Something nice and cheerful....

In this part of the world it's depressingly dark this morning. It's raining the kind of rain that drenches you to the very bones and the leaves that aren't superglued to the pavements and verges are being whipped up by the wind, curling and spiralling around and basically smacking you in the face. Yuk! Folk are scurrying off to school and work hunched underneath dark, dripping umbrellas. Winter has it's charms but today isn't displaying any of them, thus far.

So, I thought I'd share this absolute blast of colour and outright cheerfulness.

It's an excerpt from a new magazine that Amy Bulter has put together, which she calls her 'Fall Look Book - Fashion Afield!' which you can download for yourself and see what it has to say. Link. You'll have to scholl down a little to find it.

Whilst I was nosing browsing around I noticed that under 'Free Patterns' there's a button called 'Me Holiday Crafts' (that sounds so like my local dialect I felt embarassed typing it!) and listed here are some interesting projects, given that Christmas is doing that sneaky thing of creeping up behind you! There are patterns for napkins, felt stockings to hang, Snow Mum pillows, which look gorgeous, a christmas tree forest and patterns and designs for cards and bows and ...... loads of things.

Not particularly linked to yukky weather, the lack of light or to Christmas is another, link I thought I'd share. It's a free bag tutorial from ohfransson. It's called a 'Margaret Sling Bag' and I just love the shape of it. The pattern is a downloadable PDF which is great. Potentially a gift idea for some lucky person? or maybe just for yourself? 'Ohfransson' is a fantastically busy, active, and crafty blog if you haven't come across it before. Loads of inspiration to be found there.

Well, look at that! Would you believe it, it's stopped raining and the sun has come out! Perhaps now is a good time to go to the Post Office before the weather changes it's mind again.

Comments

[JuliaB]

Wonderful links thanks!! x

[Ali]

Oh saw an advert for the new Amy Butler collection in my copy of 'Selvedge' and thought it looked GREAT... Thanks for all the fab pattern links! I wish I had time to do anything other than embroider personalised stockings..

[dottycookie]

It's been better here today, which is a huge relief!

[Izabela]

this is really cheering me right now... thanks for sharing the link
and you have a good day!
x

[Kitty]

I'm off to check out the link right away. Isn't the weather horrid this week? So depressing :-( I've just seen a countdown thing on someone's blog that says 36 days to Christmas ... oh no, that can't be right, can it?! :-O x