July 28 - August 3, 2013

This is the second posting today.

A most unusual thing has occurred, I haven't a thing to say other than I am shocked that it's already August. 

The next 7.

I'm a bird watcher - I hear the stifled yawns. I love to watch the swallows and chimney swifts swirling and diving overhead and it's a sad day when I realize that they have already headed south. So look up and enjoy these beautiful birds while they're still in the warm sky. I just wish they would eat Japanese Beetles (those dratted shrub/flower/vine-devouring pests). And by the way, isn't this a pretty brooch.

I didn't go to Vancouver Expo '86, but someone did and brought this back for me. No doubt it was a fab time, especially with a backdrop of ocean and mountains.

Funky purse brooch - too bad it can't hold my wallet and other purse paraphernalia. I love wool felt and have used it for various things. I can't remember which long ago member of Kindred Spirits made this, but I'm glad she did.

A friend received a bag of jewellery which contained some brooches, rings etc. Some of the brooches were hunky dory and some very much not. I love cats, angels are a good thing to have on your side, but there is a limit. I accepted this one as the last of these. The other winged kitty gets moved around the office/dept and pops up in unsuspected spots.

Yes these are jelly beans, shellacked ones. When I was a young woman, I was walking up the subway stairs when a man stopped me to say that I had candy stuck to my top. I laughed merrily and told him that they're brooches. He likely thought I was a looper.

Love that Lenny! He can bring in my groceries anytime. I don't have a "bucket" list but I do have a "not very likely" list. I would love to be one of his back-up singers on an European Tour. OK, I really should rename that list the "dream on" list.

I have now lost count of how many pins I bought in the London Underground kiosk back in the eighties.