Purses, snowdrops and cutsie dogs!

Its been a bright but cold, cold day!

But hows this for s cheery sight!

The massed snowdrops in the hedge across from the cottage.

Pretty!

February can be a dreary cold, wet month - and the household bills still keep dropping into the post box. I suppose its no different throughout the year, but generally we are feeling a bit down, and wishing for the better weather - so bills are another tiresome thing to have to think about - and pay!

Thinking of the finances and ways of making a few more pounds to renew the bit of savings spent on keeping body and soul together over the winter - I had a good scrabble about in some of the boxes in the shed. Boxes of 'stuff' we had labeled 'Car boot'- stuff we were going to sell when we got around to having a stall at a carboot sale. Mostly it is things I have had - played with/displayed for a time and changed for something new that I have found.

I thought I would have a concerted effort at selling the 'stuff' on Ebay - my enthusiasm runs hot and cold with Ebay! I kinda resent the time it takes to sit listing when I could be sat sewing - or something equally more fulfilling!

Anyway I found a few pretty aprons and boxes of hankies (I have soooooo many hankies!!), the aprons I had hung up in the kitchen for a while, but I am rather too 'on the comfy side' to wear them, they just got buried under other 'stuff'!

So hopefully I will be disciplined enough to sit and list them - hum - soon!

Thought I would show you this one - so pretty, couldn't you just see 50's housewife all floral day dress, heels and red lipstick - getting Hubby's Dinner ready!

I like how it crosses over and fastens at the back.

Anyone having any luck at earning a few pennies doing something from home - hows etsy and Folksy doing? - are things selling? I really don't think there is much money about, people don't seem to be spending.

Still we have our sewing and knitting to keep us sane!

I made another little purse from the Harris Tweed samples - I made it from two pieces, so it was a bit bigger.

I made this one for myself, and I like something I can get my hand into - I have a bit of a problem with my hands/grip so its easier to get a fist of coins than pick out single coins from the purse.

I jazzed it up a bit with some rather 'free' embroidery - to disguise the join a bit.

And put a big nice jolly button on the front (as you know I do have a sackful of buttons!).

I used the rather loud, bright, sexy cotton fabric (the fabric Hubby P found at the Charity shop) to line the purse.

Its such a warm, wholesome sort of fabric - cheers me up! - working with nice 'stuff' (stuff - such a good word!)

Anyone remember what this yellow-y bright blob is?

I found it peering through the hedge late this afternoon when I took the empty milk bottles out to the gate.

It looked rather pretty - but of course the photo has come out a bit rubbish-y. Hopefully we will see more of it.

Leave you with a pic of Uncas and Fly - waiting patiently for Hubby P to come home from work, its funny how well they can tell the time!

xxx Take care - let me know what you're up to! xxx