with love

A few days after I posted my last blog about Jazzy moving to Melbourne and the granny hottie I crocheted for her while riding my emotional roller-coaster, it occurred to me that you might have wondered what Bren was up to at that same time. Well, he was designing and building her a guitar stand. While yarn and a hook and little stitches became my love language, his is all recycled scraps of timber, drills, clamps, saws, screws, sanding discs and a tape measure.

Unlike me who had a pattern I’d already written in 2014 to follow, he had to start his from scratch.

He looked at some pictures online, but he didn’t see anything he liked. So he drew some sketches, he gathered the materials, and he got to work, making it up as he went along.

There were a few design decisions he included me in, but honestly, while I am a great appreciator of wood-crafts, and am absolutely thrilled that I get to live with the spoils, I don’t have the patience for all the measuring and the preciseness, so I won’t go into the exact details of his process, except to say that she asked for it, he built it, and she loves it. And I think that it’s beautiful, and he should probably build another one for us to keep here.

Thank you for all your heart-filled, beautiful messages on my last post. Even after all these years of blogging it still fills me with delight to think that you read my words, that my stories resonate with you, and that you share yours back with me. It makes me feel so lucky, and somehow manages to cut a hole through this insomnia-caused zombie- like trance I feel like I’m living through these days. So thank you! I appreciate your words and I appreciate you!

It’s a short and sweet post today, but before you leave I’d love to know how you express your love? Do you bake fancy cakes, or pick bunches of wild flowers? Do you leave love notes in lunch boxes, or buy expensive jewellery? Bren brings me a coffee in bed every day and that definitely fills me up with love.

See you soon my loves,

Kate x