Sparkly beads we were like Magpies at a feast....

 Also on Saturday at the Museum was the Annual Beads Art Gala

Which fortunately for those on a budget included a table where you could for $5 dollars make yourself a bracelet!

So the girls set to and did so.

It was a simple technique take a piece of  "Memory wire" thin stainless steel wire that has been coiled and remembers the shape.

Bend a small circle or coil at one end ...thread beads onto it ..randomly or in a careful pattern ...bend the end with a matching coil and you are done ....excellent results.... so excellent that we nipped to a store on the way home bought inexpensive glass beads and memory wire on clearance ..borrowed my OH's wire clippers are were off .

My attempt using beads from a broken necklace plus a few extras.

It's springing isn't that fun!

And rather addictive three bracelets later...

  Much fun was had :o)

It's Saturday it must be Van Gogh

A Saturday outing to the Museum for " Van Gogh Alive the Experience"

Floor to ceiling changing projections and wall to wall sound (Classical music mix) we were free to wander through the rooms .

I walked in wondering if I would gain anything from this ...there were no Original paintings to look at ...but it was so rewarding ..I came out with a far greater knowledge of his life and works than when I went in.

I would happily go again.

 The projections filled the room ...they moved and changed ..some were animated  and it worked .

It was a sensory rich feast.

Straight pictures interspersed with information and quotes.

Can you tell I loved it ? 

Lost or shopping

Actually I think they were just a bit lost.
I rather think it made it's way back to the woods later that day ...probably without sampling the pancakes .

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

It's years since I read a book cover to cover in a day..... but on Saturday I picked up "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
It was lovely ...bliss ..and I was so sad to learn that the author didn't live to see the book published but at least she knew it was going to be.

There is a lovely review of the book here   I'm just kicking myself that it took me so long to find this book.