Imagine the scene. You’re in a fabric shop and you spot the most adorable print. It’s a Spring time design, but it will be Spring at some point, right? (scene outside: rain pouring, shoppers scurrying around buying Christmas presents.) You get home and add the new fabric to your patchwork […]
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Children, charity giving and books
If I was to write a novel, I’d base it in a secondhand bookshop. Two reasons. First, I’ve overheard* the most wonderful conversations, in the past, while selecting secondhand books. Snippets that a whole story plot might be built on. I would even suggest that it’s the best location for […]
Read moreA Reindeer Homemade Jumper
As a crafter, December is a difficult time to be a blogger. The crafting blogger’s Christmas lament. Hands are busy, beautiful things are created, but the photos have to be sat on. Just in case a gift is spotted, by the intended recipient. Before its even been wrapped. This is […]
Read moreBlast from the Past
Stitchin’ and listen’. I can thank my school friend Vicky, and her brother, for introducing me to “The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy”. She lent me her brother’s cassette tapes of the original radio programme. When I should have been revising for A’Levels, I listened over and over again […]
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