We took turns counting out the left-over pennies, dug out from beneath fifty year old settee cushions. The ones not left-over, found the day before when our granddaughter lost an ipod between the seats, they had clattered down into the ceramic gut of a bright pink pig.
It would do well for a girl you said; before sneaking away to your workshop and painting quotes from all her favourite books across every spare speck of curve you could find.
I picked out the silver tissue paper and the plum coloured ribbon, I knew you couldn’t wrap to save your life.
Carol J Forrester - Writing and Works 
I find this very intriguing Carol, the coins, the piggy bank the quotes. And there is a sort of sexist undertone of ‘doing well for a girl ‘, certainly you have me thinking and I like that. Your writing is always fascinating.
Why thank you very much. Any opinion on the new front page for the blog? I’m rather interested to see what people think.
This is a lovely descriptive approach to the challenge. I’m intrigued.
I’m glad you’re intrigued. It was very much a free-write since I was a little stumped by the prompt and I didn’t quite know how to tackle it.
Very beautiful! I was a bit stumped by the prompt, but I finally pulled something off.