After a long day's charity shopping (we are pooped!) we've just come home and booked a wee holiday to Scarborough for my birthday. Yippee! I can't wait! I wonder if we'll see Jimmy Saville again...
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Hello!
I'm Laura and I live in Glasgow, Scotland.
I like sewing and drawing and cutting and sticking and printing and messing about on the computer and crochet and knitting (kind of). I try to blog about things I'm making, but mostly I end up blogging about anything I'm finding interesting: things other people are making, charity shopping, films, music, books, the city I live in, my cats... Since having a little girl, I've found she has kind of taken over my life and therefore my blog too. Your comments are always much appreciated and I reply to them in the comments section, so do check back. Thanks for stopping by!
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- greatness in the palm of your hand
- I don't (bleurgh!)
- under the weather
- the ripple blanket is finished!
- no scotch eggs
- happy easter
- feeling blue (in a good way)
- always something there to remind me
- acorn pins are here!
- F is for fox (and frightened)
- roll up, roll up!
- down at the pool
- sabbath bloody sabbath
- scarborough, here we come!
- tomorrow
- not good enough... good enough!
- laying egg cosies
- friday night, saturday...night
- made and yet to make
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- letterpress lovelies
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I'm jealous :-)
ReplyDeleteThe more time passes, the more ridiculously excited I get. Literally can't wait! We'll be travelling with vouchers from the newspaper, which seems quite appropriate somehow. Mmm, fried bread and sea air :) (Last time I had fried bread every single morning, while Graham had moved on to prunes by day two!)
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