Pictures of Precious

Pictures of Precious is the theme of Story Telling Sunday this year. Sian at High in the Sky has suggested that something precious doesn’t have to be close.

…and there’s a thought for you: if you are having trouble thinking of something close, there is nothing to stop you reaching further afield. Maybe your Precious this month is something you enjoy from a distance?

Friday evening and I am still struggling Sian. I have a busy day planned tomorrow.

I asked myself “Could people make it to our precious list?” I answered myself “No, I think it’s a given that the people I love are very precious and making a page or story about one or all or heavens above, what if I forgot one?? Oh no far too many complications.

Saturday morning and I still don’t have a story for Sunday but Story Telling Sunday is part of my life and I tell myself to relax and just be, a story will come to you/me… and so it did on Saturday afternoon. And it will break my own rule!

I am a contrary lady. This week my precious is one of my brothers. Yes I have more than one brother, and this is about one of them. (Sorry PGT&M)

This is also to say thank you to my brother, especially as he said I could put his picture on my page.

My brother

I have set Monday afternoon aside for tea, cake and story reading. I have wardrobes to arrange this afternoon x
I choose such a pale colour text for my page, sorry

This is the journalling:

Monday afternoon
My brother called to arrange to visit us at the weekend. A meal, a few drinks, stay over and return home after lunch on Sunday

Friday afternoon
We went to Ikea to choose the doors for the wardrobes we wanted to order.
The intention was to order them on-line and have them delivered. We would be able to plan being here and how we would build them, we have limited space and who would help/would Ben be here?

It turned out that everything was in stock at the store and if we ordered this afternoon they would deliver tomorrow.
We said yes. We would work out the details later.

On the drive home I remembered my brother was coming over! Should I cancel him?
No: the delivery can live in the hall over the weekend; it would be fine.

Saturday afternoon
After lunch today we were talking about the delivery and it turned out that my brother has the same wardrobes, he had to put them together himself and said it nearly killed him! We would never manage on our own, he would help!!!

And so he did. He was right. The packages, 33 of them, were terribly heavy. There were far too many for the hall! and each had to be carried up stairs and the main parts of the wardrobe would have to be built in situ, never an easy thing.

My brother and my husband worked so hard today. I kept up with the tea and encouragement, the promise of a meal and something nice and chilled in the fridge.

This wonderful meme is brought to you from Sian Fair over at High in the Sky

Story Telling Sunday…

…On Wednesday.

Pictures of Precious: such a wonderful thing to do on the first Sunday of the month, or Wednesday or any day for the week following…are you keeping up?

Sian was thinking ‘Irish’ for this month. It reminded me about one of my little pieces of Ireland. I only have a few, I promise.
The reminder of it had an added bonus. All the crystals, stones and the bowl got a wash! I know you should clean them in the moonlight but I just didn’t have time and I think it should be a full moon and that’s not for ages (11th March). Anyway they all look beautiful and clean and shiny now. And another thing I discovered today is that when the sun shines in the afternoon my bathroom has the most gorgeous light for photographs! That’s where I made my pictures for today.

A piece of Ireland

I have a story time planned for this afternoon with Sian at High in the Sky. I can’t wait to see and read what is precious to you.

Story Telling Sunday ~ February

…On Wednesday

Pictures of Precious ~ The Cat in the Drawer
4th February 2013

PtP February

The Cat in the Drawer hangs on the wall in my bedroom.
It has been hanging there since the summer of 1988, June of that year actually. I could tell you the date but you would have to give me a moment to make quite sure.
The Cat in the Drawer is not something that I would have chosen for my self. Paul bought it for me. He saw it in a little boutique kind of shop in Oxford. He had gone out for a walk while I was sleeping, recovering in the clinic.
He was so pleased with me, with us, having got this far. Pleased in the way you feel relief, not jumping up and down pleased.
He will have been smiling to himself and worrying about me at the same time. What he had witnessed me go through was not easy for him.
He said he saw the little black and white cat first and it reminded him of our little cat. She was staying in the cattery because we were away for a few days.
Then he saw that the cat was sitting in a drawer and he thought of me carrying enough eggs in my body so that sufficient could be recovered to enable the embryologists to fertilise them for us.
That is what had happened this beautiful June day: my eggs had been recovered.
Paul thought the drawer was holding the cat, rather like me holding my precious eggs.
It was another step along the way in our IVF treatment.
When I look at The Cat in the Drawer I have so many memories of our love and hopes and dreams and that time in our lives.
When I dust The Cat in the Drawer I always smile because I remember and because it was so long ago.
A life time really.
Ben’s life time in fact.

The Cat in the Drawer, the story of My Precious for February was brought to you with thanks to Sian, she of the wonderful ideas at High in the Sky.

I am looking forward to reading all your stories here, tonight when I get in from work.

Picturing the Precious

Pick your Precious

Thank you Sian for this sparkling new Story Telling Sunday project.
Sian, over at High in the Sky has once again come up with a brilliant new idea for Storing Telling Sunday, now in its third year.

Take a picture of something that is precious to you. It can be anything at all, precious for any reason or no reason and write a back story to go with it. Genius! as my darling boy often says whilst pressing his forehead with his index finger!

As I intend to make a book from these ‘precious photos and back stories’ I am starting my series with something that amuses me greatly.
And, as I haven’t done a layout of any description for ages here is the first from 2013. I keep writing/typing 2003, anyone else doing the same?

PtP The Blue Jug

You should be able to click on the picture to make my journalling large enough to read.

I am sure, because Sian is hosting, there will be some wonderful back stories to some equally wonderful photo’s of Precious right here.