lately...

Oh my goodness it's been too long since my last post!  So to get me back into this blogging lark, here are some pics of recent goings-on round my way...

some of the lovely bits I won in Caroline's giveaway...

signs of spring...

hearts and pancakes (weeks ago!)...

another lovely spring flower...

a bonfire with friends...

our local city farm allotments have been yarn bombed!

my amazingly talented friend Cath made this tiny diorama which hangs in her living room...

crocuses are one of my favourite spring flowers...

a few finds from my weekend away - back at the beginning of Feb!

I never mean to take long breaks from blogging, but the last few weeks have flown by - I can't believe it's March already!  We have been given some 2nd hand kitchen units - our kitchen was in dire need of refurbishing so the last couple of weeks have been spent stripping artex (vile stuff!) off the ceiling, and plumbing, and living surrounded by the contents of our kitchen in boxes.  It's nearly finished but we still have the tiling to go, and as Frank's doing it all himself it's still going to be a week or two before we can stand back and admire the final result.  It's been hard work but it will be worth it!

I've been buying lots more fabric to restock for my next fabric sale so now the sun is putting in occasional appearances I'll take some pics and let you all have a sneak peek... :)

I hope you're enjoying the start of spring...I've been terrible at keeping up with all my favourite blogs (it was impossible to sit at the PC when Frank was working so hard in the kitchen - would have made me feel awfully guilty!) but I hope to catch up with you all soon.  

Thanks for reading and welcome to my new followers - lovely of you to join me here!

Rachel xx

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Lots of love to all of you! Hope you're having a lovely day whatever you're up to. Rachel xxx

so much prettiness...

Hello lovelies!!  How are you?  Haven't got long tonight...on deadline to make a lampshade that a friend has commissioned...as usual I have left it to the last minute!  But in a weak moment I checked my blog roll and look what Alice Apple has been up to...

 

Sooooooooo pretty!!! They are postcards and are available in her Etsy shop - though I think a few of the designs may have sold out already - I love them all!!

Thank you all so much for all the amazingly supportive comments on my last post - I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to reply to them all but we've been hit by more illness - will it never end?!  

The fabric sale went really well and it will definitely be a regular thing.  I had a great time and met lots of lovely people;  I got a real buzz from the happy smiles on their faces as they left clutching piles of my gorgeous fabric!  And best of all I sold enough to justify buying more fabric to top up my stock - Yay!!!  So here's a sneak peek at some of the lovely new bits I've bought...

Yikes what a treat - it appears that I now have the beginnings of a job - buying fabric!  And the best bit is that I can sell a bit and keep a bit for myself - I'm in heaven.  I have set myself a deadline of end of March for getting my first listings into the Etsy shop so I'm going to be busy for the next few weeks - fingers crossed for no more germs!

I hope you've had a good week and have a nice weekend planned...I'm popping down to the seaside to visit a good friend - on my own. She has a free and easy lifestyle with no kids...I can't quite imagine what we'll get up to but I'm most excited about the prospect of a lie-in!  Have fun whatever you do won't you?  I will be!

Rachel xx

to market to market...

...to sell lots of lovely vintage fabric!  

I'll let you know how it goes...hope you have a lovely day!


Rachel x