Hawthorn's Heart💓thon 4 February 2017

I suppose I've always been making things.  As a small child I remember doing cross stitch.  Move on a few decades and I still make things.  Now I try my hand at all sorts of things.

Below is an example of a necklace I made using the Kumihimo technique but on a card (click here to read more about this and a search on Google will find many more examples - Shirley Berlin's Green book is excellent) and not a Marudai stand (click here to read about the Marudai).  Once I'd made it I knew it would need a special bead and was lucky to find a heart-shaped bead with a big hole in it so I could thread my braid through.

As you can see I also have a small collection

of heart-shaped beads, in fact I have quite a few!

One just has to have a stash of stuff ....

Hawthorn's Heart💓thon 3 February 2017

Funny how two people can view the same object so differently!  A good friend of ours (really Beloved's friend) met up with a lady a few years ago and they are now married.  She is turning his house (their house as she sold hers last year) into a home, well I think that is the modern turn of phrase these days!  Beloved describes most of the stuff she has bought as TAT.  So shortly before Christmas 2015 I saw this gold heart for sale (I think I paid as much as £1.50 for it) and bought it.  I duly wrapped it up for Christmas and on the accompanying card stated he now had his own TAT.  I seem to recall he was not overwhelmed by it .....

Surprisingly he still has it!

I think it is quite nice but .....

Hawthorn's Heart💓thon 2 February 2017

I decided at the last moment to take part in Hawthorn's Heart💓thon and then spent a frantic few hours looking for hearts at home!  I was pleasantly surprised at how easily I found 14.

Today's offering is a fridge magnet; not exciting until I realised it was heart-shaped!