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Edited for Looking Close..on Friday's "creative and unusual packaging theme"

Seeds packaged up within fascinating seedheads, just waiting to be unleashed (and eventually to appear throughout my garden in places where I don't want them to... :-) )

[With apologies to the Group Admins if "natural" packaging isn't what this theme is about.]

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For FlickrFriday's #drop theme

I tried this "drop art" a few weeks ago using a rather random multicoloured background. It worked surprisingly well. I've wanted to try it with text / books to see if it could be effective with words.

This is created by a layer of glycerine drops held above my kindle. The kindle allowed me to increase the size of my text as needed to get a good image. It also meant the text was flat, which might have been tricky with a proper book. Because the text was so large, I did struggle to get any interesting words showing through, but I've certainly proved the point I was trying to.

And, yes, clearly the book on my kindle at the moment is not one of the literary greats. In my defence, I've spent several months struggling with a few Classics - Rudyard Kipling's Kim has taken me about 6 months to get through - so I needed something a bit more light weight and fun.

If anyone's interested, this is Cursed Luck, which is the first in a new series by one of my favourite authors, Kelley Armstrong. So nice to have a book that makes me to want to sit down and read, rather than find an excuse not to! I'm having a bad reading year. I've reduced my Goodreads target for the year from 70 to 50 and I'm going to struggle to get to that...

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In floriographical terms, this hellebore (under it's alternative name of the christmas rose) represents anxiety, or more appropriately, relieving anxiety.

White represents innocence and purity.

I'm not into making political statements, but this felt quite timely.

www.allflorists.co.uk/advice_flowerMeanings.asp#h

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After a mad couple of weeks, time for a bit of calm...

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