Picture for the porch

Usually, I like to follow instructions. I am not very good at creativity, and like a nice pattern to follow. I like to know that someone who has better spatial awareness and awareness of colour has mapped it all out for me.

However, I was inspired by an Ikea box frame, an old toy and some childhood writing paper. We were clearing out the last of the boxes of my husband's old things from his Mum and Dad's house, and we came across a rather lovely plastic moneybox in the shape of a post box from Germany.  We kept it, and it ended up on the "shelf of stuff that doesn't really have a home" in the conservatory.  Quite what's going to become of this shelf when we demolish the conservatory, I don't know.

Anyway, as we were sorting stationery the other day, I found some hedgehog writing paper which looked retro, as they say, and wasn't mine.  MrM got quite animated about how much he had loved the paper as a child.  It too, apparently, had been bought on a holiday in Germany.

We happened to have an Ikea box frame lying about, which was meant to be framing a birthday card for Asher's room, but it was too deep for the purpose.  I decided to have a go at making a picture for our porch with it, along with the hedgehog writing paper.

I must say, for someone born without an artistic bone in her body, I quite like the result!