wednesday musings

a quick post tonight, as I am soon off upstairs...

its been a lovely day, I met my friend in town, and we had a wander around the charity shops this morning... this was a slightly more fruitful meander today as I bought a beautiful mirror in a lovely carved wooden frame, and a hand-embroidered traycloth.. its so pretty, a mint green, with such neat stitching, so much work goes into these little works and it seems so sad to find them abandoned to charityshops.. this one came home with me for just a pound..

if you click and enlarge you will see how pretty this really is..

my lovely new mirror, this will be hung upstairs..

it was hard to get a pic of the mirror without my reflection in it! lol

we also found two big (very big) bundles of new cotton fabrics in assorted patterns, loads of material in lovely lovely patterns...but mostly very christmassy. they were a little under £5 each bundle. We decided to buy both bundles, one each, we brought them home and split the lot in two, so that we both had half of each pattern from each bundle!.. here's my share.. when you think two fat quarters will cost around £5 now, this was a real bargain...

then we made tea, indulged in chocolate cakes, and settled down for an afternoon of natter and crafts. remember my fat quarters from last week? Ive started the project I planned, beginning with preparing the pieces ready for hand sewing..... i'm half way through this now..

back to work tomorrow, its gets dark so early now the clocks have changed, time really does fly by!