The Little Things

There is some joy I find in making little things, simple things.

I made these ten wooden buttons (with the intention of using them in a costume)

sawn from the branches of our SilverBirch trees after a long overdue trim a few years ago.

Thank you Mum for keeping a few branches back, hidden in the shed to dry out in the sure knowledge that "One day we'll make something from them."

I love the thin rich frame of bark, which peals away in silvery papery sections, leaving stripes down the branches of silver and the fresher darker grey/browns.

Two eyelike holes stare out from a sanded smooth and pale oiled face, hammered in with a nail (no electric drills here!)