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Wednesday 20 January 2016

A Sparkly Heart and Iffits for dinner.

I am fast getting back to normal, a 3 mile walk, albeit in 2 parts, and a trip out to Swansea has filled today.
Yesterday I did my usual run to Neath  and whiled away my hour waiting with a snoop round the shops. Poundland is stuffed with Christmas leftovers but nothing took my eye, not even the cheap as chips Crunchie bars. My sweet tooth was still in bed I think.

Marks and Sparks was full of fuddy duddy "old person beige" even the colours were a bit on the beige side.I may well be pulling 60 but I am not ready to dull down.

The indoor market was busy, but again held nothing to tempt me.

The next shop was The Works and I had some points on my card, £3 worth exactly. Well  I walked up and down, round and round and even tried sideways. Nothing reached out to me, nothing that is that I did not already have at home.
In desperation I looked at some kits for bags and what nots, then BOOM, hiding behind some amorphous stuff was this.


The inner solid heart is black and the ribbon is beige!! but I saw possibilities and it was £3 so free with my points.

I got it home and after a restorative cuppa set to work.
Off came the ribbon and out came one of the plastic containers, the one with the sparkles in.


Some strips of gold glittery ribbon and a few gold sequin strands and I am almost pleased with it.
Think think,

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Ouch, that hurts a little.


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Got it,



Well, maybe. I may have to try a rose either ribbon or crochet. What do you think?

I still have to find my Knitting pins, they seem to have vanished. I just hope that they did not hide in one of the bags that went to the charity shops.

There was a very hard frost here this morning but the sun has been shining out of a baby blue sky all day. washing dried on the whirly gig, I will get it ironed after dinner.

On the subject of dinner I have nothing planned, yesterday was poached eggs and bubble and squeak  which was gorgeous, and I can think of nothing but chips today, No No No. I have lots of healthy food in the fridge so it will be Iffits. Iff its in there I will eat it. I have salady things and home made coleslaw and may whizz a jacket potato up to go with it.

I walked to the local library this afternoon, just over a 2  mile round trip, to see about ordering some of the Mary Stewart books. I had checked the on line index and they have them all, but the computer was down, rats. I am in Neath again next week so will go into the big library there and have a look.

It is turning bitterly cold again, the curtains are pulled and the heating is on, Ben has a full tummy and is snoozing, I have an empty cup so am off to make a brew.

Keep warm, there are lots of bugs out there looking for a chink in the defences.

                          TTFN                                         Pam

32 comments:

  1. Just found you and loved the Iffits, snowing here so a cuppa sounds great too.

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  2. I am sure that it is just too cold to snow here, I have the cuppa and it is good.

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  3. The heart looks much better, the bug has just reached me, I feel awful, x

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    1. My commiserations, keep warm and have lots of fluids.

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  4. My mum served us iffit and we always loved it

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    1. I do like Iffits, different every time.

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  5. Big freeze up here but it is most welcome, the cold is good for killing off bugs, I like your heart good find :-)

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    1. We had frost all yesterday, this morning is back to damp and dismal, perhaps it will brighten up later.

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  6. I love the saying iffits, I must remember that one. I got lucky in the works with books for the children otherwise nothing else appealed. Maybe some crochet flowers around the rattan bit and then use the heart as a chalkboard for lists in the kitchen.

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    1. I do want a chalkboard in the kitchen but it will need to be bigger than the heart. I will look around for an offcut of wood and a small tin of blackboard paint.

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  7. We used to say - iffits not eaten today it's the chickens tomorrow! Glad you're feeling better. We have snow piles from weeks ago - too cold to melt!

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    1. Oh my word, that is a saying from my childhood, our chickens ate every thing that we or the dog didn't (or wouldn't). The eggs were huge and the yolks were more gold than yellow.

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  8. Glad you are feeling better and getting out and about again. I think your heart looks very nice, but a crochet flower would look lovely.

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    1. I feel so much better, I think that the enforced rest did me good.

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  9. Iffits is such a good saying. I used my roasted red pepper iffits to make hummus & a pasta sauce. Enough sauce left over for Saturday evening too! Glad you're feeling more human now & yes the heart is a huge improvement x

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    1. It is amazing what you can make from nothing much if you put your mind to it. Hummus goes into lots of things, I do make it but every now and then I find it for 10p a pot RTC. I scoop it up and freeze it.

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  10. I'm really glad you're feeling better, Pam. You've made the heart look very pretty. I'm doing a version of Iffits too. Iffit needs using up it's for dinner tonight. I'm trying out some wartime recipes and they're proving exceedingly frugal.

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    1. I have a couple of wartime cook books and love them.

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  11. Glad to read you're feeling so much better. We've been very fortunate, not even had a cold this winter. Good foresight with the heart....I like the red ribbon, but am sure you could transform the heart even further with your ideas.

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    1. The heart looks good now that it is hanging up, I will keep my eyes peeled for some different sizes, as long as the price is right. I hope that you touched wood and crossed your fingers when writing the second sentence.

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  12. Pretty heart, keep warm, it's really quite cold now xx

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    1. Today has dawned wet and warmer, I prefer a frost.

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  13. Glad you are feeling better. Hope the iffits pickings were good! xx

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    1. Oh they were very good, piled on and around a jacket potato.

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  14. It never ceases to amaze me what you can find in The Works. I love it in there.
    Well done on the heart makeover....a definite improvement-x-

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    1. I can go in there several weeks on the trot and find nothing, then one day I walk in and want to fill a skip to bring home.

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  15. You definitely improved the look of the heart.

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    1. Thank you, everybody needs a bit of sparkle in the gloomy months.

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  16. Everything looks better with a bit of sparkle!
    Liz

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  17. I love The Works, there's always something in there that takes my fancy. It was very frosty here this morning but it's meant to warm up again from tomorrow, I don't think we stand a chance of killing those bugs off.

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  18. Glad you are feeling better. Love the striping on the heart that you did.

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  19. Ooh that's so pretty, i think a crochet edge would work very nicely :) i miss The Works, i think our closest is Durham, which don't get to very often :( (too expensive on the bus ) xx

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