After an easy start the wind quickly ramped up...and the clouds rolled in..,
It has been mostly rather windy today..I didn't put the recycling buckets out...apart from the fact that there is little in them...I didn't want the contents spread along the road and the buckets and trolley blown around and damaged!
The bean poles are half blown over....the beans left on there are for drying. It was a push to use them for another year this year. There will have to be new ones next year!
Today has been an indoors day.
My neighbour...not a close neighbour,more a fellow villager...collected the wire coat hangers in her car!! Safer than walking over with her young children..they are to be used to make Christmas wreaths.. I suggested that they didn't need to cut them, leave the hook on to hang them..that is how I've done it in the past. It also means that you don't have any sharp cut ends of metal....
I had to find some of my work to photograph and send the photos to a new..or rather, old, as we would have met in the 80s... acquaintance....
Definitely time to get making again!
I have been on the turbo trainer for twenty minutes this afternoon...the swelling on my left knee has reduced already...and I think my ankle benefitted from moving properly.
And apart from anything else if I want to sleep at night I need at least this much exercise!!
Tomorrow is forecast to be less windy, but the storm should be here early Sunday morning and through Monday..
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...I've used coat hangers for Christmas wreath frames too.
I just went out to get the mail and when I came in I told Judy "It's cold out there." It's been rainy and blustery today. She laughed at me but I said check the temperature and it was 44 degrees F. at 2:30 in the afternoon. We had a light sprinkling of hail amid one of our rainstorms a while ago. And just a couple of weeks ago it was 95 degrees!
I hope your leg is feeling better soon.
We had wild weather yesterday. I’ve not yet gone out to see the damage, if there is any
Wonderful pottery! I especially like the animals – – the Runninghorse and the little figurines – – but really it’s all very attractive. What are the words – – some thing about music?
Your pottery is quite striking. Wish I was closer to see it in person.
Sounds like time to batten the hatches!
I made a coat hanger Christmas wreath when I was a teenager 50 years ago and yes, I simply bent the hanger wire into a circle and left the hookon top for ease of hanging. Dry cleaner plastic bags were cut into strips and knotted onto the wire frame, then trimmed to a uniform size for the wreath itself. Then the whole thing was spray painted a festive gold colour. Thanks for bringing that memory back!
Those pieces are beautiful. Yes, get back to making again!
Kind words are the melody...or you could say music..of the world
We can't complain about not having a particular sort of weather... because we are having it all in rapid succession!! We have confused the weather gods
I remember the Christmas coat hangers from watching Blue Peter many moons ago.
There are many coat hanger pieces here. And yes , they are popular for wreaths.
It’s great that you’re able to repurpose the bean poles for drying, even if they’re not in the best shape for next year.
How lovely that your neighbor is making Christmas wreaths with the coat hangers! That’s a fantastic idea to keep the hooks on; it definitely makes things safer and easier. It’s nice to reconnect with an old acquaintance, too. Sending photos of your work must be a great way to share your creativity! Thank you for sharing your day with us. Check out my new blog post and let me know what you think. Wishing you a happy weekend! https://www.melodyjacob.com/
It's great to see some of your work again! Good idea to re-use the hangers as wreath frames. I usually give my hangers back to the cleaners, but I've often wondered if they just throw them out. Sometimes businesses are funny about re-using things.
Another applauding your beautiful pottery! Just catching up on posts - sorry about your ankle. How does chard go in this season over there? I am a big lover of silverbeet! It blew a gale here yesterday - am crossing all limbs that it got over itself and I can have a bit of hacking therapy on the citrus here today.
I am hoping that I can get the chard to overwinter to give a head start..if not I'll start fresh in Spring
I wish that your neighbor lived near. I've got an entire laundry basket of wire hangers from the reno that I need to find a home for!
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