Taking my time

...to come up with a T post.  This one has flummoxed me.  All I've been thinking about this evening is that fact that it feels like my toes may have frostbite - jesus, it's August.  Not February. I can't believe I'm already shivering, and we're probably heading intoa really cold winter with incredibly high energy prices.  I'm already intending to have a supply of blankets - I will be the little old lady who sits on the sofa with a rug over her knees.  I thought I'd check out Toast in case there was something cosy fluffy to drool over - and instead found these.

I have wonky feet (a long story) but I think these might work for me.  Something to save for.  Although if I do have any spare pennies, I have my eye on an overlocker, or a serger as our American cousins call it.  Please cross your fingers and everything else that I get it, it would be so useful.  Hmmm - what does it say about me that I'm more excited about a sewing machine than about shoes?  But think of the Wardrobe Refashion possibilities with an overlocker...

I have some freelancing work in at the moment which is great, but I'm promising myself an entire day of thrifting and creativity on Saturday.  I have to say, it's ages since I've been thrifting properly - years to be honest - and there aren't that many shops around here, but there's a pretty high street near here with four or five which I'm going to head to.  I keep reading about all these amazing thrift finds that the US girls come across, but I think it's a little different here.  You don't see that many sheets, for instance, or not nice patterned cotton ones anyway, and as for vintage aprons - well, it makes me think that perhaps housewives used to wear their ballgowns all day. Like Anthea Turner, the 'perfect housewife'.  I invited a friend for lunch next week, because we realised that for different reasons we've all been withdrawing a little and getting stuck in a domestic rut.  Meeting up regularly is a way of avoiding being really desperate housewives which somehow turned into a conversation about Anthea Turner and how she's learned from Anthea how to fold t-shirts and I know how to fold towels properly. No doubt we'll be comparing techniques after lunch.   Wow.  This time last year would I ever have imagined that I'd be this excited about housekeeping?  No. But I'm glad, so glad, I am.

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[Danielle]

Hey, I live in the US, and I can't find all the adorable sheets and other cute vintage stuff that other bloggers are posting. Ah well....