The Gift of Time - a work in progress

It shouldn't have been that difficult ...

... all I had to do was attach 2 small hinges to make two 4" square canvasses open and close to make a little 'shrine' for my time artwork.  I made tiny holes to start the screws off - but found out after talking to Duncan much later that I hadn't made them deep enough - which is the reason for the screws not going into the wood properly.  That coupled with the fact that I was using a really cheap and nasty screwdriver from my own toolbox (sounds impressive but it's the teeny tiny $3 special from Bunnings, filled with extremely cheap tools and a glue gun), so I had to go and pinch a decent screwdriver from my husband's toolbox.  Treading on dangerous territory here, woe-betide anyone who doesn't return a tool to its proper place!  

I was absolutely determined that I would do this by myself and not have to ask Duncan to rescue my hinges and canvasses.   By this time I was beginning to get bored with this part of the project, so I got my hammer and smacked the last screw the rest of the way in.  I figured as long as 3 out of the 4 screws were in properly it would be ok - it's a work of art darling, not a door I'm hanging ;)

Lego is the best!

For the past couple of weeks Little Man has been really ill with bronchitis.  He's much better and back to school this week thank goodness.  Lego came to the rescue - at times he didn't just want to watch TV or sleep (or do homework!) and building filled the gap perfectly.  We had such fun.  I think I was mainly there to find required bricks and to make all the boring bits - good bonding time though :)

Our house ...

And what every Lego house needs ...

is a big screen TV ...

and ...

a crocodile in a pen of course!

Love Lego!! 



And on that bombshell ...

Feeling decidedly yuck today ... why do kids feel the need to share their germs so freely?  So, short blogpost today.  I'm going to follow the Top Gear format and end this post with a bombshell (a nice one) ...

YAY!  I'm going back to the UK for a holiday in about 34 days!  Can't wait ... time to catch up with family and friends ... and visit places like Legoland and the Gnome Reserve ...

I'm the happiest bunny with lurgy on the planet :)

Thoughts in my head ... a creative block?

My word collage, helping me to unpack my creative block!

I'm trying to persuade myself out of this non-blogging fug I've been in for a few weeks now.  No idea why I've got it, I love blogging, it's just at the moment I'm finding it really hard to actually write.

Not that I haven't had anything to blog about.  Do you ever wonder how many thoughts we have in a day?  Well, I've had plenty, particularly on my walks which are my thinking times - these past few weeks I've even been imagining blogposts as I walk, but when I get home the inspiration seems to end there.  Maybe I need to take my laptop out into the woods?

What are your favourite ways to get out of that creative block?  How do you keep blogging regularly when you've lost the will?  Let me know, I'd really like to hear :)

For today I've decided just to write about whatever is in my head; suppose it's not too bad as a piece of gobbledegook goes ...