I promised, last week, to share with you some Textile Art, made by yours truly. [grins] – So, Ladles and Jellyspoons, may I introduce … The Copper Topped Lavender Mob.
Three enchanted mushrooms mounted on a piece of aged, half round, wood which was cut and sanded smooth for me by Mr.Cobs.
The wood was treated and sealed, and then finished in a way that I love – it has a soft sheen to it and it’s as smooth as a baby’s you know what! It has a beautiful softness and warmth about it, and picks out the various shades of natures gift.
The mushrooms began life as part wire armature, with a selection of fabrics which go through a process of: washing, – dying, – staining, – then a lot of sewing, followed by colouring with a type of fabric paint, and finally, finished with whatever I felt the mushrooms needed in order to bring them to life.Everything is sewn by hand – even the gills (on the underside) are all hand pleated and stitched into place. Likewise the frills on the mushroom stalks are sewn and stitched in place by hand.
It’s not a quick craft, but it’s certainly one I’ve fallen deeply in love with.
The end result from all the work and an abundance of patience, is something magical, normally seen only in The Land of the Fae.
Although they look quite solid – they actually aren’t. They do have a gentle stiffness to them – after all, I needed them to hold their shape and be the piece of artwork I wanted them to be. But when you touch them, they have a ‘give’ or a slight ‘bounce’ – just like the regular mushrooms you buy from the supermarket or greengrocer have.
The green stuff clambering over the wooden base … isn’t moss… well no actually, it is, but it’s not real moss. But the stones and stone chippings…. well they are real. As are the trail of teeny tiny oak tree leaves.Yes, they really are real.How did you harvest oak leaves so small? [I hear you ask] …. Well, what else would you expect from the Land of Fae? Tiny fairies, tiny trees, teeny tiny oak leaves. Naturally!
The ‘Copper Tops’ aren’t real copper (of course), the fabulous colour comes from them being blessed by the Sun. These mushrooms grow in the woodland areas of The Land of Fae, and like nothing more than stretching their necks right up, in order to catch some of the sun rays, ~ from which they get their coppery sun tan!
Oh, and of course … as artists of the world do … the Copper Topped Lavender Mob are signed on the underside of the base ….
…. and the Union Jack nestled in the base is there to show they are UK mushrooms, produced in the United Kingdom by a UK artist!
These photographs don’t truly show the incredibleness of this little gang of three, the pictures don’t share their magic; nor their extraordinary twinkles which happen when the light catches various parts of them; neither do the photos share the unbelievable glow they have! I roped Mr.Cobs in to see if he could capture their amazing magical glow which my camera couldn’t….
photograph by Mr. Cobs
Mr.C took the Lavender Mob outside and perched them on the bird bath, hoping that the natural light would enable photos to show exactly how lovely they are. Sadly it didn’t work. It would seem that only the naked eye can see these majestic little creatures in all their glory.
I had the most amazing, enjoyable pleasure making these wondersome creations and they encouraged and motivated me to continue my journey with Textile Art.
But …the next magical makes are to be shared another time, for I’ve kept you here more than long enough.
The Copper Topped Lavender Mob have already gone to their forever home. Daughter No.2 saw them and fell in love with them, so they now live with her, and her husband, and my magical grandson, Little Cobs. And it’s the strangest thing. but I feel bereft. It’s kind of like having a child leave home. I miss their presence.
But … now it’s time to go.
Hmmm ,,, – hang on – … there’s something I’m forgetting … [thinks] … oh crumbs! It’s the JOKES….
These are the Jokes Folks!
What do you call a parade of rabbits hopping backwards?
A receding hare-line!
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What rhymes with Orange?
No it doesn’t.
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Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl dinosaur go to the toilet?
Because the ‘p’ is silent.
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I’ll be back with some more Textile Art in the next blog post – only next time it will be something a little different.Thank you so much for coming and sharing a coffee moment with me. Have a beautiful Monday, and a truly blessed week.
In the Realm of the Fae (Fairy Land), the Elements of the Realm are represented by various things dependant upon the area where the particular Fairy Land is located. And … just like us humans, Fairy Land has the same sort of set up with Woodlands, towns, villages, counties, states, and countries!
Each ‘Town/Village/Country’ [etc] has its own way of expressing things, (just as we all have our own localised languages or terminology), and within the ‘village’ of Freckled Mushroom Wood, the four Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, are represented by some of the most incredible mushrooms I think I’ve ever seen, and it’s some rather special specimens of these Elements that I’d like to share with you today!
All the specimens are held securely in glass test tubes, which have been sealed shut with a cork.
The test tubes you see in the photographs are all the same length: 10.2cm long – that’s 4″ (inches) to us folks who still love imperial measurements, and they’re just 1.5cm wide – which is 8/12th’s of an inch (or [roughly] just over half an inch for those who don’t do fractions).
So they’re quite small, and getting those Elementals to be the right size, took some doinger … searching. I had to search high and low to find long enough, but slim enough, Elementals which would fit inside those little glass tubes. Yes I did. I did indeed sweat buckets trying to get the size right! Phew. Fairy Land gets very hot and bothersome on some days.
These are the Mushroom Elementals of Freckled Mushroom Wood, each of them embodying one of the powers of nature: Earth; Air; Fire and Water.
The task of Elementals is to look after the nature kingdom. They are responsible for the therapeutic effects you feel when outdoors amongst nature, at the beach or sea-side; at lakes and by rivers; in parks and nature areas.
A little bit like a Phoenix, these very special Elemental Mushrooms live for only a specific length of time but once they’ve reached their ‘age’, each of them cyclically regenerates itself and is reborn again as new. Each of the Elemental Mushrooms not only represents an important Element of nature, but also plays its own part in the well-being of Fairy Land.
Shall we take a peep at them individually? Let’s begin with . . .
The Fairy Mushroom Elemental:Earth
The Element of Earth shown in a Fairy Mushroom Elemental.
The Earth Elemental is responsible for creating, sustaining, and renewing life on Earth. It helps:-
Plants, grass, and even weeds to grow, and helps the Fairy Gardeners to grow all the food needed for the Fairies, Gnomes, Pixies and all the other occupants of the Land of the Fae.
It encourages Trees to reach their full height and potential. Which gives the Fairies somewhere to play hide and seek and have races with other fairies.
It helps Children to flourish and develop in a healthy or vigorous way. It also helps with the birth and growing of Fairy Babies.
It is the sole purpose of all the elements, since it represents a basis for each of them.
Earth is the element of our planet and how got its name by it too.
The Earth Element has one very important job in Fairy land … it helps fairies to find their way home from wherever they may be. It’s a little bit like a satellite. It has a certain ‘vibration’ to it, which each Fairy recognises, and so can fly home whenever they wish, be it night or day!
The Fairy Mushroom Elemental: Air
TheAir Element is important in that it connects all the other elements. It’s invisible, but that doesn’t make it less important than any other, because, well, without it, we couldn’t exist!
The element of Air gives us
what we need for our lungs to function
opens our Souls
is important for the first breath of a new-born baby!
Where Earth is fixed, Air is definitely a mover!
It’s connected to the mind, spirit, wisdom and soul.
Air is required for flight. Not just Air-planes and the like, but for birds, flies, insects and bats, but also …. Fairies!Imagine Fairies flying in the wind – tiny creatures bestowed with pure intuition who fly where ever the air whispers to them.
The wind (and so Air)has a voice, and you have to listen carefully to it. The wind blowing in from the South and East hints of good things. But the wind can change direction and with that it itself predicts change – sometimes good, sometimes not so. Listen to its voice. Is it an angry voice, or is it gentle and soothing? It’s what Fairies do. Perhaps we should become like Fairies now and again, so that we can see things through the eyes of the innocent and hear things in an innocent way.
The Fairies in Freckled Mushroom Wood have taught me much about the Elements – both the ones in Fairy Land, and the ones in our human realm – and I now realise that they are, in fact, very much the same things.
The Fairy Mushroom Elemental: Fire
Firehas something particularly special about it. It’s the only element that shines. Water can sparkle, but only if it reflects the light created by Fire, whether a campfire or the Sun.
Of course, in the Land of the Fae the most Fire is found within the annoyance and anger of a Fairy Dragon. However, a Dragons Fire is a much-needed and very welcomed Fire, for Fairies need it to: Toast Apples; Roast Chestnuts; Cook Mushrooms; Bake Acorns; Warm Berries to eat and to make Fairy Jam with, and oh!, all sorts of other things!
Note Well: Humans won’t often find a Fairy Dragon – but if you do, treat it kindly and don’t disturb it if it’s asleep, for when baked in fire, you are crunchy, and Fairy Dragons discovered Ketchup on toasted ‘umans works wonders!
The Fairy Mushroom Elemental:Water
TheWater Elemental is the element of constant movement, moving sometimes slow and steady, and at other times rushing and a torrent; a destructive force of almost unimaginable proportions.
Fairies need water not only to drink and use to water their flowers, but to bathe, feed the birds and to make the dew drops which will sparkle in the early morning sunlight, and add joy to the early morning chorus.
If you’re really quiet, you might come across a Fairy playing or washing her hair under the dripping water of a Mushroom Water Elemental, for the Mushroom will drip, drip, drip continually, supplying water to the earth beneath it’s feet.
It was r.e.a.l.l.y. difficult to capture, in a photo, the dripping water on this Mushroom Water Elemental because water is transparent, but I share about the best shot I managed to get . . .
And that concludes our four Elementals. However … the observant among you will have noticed that there is a 5th Glass Test Tube in the two photos at the top of this post. . .
. . . can you spot it? That one right in the middle. “What’s that?” I hear you asking . . .
Well … it’s a Gnome … or a Tomte . . . or a Nisse. This little figure has different names depending on where in the world you find him, and … he’s a Protector. In this case, he’s a Fairy, Mushroom Elemental Protector. A very important job indeedly doodly!
This Gnome / Tomte / Nisse hides himself in little places so that he won’t be spotted by anyone rambling through the woodland which he’s protecting. This particular Gnome/Tomte/Nisse is a very special protector, for he is in charge of protecting all the Fairy, Mushroom Elementals which live in his wood.
He was almost impossible to capture a good image of him on film, because the little rascal kept moving! He would turn or stick his nose in the air, or generally refuse to hold still just for a moment, while I captured his image on film. You can barely see his nose … but I did manage a slightly blurred photo which kind of shows it in close up and share that with you . . .
A Gnome / Tomte / Nisse, captured (slightly blurred) in a photograph. (Blurred because he just wouldn’t keep still!).
His beard is of the whitest white, and it twinkles like nothing else I’ve ever seen. Again … I just couldn’t see to capture it in a photo. It looks incredibly magical when seen with the naked eye.
I admit that taking photographs of these Test Tube Elementals was one heck of a job. Lights bounced off the glass. Shadows showed up where there were none before. Patterns played across the glass from things on either side of the room and it made viewing the Mushrooms really difficult. Aw … it’s not something I’ll undertake so lightly again. Next time I go in for photographs of anything in a test tube, I’ll be more aware! (probably still take a hundred rubbish photos, but I’ll be aware. LOL).
Well… that’s me done and dusted regarding the Fairy, Mushroom Elementals.
So … how are you? I trust you are well, that life is treating you kindly and that things are going in a nice direction for you. Anything happening in life that you’d like to share? Need some advice from someone? Post your question in a comment and I’m sure you’ll get an answer – even if only from me!
Here in Cobweb Towers … it’s been a little cooler the last two days, and we’ve had some rain! [doing a BIG happy dance here!]. Finally the sun has given us a couple of days break and sleep has been much more comfortable for the last two nights. Such a blessing. I know that Dorset holiday makers won’t be finding it a blessing, but we very much-needed some cool weather for a while and the gardens desperately needed some rainwater.
All that’s left for me to say is that I hope your Monday was a decent one, and I wish you terrific Tuesday. May your day tomorrow begin with a smile and end with one, and may the hours in between have smiles shared and dotted throughout the day.
Sending squidges, from me in my corner, to you in yours.
Oh yes. you read it right. What you’re looking at really is Goblin Snot!
Now that I have your full attention, 😀 I would like to introduce you to a few items of produce and products that can be found in the Land of the Fae (Fairies) – but only if you’re observant; careful; quick; ready with your collecting jar, … and . . . only if you truly, TRULY believe.
And, of course, you need to know what you’re looking for.
a handful of ‘products’ available in and from the Land of the Fae (Fairies)
Amongst many other things, you can find:
Kisses of Mushrooms.
Thumbelina Thimbles
Freshly Picked Goblin Snot
Wild Harvested Gnome Whiskers
Organic Dragon Soot.
Let’s deal with the Freshly Picked Goblin Snot first, shall we? . . .
Now fresh Goblin Snot is a rare find indeed. One has to be as quick as flash, as sly as a fox and as clever as an owl. You have to sit about, in long grass, being very, very quiet, for quite a long time, waiting . . . waiting . . . w.a.i.t.i.n.g. … until – – – you hear that distinctive rustle of little chubby Goblin feet, accompanied by the sound of …. “ah, ah AHhhhh…. CHOOOO!” (followed by a lot of snorting, sniffing and grunting).
Now it’s exactly one second before the “CHOOOO!” part of the sneeze that you have to be super fast and get your snot collecting jar in place and ready to catch the desired, much prized, JUICE!
If you’re really lucky your JUICE might even contain ‘things’ which you might not recognise, but they’ll be the sniffed up ‘stuff’ such as pollen, leaves, grass, and all sorts of oddities from the woodland carpet of Fairy Land.
Now you’re probably asking yourself why anyone would want to collect Goblin Snot, and the answer is as wild as you might expect. You see … Goblin Snot is magical stuff. A tiny amount, onto the tip of your finger, will open ANY door. If you wanted to go and see inside Buckingham Palace, then Goblin Snot would open not only the big gates at the front, but it would also open all of the locked doors you need to get through in order to go and see the Queen herself. Or perhaps you’d like to get into The Whitehouse, or how about going midnight shopping in Tiffany’s?
Well if midnight shopping in Tiffany’s or a bank vault is your pleasure, then you’ll also need …. Organic Dragon Soot.
Organic, Wild Harvested, Dragon Soot!
FindingOrganic Dragon Sootis indeed a moment of pure magic in itself. It’s so easy to miss it. I mean to say …. would you notice extra-fine soot on the floor of a Woodland area? Probably not. So to come across it and manage to collect it up before it magically disappears is a real stroke of good luck!
Why would you need Organic Dragon Soot from Fairy Land?Well . . .
One tiny pinch of Organic Dragon Soot sprinkled over your head, will turn you invisible for precisely one hour. Not a minute less, not a minute more. One Hour! Think of all the things you could do in an hour, if you were invisible. [GASP!] Oh, you little rascal! I can see your mind working from here!FORT KNOX? Good grief, you think BIG! Well, if you bagged yourself some Fresh Goblin Snotto open the doors, whilst invisible from using the Dragon Soot, I guess that even Fort Knox wouldn’t be that much of a challenge!
Next on our shopping list is . . . Wild Harvested Gnome Whiskers.
Now these are a tricky one to obtain, for you first have to find your Wild Gnome. A Wild Gnomes whiskers are stiff and prickly. They’re not the soft, white, fluffy, cloud-like whiskers you see on Garden Gnomes. Wild Gnomesare protectors. They protect the perimeters of their particular area in Fairy Land. These particular Wild Harvested Gnome Whiskers were carefully and quietly collected from a Wild Gnome who was taking a warm afternoons snooze, lent against a tree in Freckled Mushroom Wood and snoring his head off.
With the help of someDragon Sootto make me invisible, I crept up and with my manicure scissors, I snipped a few of his whiskers and popped them into a collecting jar.
Wild Gnome Whiskers are a great addition to your potions closet because:
They offer protection – much like putting on a suit of armour. All you have to do is crush and grind the whiskers using a Pestle and Mortar. Once all powdered down, you then add one tiny pinch of powdered Acorn Cup, and one Fairy Spoon of mashed Mushroom Cap from the wood where you gathered your Gnome Whiskers. Mix it till you have a paste, and then put a tiny dab onto the middle finger of your right hand. You will, within minutes have an invisible suit of armour. You could be a Super Hero …. but beware … you won’t be able to fly! (After all …. you’re not a Fairy and you don’t have Fairy Wings!)
Next on this Fairy Shopping List are …. Thumbelina Thimbles.
You’ve no doubt heard the story ofThumbelina and how she was very tiny. Well in Fairy Land, Thimbles are highly prized. They aren’t just used for protecting your fingers when sewing, but they are a symbol of affection. They are the Fairy equivalent of a Kiss.
Peter Pan, when Wendy Darling said she would give him a kiss, held out his hand to receive this gift. He thought ‘a kiss’ was the thimble which Wendy had in her hand. Wendy gave him the thimble, and from that moment on, thimbles became ‘kisses’ in the Land of the Fae.
Why would you needThumbelina Thimbles?Well …. they don’t offer you anything other than the magic of love and affection. They bring warmth into your life and a warm smile to your face when you look at them. Just holding a tube of them in your hand can give you a warm feeling deep inside. Right in the middle of your body.
Thumbelina’s Thimbles are made especially for Fairies (and of course for Thumbelina herself) by the Head of the Sewing Department, in Fairy Land.
I’m very privileged to know his name. Come closer …. I shall whisper it to you …. The Head of the Sewing Department in Fairy Land isFineous Wizzigig. But shhh… don’t tell anyone because it’s a secret – shared only between you and I!
If you look carefully in a Fairy Wood where you live(if you can find one) you might just find someThumbelina Thimbles.They are left by the young, giggly little Fairies, for the human folks to find. It’s their way of passing on a kiss, from one realm to another.
And finally . . . you’ve seen in some of the photographs here, a ‘Kiss of Mushrooms‘. Another gift from Fairy Land, for Humans to find.
AKiss of Mushroomsis something that the Fairies hope you will keep, for the spotted mushrooms are a bringer of love and luck.
I found this one last week and have mounted this Kiss of Mushrooms on a wooden block, painted red, and there it will live for ever more. A very lucky find, indeed!
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Thank you so much for coming and sharing these wonderments found in my little bag, after a mid afternoon trip to Freckled Mushroom Wood. There was no need today for my Fairy Net, for I captured things that needed no net – but I always take it with me – just in case. Who knows when I’m going to need it!
I hope your Monday began with a stretch and a yawn, and that from there it just got better and better. If it didn’t… leave any troubles at the door (outside the door) and allow nature to take care of your Monday troubles. Tomorrow is another day. A gift, for you to choose how you want to spend it. Grumpy, cross, annoyed. Or …. happy, smiling and with love in your heart.
Have a wonderful tomorrow my friends.
Please note: The stories, tales and narrative, and tales of fantasy and fable were written by me and belong to me. Therefore copyright begins here. Cobwebs. 23/7/2018
Thank you all so much for joining in the fun of the GIVEAWAY for the Home Under the Dome, which I shared with you in the last blog post
I closed the Giveaway today, and then collected all the names. Each name was allocated a number based upon the order in which they entered their name into the GIVEAWAY.
These are the names, along with their allocated numbers:(where possible, I’ve added each name as a link to their own blog, so that you can go and visit them and perhaps make a new friend!)
I then asked Mr.Google for it’s Random Number Generator, which it duly gave me, and I asked the RNG to pick the winning number from and including No.1 – up to and including No. 11. I clicked the ‘Generate‘ button, and it chose . . .
NUMBER 1 (ONE)!
So the WINNER OF OUR Home Under the Dome is [drumroll]. . .
~ Watching the Daisies ~
Daisies, I’m thrilled to be posting the Home Under the Dome to you. All I now need is your snail mail address so that I can post it.
I think you and I have emailed each other once before, so I’ll have a search through my emails to see if I can find your email address, and once found, I’ll drop you a note so that you can send me your snail mail address.
Many, many thanks to everyone for joining in. Giveaways make life just a bit more fun, and shines a bright spot in days.
There will be another Giveaway very soon …. but I won’t tell you when, or what for, or why. So keep watching … you really won’t have to wait too long. 😉
And tomorrow …. there is a blog post heading your way – (if I can get the darn photographs taken), – which I think will not only make you smile, but possibly even make you laugh out loud, and maybe even squirm and squiggle just a little. 😀 *Cobs – tsk tsk, that’s enough. Don’t give it all away!!*
But, for today, this glorious Sunday which has been gifted to us all . . . May your day be peace filled, touched with joy, and sprinkled with happy. May you leave any troubles outside the door until tomorrow, and may love fill your home and heart.
And … stay as awesome as I think of you as being. Because you truly, really are.
Much love and many squidges, from me in my corner to you in yours.
What’s that saying ~ “Go BIGGER or go home!”? We’ll we’re doing both here!
Although … not going so big that you could see a ‘Home Under the Dome’ from Space. I might be calling them ‘Mega Domes’ – but they’re still tiny. Small enough to put in your pocket.
Take a look at the measurements… (the purple rule is in centimetres, but I’ve done the conversion into inches to help) . . .
The Home Under the Dome in the centre (above) is the regular sized dome that you’ve seen me make before. (you’ll find information about this little Dome later).
The Mega Dome on the right hand side of the above photo contains something very special, because it holds a ‘Fairy Kiss’, and, of course, a Fairy Home[under the Dome] along with some Fairy Mushrooms and a few other tiny fairy things. The Dome on the left hand side of the above photograph contains a Fairy Wish Tree as well as not one, but TWO Fairy Homes, and a bundle of Fairy Mushrooms. Let’s take a look at that one first, shall we?
The tree really does have a tree trunk – but try as I might I couldn’t get it to properly show up in photographs. The trunk is made from a piece of branch which fell from the humongous protected Pine Trees which are in my garden to the rear of Cobweb Cottage.
There are two Fairy Homes, and an assortment of Fairy Mushrooms – all freshly collected from Freckled Mushroom Wood ~ which can be found near to where I live – but is only known and shown to those who truly believe and enter with a pure heart. If you look very closely towards the top of the tree, you will see the tiniest of Fairy Bluebirds, sitting happily in the tree. Can you also spot the really tiny multi coloured, sparkly butterflies?
What you can’t see in the photos above, is that the Fairy Wishing Tree was collected when there was a low breeze, and so it is held in suspension, or ‘frozen in time’, and bends slightly, and the foliage still looks exactly as it did when the low breeze blew it – all blown and sort of ‘leaning’ in the same direction. It looks like there is a gentle wind blowing inside the Dome. Magical!
The other Mega Dome – well that’s a special dome and possibly my favourite. It contains a Fairy Kiss, which holds a Fairy Home and some Magical Freckled Mushroom.
It has flowers, and some teeny tiny buttons which the Fairies had collected and were using as stepping-stones up to their house. Knowing that the Fairies wouldn’t mind, I gathered up just two of the minuscule buttons and added them to the base of the silver Thimble Kiss.
… The Fairy Kiss – is the Thimble you see holding the Fairy home and mushrooms.
Do you remember in the story of Peter Pan,the boy who never grows up, (written by Scottish novelist J.M.Barrie), who interacts with Fairies, Mermaids and Pirates (‘think’ Captain Hook!). Wendy Darling and Peter Pan became friends and wants to give Peter a kiss – which Peter thinks is the thimble which Wendy is holding, so holds out his hand to receive it.
That thimble from the story made a huge impression on me as a child and I grew up knowing that in reality, a thimble to humans, was a ‘kiss’ to a Fairy.
When my daughters were old enough to understand and treasure things – one Christmas I gave each of them a special gift from me of a silver bracelet (one each), which I’d had one tiny, real silver thimble hung on each of the bracelets, and when they’d opened their bracelets I shook my arm and showed them that I too had a silver bracelet with a silver thimble on it, and told them that wherever they might be in the world, and if I was ever a long way away from them, they only had to look at their bracelets and would see that they would always have a kiss from me. They loved their bracelets, and the knowledge that they would always have a kiss.
Now lets deal with that tiny little Home Under the Dome which is in the middle of the two Mega Domes, shall we ? . . .
This regular sized, tiny Home Under the Dome (in the centre of the above photo) is quite a special dome, and it’s up for grabs!
Edit: 22nd July 2018:
The ‘GIVEAWAY’ is now closed to new names being entered into the ‘hat’. Anyone adding their name from this moment forward is, I’m afraid, too late to be included in the ‘draw’.
The Winner of the Home Under the Dome will be announced later today; Sunday 22nd July 2018.
This tiny little dome is packed to over-flowing with charm and has some very special features. There are two tiny homes under this dome, both of which speak of the quirkiness and fun of the Fairies who once inhabited the homes – for both are slightly different in that they are wiggly wobbly. Bending and curving just slightly. They’re …. different in a special way.
It was difficult to show you what I mean in photographs, but you can just about see in the photo above that the tallest of the two houses begins at ground level and then curves backwards and, had it been taller, you would have seen that it’s on it’s way back to curve the other way. BUT .. if you then look at the smaller of the Fairy homes – that home also curves and in fact matches the curve of the taller house! How do the Fairies know how to do that?!!! [gasp!]
There are blue freckled Fairy mushrooms, and also one teeny tiny red freckled mushroom, all growing in the grass. But … there is something very special that I haven’t included in any Dome before . . .
. . . there – in a ‘held in a moment of time’, is a tiny blue butterfly, which landed on a freckled mushroom, and is captured forever under the Dome. This special Dome is now the subject of a Giveaway for followers of my blog.
Edit: 22nd July 2018:
The ‘GIVEAWAY’ is now closed to new names being entered into the ‘hat’. Anyone adding their name from this moment forward is, I’m afraid, too late to be included in the ‘draw’.
The Winner of the Home Under the Dome will be announced later today; Sunday 22nd July 2018.
If you would like to be the custodian for this Home Under the Dome,and you are a follower, all you need to do is:-
In a comment on this blog post, put the word ‘GIVEAWAY’ right at the beginning of your comment. Put it before you type any other word – this helps me to find those folk who would like to be included in the chance to be the new Home Under the Dome, guardian.
And that’s it. That’s all you need to do.
If you can’t find the comments box, then you need to scroll all the way to the top and click on the title of this post (‘A Home under the Dome 3 ~ MEGA DOMES!’) – and that will load the blog page this time with the comments box – which will show up at the bottom of the post. (You can also read any comments other people have put too!)
Please remember that the Giveaway is only open to followers of The Cobweborium Emporium Blog.
Edit: 22nd July 2018:
The ‘GIVEAWAY’ is now closed to new names being entered into the ‘hat’. Anyone adding their name from this moment forward is, I’m afraid, too late to be included in the ‘draw’.
The Winner of the Home Under the Dome will be announced later today; Sunday 22nd July 2018.
Well, crafty wise, that’s me done and dusted.
However . . . I’ve learned some things this week that I’d like to share . . .
Don’t trust that the new receptionist at your doctors has actually booked you in to see the doctor you told her you wanted to see, but instead might (accidentally) book you in to see some doctor in the practise you’ve never seen before in your life. [sigh]
That although your husband/partner normally has the worst memory in the Universe, sometimes they will surprise the heck out of you and know exactly where to find a particular thing, that you know you have, but WHERE THE DICKENS IS IT?!!!
I’ve learned that I haven’t lost my power to bargain with stores and get a better deal than they first offer you. SOOOO happy, and Mr.C is in awe! (But I don’t go in for hero-worship so … ahh, no … a little hero-worship is great for the soul – so long as it’s only for a moment).
I’ve finally admitted that my big boy cat, [read ‘small Panther’], Alf Capone, is, quite frankly, the nosiest cat in the world. He likes to sit or ‘lounge’ anywhere at the front of our cottage where he can observe every single thing which goes on in the area where we live. Any neighbour who comes or goes, doesn’t do so without being counted out and counted in again. Any car which drives past is registered – both in colour, make and model, for future reference by him. He’s the laziest, nosiest, most beautiful cat with the biggest personality, and he makes everyone laugh. He’s also the biggest eater. We’ll go bankrupt with this cat. He can really put it away! (But then, he is a huuuge cat – so I guess it’s understandable).
Finally … I’ve learnt that ‘accidentally’ being booked in to see the wrong doctor actually might be beneficial – so don’t discount seeing someone different when the need arises, for a fresh set of eyes looking at things differently and can sometimes come up with what possibly might be the answer.
I’m sure I’ve learned more than these things, but my one brain cell can only hold so much information, and when there’s too much going in it forces the brain cell to ‘evacuate’ some older things in order to make way for the new stuff. (But I wish that it would hang onto passwords or at the very least be organised enough to stick post it notes to the inside of my skull!)
All that’s left for me to do now is to wish you a truly wonderful week. May reality be better than your dreams!
Have a blessed day all. Sending you heaps of squidges and lots of love ~
Edit: 22nd July 2018:
The ‘GIVEAWAY’ is now closed to new names being entered into the ‘hat’. Anyone adding their name from this moment forward is, I’m afraid, too late to be included in the ‘draw’.
The Winner of the Home Under the Dome will be announced later today; Sunday 22nd July 2018.
Hello . . . tis I, Cobs. . . . I have returned, – with a complaint … IT’S TOO DARN HOT! People are on the beaches supposedly sunning themselves and getting a tan! They’re really not. Not in this heat. They’re actually frizzling up like crispy-cooked bacon! I can smell them. sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.
Joking aside … I’m not a Summer lover. I love the flowers that the summer brings; the birds, the butterflies, the bees, and love the overall happiness which Summer packs in its little suitcase and brings with it, . . . but I don’t like how the heat of Summer affects my body. It’s been making me feel proper poorly. (Hence the reason I haven’t been around).
My body is a talking package of broken rubbish, and for some reason warm weather seems to put this package of rubbish under a microscope and blow it up to M.E.G.A. proportions. It’s been the hottest day today, (Sunday evening as I type this), here in the South of England, and they are predicting that this weather is going to go on for some weeks to come. I do hope not. (crosses fingers) We need a few days of cooler temperatures and refreshing breezes …. and some rain for the land.
So… if you happen to be reading this God, could you please turn the heating down a few notches, and turn on the rain for a few nights. You don’t have to make it rain during the day … I don’t want to be a party pooper to holiday makers who are here having grand fun, but I would like to see the wildlife and the ground get a few nights of rain, every now and again. Thank you, in advance. 😀 ~ me. xxx
Aanyhooooo.… let’s talk about crafts and …
Homes under the Dome – The Sequel!
I’ve been able to craft on the odd day here and there(with two fans going in the craft room, and only before the sun comes round and tries to cook me at Gas mark 8!). I wanted to make some more Homes under the Dome, and also make a Bottle of Magic.
I was asked about how to make Fairy Domes on my last post, and because I know that the Domes can be a little difficult to get hold of, I suggested that perhaps a glass bottle would be an easy project, and so I thought it would be a good idea to actually make one so that you could see what I meant.
But that will be in a few minutes… first … let’s do some Domes, shall we?
These are the Home under the Dome projects I’ve been able to make. The numbers in the hearts, with arrows pointing to each dome, are there so that I can show you each dome closer up and you’ll know which dome you’re looking at! Clever eh?
You can see a much closer up view like this, and still refer to the original photo to see the dome from (kind of) arms length.
Now I’m going to miss out number 3 just for a moment and go straight on to number 4….
This Home under the Dome does have a home, it’s on the other side, but I wanted to show you the teeny tiny REAL clam shell with the bright shining pearly bead inside it.
Ok … let’s ‘do’ the missing number three Dome, shall we? . . .
The reason I left number 3 till now is because it’s not a Home Under the Dome, but instead it’s a Gnome Under the Dome. Look carefully and you can see his little face – his nose, eyes and a little grin going on there too!
Finally … I made a Magic Bottle. Blogger Susie Shy was asking about making the Domes, and since I’d suggested a bottle I thought perhaps I’d better make a bottle so that she could see what I was actually going on about. So here’s a Fairy home in a bottle. The Fairy Home and all the Mushrooms were freshly gathered from Freckled Mushroom Wood just a few days ago ….
As you can see, it’s 100% Pure Magic. You won’t find purer! Let me show you the back of this Magic Jar…
Both inside the jar, and on the wax seal around the corked top, there is evidence of Fairy Dust. There is also evidence of Fairy Dust on my desk, on the floor of my craft room and … even in my bathroom! Heaven only knows what on earth the Fairies were doing in there, but my goodness, the place twinkles like stardust has been spread around freely!
Well that’s me done and dusted, craft-wise.
I’m sat here in the living room, with my little lap top, tapping away at the keyboard, and I have the ceiling fan on ‘fast and furious’ …. a tall standard fan on ‘Blow your Brains Out’, and a 16″ desk fan on the floor manfully struggling on, trying to blow cold air, but actually blowing warm air around – but its trying and for that I appreciate it’s every effort.
I also have my water spray bottle from my craft room, over to my right, and every now and again I give my face a little mist from it. It feels lovely and I highly recommend this idea to all who suffer in the heat. (I take mine to bed with me, filled with really cold water from the fridge, and use it whenever the need arises. It helps).
Thank you so much for coming and sharing each Home Under the Dome with me over a cup of coffee. Hope you like them and that they gave you a smile.
Have a truly lovely Monday. Make it amazing, and don’t settle for anything less!
When Fairy and Pixie families begin to grow, bigger homes are obviously required. So they move out of their little cottages and normally the empty little homes will stay empty until another Fairy or Pixie take up residence in the little home.
But sometimes, if they’re very lucky, a human might come across an empty Fairy home and, providing they’re careful, the human can gently lift the Fairy home from its nesting spot, and carry it home, and keep it safe for ever more.
I bought a whole bundle of these tiny Domes about 9 or so years ago for another ‘tiny’ project that I was doing at the time. I couldn’t buy just the right amount I needed, as they came as a certain boxed amount (can’t remember how many), so once I’d done the projects I wanted to do, I packed the remaining domes safely in a box and put them away, with the thought that they might come in useful another day. And, as you can see … they have!
It was quite difficult to photograph these as the light bounced off the domes. Too many lights made white dots on the domes, all over the place. Not enough light and it wouldn’t allow you to see inside the dome properly. So I hope that the photos I’ve chosen allow you, dear reader, to see into the Homes under the Domes.
Each dome is different from any other,and each dome has its own words or ‘story’ which runs around the base.
All the homes you see inside each individual dome, all come from ‘Freckled Mushrooms Wood’, and the toadstools which accompany them are all collected at the same time as the teeny tiny houses.
In some of the domes there are still signs of evidence of Pixie and Fairy dust, which twinkles madly!
This next dome (below) was a special request from my much-loved Grandson, Little Cobs – who put in an order: “Can me have one? Put blue mushrooms in my dome Grammy!” . . . and as any decent Grammy would … I made sure he got his wish … but … there was a surprise waiting for him today when he came, after school, for his tea. Not only did he have a Home in a Dome waiting for him, with blue mushrooms inside it . . . but his Dome also had a Gnome inside it too!
It just looks like 4 blue Freckled Fairy Mushrooms …. until you turn the dome . . .
. . . and then you find that there’s a little Fairy Gnome, snoozing the day away, under his Freckled Mushroom Cap, and all you can see of him is his fabulous Gnome Nose, his wonderful Gnome feet and his little chubby toes!
And then a further turn of the dome reveals that there, nestled into the Freckled Mushrooms, is a genuine, really real Fairy House. A ‘Home under the Dome’.
I knew I had to do something with my domes when I came across them a few weeks ago. I saw them and instantly felt that I’d like to put some ‘Fairy Home’ specimens under them.
If you would like a play with something similar but don’t have the domes, I recommend those little bottles that are available at craft stores and suppliers. The bottles are way easier to come by than the domes, and they make the most fabulous little ‘Specimen Bottles’. So sweet, and would be lovely as gifts!
Well that’s me done and dusted with regard to Fairies, Pixies, Gnomes and Homes.
I seem to have been trying to keep the all the plates spinning this week. I’m not overly fond of weeks like that, as they leave me feeling proper drained. But I learned an important lesson this week … If I change my password on ANY internet site, then I need to write the darn thing down and keep the note until I’ve finally got the new password lodged inside my one and only brain cell!
Six times I’ve forgotten the new password I’ve made up for one particular website. SIX TIMES! Each time I forget, the website asks me make a new password, and it has to be one I haven’t used before. Well quite frankly, I’m getting to the point where I think I’ve used all the words available to my brain – so I’d better not forget this latest one, because if I do, I’ll be well and truly stuffed! I’ve written it down on a post-it note and stuck it to the side of my shelving unit in the craft room. Please God, don’t let it fall off the unit!
Thank you so much for coming, having a coffee moment with me, and for sharing the Homes under the Domes. There’ll be more of these coming – as this is something I’m having lots of harmless fun with. But … I have been working on something which I originally bought these domes for all those years ago. So this will be a crafty re-visit to an oldey but goody. When I’ve finally taken some photo’s of them, I’ll share those with you too.
In the meantime . . . I wish you a bright and beautiful Thursday. If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. It costs nothing, but it makes the world a whole lot better place to be a part of.
Sending much love and plenty of squidges, from me in my corner, to you in yours. Have a blessed day my friends ~
Bonjour mes amis! (translation: ‘Hello my friends’). Ok, that’s about ‘it’ for my schoolgirl french that I’m going to try to impress you with.
Meet: Monsieur et Madame Champignon, also known as: Mr. and Mrs. Mushroom . . . .
I’ve been playing with clay again (in case you hadn’t guessed). I actually started out with the intention of making some little-whittle mushrooms for another project I have in mind, but by the time I’d got my clay on my desk, modelling tools all lined up (well, ok, thrown in a jumble onto my desk), my water spray bottle, and the various other bits and bobs which come into play when modelling/sculpting with clay, the mushrooms had grown in size and character, and fired by a random memory which popped into my head of some grumpy faced mushrooms I’d seen quite a while ago, (link Caroline McFarlane-Watts <—clickable safe link). Then the idea grew because of a song which was playing on the radio, I began to think I would make some ‘Mushroom Folks’ (as I’ve Christened them), but doing them my style. Happy and joyous. And, from that initial thought, Monsieur et Madame Champignon were born.
Please allow me to walk you all around the home, and friends, of the handsome French Chap and his beautiful Parisian wife . . .
Madame Champignon is a well dressed lady, as you would expect, with a swanky french hat complete with snail. And, as you may have noticed, she has the longest of long, silky eyelashes, ruby-red lips and a little rouge to her cheeks. So Chic!
They sit atop a small mound of grass surrounded by moss – which allows other creatures from Fairy Wood to hide, and they keep the romantic couple company. There are mice (who love to eat the left over bits of Camembert and Roquefort which picnic makers drop). There are also two slugs, (complete with tentacles) who leave the most delightful shiny trails behind them, and will sometimes have a game of ‘Guess what I’m drawing with my Slime!’ with the Champignons. And of course – there are the two snails, which the the French couple allow to clamber over their hats – although as they climb up to the hats, they do have the tendency to tickle the Monsieur et Madame, and Madame giggles quite audibly.
Mr. Slug – he’s the bigger, and stronger of the two slugs.The rear view of Monsieur et Madame Champignon. If you look carefully you can see a tiny mouse to the left and Mrs. Slug, leaving her slug trail behind her on the right. (that’s a teeny tiny pine cone behind the Monsieur).
Both of the snails which adorn the Mushroom Caps Champignons Hats have pink bodies and pearly yellow shells. Sadly the camera didn’t seem able to pick the colours up. But it did a half good job in this photo.
The curled and ‘frilly’ bits on both of the mushrooms aren’t mistakes. They’re the bits you sometimes find on your mushrooms which you buy from the greengrocers or supermarket.
There are other little dints and dents on them both …which are there simply because I looked at some mushrooms in the fridge closely and saw that each one had its own character lines … so the Monsieur et Madame have their own dints and dents to add character too. (They also have ‘dirt’ marks – as you would expect!) 😀
The Monsieur has a lip …. and a half! As I was creating him I began to think of fabulous French men who I knew from movies … and the one which reigned supreme was Maurice Chevalier, who my mother was all dreamy and doe eyed about. Inside my head I could see how he used to extend his lower lip, and from there …. Monsieur’s own lip developed.
I’ve been told that Monsieur Champignon calls his wife “My sweet, my darling, my one true love!”. ❤ Somehow, I feel that this is probably true, for he looks like he would, don’t you agree?
The whole scene is set upon a small piece of slate
I had SO much fun making this happy couple of romantics and all the way through the creating process, I kept on singing ‘I Remember it Well’ – sung by Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold in the fabulous film: Gigi . . . eventually I went to YouTube and found it, and played it while I was sat at my desk, so that I could be reminded of the words. I share it with you here:
Thank you so much for coming and sharing a coffee moment with me, and to meet Mr. & Mrs. Mushroom. I hope you liked them, and that you got a smile from them.
I love to know that you’ve visited, so please do let yourself be known and leave a comment and / or a like if you’re a little shy. (But don’t be shy … we’re all really lovely people here on this blog).
Wishing you a truly magical Monday. May the weather be calm and beautiful where you are. May life be treating you kindly … and may you find contentment hidden in the folds of the hours as they pass by.
Much love to you, from me in my corner, to you in yours . . . have a blessed rest of your day my friends!
At my Grandsons, Little Cobs, school they have a ‘project’ which involves a teddy bear called Barnaby. Each child in the class gets to take Barnaby the Bear home with them for a few days, and Barnaby gets to spend time sharing the family outings, games, toys, meals, visits etc., and the children (with the help of parents, guardians, grandparents) write the story of what Barnaby has been doing while he’s been staying with them.
Little Cobs Daddy (Son in Law) told me about Barnaby, and suggested that perhaps Barnaby Bear would like to come with Little Cobs to visit Grammy and Grandad, and maybe Grammy could do some crafting with Little Cobs and take photographs, print them out and they could then be included in the story book of Barnaby’s time spent with Little Cobs and all the things he did.
And this is the [mostly pictorial] story of how Barnaby Bear came to visit Grammy and Grandad and joined in with some crafting with Little Cobs and his Grammy.
I’ve made little tiny things for years(and years and years – more than I care to own up to). I love small detail. And ... I used to make little houses, paint and attach them to various items and used to sell them for just enough money to cover the costs of actually making them. Now about a month ago, Pinterest (that well known joyful time-waster) sent me an email with pictures of things it suggested I might like. Among those photos were some little Fairy Houses which reminded me of the Fairy homes I used to make many years ago. This gave me an idea for what I thought Little Cobs, and Barnaby Bear, might like to make, and the following photographs show you what happened, how it happened, who made it happen, and how it all turned out in the end.
Once upon a time, two and a half weeks ago, there was a boy, a bear, a mug and some clay….
I showed Little Cobs how to make a tiny Pixie House using clay. My bright little chap got the idea first time and, using just two fingers, he made two perfect little houses, while Barnaby Bear watched and learned.The little boy then made some Mushroom Caps, and held them up for Barnaby Bear to pass his expert eye over. Barnaby, as it turned out, is an expert at all things Fairy and Pixie. What a stroke of luck that was!Progress … Two expertly created Pixie Houses, and two miraculous, magical, Mushroom Caps.
We put the newly made clay pieces to one side and filled the chosen mug and fixed moss in place, to give the feeling of being in Fairy/Pixie Land. (see the Mug Garden over to the left of the photo). Next came PAINTING! The little boy – aka Little Cobs, is pretty expert at using a paint brush now and I’m wondering if perhaps I could get him doing a bit of decorating around Cobweb Towers. Free child labour – and at my favourite price. lolAs you can see, Barnaby Bear was definitely taking his job as Quality Control Bear, very seriously indeed!
It’s a really pretty plate – but not one we use for food. It just sits around waiting for some passing crafter to blob paint onto it in order to give it a use.
Once all the paint was dry, and after the artist had had an afternoon snack and a bit of a play, Little Cobs placed all his beautiful handmade pieces in the places he wanted them to be so that he could check for position. Once perfect, he gave the go ahead for everything to be fixed in place.
A few small resin flowers were added, just for artisticness, (not a real word but it’s so ‘juicy’ that once I’d made it up I simply had to use it), a couple of teeny tiny pine cones and some general florestry bits – just to make it feel like home to any passing Fairy or Pixie who might be looking for a place for the summer.
Barnaby Bear suggested that the whole scene needed a name, so Little Cobs and I came up with Pixie Wallow, and Grammy built a name label on the computer and printed it out for Little Cobs to fix it to the outside of the cup, so that everyone knew what it was.
I’m reliably informed that Barnaby was very happy with Pixie Wallow, and it passed the Inspection Test with a gold star!
It’s ready for a close up, Mr. Demille … (those who’ve watched Sunset Boulevard will get that one).
All the painting is Little Cobs own, apart from tiny bits where I showed him what he needed to do before I handed over the paint brush, and two spots on one of the Mushroom caps, just to show him how to get that magical ‘dot’ in the right place, in the right size. He made the houses, the mushroom caps and was the ideas man for how the whole scene was to look.
Little Cobs, Barnaby Bear and myself had an absolutely great time making this. Lots of laughs and lots of stories about who would eventually live in the Pixie Houses, and who would come and sit on the mushrooms and play in the garden.
Before I go may I share a surprise that I had a couple of days ago. I got sent an Anniversary Achievement by WordPress . . .
… four years! FOUR YEARS I’ve been blogging, and yet if you’d have asked me I would have guessed about… maybe 2 to 2 and a half years tops. I can hardly believe it. Four years, and I’ve loved every single day of it, and that’s because I’ve shared it with you.
I’ve made so many lovely friends via my blog and have and am enjoying so many blogs which are owned by others.
So thank you, dear reader, for filling my last four years with joy and fun. I’ve loved getting to know you and hope to continue doing so, and also hope to get to know all the new people who join The Cobweborium Emporium, or that I find in blog land.
Thank you so much for coming today and sharing Pixie Wallow. Have a truly blessed rest of your day.
Happy Friday! These Fridays are still coming round far too fast for my liking. I swear that Fridays always seemed waaaay further apart when I was younger. What’s happened to make this change? No .. seriously … why are Fridays so close together now? I really don’t understand why.
I’ve learned some strange things this week and I’d like to share them with you so that your wisdom is improved in the same way mine has been! (improved? really??)[cough] Ready? Hold hands, and on the count of three we’ll all jump together. . . . . ONE ….. TWO …. THREE!
I learned this week: That one in 20 couples argue so much on their wedding night they fail to consummate their marriage. Aw this made me so sad. I don’t mind much about the ‘consummate’ bit – but it’s the falling out with each other which saddens me. Such a wondrous day and they end it with a row! What a rotten way to spoil the memories. 😦
I learned . . . That there are enough diamonds in existence to give everyone on the planet a cupful. Kindly form an orderly queue behind me, and hold onto your cup tightly. No mugs are allowed. Cups only.
I also learned. . .
. . . that thirty-seven people were injured so seriously by tea cosies in 1999 that they were admitted to hospital.
Can you believe it? Nope, me neither! Dog only knows what on earth they were doing with a tea-cosy which they injured themselves on!
67,000 people are injured each year trying to peel the cellophane off a packet of sandwiches, open a ready meal or open a ring-pull can.
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More than 150 people a day – have accidentally stabbed themselves when trying to prise the top off a jar or opening a ready meal with a knife.
The number of injuries perpetrated by trousers on their wearers in 2002 – (the last year for which such figures were collated by the Home Accident Surveillance System) – stood at 5310, while putting on socks, tights or stockings saw 11,788 people taken to hospital. Falls caused by getting stuck during an over-hasty attempt to get dressed were mainly responsible, with trips in messy bedrooms close behind.
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379,000 injuries are caused by trainers, high heels, sandals, platforms and countless other types of footwear.
An Exeter (in the UK) College student was making Italian bread in a bread maker, but when it clogged the machine he proceeded to pull out the dough with his hands, to free the mixing arm. However, he didn’t switch it off, and once the clog was unblocked the mixer arm swung into action – and broke his arm in four places. Nine weeks later, the student was asked how he had managed to break his arm while making bread. He felt obliged to demonstrate, so plunged his hand in – and snap went his arm, again!
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And… do you know what’s really embarrassing? …. All the above examples of injuries in the home were all …. in the UK!!! What the heck? Are we really all ‘eff-wits’ here? This must be going on world wide … and if so … shouldn’t there be more padded rooms where these daft people are put for their own safety?
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I also learned this week that,in the world, – only 2%of women describe themselves as beautiful. When I gave this some thought, it didn’t surprise me in the way it did before I gave it some serious thinking. We girls always ‘see’ where we believe we could be improved. Iron out a few wrinkles. Lose the baby tummy. Be taller. Nose a little more turned up and cute. etc etc. But if you asked other women what could be improved about their friends or a random woman they were being shown a photo of, they’d more often than not say “Nothing!“. We girls really do need to be very much kinder to ourselves.
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photo found on Google ~ if you know who to credit please let me know and I’ll add it. thanks!
I learned from something I read that Reindeer are particularly partial to magic mushrooms. I thought about this one for a minute or two and it suddenly made total sense. This would explain how we humans had seen Santa on his sleigh, pulled by 8 dashing reindeer! The reindeer had eaten magic mushrooms! ha!
And finally, in my mode of edumacation this week, ….
I learned thatwhen a shop or store says its got an item you want to buy “in stock” on its website, it actually isn’t what it probably has in stock. And even when the computers in the store say that there are 11 (ELEVEN) of the items you wish to buy … the staff say they’ve seen those items …and come with you to search the shelves that you’ve already searched 14 times …. those items are NO WHERE TO BE FOUND!
HOMEBASE in Dorset UK, HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME!!! Perhaps if you
Tidied the store now and again
Made it look less like a warehouse for empty boxes – and a dumping ground for products no member of staff knows what to do with so they leave boxes of stuff in the aisles for customers, to navigateand fall over.
Had more staff to deal with customers (there were 9 in a queue waiting to pay and only one member of staff on your tills)
And perhaps if you had a better system to your stocking of plants in your outdoor gardening centre …
Maybe the store would be a more pleasant and easier place to shop in. Just saying.
I think Homebase might like to hear from me via an email to their Customer Services (although … I do wonder if that’s a non entity too,like their 11 items in stock). Hmpfffft! ☹️
Soo …. I have shared with you all my newly learned edumacation which was lovingly (?) delivered to me this week. I’m unsure if I’m any wiser, but I do feel my brain complaining. What of I don’t know … but it will soon be fine again … once it’s dumped some old information out of my right ear while I’m sleeping tonight. (I hope it hangs onto my: name, address, telephone number and passwords. The rest of the stuff I’m sure I can muddle through. lol).
Now we come to the most important bit of the Friday ‘What I learned’ posts ….
❤ THE JOKES ❤
The Energizer bunny was arrested on a charge of battery
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Q:What’s the best thing about Switzerland? A:I don’t know, but the flag is a big plus.
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Why did the chicken cross the playground?
To get to the other slide!
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Q:Have you heard about the new restaurant called Karma? A: There’s no menu; you get what you deserve.
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Son:“Dad, when will I be old enough so I don’t have to ask mom for her permission to go out?” Dad:“Son, even I haven’t grown old enough to go out without her permission!”
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and finally . . .
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Conjunctivitis.com . . . It’s a site for sore eyes.
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Well, that’s me done and dusted. I hope you’ve learned and little and gained a few smiles that you’ll be able to share with someone else today.
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I wish you a most excellent Friday, and a totally wonderful weekend. May the weather be good, may your days feel restful, and may you feel a sense of happiness and protection settle upon your world, like a covering of a gentle blanket of love.
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Until we meet again, be good to each other and … may your God go with you.
The Art of Cobwebs 