Today's is a catch up - with one left on the carpark railings at Westfield Shopping Centre and one left on the bike railings of our local pub.
Both are places I go to on a regular basis.
Westfield is one of those places I love to hate. Having had no real shopping 'centre' any where near us before it's arrival in the wake of the Olympics, I would regularly trek to Bluewater (abso-bloody-lutely miles away) or try and find what I needed in the sorry excuse of a shopping centre which is Wood Green (pretty excellent second hand shops, don't get me wrong, something that Westfield lacks in abundance, but really if you needed a present for someone it was pretty useless). So I love the fact that you can cycle there (though to my shame I don't do that regularly enough). But it's also weird. Just full of stuff. Stuff to buy, stuff to consume, stuff I don't need, stuff no one really needs. I decided that in this case I needed to leave a swanky heart, a super duper properly made heart to mark my passing through. The sort of heart that wouldn't look out of place in a palace of Mammon.
The pub has become a friendlier, more 'positive' place for me recently with the advent of the fabulous monthly pub quizzes, hosted by the crazy, rude, kind, funny, rampant raving socialist Louise. They're in aid of the Barts centre for breast cancer. And they are a laugh and a breath of fresh air. She should really be the Labour party leader, to be honest. Or at least the owner of a national newspaper.
This heart is a more 'earthy' one. The product of my latest experimentation with the format. The earlier attempts at recycled hearts were a little bit, well, not really like hearts to be honest. But I have discovered two things:
- bottle caps are the best at melting and looking nice
- a little addition of some pony beads somehow helps along the recycled cap into something lovely.
So, these are a product of that process, and I hope will stay the course, look pretty and not cost the earth either.
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