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@Mindee Diamond Art or what I know as diamond dots is when you have a canvas like picture that has been covered with glue, and then you have plastic little dots which you pick up on the end of a pen like tool and then stick them to the correct colour. The dots have been cut to make them sparkle, so they look like diamonds. It is a bit like painting by numbers. This is the last one that I completed.
And yes, I am very passionate about my coins. I was in a very bad place mentally when I saw on the news how the change in your pocket could be worth more than face value. So that peeked my attention. I went online and did some research on what sort of coins I need to look for in my change. But with the coloured $2 coins they usually only mint 2 million of them, which makes them rare, and an item to collect. I was talking about this newfound fact at my partner's workshop and the boss, his son and the handyman all already collect $2 coins. So, when the Woolworths $2 coins were released, I would drop my partner to work and then visit 2 different Woolworths stores to get the enough $2 coins for all of us. The handyman told me that his daughter collects coins, and he put me in tough with her, and I have been hooked ever since. I still look in my change, especially for a year 2000 $1 coin that had a double rim on the heads side of the coin. As depending on the condition of the coin, can be worth over $1,000. I mainly collect 1oz silver coins and have just moved into buying bullion coins. But the coin collecting community are a wonderful bunch of people who are willing to give up their time to pass on their knowledge. I have met some beautiful people on Facebook and Tic Tok and also won some awesome coins. So, at a time when I was really struggling, this gave me an out and something to be interested in. i wasn't socialising at all before, and while it is rare that I socialise in person now, I am more than happy to have a chat with the members of all the different coin sites that I am on. Usually when I talk about coins, my face lights up and I get really excited. Just in case you couldn't tell. Lol
@GezzaP I was looking at doing chair yoga at one stage because I can't stand in the one spot for more than 90 seconds without my lower back going into spasm, which is agony, so I thought that chair yoga would be a better option, but I think at the time I was looking at starting, something triggered me, and then it was all over red rover.
I used to collect stamps when I was around 12 or 13. I remember that my year 8 maths teacher collected stamps as well, so when I finished my work early, he would have me sorting out his stamps. I did have an album, but I have no idea where that would be. Probably in a box ruined in my storage container.
I love gardening, but because of my back issues I can't do it anymore. Not that I have a garden now.
My previous partner (that passed away) and I built this garden from scratch. The only things we didn't build was the gazebo, the pergola, and the retaining wall that you can't see in the photo. It was a lot of hard work, as we wheel barrowed all the soil from around the front where it was delivered, to the back to fill the garden beds. And it was worse for the retaining wall bricks as the delivered them on the front yards at the bottom. We hash a steepish driveway that we had the wheel barrowed a shit load of bricks up.
To the right of this picture was a pond dug into the soil, with a fountain, and to the left we had a massive retaining wall, as when we used to be in our back yard, our block was higher than the neighbours and we could see straight into their back yard. We also had a large water feature in the middle of the retaining wall. I spent a long time today, try to find a photo of it, but I would say it is on my old desk top computer.
@Bunniekins that's a great way to look at it. That reminds me of a quote I heard in my women are strong workshop I did. The quote said, "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become" and I thought that was really powerful.
I really feel for you and the struggle that you have gone through and are still going through. I just want to give you a really big hug.
@DownMoreThanUp I love the last one as that explains why my lower back is now so bad, that I can no longer walk very far. I grew up hating arguing and raised voices, so I did everything within my power to make the other person happy, so there was no conflict, but really there was a conflict, it was going on inside me, and I just tried to ignore it for 50 years.
As a Cancerian, I held a lot of my emotions in, which is why my body is screaming at me for help. I am slowly learning how to process my emotions. Because when I was 48 and I hit rock bottom in my life, all those unprocessed emotions came to the surface. And it was not enjoyable or pretty.
Thanks for sharing. I hope your day goes well for you 😊
@Dreamy Good morning, I am hoping that by watching the other people show their finished projects, it will help give me the motivation I need to get it started again. I just need to get rid of some boxes to my mum's place, so I have room on top and underneath the table.
I would love to see photos of what you purchased yesterday. No hurry, just in your own time.
