Some new toys

Today, with my thirst for photography quenched for a little while I needed another project with which to amuse myself. The weather this morning was in total contrast to yesterdays with fog and drizzle being the order for the day, as I set about my daily chores of fetching fresh water and disposing of waste etc. I kept thinking about what I was going to do, I wanted to perhaps make something but what. Fortunately, before I got engrossed in anything I had a phone call from my daughter telling me that a package I had ordered had arrived at the house, so, not being too far away we made the journey over to fetch it. The package contained some bits and pieces for my leather craft that I had ordered about a week ago, some of which were a few specialist tools. When we got back to the site it wasn't many minutes before I set about testing my newly acquired toys. The tools are for carving and decorating leather, a process known as tooling. I have done a few bits before but the use of such tools was going to be a completely new process for me to learn. I prepared a piece of scrap leather that measures about 2 inches by 4 inches and then drew onto it the outline of a simple floral design that I had seen in a booklet. Slowly I built up the design over a couple of hours until eventually I considered it complete. Clearly I have much to learn, but I got a great deal of pleasure from this and I am looking forward to a second and hopefully more successful attempt.