Charity buys and blackberries

It's been a beautifully sunny day, and I've been a busy bunny, though managed a stroll into town and back, stopping by several blackberry bushes on the way to collect another tub of shiny sweet berries.

I swear the freezer's three quarters full of fruit. Earlier in the year I was freezing those homegrown strawberries that escaped being devoured within minutes of picking. After that, it was raspberries from the allotment, and now blackberries. They'll all get added to porridge or overnight oats during the autumn and winter months.

Naturally, being in town meant a quick rummage around the local charity shop, and I managed to get a very nice haul of goodies at a bargain price for £6.00 for the entire lot. A good as new Christy dusty pink handtowel. A stencil to add to my small stash of 'em.

A couple of board books that'll be squirreled away to use as the basis for art journals in the near future. Plus, some very shiny reels of what's labelled as 'Lurex fibre'.

No idea what I'd use them for, but who could resist such metallic prettiness? Finally, some hearts and alphabet dies.

One of the packs is the Sissix brand, and I've got a Sissix machine gathering dust somewhere which I'll dig out. Hopefully the A to Z letters will be compatible with that machine too. If not, I'm sure they'll be useful for creating patterns with the Gelli plate. I'd be tempted to go and find the Sissix machine now and have a play with my new dies, but I'm thoroughly engrossed in the Robert Galbraith thriller 'Career of Evil', which is creepy and downright sinister but an absolute page-turner.

Hope your Monday's been a good start to the week too.

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