In sync with the poppies in the garden (ready to pop, any day now), I received this beautiful brass poppy pin in the mail, from photographer Martin de Ruyter (last year he sent me this little spitfire which travels with me on my winter coat.)
This poppy brooch is made from spent brass bullet shells, and it's constructed using tools passed down to Martin from his grandfather and great-grandfather. More of these brass poppies formed a piece he made this year for the World of Wearable Art event, 2014.
If you feel like reading something very lovely, click here for a story about how chickens are changing the lives of a group of elderly people in Newcastle, UK. 'They were all hugging each other as the eggs hatched – it was genuinely emotional…'
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