"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project." - Napoleon Hill
It's been a busy week since Merv left for a Florida vacation on Monday. Not only have I been busy with work, but I hosted a dinner party and used my time alone in the house to work on some projects. A couple of weeks ago, I found a small table at Value Village. Initially I stained the table black intending to finish it with a copper glaze before I covered the top of it with pennies. But after a thorough search, I wasn't able to find copper glaze in Canada so instead, I bought liquid copper gilt and applied it to the whole table. It looks great. Once it was cured, I spent a few hours arranging and gluing pennies to cover the top of the table. Though time consuming and fussy, it was a fun project.
After a long overdue appointment with my hairdresser, I headed to the bead store yesterday to pick up some stones for a birthday gift I'm making for Geraldine. While I was there I spotted some brightly coloured dyed-turquoise beads that had been cut in the shape of a peace sign. I was instantly hit with the notion of making a rosary with the stones the basis for which would be that it would be a rosary to use when praying for peace. It took me a couple of hours last night to make the rosary. It's enormous but really quite wonderful. I made it while I watched events unfold in Boston. If there ever was a time to pray for peace, this feels like it.
This afternoon Geraldine and I completed some of her outstanding projects - a lovely mixed stone rosary for her friend and a trio of bracelets for her daughters. It was a nice way to pass the afternoon, talking and creating. When I go to bed tonight, I know I will feel satisfied that there are some things in the world that will mark my presence here.
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