The Christmas decorations have all gone and it’s a grey, dull, wet January day so a Splash of Colour is sorely needed.  After I had cleared away the last of the festivities I found, at the back of a shelf, a glass jar in which I have collected  felt beads which I have been embroidering  at odd moments over the last few weeks.  I’ve been meaning to get them out to show you, and to do something with them for ages, and now seems the perfect moment!

So, what to make?  I unearthed my box of beading bits and found some little fasteners and cord and all the bits I needed and found I had just the right number of beads to make two bracelets and a necklace.

And here they are.  Bracelet 1…

…and bracelet 2…

…and shall we say, a slightly less exuberant colour scheme for a rather elegant necklace.

The temptation is to look in my wardrobe and see what they go with, but no, I’m going to be sensible and put them in the Folksy shop in the hope that someone will love them as much as I do!   No more procrastination!

Thank you for all the get well messages following my last post about the uninvited swinish visitor over Christmas and the New Year. T and I  had the flu vaccine just before Christmas so we are still keeping our fingers crossed.  It was the younger generation who were afflicted, especially the four year old. Just to update you, they are back home now on the South Coast and recovering well, even the small one who had an ear infection and a perforated eardrum.  It’s a dreadful thing, and a reminder to us all to get the jab if at all possible every year.

Also Higgins is being very big headed about all the compliments he has been receiving  from you.  He can’t understand why I keep putting all this woolly stuff on the blog when you would obviously like more pictures of him.  Next time I will show you evidence of some very naughty goings on with Mr Higgins and those lovely shiny teeth!

P.S. Don’t forget, there is still time to enter the draw for the needlefelted Christmas ornament  in my last post.