Hello there ....
well ... the North Wind doth STILL blow ...
but no snow ....just yet..
So there has been rather a lot of this ... sitting around ... although not as quite as much as the cat.
It gave me a chance ... or rather no excuse not to ...get on with some mending .... do people mend these days?
I seem to spend an awful lot of time mending Hubby P's clothes ...
mind you that could just be him ... throwing himself around ... finding sharp corners to get caught up on.
Buttons are the thing with him ... forever losing buttons ... and because he wears button braces .. lots of buttons.
And really ... there is nothing worse than the sight of a gentleman's botty hanging out of his trousers ... especially a gent of a certain age ... and well ... with Hubby P lifting ... stretching and bending a lot ... we do rather consider the braces a must ...
we do want to keep our lady customers.
So that was a good job done.
I had a good sort out too ... bit of a Spring Clean really ...
I turned out all the drawers and wardrobe .. and had a sort through our clothes ... any past their usefulness went for rags ...
It feels so much better ... having tidy shelves and being able to see just what exactly is in there.
I found I was washing and wearing the same few jumpers because it was such a jumble in there .. and I hadn't the patience to look through the 'heap' for something different.
Amazing what you find!
I had a huge box of scarves ... I do love a pretty scarf .... but I was firm with myself and turned them out ... gave them a gentle wash ... and sorted through them.
Some I had never worn .... lovely but wrong colour for me .. so they will go to be sold on.
I do wear my scarves .. but again I had got into the habit of wearing just the same few. I find a simple silk scarf around my neck keeps me that extra bit toasty.
If I think back to when I was a girl ... all the ladies wore a scarf ..
they knew a thing or two those old girls!
Of course doing what we do ... I find lots of vintage scarves ... all the older ladies have a stash of them ... and I suppose they were an ideal ... modestly priced gift.
So of course ... in theory I can have my pick of scarves ...
but what I tend to do is keep the damaged ones ...
and I find the older used frailer ones have a lovely ....
softly aged .. feel to them.
Look how pretty and fragile this one is ... and yet it is so warm to wear .. and makes a girl feel so pretty.
So .... enough playing with the pretty scarves...
I spent a couple of hours running up a cushion and throw from a damaged set of vintage curtains ... make do and mend .... waste not ...and all that.
Scarves had dried ... and pressed...
So I returned the ones I am keeping to their hat box...
Don't look at the unmade bed ... I have just climbed out of it (its Sunday afternoon)....
I find the best way to get my joints warmed up ... after standing the car boot from 4.30 am this morning ... is to climb into bed with a hot water bottle for an hour.
Although I am really well wrapped up and I do have a nice bit of carpet (like a big mat) to put my chair and work table on .. behind the stall ... our stall is so large I end up walking from one end to the other.. serving customers ... and the cold seeps up from the concrete into my joints ...
just a little down side of the job ...
Hopefully soon the sun will shine ...
and we can have nice hot days selling on the field ...
and become brown as berries ..
and have a good old merry time!
Anyway whilst I am in the bedroom ... here's a bit of a join in thingy....
You know how people ask on their bog ....
what's on your kitchen window/by your front door etc....
Well ....
This is my bedside cabinet ... so whats on yours ...?
Do you like my two little Batmen .... always and forever will I think of my 'boys' as little caped crusaders!
Bye for now xx
