Books and thrifting

Well, Happy New Year Bloggy friends!

Hope it's been a good one for you all so far :o)

We've had quite a stressful week, so I've just taken an hour out -me time- to catch up on my post writing, and do a bit of sewing.

I'm still on track for new makes and a re-vamp of my Etsy shop, it just might take me a bit longer than I planned, but that can't be helped :o)

We went for a lovely walk yesterday in that bit of sunshine we had.

We followed a path that used to be an old railway line. Theres a few of these around our area.

Goodness knows why that let them get into disrepair, and then get rid of them. Public transport isn't too hot around here, and a few trains would be a Godsend!

This was some poor persons garden with a tree down in it from the storms last week!

Here's a picture of the river Stour. Totally swollen from the storms till, and raging along..

And below is Ringwood, and old market town which I have to say looked really pretty over Christmas this year. But alas, everytime we visited in the evening, my camera was safe at home...

I found a few thrifty bits over Christmas.

Heres are some very pretty candle holders. Ilove having candles on, and these were just so bright and pretty I couldn't resist them for £2.

And I found this little old (well tiny) sewing machine. It has no markings on it what-so-ever. I thought it might be one of those 'Vulcan' sewing machines, but it isn't.

And I couldn't find one like it, so any ideas would be greatly received :o)

I've also been looking through this gorgeous new book I got for a New Years present..

It really is one of the best making books I've seen...

the colours in it are divine...

And I would never of thought of knitting (not that my knitting is too hot!) or crocheting an apron, but I bet with the right yarn, it's gorgouse!

It has crochet in it too...  I've seen throws like this in blogland already, so people must have got this book quite a bit before me :o)

And socks . Ms Brocket knits the most divine socks!

I love this simple pattern style on these cushions..

And these cute little vintage style flowers are so pretty..

I'm definitely going to try and make some of these little beauties for my new brooches...

Lovely colour everywhere..

All in all, a very good book. Not just beautiful to look at, but really lovely patterns, and totally stress free things to make.  :o)

I've been card making again too...

And this was the sight that faced me when the Mister picked up the Christmas tree to take it outside!

How comes there were that many needles on it left to fall ?   LOL

Well, that's it for today folks. Hope you all have a splendid week dearies.

Take care now, and wrap up warm.

Love Donna xx

The photos below are especially for Vicki and Georgia.

They are from my sewing book from 1946.

The ladies in the book always look so glamourous! Even though they're just drawn.

They just have such style :o)

Have a good week all :o)  xx



Evening all :0)

Well hello lovely people.

Hope this post finds you all happy and well.

I've found some lovely new blogs this week, and I see I've got some lovely new followers too, so Hello to you all as well :0)

I've had a very busy week this week (maybe I should have kept BizzyDays as my blog title lol), and I was had a very stressful day yesterday which was so bad it brought on another bloomig migraine Gggrrr...I hate migraines, they are just so debilitating! It's just in it's final stages at the moment, so hopefully it'll go tomorrow :0) 

Well, I've eventually got my secret PIF's ready and waiting to send off, just one or two more things to get, -sorry lovely pif people, I know I should have it ready by now, but time ran away from me ...-

I've been and ordered my new pair of reading/close work glasses, these are my first ever glasses, and it's taken me since October 2009 to go and get the prescription made up! Trouble is, i think my eyes have got worse since then lol..so when I get them tested again this October, I know I'll need some stronger ones..why didn't I just get 'em done in the first place?

I've been listing my new brooches on Etsy too..

They've got some really cute vintage buttons in the middle.

I've also got some new vintage fabrics from the CS.

I'm thinking of making some sort of cute toys, but the trouble is, I just keep making again, and not finishing and listing!

My hubby's amazed I got several brooches finished and am in the process of listing them at the moment:0)

Isn't the weather gorgeous in the UK at the moment?

We were out and about at the weekend enjoying the sunshine.

This is my youngest two cycling off up the path.

We followed the stream along the track..It looked a lot prettier when we were there!

Here's our new family members Honey and Nibbles having a little sleep in one of their tubes..Aaaawwww

Well, I'm off now, you all have a great weekend.

Take care,
Love Donna x