February 3 - 9, 2013

Back to back blog entries, SURPRISE! I feel guilty every time I walk by the dresser and see the line-up of brooches waiting to be nattered about. Hurrah - seven more into the cookie tin they go.

I think of this as my buddy brooch. Don't you love the recycled pop cans for the dresses and I like moving the metal arms, legs, and heads into different positions. Thank heavens I haven't started to knit little sweaters for them - yet.








I sometimes get raised eyebrows in response to this brooch. People see different things - a mask, a robot, a pair of breasts with a wee wiggly dangling below...I'm keeping mum on the subject.









The largest of my brooches - a whooping 4" x 3 1/2". My husband bought it for me. OK, I'll fess up. I made "mmmm me like" noises when I saw it and he went back and got it. I'm a relatively sane woman but the kitschiness of it appealed to me. It is soooooo over the top.







One of my favourite beasties are pigs. Don't get much of a chance but I like to give them a good back scratch when I'm fortunate enough to be in their company. Ever the Pollyanna, I liked how this flying pig meant that anything is possible. There is a wonderful book - Tuesday by David Wiesner. It was a fave when my son was a little one. 





Who doesn't like dragonflies. Nothing speaks summer like dragonflies zooming around the garden.













This was one of a few blank name tags left over after an annual weekend retreat where we bring in teachers and make a variety of things - from  twig furniture to jewellery and everything in between.  Although I don't like hearts as a decor item, I do like them as brooches . 











My apologies - it was photographed facing properly but alas it flipped sideways and of course I don't know how to right it. P.G.Wodehouse makes me laugh out loud. His books with Jeeves and that young gadabout Bertie Wooster can make a cloudy day sunny. The man on the brooch reminds me of Jeeves, although instead of bringing Bertie a heart on a silver platter it would have been Jeeves' morning elixir to chase away the effects of the night before.