Although I had things I knew I should be getting on with,\u00a0yesterday didn’t exactly start on\u00a0a high point of efficiency and purpose.<\/p>\n

As is my usual habit, I got lad’s breakfast, then sat looking at Pinterest<\/a> over my own bowl of granola. And as I looked at lots of pictures of flowers, an idea blossomed.<\/p>\n

I would make some little stuffed fabric flowers, using the same method as for my doll face brooches!<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure exactly what I would do<\/em> with them once I had made them, but I still wanted to make them nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Alas, my first attempt did not resemble anything floral. More like a strange,\u00a0lumpy little blob.<\/p>\n

I tried adding some decoration, but it didn’t seem to improve things much.<\/p>\n

I cast it aside in disgust. Not such a great idea after all.<\/p>\n

Determined not to end the day’s making on a low, I decided to tackle\u00a0one of the things I had promised myself I would<\/em> do.<\/p>\n

A while back I bought this\u00a0stack of mount-board offcuts, thinking that they would make good backing material for stitchy pictures.<\/p>\n

And it just so happens that I need<\/em>\u00a0some pictures\u00a0for the\u00a0Sherwood Art Week<\/a> exhibition in June that I’m participating in.<\/p>\n

So I thought – here goes nothing, and got stuck in…<\/p>\n

It turned out ok, I think.<\/p>\n

But despite my\u00a0success, I just couldn’t get that lumpy little blob out of my mind.<\/p>\n

I hate<\/em> discarding something I’ve made, even when it hasn’t really worked out. I thought – it just needs <\/em>something…<\/p>\n

So I turned to my newest obssession – beads. I love ’em.<\/p>\n

I keep visiting the bead shop and having to restrain myself from leaving with a rainbow\u00a0sackful of those\u00a0colourful vials of seed beads.<\/p>\n

They’re tiny, they’re blingy, and they seemed just the right thing to perk up a lumpy blobby flower, being in every sense just the opposite of lumpy and blobby themselves.<\/p>\n

And lo and behold – what a transformation!<\/p>\n

My beading needs a little practise, but I want to make more of them. I want to make this<\/em> one\u00a0into a pendant on a long string, for me.<\/p>\n

And now I definitely<\/em> want more beads.<\/p>\n

Because anything that can transform that\u00a0blob into bling has got<\/em> to be worth having in quantity, hasn’t it?<\/p>\n

Do you think if I wore\u00a0enough beads\u00a0they\u00a0might\u00a0work some of their magic on me?\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n

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