Sadly - No / Treasure

Ok so here is my first post for the Monday Project.

June's theme is 'Sadly-No' I decided to post what automatically popped into my mind - which was the amount of times I have to say 'No' to my cheeky little monkey who turns one very soon. And it is very sad saying no to some of his explorations as he has such a wonderful and curious nature, at present he is very keen to:

• Eat cat food
• Post all manner of things into the DVD player.
• Torture the cats.
• Turn the tv, dvd, digi box, stereo on and off, on and off, on and off.....
• Learn about gravity by dropping all manner of things off the side of the high chair and bombing the cats with his food bowl when they come to investigate.
• Open the kitchen cupboards and empty everything out and then generally post it into the washing machine... now I understand why I keep finding Tupperware in my wash pile!
• Eat fluff, mud, cat fur, grass, rabbit food, fish food, mobile phones, generally anything he can get his mits on.
• Hide the remote controls - today I found a bouncy ball in the remote control holder - and am still searching for the controls - I found them posted into my sewing machine case the other day.
• Unpack the boxes packed for moving
• Unpack my make up bag
• Scramble my necklaces
• Pull Daddy's ears when in the back pack

The list goes on. The photos are of him 1. stealing my make up brush from my wash kit and 2. having just been lifted down from climbing the stair case at Granny's looking a little sad because I told him no :-( I loved capturing the pictures for this post and it gave me lots of time to monkey around with him.

Treasure
The second half of this post is in response to the Monday Project treasure theme. It made me realise how much I have my very own little stash of treasure. Here are a few select pieces:

1. Bird box - bought when I was ten it contains a precious stone I found washed up on a beach in Turkey a year later.
2. Muscle shell - collected from the beach at Staithes where I grew up. Beach combing is one of my favourite hobbies.
3. Catholic rosary pouch. I bought this at a car boot antique stall. I'm not religious but I love the way this has been lovingly hand stitched and cherished. I added two of my favourite buttons to the empty pocket.
4. Silver cat pill box. My granny bought me this when I was a little girl. I've kept a tiny key, that I found in the house we moved into when I was seven, inside it for years, and of course a tiny shell button.
I've got loads of bits of treasure like these - I like to have them all around me when I do creative stuff they make me feel inspired. I loved the treasure box in the film Amelie, she is very much a girl after my own heart :-)