Some days I’m just not that bright. Today it’s taken me a good three hours to put together the hot, stinging eyes, the raised temperature, the slight headache and the stuffed nose into one word – ‘cold’. Yes, I have a summer cold. Such bad timing.

Thanks to Ali for sending me the link to Treefall, because I now have another shop I am very excited about for my December trip: Tinsel Trading. I love the name, and it’s full of things. Ribbons and buttons and papers and things.

I also found this etsy shop over the weekend: Fabric Stash. It sells nice combinations of fabric in good quantities for bag making, and I seem to love most of not all of the fabrics, and I’m trying to work out if it’s cost effective to purchase this way. It all depends on how much you can squidge into the international post bag I guess.

I’ve also been looking at Martha Stewart Crafts. I don’t know why but it feels a bit wrong. Maybe it’s just the anglo-saxon in me – I like it but I’m not sure I should. Too much mom and not enough mam* perhaps?

*For international visitors, mam is the northern word for mother. Mams are hard working and down to earth, but don’t tend to craft. They mostly tend to drink half a lager repeatedly until closing time and then sing loudly all the way home.