T.G.I.F

I have a weekend off work. :-O

This is unheard of, and I sit here on the Friday evening giddily contemplating the three (YES, THREE!) days ahead of me. I have time to do many fabulous things.. tomorrow (Saturday) I have to do a little shopping, a little card making and attend a party in the evening. Sunday I plan to visit Snowdrop Valley, as we did last year and we're going out for lunch.. I will not be hungover. I've decided. Monday is going to be a day of blissful domesticity.. I hope, with much baking and crafty-ness to be undertaken.

On the subject of craftiness, I have a CUTTLEBUG! Those of a paper-crafting persuasion may well understand my excitement at this.. as yet I don't have enough dies to make it properly fabulous, but this is something to work on. :)

We need a photo now.. what've I got..

Something to make me think of the summer to come.. I am so looking forward to Summer! I'm one of those people who is always looking forward to the season to come, never enjoying the one we've got. There's not a great deal to enjoy outdoors right now. It's cold, and largely grey. Hopefully I can find some things to enjoy on Sunday. Pip Pip! xx

Button-y Joy!

I just got home from town. I's had fun.

Got something to go with the veggies for tea, but that's rather less exciting (I chose little stuffed chicken parcels from the butcher, if you're wondering)

I also had a quick foray into my favourite charity shop (we have many). I found a crochet hook, size 6, a pair of nice knitting needles, size unknown, a crochet pattern book, a novel-ly book and bestest of all, buttons. Would you like to see my buttons? That's not a question I ask everyone, I can assure you!

I especially like the gold military style ones, the way the gold is wearing off looks very shabby-chic. Not a clue what I'm going to do with them, but they make a lovely addition to my button jar. I have a bit of a love affair with my button jar at the moment. I keep adding random buttons to it. Which is exactly the way it should be. But I am finding it very strange when I go shopping and am more excited by buttons than by actual clothes. I'm a confirmed shopaholic, and clothing addict, so it's just plain weird to feel this way. These here are my most recent additions. The gold one came from todays haul, the others are from last week, and were bought from the habadashery shop. Oh well, the small joys are the easiest to come by!

Happy Dayses.

This has been a couple of days of simple pleasures.. which are the best kind of pleasures, as they're the easiest to come by. First off, a beautiful flower bed. I don't know where the sunflower came from.. it's hardly the councils usual flower of choice. I can only assume it's a matter of guerrila gardening by the residents of the street in question. I'll go back that way again on Sunday, and take another picture. Hopefully it'll be flowering then. The colours in the flower bed are fabulous, even without that, and they're all pompom flowers of various descriptions, and I love pompom flowers.

Simple Pleasure number 2. Veg box arrived on Thursday, and it was full of the type of goodies I like. Carrots (taste SO much better organic.. one of the few things that truely does), Broccoli, runner beans, salad mix, red peppers, onions, spudatoes.. yeah, think that's it. Oh, no. A pointed cabbage. That's it. The carrots and broccoli got ate on Thursday with faggots.. still got the rest of it, bar one onion. Oh, and I had some salad today for lunch.

Final thing for now, I got my first ever Boden catalogue in the post, and OH! It's beautiful! I'd never had a real look at Boden before.. and now I want it all.. ALL! There is nothing in here I don't want to own. Part of me wishes I hadn't bothered, I have enough problems resisting Joules, without adding this into the equation. But.. daydreaming is a fabulous occupation, and dreaming of Boden is a good way to spend time.

OK, so it wasn't quite the final thing.. I had fun shopping in Sainsburys and Homebase today.. pictures will follow. I bought some fabulous things today, oh yes indeedy I did!