So, what's been happening...
Yesterday was very busy - shopping mostly, butcher and Sainsbug's. But I also did very well at the charity shops (St Pete's Hospice and the Briz Cat's charity): found a classic, tall, elegant pale blue glass vase, perfect for orchids, and a pair of 6' drop curtains in a lovely mixed mossy-olive green with gold flashes in a vaguely dragon-skin pattern. No, they don't match any of the rooms in the house - but that's not why I bought them.
Basically, I'm not keen on hunting for the curtain track things (the ones you sew onto the tops of curtains to put the curtain hooks through). Usually when I'm making curtains I take the old ones off and sew them to the new material, but the hall hasn't had any curtains for years, and I have no spare curtains in storage, hence the buying of second hand. One is slightly damaged, so I'm going to use the track for my curtains and the material for the part of the valance that goes under the mattress: the second curtain leave as it is so if I fancy a change in my room, which really needs redecorating, I'd have a single large curtain for the patio doors. Not bad for £3,
ne?
Ken took Kai out to Wyevale the long way, through Victory Park and the fields, and along Ironmould Lane. They arrived back (rather later than I wished) bearing the Tesco shopping, a native sundew and a pitcher plant (for Kai, though no doubt I shall have to have a hand in caring for them), and an
acanthus spinosa for me (one of my favourite plants!). Haven't quite decided where to plant it yet - it's very much a show plant and needs to be prominently displayed.
And today a parcel arrived from Australia!
[GLOMPS Lutra] All in a lovely black box with a silver ribbon (perfect for storing special cards: the current box is full): Muse's
Showbiz (oh yes!),
An Awfully Big Adventure DVD (Alan Rickman, yummm), lucky Chinese gold ingots (well, plastic replicas!), a bag of sweets (which lasted all of 10 minutes and were
thoroughly enjoyed by all. I particularly liked the kiwi-fruit and watermelon flavoured ones...), postcards of a platypus and an echidna (monotremes!) from the
Healesville Sanctuary, another incredibly
cute one from
Manifest 2006 (larger version below), and a chocolate
Easter Bilby! [blink] How on earth am I supposed to eat something so damned
cute!?
Thank you very much!
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Love the mochi-pounding rabbit! And the bonsai and
go game on the table. And the very prominent Australia on the world in the background. But I'm not sure what the deal is with the two sprogs. Anyone have any idea?)
[sigh] I suppose I'd better think about sewing name tags in Kai's new school clothes...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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