Shopping, making and catching up.

I have had three lovely days.

On Tuesday my friend Donna took me to Taverham Garden Centre.  It is however not quite as it sounds.  They have several units on the site housing a kitchen shop, a farm shop, a chocolate shop, a cafe, several other shops and a sewing shop.  Ooh la la!

We spent the majority of the morning browsing through the extensive selection of fabrics, buttons, ribbons… it is a treasure trove, they also have a huge range of craft products… Oh my!  Donna dragged me away and we had a lovely lunch in the cafe before coming home.  I was so excited about my purchases that I didn’t have a nap and started to plan what I was going to make for my niece Amelie for her first birthday next week. By 21:00 I was exhausted but I did have a great nights sleep ?

Yesterday, I spent the day making Amelie’s present.  In the past, a project like that would probably only have taken me a couple of hours.  I think I have mentioned before that my lack of confidence has made me spend a lot more time designing and planning my projects and I’m not sure that is really a bad thing! I’m really pleased with what I made but I can’t share it with you yet because I don’t want to spoil the surprise!  Oh dear, that is such a build up its bound to be a disappointment!

And then we have today.  My friend Mirfet came for lunch.  I met Mirfet in 1989, we started working at WH Smith in Lion Yard Cambridge on the same day and have been friends ever since! Today was the first time we had got together in almost 5 years but it didn’t matter.  I have seen a quote by Christy Evans a lot recently which is very relevant;

“Friends are like stars, you don’t have to see them to know they are there”

It was so lovely to see her, it won’t be that long before I see her again.

Whilst I have been having a lovely time keeping busy, Dude has been practicing his bored face!

He is very good at it I’m sure you’ll agree.

Talk to you soon

Lots of love Mand xxx