Joining in with Cathy’s brilliant meme – a In a Vase on Monday.
Hydrangeas and asters with the bag that Miss E (8) is making.
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Last night goes right into the top 10 most surreal nights I have ever spent. I set the alarm for 1.30am so that I could watch the eclipse of the full moon – which was well worth staying up most of the night for. Magical, russet for a while and weirdly beautiful.
I knew the eclipse would take a few hours – what to do – I found a website where I could watch the eclipse in real time on my lap-top, as it was too bright to look at to begin with, got back into bed with lap-top and put a DVD on the TV to keep me awake. Every so often I would pause the DVD, put on my sunglasses and go outside to watch the moon.
The DVD was Hector’s Search for Happiness
with Simon Pegg – a nice easy watch for most of the time but taking me and my mind on a journey around the world searching for happiness – whilst also watching an eclipse on a computer as well as in reality, outside in the dark with sunglasses on – it sent my brain off in even more weird somersaults than usual, and set me thinking about what made me really happy.
I realised that sitting crafting all day listening to Radio 4, was one of the ways I get to feel that all’s well in my world, and that I have not had a whole day like that for ….. hmmm…… well …… years.
So I gave myself a ‘Happy Day’ and I sat and played with beads and made beaded decorations:
They are to be sewn onto some tote bags and shoulder bags that Miss E
is making with me. I thought I would make a selection and then she will no doubt come up with her own brilliant ideas to decorate her bag,
and the ones she wants to make for presents
It thrills me to bits when I can justify keeping all sorts of strange objects like these funny little animal boards
which I will make some holes in with a bradle that belonged to my Grandmother,
and hang the dingle-dangles from them.
I worked/played from 8.30am til 5.30pm (with a short walk at lunchtime) and then I quickly put a vase together to join Cathy and her gardening pals. I didn’t want to miss out.
Oh Happy Day!
What would you love to do all day if you could?
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How about this? I’ll also be 81 in 2033 (on Halloween, wouldn’t that be the best night for it) and my hub and I sat out late (not as late here though of course) and watched from lawn chairs in our driveway. My phone doesn’t do well on moon shots, so it was nothing for me, either. Love your colorful beaded danglies!
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Hey! Join the club! We’ll have to have a cyber party! The 1952ers Stargazers Knees Up – or should I say Moongazers. So glad you like the ‘danglies’, they are fun to make.
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lovely muted pinks in your vase and your decorations are great too! Sadly, it was too cloudy here in the east to see the eclipse – such a shame as the skies had been clear for several nights before (and after!)
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That IS a shame! What a pesky nuisance! It has been like that here on so many of these kind of occasions.
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Sounds like a perfect day to me!
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We crafting Grannies are easily pleased aren’t we!
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Asters and Hydrangeas go beautifully together and I would never have thought to put them in a vase next to each other due to their different sizes. But your arrangement looks lovely! Love all the beads too… 🙂
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Thank you Cathy. I don’t have much colour in the garden at the moment and I needed to be quick, so I just grabbed what I could and bunched them in my hand – it seemed to look ok so I tied them all together just as they were – sometimes speed helps! So glad you like it.
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I love the flowers, so pretty. Those decorations you made are lovely, I am sure Miss E will find something amongst all those treasures to decorate her bag with..
Glad you had a lovely, chilled out day 🙂
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Thank you Eddie, glad you liked the flowers even though they are not yellow ;-). My crafting self was well fed yesterday, I’ve even managed to do a little more today before I collect Little Miss M from pre-school – oops better go!
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Have a wonderful day 🙂
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It was a happy day indeed…your decs and vase are lovely.
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Thank you so much Noelle, lovely to have you drop by – it feels like a party at the beginning of the week.
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I feel I missed out. I did take some photos of the full moon before settling down at 11.30 but didn’t even contemplate waking up to watch it in real time. Your dingle dangles are so pretty and it’s so good to hear about your crafting exploits with Miss E. Radio 4 and crafting all day (with a lunchtime walk of course) sounds heavenly.
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I know the feeling – I too have missed many in the past because of cloudy skies or other reasons. There is a superb time-lapse photo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LookingUpPhoto/photos/a.365900596797807.81801.365885116799355/880714271983101/?type=3&theater. I couldn’t download it. My photos were rubbish!
So glad you like the dingle-dangles (must think of a better name).It was a heavenly day – can I allow all those shoulds and oughts to wait and have another day like it today?!
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A great day!
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It really was! Now I want more! But the garden beckons – I do also like gardening all day, but the body is not SO happy with that.
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Love your Hydrangeas. Glad you were able to view the eclipse. After hardly any rain all summer, we had rain last night during the supermoon eclipse event. Oh well.
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That’s a shame – it’s happened to me like that so many times – a clear night here was what encouraged to me stay up.
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That must have been a surreal experience – no wonder you have been basking in strange energies all day and been so creative!! We woke up at the time of the eclipse but sadly you couldn’t see it from our house – the full moons always seem to shine directly into our bedroom at bedtime, which is always amazing, but of course had moved by the eclipse time. When I was working our Headteacher ‘gave’ all staff a half day off as a thank you so I made sure I was quite self-indulgent with mine (swimming, steam room, holistic treatment, etc, all the things I didn’t normally have time for). It’s a bit different when you are retired and every day can be as self-indulgent as you want!! Glad you had a happy day – and managed to squeeze a vase in for extra happiness! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Next time you will need to take a midnight feast (and sunglasses) to a local hilltop. I did that once to see a meteor shower – a friend and I lay on our backs on top of a hillfort watching shooting stars – very romantic!
Oooh, yes I like the sound of your day off too.
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And we are on a hill, so that would entail a midnight feast in the village graveyard – as long as the moon was somewhere between E and NW… Will try and remember that for 2033… 😉
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Ha ha!!! Sounds very Halloween! I’ll be 81 in 2033 – meet you on that hill top with a flask of hot chocolate laced with rum!
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Me too, depending what month it’s due!! 😉 I shall bring an alternative beverage though, not sure what…
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Very pretty beaded decorations. I especially like the blue beaded ones.
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Thank you Rainbow. Miss E won’t have pink on ANYTHING! So I made the blue ones for her, to go with her bag – hope she likes them too.
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Your vase is beautiful, and your decorations lovely, lots of inspiration around there! I saw all the eclipse from my backyard, really a magical night!
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Thank you Elizabeth. So good to know that several of us were up and watching the Eclipse – yes real magic!
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