Do you ever get that rush of a warm feeling when you look at something that gave you immense joy and there it is still in all its glory in front of you and the memories start flooding back? Like the little wild flowers children pick during a summer walk through the meadow and then when you came back home you realised they don’t quite fit into a vase. After rummaging around in your cupboard under the sink, you end up putting them in an empty jam jar, and
you place it on the kitchen windowsill as a little memory of that walk in the field? The next morning when you stand at your sink looking out and you see the flowers sitting pretty in the jam jar they catch your eye and magically make you smile, smile with the memory of the walk, smile with the memory of the prettiness of the blooms, and you feel that little bit of happiness…cheering you up for the rest of the day. That is what I mean by the title of this CAL, the delicate blooms sitting in that jam jar, picked during a blissful
moment, spreading happiness to all who see them …
I want this blanket to be a jam jar full of blooms, spreading
colourful
memories of summer throughout the dark winter months, making us smile and giving us a warm feeling of happiness every time the blanket’s colours
catch our eye.
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