another reason to try out my shiva painsticks

I bought these wooden shapes at our guild meeting last weekend. Murray coated them with a layer of polyurethane as there was a little bit of black coming off the sides of the shapes. The leaf shapes I want to stitch onto a little textile piece, but I think I'll use the other shapes to do rubbings with shiva paintsticks. They should work very well, don't you think?

Trev the Wondercat is not allowed on the beds. He never has been, and he knows this perfectly well. but for some reason he's decided he likes this quilt and tiptoes into the spare bedroom at eveery opportunity. He was so-o-o comfortable when I took this photo. He said "Mum, why don't you just make a trev-coloured quilt, then no one will notice if there is cat fur all over it!" Logical, I suppose.