Time Out...........

Some folks go to a thermal spa for a bit of r&r. Some folks go rock-climbing or hill walking. Some folks have even been known to enjoy riding on airplane wings while the airplane is high in the sky. 

Me, my idea of a little r&r is having a particular away-day so yesterday, after months and months of mounting excitement, it was time to take a little trip on a couple of trains to this particular building...

for the....

 so after checking myself in with my e-ticket and obtaining a cute little orange wristband I wandered off into the fray and the first person I see as I venture into the Marketplace is one of my 'woolly' heroes.. 

Stephen West, Esq. of 'Westknits' fame. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, he is a great fan of colour and this shows in his dress-sense too. He's very, very tall and he can certainly carry his outlandish style with great ease. I'm in awe of him for that, as well as his great talent at designing. This was his stall ....

the pics don't do the riot of colour any justice but they really were zingy!

Then off  a-wandering I did go to take it all in.... I'll let the pictures speak for themselves for a while....

 

Emma Lamb's lusciously frou-frou lampshade and pretty giant doilies....

 

.....I think Emma's stall was very pretty. I tend to think that crochet can be regarded as knitting's poorer cousin in relation to these big yarnie gatherings but in my opinion, there's plenty of room for everybody to co-exist shoulder-to-shoulder without any hint of elitism being expressed. Each to their own, after all.  

 Pom-pom, this one's for you!!

Love these shawl pins ...

...and I loved the colour of this lady's hair although it doesn't show up so well but it was multi-coloured in shades of pink and blue!!Crafty people are colourful people!

...see what I mean?!

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That's it for now but in Part II, there'll be lots more to see and do!

Ta ta for now

xoxoxox

Great to read all of your lovely comments last time, Merci Buckets for each and every one.

X

Shocked......

.....that's what I was the other day when I went for a new photograph for my driving licence and passport (I'm not actually planning on going anywhere but one lives in hope!). I had just been to the hairdressers and thought it would be an opportune time to get a lovely identity photo taken, knowing that at least my hair was perfectly coiffed! WRONG, for when the lovely lady in the shop gave me the pics back, I instinctively knew that I didn't want to look at them until I was in the safety and comfort of my own home so once safely ensconced within my own four walls, I hesitantly slid open the envelope into which the lovely lady from the shop had placed my pics and through one eye, for I had the other eye firmly shut, I glanced at the most horrendous photo of myself that I've ever had taken. Now, it was no fault of the lovely lady in the shop for she was only doing her job and the camera does not lie. No, it was rather my own self who would be to blame for there it was for all the world to see.....the face of an old worrier! Oh, it was all there, the stress of the recent few years, the worry, the sleepless nights, the JOWELS!! So instead of looking like this......

.....I'm really looking like this....

....and I'm not kidding neither!

My hairdresser will be offering Botox-in-a-Bottle soon. I've ordered a crateful!

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Hope you all are being good