lemon loves …

So, after what feels like weeks and weeks of grey, cold wet weekends, we were blessed with a weekend full of skies that looked like this …

… and I found myself at home nursing a poorly back whilst the rest of the world set out for hilltops, beaches, parks and riversides! Oh, glum!

I took the photos above from my bedroom window and the garden, and imagined I was standing on a cliff top feeling the salty breeze whip my hair into its usual ‘been for a walk’ mess!

To cheer myself up, I gathered up a stash of recently found fabric bargains and got busy with my camera!

I scored the selection above in a local craft shop which sells off donated scraps, leftovers and offcuts at amazingly cheap prices … I was so pleased with the colour match …

… and the textures.

I also found this beautiful woollen offcut in the same shop …

… it seems to combine the colours of autumn with the colours of the sea. Two of my favourite things!

A friend of mine took me to a little antique/junk shop which she knew had a box full of bargain ribbons … and I couldn’t resist a selection of gorgeous colours…

… and the local Hospice shop came up trumps with this pillow case …

… loving those cranberry colours, and look how well they go with this grey weave I found in another craft shop in town …

Finally, not a bargain at all, but so gorgeous I couldn’t resist, these lovely ribbons were found hiding in a box in my local stationery shop … no idea what I will use them for, but the colours and patterns are lovely.

Just looking at them makes me smile ~ reason enough to buy them methinks!

And so, as consolation for missing out on the best walking weekend since March, I am taking myself, and a cup of tea into the garden, for some birdsong, some Spring breezes and a game of ‘lets pretend’!

Anyone want to join me?