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Whilst in London on Saturday, I thought it would be rude not to pop into a little known shop called Primark on Oxford Street. I do have a secret love for Primark - yes I've said it. You can pick up some great little items and mix them with let's say more expensive ones.
Anyway, back to my tenner.
A useful bag, CK'esq style for Spring/Summer = £6.00
A pretty polka dot brolly for those pesky showers = £3.00
A pair of sunglasses for the long hot sunny days = £1.00
You would never know that I like pink!
What would you spend £10 on?
Hope you all had a good weekend? For once, I feel mighty refreshed after this weekend. As you know we took a trip to London on Saturday to the Natural History museum. We got up nice and early as we hate getting caught in crowds. Anyone who's been to the museum before, knows it gets mighty busy. Parking was easy - Imperial College which is on Exhibition road and next to the Science museum. Handy and not badly priced for London.
My favourite part of the museum are the stuffed birds and animals (weird I know). I'm not alone as this part of the museum was busy to say the least.
Then we went across the hall to the T-Rex exhibition - as you can imagine, it was popular with everyone - we didn't have to queue too long though to see the ferocious dinosaur roaring at us all! (no photo I'm afraid - it didn't come out!).
I'll leave the rest of the photo's to do the talking!
Once we had had our fill of the museum, we popped across the road to the V & A and went into the fashion hall which I hadn't been in before - here's a snapshot of a few of the dresses and shoes through the ages.
The last outfit you see was 1986! - doesn't it look dated, but I suppose it is over 20 years ago now.
I've got other bits of the day to share with you, but I'll save those! Have a great Monday......
Don't you find that some weeks just flash past without you even blinking? Fantastic. I just can't believe it's Friday again!
How was your week? It was a busy old week for me and I feel pleased that I achieved everything I wanted to, and even squeezed in an hour and half power walk with a friend which quite literally was a breath of fresh air! I don't know about you, but because we've been stuck indoors so much lately, it really does feel great when you have the opportunity to be outside enjoying just 'being out'.
I've probably posted about this before, but we're lucky to be surrounded by lots of fields and trees and I'm always spotting a variety of different birds, normally I don't have the camera to hand but earlier this week I managed to get a snap of a Bullfinch. Having then got my son's bird book out, I read that Bullfinches are "often seen in couples, and are thought to pair for life. They are shy and secretive birds, and like to stay close to cover". To acutally get a snap of one, I was obviously quite lucky - I have circled where the bird was - I know, I know it's not clear but it is there I promise!
My great achievement this week is this -
It's a start, don't you think? Probably full of errors and I won't even tell you how many attempts I made to get to this point. Can I actually say that I can crochet now? Might have to put some spin on that one!
I also made these dolls this week, a kit which came from Clothkits. I bought it last year and forgot about it, so thought this was was the perfect opportunity to get on with them. Take a look at the website, lots of lovely goodies.
We're off to London tomorrow, museums a beckoning. Jack being the 'artist' wants to go to the V & A museum, Toby being the 'car enthusiast' wants to visit the lamborghini showroom - yawn, yawn.....
Have a great weekend!
Wow, that half term seemed to vanish didn't it? In typical fashion, we woke yesterday morning to snow so made the drive to school interesting. Come on Spring, where are you, we've seen glimmers of you.........
Thank you all so much for your lovely comments about my shoes. You'll never guess where I got them from, well some of you might - Primark, yes that's right Primark and I had such a struggle choosing a colour as there were a few different ones including a dreamy dusky pink, and they were such a bargain price too.
Our half term ended on a high with a jaunt to Lewes. I did take the camera, but only remembered at the last moment, so here is one snapshot of Lewes! Both boys decided to run down the hill which was rather steep and I did have visions of a trip to A & E, but all was OK.
We had intended to go to Anne of Cleves house which is in Lewes as we had done the castle on a previous trip, but unfortnately it was closed. Another reason to go back again!
I did however, find some bargain buys, including some pretty Easter goodes. I'm tempted to keep them out on display just to brighten up the place! This weather's making the house seem very dreary!
I also managed to find 2 great fabric shops - 1 was actually overwhelming, I just couldn't decide what fabric to buy as there was so much choice. I don't think I did too badly with my choices.....
These were my finds, I'm looking forward to putting them out, when time permits. My favourite one is the little china girl and the look on her face.
That's it for now, have a great day!
The remaining few days of half term have been spent doing a bit of -
baking this:-
buying these (naughty, naughty...):-
making these:-
and utilising some old plastic and metal hangers to do this:-
Tomorrow we're off to my favourite place - Lewes. I wonder what goodies I'll come back with!
Hope you've all had fun this week.
x
In typical fashion, the weather has let us down this half term, and if the weather reports are true, it will remain wet and dull for the rest of February.....
Despite this, we've remained upbeat - Jack thoroughly enjoyed his birthday with lots of exciting presents including Guitar Hero. I always find it difficult buying presents for birthdays in Jan and Feb as I've lost the momentum from Christmas. As he plays the guitar anyway, I thought Guitar Hero might be fun - and it is! The 'tunes' are rock but you can really get into character with them - even I had a go! The day was rounded off by a hearty, healthy (not) meal from McDonalds, then pancakes!!
Whilst we've enjoying time indoors, I've taken the opportunity to flick through some of my annuals and comics. Unfortuantely most of my original annuals 'disappeared' so I'm having to start the collection again. Aside from Enid Blyton, I was a great fan of Mandy, Bunty and Twinkle. I always remember being bought Twinkle and a packet of sweets as a treat. Heaven! I always wanted to look like Twinkle as I thought she was so pretty!!
As I got older I moved onto Mandy and Bunty. Not only did I collect the annuals but I always had the comics along with the picture story 'books' they did. I can't remember how often these came out but they were only 10p - you can't even buy a pack of sweets for that now!
Both Bunty and Mandy seemed to have a great sense of fun and adventure, bordering on being tomboys - I aspired to being like that, but was quite content just reading about the adventures.
Interestingly enough, the game of table tennis in 1977 was one of the world's most widely played games, how times have changed!
The rhyme out of the Mandy annual I have for February is:
F is for February, now it is here, E for an Extra day every fourth year, B for the Baby lambs frisking at play, R for Remember St Valentine's Day, U for Umbrella Up! - here comes the rain! A for Appearance of snowdrops again, R for the Rushing of babbling streams singing, Y for the Yellow catkins a-swinging. Three cheers for February, month number tow, Heralding springtime for me and for you!
I hope you enjoyed that bit of nostalgia. Toodle pip!
Thank you so much for all your kind words on my last post. There were lots of helpful hints so I'll be doing my best (really, I will) to take them on board. You might not think so as you read this post!
I hope everyone enjoyed Valentine's Day - ours in true form was spent watching Toby play football, then spending the rest of the day finishing the bathroom! We'll make up for it tomorrow as it's Jack's birthday. Saturday was spent entertaining 10 little boys at the nearest bowling alley and a good time was had by all. Despite not having to clear up or cook, I felt absolutely shattered after it!
The bathroom is now complete - drum roll please, tra la la - like it? It's amazing, that for such a small room, it still took a week to get done - I think that's it for DIY projects..........
I've also finished my knitted blanket, well a lap cover really. It's beautifully soft and knits up quickly. I used Rowan's All Seasons Cotton yarn to make it.
This little creation went slightly wonky - I wanted to put some hankies to good use, so decided to make a little mat for the console unit. My problem was a) made it in too much of a hurry and b) didn't use the rotary cutter and mat to cut out the triangles. It still came out reasonably well, and with a vase of tulips on top you can't see the lack of accuracy!
I also braved the bitter winds to get some primroses potted up in my galvanised container. There's nothing more cheery than a splash of colour on a grey day, don't you think?
Right, I'm now off to wrap some presents for the birthday boy. I'll be back later on in the week once I've recovered!
xx
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