Thursday 2 December 2010

Wool, wax and waning moon

Some gift crochet coasters - two bamboo and two 100% cotton. Silky and sheeny.



A personalised bookmark


Beeswax modelling clay: 

4 oz of beeswax
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 teaspoon of lanolin


Mix in an old tin can in some boiling water


 Turn out into a foil-lined shallow dish

 Wait until it dries (about 1 hour)


And cut into slices. You can add lavender or colour, although the smell of beeswax is just so heavenly, I couldn't ruin it by doing that!


And model and play. Saves spending all that money at Myriad ;)

And my charity shop bargain of £1 - a 47-year-old hand-painted plate with the Walter De La Mare poem Silver. It has a date of 1963 on the back and the name Alice Houseman. I thought it was quite appropriate due to the recent bright and huge moon we have seen. It was going to be a gift, but balls, I love it. Am keeping it. And you can't stop me.


Here is the beautiful poem in full:


Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter de la Mare

I have also added a daily moon phase chart if you don't have one already.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Wow, what a fabulous find from the charity shop.

Love your coasters too.

xx