Nigerian art, Turkish food and London buses.

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Got back home....!

 Will post soon!

Weekend in London!

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Mystery coin

We found this in our money box today, mistook it for an English 1p coin

But it has a bird on the face side which means it isn't English.

Any ideas where it's from?  We think it might be Canadian.

UPDATE: No it isn't.  Google search we discovered it's a Guernsey penny

We tried ice dyeing!!! (end result shown!)

Today I helped Andrea try some ice dyeing.  She'd been given a tiedye kit forever ago that included a big piece of white cotton fabric, some soda ash and some red, yellow and black dye.  She had to wash the cotton first and then soak in in dissolved soda ash (she did that for me yesterday).  Then i helped her tie it all up.

First we put on the red dye powder.

Then we put on the yellow dye powder.

And then we put on the black dye powder.

And then we dumped a load of ice on top.  We just have to wait for the ice to melt now.....

How exciting!!  Wonder how it'll come out!!!

Well, this is what we ended up with!!!  The yellow has washed out a bit and the black has left behind some green bits..... but for a first go, that's not bad!!!