I went on a little solo road-trip. I didn’t take Pepperpot as I didn’t know if I would be visiting dog-friendly places.

We’ve had a run of a few days of calm weather, which is unheard of for this time of year.  Suspiciously deceptive.  This is a not a usual Shetland winter but it does make for beautiful scenery.

My first stop was Quarff (about 5 miles south of Lerwick) to collect two croft house planters that I had ordered a few months’ back from Greencroft Shetland.   I bought a red one and a turquoise one, plus a small candle holder croft house too.  I am very pleased.  I have always wanted one of these planters for many years and now I have two plus the little one.  My treat to myself.  Now to decide what to plant in them.  I am thinking pansies.

Next to the other side of Quarff to have two silver 3 pence pieces made into earrings.  Long story short, OH gave a good friend a knife for Christmas and in return these two little silver coins came back.  I had never seen an old-type 3 pence piece and these were dear little coins.

I decided to turn them into simple earrings and put a message on a local Facebook page with a photo of the coins asking if anyone could do this.  I met up with Rosalyn Thompson at her workshop and she cleverly created my earrings.  Again, I am very pleased with them – I’ve always wanted coin earrings. I haven’t taken them off.

It was a lovely day travelling to places I wouldn’t normally see.  I am usually only down the “sooth end” when I am going to the airport.  So it was fun to go somewhere different for a change.