Such loveliness!

Hmmm.  Is loveliness a real word?  The spellchecker reckons it is, but what does it know.  It doesn't recognise apostrophes normally so I don't have 100% faith in it.

So the loveliness refers to the most amazing package... from the lovely Denise (who doesn't have a blog...yet) and its fantabulous contents, a wonderful afghan in Neapolitan icecream colours, which she made to cheer me up. It worked!  Denise and I met years ago when we were the two sensible ones in a house full of eejits in Dublin.  We used to take it in turns, on school nights, to go down and scream at the ne'erdowells to turn the music down because 'some of us have work in the mornings' i.e. not you crowd of scroungers.  Then she fell hook line and sinker for her lovely American man, who came over to assist on her PhD project (yeah, she's dead clever as well as incredibly creative and generally lovely - if I didn't like her so much I'd hate her) and ran off to Amerikay.  She is epitome of thoughfulness, this woman - look at the stamps, even!  I snuggled up underneath it on the sofa last night after my first market day, and promptly fell asleep.

Yes, I was exhausted.  I honestly thought, during the day yesterday, that my feet might never be warm again.  This is partly because I am more than a little doolally at the moment, as we all know, and so I dressed myself in a couple of tshirts and a little wrap around cardi, my favourite impractical silver scarf, and my coat.  Dear god, I even had those little shortie socks on. Hello, I was asking for an early Christmas present of pneumonia.  I kitted myself out like it was September and I was planning on doing robust exercise all day, instead of standing still - which I did apart from when I was jumping up and down trying to get the feeling back in my feet -  in a bitter November wind for six hours.

So the market was an experience.  I was worried I wouldn't sell anything at all, but I did 'break the duck' and sold a couple of things.  Part of the problem was that I didn't have enough stock (on the teensy weensy round garden table that was provided) to make people stop and look, that will be remedied for next week.  I need more cards, and more photos of the quilts in progress.  More bags, less jewellery as there was tons of jewellery there, though mostly imported rather than handmade.  I am still encouraged to continue. 

Another very good thing was that I got to meet Caroline of Dolliedaydream, which was lovely!  So good to put names and faces together.  Must post some photos soon of the new quilt with the daisies fabric that Caroline sent, it's so sweet.

Ok, off to cut out more bags... a hive of industry it will be.  Now must just also bang out 20,000 words so that my Nano word count gets up to date, hah! 

The Nano postcard also came from Denise - she 'won' Nano last year, writing 50k words in a month, and will probably do it again this year - genius, I tell you.

 

Comments

[JeanieB]

Yay!
Glad the market day was positive. Wrap yourself up in a few of your lovely quilts next time .. a walking advert. When is the next market day? I fantasise about having free time ;-)

[kirsty]

Why doesn't it surprise me that you were one of the sensible ones??