Exploring Part 2

When we were out exploring last week we went back to a car park that we came across before that was covered in paint to see how it had changed. (You can see the first time we went here)



Although there was some cool work I was more interested in the way the paint was flaking and looking at all the different colours against each other. I don't know what it is about a flaky wall but it's awesome.



It's so cool to see it again all changed. We'll have to keep going back to check it out, hopefully they'll keep painting it.

The first part can be found here

What My Phone Saw ~ April

WIP // We made a new friend and wanted to steal her.



I knew a word that Will didn't know!! // Things found while gardening.



Being brave. I am fascinated by bugs but can't touch them which I would like to change. Starting off small // Button sorting.



I don't know if this is good for the plant but it looks cool.



I'm going to be making some garlands with mottos/names/whatever on for the shop so I designed myself a crochet ampersand.

Free Castle Visit Number Three

This was a visit at the end of March but for some reason the photos have just been sat in a folder. I did take my DSLR with me but I took a photo just before going in the castle and the battery ran out so these are all taken on my phone which isn't my prefered thing to take photos with but better than nothing.



I love this little viking illustration.



The shadow giving me a goatee in this makes it even better than these things are anyway.



The castle has a birds exhibition starting near the end of the month which we are very much looking forward to.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, living so close to a castle is awesome. Especially one that has a museum in it.

Exploring Part 1

On Friday we decided to take a morning off and go for a bit of an explore. It started pretty well with this beautiful mushroom.



I don't know where all this colour came from. We couldn't see anything that had been painted nearby.



I was a bit worried about this painted snail. He's not sitting on the colour he got painted so hopefully he's fine. Definitely looks quite snazzy.



This was found next to the river. At first we thought it was just a note but it turned out to be a note written on the back of a photo. I hope it was lost by accident, otherwise that's really sad.
A new addition for my photos of people I don't know collection though.

I have more photos from this day coming in another post soon.

Flower Pressing

These lovelies came out of our garden. We have a whole load of them growing down our front path which are safe and sound but these were growing in amongst a load of other weeds pretending to be our lawn so I grabbed them for myself and they're now living in a journal.



Pressing flowers is awesome. It's kind of like waiting to get a film developed. As soon as I've put the books down I want to have the end result but you have to just wait and see what you end up with. Sometimes it goes wrong but mostly it's worth the wait.

April

April just kinda plodded along in a completely unoffensive way. Nothing super exciting, nothing super bad. My to do list started very long and now is just long. No complaints. Plus the sun has been out which is lovely.



I saw that the magnolia petals were going brown pretty quick once they'd fallen off and wondered if pressing them would somehow stop that. It didn't, these went brown and mouldy.



Will making a snail friend. There was a week in April that was just snails. Nothing else.



Things in April:
I made a facebook page thinking it would probably be a waste of time and I'm still the only person whose 'liked' it. (How sad is that?!) I'll give it a little longer to seek its fame and fortune.
Frank was in Simply Crochet.
We went to the beach.
I found out this shop existed about 5 seconds after saying how it's a shame all the good taxidermy is being sold abroad.
I wished I owned this patch (looove Durer), this bowl, this bowl and this badge.

We Are Eight

This fool has been letting me follow him around for 8 years now.

It was quite early in our friendship that I found out if I stayed in his room long enough after class he'd feed me.

I think that was his first mistake.

I soon realised I had a good thing going and needed to claim him as my own.

I also found out that it wasn't just feeding me he was good at. He made me laugh and knew about things I wish I already knew about.

After spending almost the whole first year practically sharing his tiny tiny halls room we had to both go home for the summer. I think for sane people it would have been nice to have a bit of space, not living in a shoe box with a person for a while should have been a relief.

But it wasn't.

After that summer we moved into our shared student house with some friends and we've been inseparable ever since.

He still makes me laugh. A lot. He still tells me interesting things. Most importantly, he still feeds me.

We've changed a lot over the eight years but instead of growing apart we somehow just seem to get more and more attached to each other. I often think about how lucky I am to have found someone who gets super excited or super angry about the same things as me pretty much every time.

The confusion of posing with a blender might make him not know at all where the camera is

 

but at least we always have a good time.

I love you, you hairy fool.