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My sins are coming home to haunt me!

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Oooooohhhh…remember Black Friday…..all those lovely sales…… I’m getting gorgeous deliveries from my nice postman, but they are blowing my stashbusting (ha!) efforts sky high…. Next year I think somebody needs to take my credit card away from me and hide it from me at Thanksgiving. So far I’ve had this lovely lot from M is […]

Where am I? (Giveaway)

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

I haven’t had a giveaway for ages. I think it’s time, don’t you? The prize for the lucky winner is three fabric candy bars: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Joanna Figueroa for Moda Luna Notte by 3 Sisters for Moda Fandango by Kate Spain for Moda For those who don’t know what a candy bar is: […]

Snowy and smug!

Friday, November 30th, 2012

So that’s it then. Winter is well and truly with us. The ski resorts will be pleased. We’ve had a moderate little dump of snow – 6 inches or so – and as usual all services carried on as usual, no late trains, closed schools or car accidents as a result. The Swiss certainly know […]

Grubbing around on the floor

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

I can’t put it off any longer. What? (you may well ask!) The worst job in making a quilt. Basting it all together. I really truly hate it. I get cricks in my back and my neck, my knees hurt and almost invariably, by the time I get through and turn the package over there […]

A teensy weensy panic

Monday, November 26th, 2012

This weekend it finally struck me what the date was and what that meant and quite what I have to do before THE BIG DAY! I guess that’s the trouble when you like to make at least some of the gifts you give to people! I confess that I had the teeny weeniest of panics. […]