A Holy Day of Obligation

There are a couple of potentially embarrassing purchases in that there pile. I so love that I'm old enough that I don't care.

(And yes, of course I went!)

Tired now...

I think I need to go to bed for the rest of the afternoon to devour my pile of new treasures from this morning's trip to The Lifeline Bookfair...

Oh dear...

It would seem I got a little carried away at The Lifeline Bookfair. 32 books and 11CDs worth of carried away, to be precise. Sunday's Seven Things will be fun, especially as only three of the teetering pile are presents.

As I said to the chap at checkout, that's my reading sorted til around 2015...

I'm in trouble deep....

Oh dear oh dear oh dear!

It all started this morning with a trip to The Lifeline Bookfair. I felt I was pretty restrained and delighted in the fact that all my purchases toned nicely (and the Charles Schultz one wasn't even for me)So that's 12 In within 1.5 hours.

But since I was out at EPIC, I figured I should swing past Mitchell Salvos. And once I left there Miss Daisy sort of automatically headed up over the new Gunghalin Drive extension to visit Colleen at Belconnen Vinnies and Ken at Belconnen Salvos. It was Friday, after all...

I bought some patterns for Taph at Vinnies so had to head to Woden to drop them off to her. And once again Miss Daisy just automatically headed for Phillip Vinnies and parked outside.

But that's not all. In the spirit of a dieter who's just eaten a large slice of chocolate mud cake and ends up devouring the rest in one sitting as they've already falied, I finished the day by picking up the two guide books I'd had my eye on for months. Brand spanking new. With no discount.

*Sigh*

So let's have a count of the damage:12 books and CDs from the Lifeline Bookfair. Plus:

* 7 lots of fabric masquerading as linen (Hello, my name is The Shopping Sherpa and I'm a fabric addict.)
* 1 summer dress.
* 1 book to Book Cross on the cruise ("Hey kids! You're on a ship. Let's read about another ship which sank and lots of people DIED!") and another to read. Then sell.
* Spy Kids DVD. Yay! I love Spy Kids!
* The two guide books just mentioned...
* (Not really seen) a perspex pamphlet holder just in case I actually stop frittering away my days off work, make some bags and have a stall which requires some information to be displayed..
* (This is a killer): 15 pairs of knitting needles. Do I need them? No. Do I like my ever changing knitting needle sculpture? Hell, yes!
* Hangy thing for displaying err things somewhere like err a stall...

Total: 42 so far today

But wait! There's more!

* 3 very cool Enid Gilchrist pattern books (which I hope to eBay with much success very very soon, if only to redress the balance of my Seven Things Spring... (I'm desperate so also open to swap suggestions...)45

* The Life issue which covered Jim Henson's death. *Sniff*46

* Two wooden jigsaws - one about sewing (how cool is that?!) and one with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Still deciding if these are swap material or eBay material.

48

As Taph so plaintively put it this morning as we had a coffee at the Bookfair "Why didn't we give ourselves a Get out of jail free card since we knew Lifeline was coming up this month?"

I hear you Sister!

Who needs to eat lunch?

Today was the first day of the Lifeline Bookfair so I (of course!) took an early lunch and headed up the road. And spent my grocery budget for the week on books. Bumped into Taph (who got exceedingly shifty when the subject of knitting books came up).And forgot to actually eat anything. Whoops...

(Listening to: Simple Minds, Once upon a time)

A Work in Progress (finally!) and more bloody books

I'm very pleased to announce that I've finally started that bag I first bought the fabric for in March and contemplated options for in July. Ceases will never wonder! (As they say) It feels good to be back in a space (figuratively) where I feel like crafting again.
Today was the first day of the Lifeline bookfair. So I had to wander over at lunchtime and check things out. I think I was most restrained only taking home this many books out of the 150,000 on sale. Don't you?

And since almost half of them are heading out to other people I don't have to feel at all guilty buying such a pile. Besides, my $50 went to a good cause....

And then the sun came out...

Here's my Saturday in pictures:
10 am: At the hairdressers.
11 am: Coffee and catching up with Rosemary and Chris Ann who I bumped into at the mini show. Rosemary is showing us a pincushion idea.

11:30 am: What I saw at the show :

Cute 1/10th scale German table and chairs.

Modern Canberra apartment lounge.

Cool miniature jumper. Beautiful hand embroidered cushions for sale on the AMEA stall.

12 noon: What I bought at the show (how restrained!). A turned bowl from Brindabella Miniatures, local Canberra artisans.

1:30 pm: Gosh what's that over there?

(Yes, I succumbed. But it was for a worthy cause, right?)

(Soundtrack: Macy Gray, The Id)