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Feb

15

Love medley

I don’t remember Valentine’s Day playing any kind of role in my childhood, beyond a secret yearning for one of those vast and (I now realise) hideous padded cards, complete with saccharine verse inside. Valentine’s Day was for lovesick and sickening teenagers and dutiful married people.

I can remember the giddy expectant joy of it all as a teenager. Oh, and the crashing disappointment. And, worse, the shame when I realised the card I was so, so sure was from the Love Of My Life turned out to be from my mother. Unfortunately this was after I’d told all my friends, rather jubilantly, that He Loved Me. Blushes…

But somehow Valentine’s Day seems to belong to children now too. And I’m cool with that. We made cards for the boys’ little girlfriends, and some presents too ..including a very, um, ‘individual’ bag designed by Diggy for his One Great Love (Clara), made by me under his watchful eye and decorated by him. Alas it was whisked away to His Love before I could get a photo. Take it from me…it’s quite a sight…

And now I’ve got sucked in to buying little Valentine’s gifts for the boys from us too. I’ve even puzzled myself with that one. Whatever.

So, above, is a small selection of the Love Gifts exchanged in our house yesterday. Coffee spoons from me to MrSpud, a heart of bells from me to MrSpud, a card from him to me, the Twitterature book from him to me, fabulous handmade butterfly broaches from him to me….

I win, of course. See the background? Pretty isn’t it. It’s a tea towel. From me to him. The memory of those saucepans is alive and well…

Who said romance was dead? MrSpud said it first and loudest with those bloody saucepans. Grudge….grudge…

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Jun

30

Ten Tiny Things

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Scooting in right at the last minute for this challenge, which ends today, but I couldn’t resist it! Lesley of Funky Art Queen laid down the gauntlet in the shape of a Ten Tiny Things challenge, the rules being:
1) find 10 tiny things and group them together
2) photograph them
3) post about them on your blog
4) go to Funky Art Queen’s blog and leave a comment

The photo above is my entry, and happily it also doubles as a tribute shot to Julochka who got me hooked on this whole blog thing. I ‘found’ Julochka through her now infamous Moo card photo, and started stalking following her on flickr and then on her blog. I’m going the whole way and will be stalking her to her home for Blog Camp 2.0. She doesn’t seem very afraid, yet. Puzzling.

So this is my entry for the Ten Tiny Things challenge, totally copied from inspired by Julocka’s masterpiece…and contains ten tiny hearts, ten tiny pegs, ten tiny Moo card and ten photos of my tiny boys.

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Jun

18

Small Red Things

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Whilst pondering my 5 random favourite things today I considered ‘Small Blue Thing’ by Suzanne Vega as one of my song choices. But then I remembered how dreary it is and the fact that I hearted it as a teenager is no basis for its inclusion, since all teenagers are hard-wired to be gloomy and full of drear.

These days I like small red things. And here’s a collection of them…my brand new red Moleskin notebook (I can’t bear to take the wrapping off, because then I’ll have to start writing in it and spoil it)…a red, glass heart which child2 tries to eat if I’m not looking…my gorgeous Momiji doll( a gift from the Wife, complete with a secret shoved up her bottom…the doll not the Wife), a pin cushion in the shape of a cake and…inspired…a bottle of rose!

It’s never ‘really’ summer Chez Spud until we’ve cracked on with the rose. So i bought some in anticipation of al fresco wining and dining this weekend, since we have planned to go camping for the first time.

I checked the weather forecast. Rain. I should have known.