Snow fairy melt today, and for me liquorice and peppermint tea…
Yesterday we had a lovely trip to Bordeaux to collect a wonderful friend from the airport, they have chosen our little corner of rural france to live, and we couldn’t be happier, her husband will be joining her in a weeks time and their new life here amongst the sunflowers, goats, horses, corn, vineyards and wonderful history begins, this jolly to the airport meant I could do a little bit of retail therapy in Ikea, nothing much just a couple of little bits, and amongst them I was able to get some new lightbulbs or as Rich another friend and neighbour, who also happens to own a lovely lighting company called Dusk, tells me they are lamps not bulbs, well that just does’t make sense to me, a lamp is what holds the bulb! But hey I will bow to his superior knowledge and except that I maybe wrong, but I can’t change 61years of calling it a lightbulb… anyway I digress these new bulbs/lamps are for my sewing room, I did purchase some locally but when I got them home and put them in they gave off a lovely orange glow, but defiantly not the look I was going for, hence the new ones.
So I mentioned that the bag I made for a friends birthday had a funny story attached, well sometimes it’s lovely to be able to pattern match fabric so on seems and pockets they become invisible as the patterns just flows, well this very rarely happens with my creations mostly due to the fact that I am using repurposed fabric and often just odds and ends, and also it is incredibly difficult and skilled to pattern match, well with this bag the pattern happened to create a rather funny picture of a donkey with the riders body being on the wrong way round… Lily who now owns the bag said, it looks like he is wondering where the mule’s head is! I think he is saying help me my mule has no head! Photo below so you can decide what it looks like… I will be careful in future when placing patterned fabrics.
Have a lovely day and bon week-end.
