I went on a little solo road-trip. I didn’t take Pepperpot as I didn’t know if I would be visiting dog-friendly places.
We’ve had a run of a few days of calm weather, which is unheard of for this time of year. Suspiciously deceptive. This is a not a usual Shetland winter but it does make for beautiful scenery.
My first stop was Quarff (about 5 miles south of Lerwick) to collect two croft house planters that I had ordered a few months’ back from Greencroft Shetland. I bought a red one and a turquoise one, plus a small candle holder croft house too. I am very pleased. I have always wanted one of these planters for many years and now I have two plus the little one. My treat to myself. Now to decide what to plant in them. I am thinking pansies.
Next to the other side of Quarff to have two silver 3 pence pieces made into earrings. Long story short, OH gave a good friend a knife for Christmas and in return these two little silver coins came back. I had never seen an old-type 3 pence piece and these were dear little coins.
I decided to turn them into simple earrings and put a message on a local Facebook page with a photo of the coins asking if anyone could do this. I met up with Rosalyn Thompson at her workshop and she cleverly created my earrings. Again, I am very pleased with them – I’ve always wanted coin earrings. I haven’t taken them off.
It was a lovely day travelling to places I wouldn’t normally see. I am usually only down the “sooth end” when I am going to the airport. So it was fun to go somewhere different for a change.
What a clever idea to make the earrings from old coins! They are wonderful!
Great that you had a ‘me day’. We all need one every now and then. Aren’t snowdrops / flakes just the sweetest flowers, so full of purity and joy, good wholesome health. I have a group of silver birch trees and am waiting another month for autumn when I’m going to plant snowdrop bulbs around the bases. Will see them first thing in spring as I pull back bedroom curtains and start the day with a smile.
I enjoyed being an unseen guest on your journey. Love the earrings!
Wonderful photos!
I am old enough to remember silver thrupenny bits making an appearance in our Christmas puddings. They were very rare but were still legal currency, I think. Or I wonder if kind shopkeepers pretended they were currency – like the shopkeeper in the Cadbury’s chocolate advert!
Threepences in the Christmas Pudding! I remember that.
Enjoying seeing the first of the flowers again, look forward to your wildflower and garden shots here every year. The house-planters are ace. But the conifers – trees on Shetland – that’s a photo you don’t see every day.
The planters are gorgeous, as are your new earrings.
Sometimes a gentle day out like this is just what you need.