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 […]
My sins are coming home to haunt me!
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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: […]
Where am I? (Giveaway)
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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 […]
Snowy and smug!
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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 […]
Grubbing around on the floor
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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. […]
A teensy weensy panic
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