Some Crafty Bits and Bobs Part 1

 Just to get the bad news out of the way first, not only have we lost our sale but it looks as though, as a consequence, we may lose our purchase as well. We might be able to save it if we get some new buyers for ours quickly, so fingers crossed, more in hope than expectation. 

Also my mouth continues to be painful after last weeks major extraction, but it is less painful than it was so we are thankful for small mercies. When we remember how. 

Anyway slightly more cheerfully. One of the places that got a Go Through was one of my built in storage boxes in the sunroom that had a lot of miscellaneous cross stitch stuff in it. It was about 5/6 full and now that it has had the 'going through' treatment there is  a single layer along the bottom plus a couple of shoeboxes, which is a very pleasing result. If I'd  known what a drastic difference it would make I would have taken photos. 

While I was clearing this out I came across various bits of stitching which had been finished but needed something done with them; obviously in the past I had considered it enough to do the stitching and then move onto the next shiny stitching thing rather than cope with the boring bit of sticking it in a frame or a card or whatever. Possibly I am older and wiser now. Whether that's true or not I took the poor neglected bits and pieces and finished them off.

There were some cards

and the good thing is I have actually used two of these already, including the one with the beaded cherries which I see I have photographed upside down! 

There was a mini sampler which I put into a frame that I found in a box of 'mounting things'. I'm not showing anyone the back! which is a total mess, but it looks fine from the front.

  

and there was this picture which also got put into a frame from the box. This was a kit given to me by a friend decades ago and I think it's Ann Hathaway's Cottage although it's so long ago I don't really remember. 

Part 2 tomorrow - probably.