but have just been very busy of late. Now that my college course has
finished, at the latter part of last year, I am discovering all the
"Projects" that seem to have become outstanding over the course of three
years that are now just crying out to be finished.

This is one such project - I am making "tops" for two display cabinets
that my friend very kindly gave me a couple of years ago. They had
originally been "built in" so had no need for "lids", but my room is
obviously taller than they were. I have now finally got around to making
two tops, with a strip of decorative Gothic moulding along the front
edge of each. They have had their first coats of paint, and will now be
dragged with the same green paint as on the bottoms of the cabinets -
only two years late, but what the heck!

Another foray into the Antiques Centre this morning, where I finally
succumbed to bringing home a dear old toy camel, about 60 years old,
that has stolen my heart, also, I think, for about two years. I have
held out all that time, but today he looked just SO sad and forlorn that
I could not resist one day longer. His ears have been all but chewed
off, so they will need replacing, but hopefully he will then be happy in
the company of all the other rescued playthings that inhabit my late
mother's bedroom. Somehow, happy childhood things seem so much at home
in there.

The rest ot my time has been taken up with finalising an online memoir
writing course, which I am just about to pilot with an initial group of
guinea pigs - er - ladies, who have courageously volunteered to test the
whole thing out. It will last for six weeks, and will hopefully combine
family and personal memoir writing with journaling techniques, to
remember and explore where we have come from, what has made us who we
are today, and how we can shape our own personal history in the future.

We will be capturing "Pearls of Memory" and stringing them together into
a unique and precious rope - our own personal family treasure. This is a
picture of one of the art & craft making projects that we will all play
with - some ideas for decorating a collection of archive boxes to our
own particular taste. I'm excited about discovering and sharing some of
my own memoirs within a community - for me, it's such a satisfying way
to write.

(End note - Lissie says that while Mother is off gallivanting, she is
the one that is REALLY left to sort out the family jewels!)

Comments

[Carolyn]

good to read your page and see you here today. The camel is adorbale and its so good he won your heart today with that forlorn look being irrestible, and that he has a new place to enjoy. I too need to post at my own blog and intend to sometime today...UMMM If i get some dates written in a time line UHHUM :-) so peak on me later perhaps at my blog
Signed,
Guinea piglet :-)

[Nancy]

Hello Roz! Glad to see you back. But, happy that you've been enjoying yourself.