Sadly there have been things going on in my life that have been occupying my mind constantly and making it very difficult to even think of being creative, so nothing much to show here. I did buy myself a little Lego-type kit to keep myself occupied. I thought it was bears initially, but they turned out to be capybaras but still very cute! This thing drove me crazy for a week or so - the bricks are so very tiny and my hands are so very arthritic. I ended up with a bag of spare pieces and so I went through the instructions over and over, checked the photo, and it would appear I have not made any mistakes, they just put a load of extra bricks in the kit. It was 'fun' to make but I'm not doing one of those again!
At Christmas I was given a couple of amaryllis bulbs, both of which did not grow well and seemed to be a breeding ground for small flies which drove us crazy in the living room. So I chucked the pots out into the greenhouse as I didn't want to throw them away. Come the beginning of Spring, they started to sprout again - one of them didn't get far before dying, the other one turned into this magnificent specimen! It seems to love being out in the garden, all three blooms are now open and the flowers are lasting much longer than they would indoors. Perhaps next time I get given one of these, I will put it in the greenhouse straight away and see what happens.
I've been stress-crocheting a lot - on to my second blanket now. It keeps my hands busy and gives me a finished product so that I am not just sitting mindlessly watching tv in the evenings. I've also returned to a wooden box I started painting some months ago - again, something that doesn't require too much thinking but does mean I am painting once more.
