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@Lori posted:That's so cool! How'd you make that??
By cutting tapered strips of junk mail leaflets, wrapping them around a cocktail stick, glazing with a clear glue, once dry slide off the stick and thread a thin elastic through the hole, adding beads or other decorative detail, salvaged from broken pieces of jewellery acquired ....Real easy to do...
I used to make them, then sell them for £2.00 in the pop up charity shop.......all proceeds from the shop went towards giving the local dementia group days out & to the foodbank next door to where we were.
Well, it's very cool, and I would wear that!
@slimfern posted:By cutting tapered strips of junk mail leaflets, wrapping them around a cocktail stick, glazing with a clear glue, once dry slide off the stick and thread a thin elastic through the hole, adding beads or other decorative detail, salvaged from broken pieces of jewellery acquired ....Real easy to do...
I used to make them, then sell them for £2.00 in the pop up charity shop.......all proceeds from the shop went towards giving the local dementia group days out & to the foodbank next door to where we were.
Wow ....I’m impressed ...said by someone who has no practical skills whatsoever 
@Lori posted:Well, it's very cool, and I would wear that!
Thanks Lori....That was my very first attempt...they did get a little better with practice 
I made a colour coordinated necklace (with pendant) & bracelet set, for my friend as a birthday gift....which she still wears to this day
@Baz posted:Awwww
He was on our balcony....I know they run out of puff and need to rest...a little sugar rush helped him on his way
Bet your birds were a bit put out by the invasion
I have a massive Lilac tree in Bulgaria which is home to a swarm....is lovely to sit on the back step and listen to the hum...watch them busying themselves around the garden
@slimfern posted:He was on our balcony....I know they run out of puff and need to rest...a little sugar rush helped him on his way
Bet your birds were a bit put out by the invasion
I have a massive Lilac tree in Bulgaria which is home to a swarm....is lovely to sit on the back step and listen to the hum...watch them busying themselves around the garden
Awwww Yes , birds were put out ....we usually had blue tits in there ......but my lovely forum FMs brought me three more bird boxes for my birthday last year , so I’m hoping I now have enough for everyone ! I’ve just been out in the garden doing some pruning ....aka chopping plants about ...and I saw a bumble bee and a butterfly ....so summer is coming .
@Baz posted:Awwww
Yayy I like the sound of that ....the hotter the better!
We have a very mature Hawthorn in our front garden which houses fat balls etc & the odd bird rest, for the small birds....also have a couple of palm trees....when the leaves drop but don't fall off...the smaller birds like to use them to have a good scratch
@slimfern posted:Yayy I like the sound of that
We have a very mature Hawthorn in our front garden which houses fat balls etc & the odd bird rest, for the small birds....also have a couple of palm trees....when the leaves drop but don't fall off...the smaller birds like to use them to have a good scratch
@slimfern posted:A bit of our front garden....It' needs it's annual spring tidy....the bind weed from next door's garden is a pain in the proverbial
To the left is the hawthorn....right is a palm that I planted in 1993 ...it has shots growing out from the base...there's another palm a bit further over
Awwww ....I bet it’s nice sitting on the bench during the sunny weather .
What's that lovely flowering tree, slim?
Ah, I see. It really is lovely!
