I can't resist!!

Either pretty patterns or Rainbow Taffy!! Add beads and I'm in my element!

Remember the Rachel mat in Rainbow Taffy & blue? I'll show you again later... we'll that's winging its way to Oz via London, Munich and Istanbul!! It'll arrive in late September in my Aussie/Yorkshire mates bag!!

Well, I had the Rainbow Taffy out and Marilee tweeted about her heart aglow pattern... so I had to get it didn't I?? Also... the charity shop had a necklace that wasn't pretty... but the big beads were!!

And the Mat?

Oh... double trouble... Yorkshire/Aussie Trubble and me!!  The one on the left is the one that brought the books!!

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Would you??

A friend I haven't seen for 27 years (when she emigrated to Australia) has arrived in the UK on holiday.

Before she left she was doing something most of us do from time to time... trawl charity shops! (Think they're Op Shops in Oz) and listened to an altercation whilst browsing...

"But I'm donating them to you for sale, you know, so you can sell them and make money"

"Madam, you must appreciate that they do not sell, we'd end up putting them in the bin. Throwing them away. Noboby buys this sort of thing."

"So what you really mean is that you don't want them, you don't want me to donate things to you for selling to make money". (Donor turns to my friend) "You'd buy them wouldn't you?? Here I'll donate them to you as this shop doesn't want them!"  She puts leaflets into my friends hands and marches out of the shop!!

Friend looks down and.... as the lady is leaving, says.... "I'll take them to the UK.  I know someone who'll appreciate them!!"

Guess who the somebody is!!



Ok, one is crochet, and the Semco one is all Norma Benporath patterns!!

Would you bin them???  I'm not!!!


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Oops!!

One of the major challenges of using ancient computers is the fact that I forget to blog these days!!  Why?  Well, I've to link the phone to the computer to put pics on the computer, and the software on the phone doesn't let me publish a post if I write it on the phone and attach the pics!!!  Crazy or what??

Now I dare say you're trying to work out what I've been doing for the last couple of months... holidays for a start.... a week out in Tenerife, a week camping in Oxfordshire without a chance of getting to see my Tatty OG friend... boo hoo!!  Bet she was secretly pleased about that.... Rofl!

Mummy & Daddy took Big Li'l Miss and Li'l Li'l Miss to Vancouver, Hawaii and California for a month and then got stuck in LA for over 24 hours due to a plane fault... The challenge??  Everywhere in LA cooks with soya and what are the Li'l Misses allergic to.... yup... Soya!!  They eventually found a hotel where they could feed the kids on stuff that wasn't going to make them ill!!

Young Sir's been home as well.... not for long, but long enough for him to go to a festival, bring his washing back for Mum to wash!!  It's those darned tshirts that do it... full washing instructions and then it says... 'Or give it to your Mum'!  You guessed it... he does if he has the chance!

Right on the tatty front... Dragon's finished (the Pam Palmer pattern), and needs mounting in a frame when I get roundtoit... need the frame first!!  Another Rachel mat, and 2 that had major mastikes in them... beads coming off and ditching is what's going to happen with those!!  Earwigs too... one's being made into a pendant cos it's too big for an earwig! A tad more on that Darned Monster Doily!  Tat's it methinks!!  There probably is other bits but I've forgotted them!!

Show you what's on the phone...

That's one of a pair... the pendant ones vanished somewhere...

Couldn't resist that!!  Bought it here:

The Pop Up Rose Theatre in York... went to see Romeo n Juliet!

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