Keys and worms
Yesterday’s posts about Beryl, the keys and worm farms got a lot of interest and, as happens so marvellously in the bloggy world, caused some spin-off posting too. Here are some links to follow for key-related posts.
**Chakra Pennywhistle showed us a tiny corner of her massive Vera scarf collection – the ones featuring keys. The top photo shows the key charms at the corner of one of her scarves.
**Lara Brehm blogged the photo above of all the beautiful keys from her house in Paris
**And Irish mosaic artist Elaine Prunty also got in touch to let me know about this beautiful screen she’d made for a friend who had moved house 13 times in 7 years, and consequently had lots of keys.
Thanks so much for sharing your key inspiration, guys!
A few commenters wanted to know about worm farms (or vermiculture), so here’s what I know so far: Earthworms are brilliant little munchers of organic waste, and a bin full of earthworms at home will allow you to turn all your veggie peelings and kitchen scraps into wonderfully rich organic compost for your garden! Read all about it here, and find out how to make your own worm farm at home here.
And lucky me, Beryl got in touch to tell me that she has a spare worm farm and I can have it. Cool! Soon I’ll have 25 litres of my very own worms! Expect to read more about it here.
lula cat
oh how i love keys!
I bought a whole shopping bag of them from the pink shop in mowbray…and i have 2 key tattoos!!
i heart keys ^_^
Jesse
Cool key photos! Thanks for the worm farm links.
Shelley Noble
This is all so fantastic! I love the key’s hanging in Paris!
One day I hope to be able to compost too!
ShoozieShoes
The hanging keys in the second picture reminds me of a scene in Harry Potter where the keys have wings and are flying around the room. The right one had to be caught in order to unlock the door.
The stained-glass-and-key screen is amazing!
ShoozieShoes
The hanging keys in the second picture reminds me of a scene in Harry Potter where the keys have wings and are flying around the room. The right one had to be caught in order to unlock the door.
The stained-glass-and-key screen is amazing!
jaboopee
Hi heather really delighted to see my work mentioned in your post,
the link is an error 404 though so if anyone wants to see more of my work they can see it through this link to my blog,
thanks again for the mention
elaine prunty
Yardwork
Wow – so much to catch up on! What an interesting new friend you’ve made.
Lara Brehm
thank you so much Heather for mentionning me & my blog! 🙂
céline HWANG
wooow….every key has his own style……interesting!
Love this photo.
….Céline
Chakra Pennywhistle
Thank you for mentioning my blog too 🙂 Excited to see what you do with the keys! No pressure though 😉
Rachelle
Heather, I found your blog from a the post about the keys on Lara Brem’s blog, and I’m so glad I did.
Your’re writing is lovely. I enjoyed you key post as well. It made me think of my own key collection that I have stuffed into a little bag in a drawer. I have no idea what 90% of them unlock anymore, but everytime I stumble upon them in the drawer, I just can’t bring myself to throw them away … you’re right, there’s just something magical about the potential and the symbolism of keys.
I’m running to my drawer now to dig them out – ha!
ps. congrats on getting your worm farm going. Beryl is turning out to be a true treasure!
Pia K
Me too love keys, and the story that come with the old ones, this was so inspirational to see and that scarf was just amazingly lovely! What can I say, I’m a total scarfoholic.