On balance.....

I found these treasures recently - when I was little, my parents had one of these, as a lot of people did. These 3 seem to like being together and so far have managed to resist being painted!
I also found these dinky little scales. The label says Harper - Made in England. Having already found some beautiful Swedish scales a little while ago, I really shouldn't have bought them.

But....... I just knew that if I left them behind, they would only play on my mind and I'd end up going back for them..... usually someone else would have bought them by then, in which case I'd want them even more!!

So, they came home with me and after a little play with the weights, I am so glad they did.

The weights go as small as half an ounce which should work really well for weighing out buttons. When the owl gets off that is.

It leaves me with a slight problem now though, and although I do love the sweet little floral scales, on balance (sorry couldn't resist!!) I really don't need two!! These also, aren't quite so good for very lightweight amounts.

So I have decided to let them go reluctantly.

I'm going to put them in my V for Violet etsy shop so that someone else can enjoy them. As a ornament, they are truly eye-catching.

It was the hall's turn on the cleaning rota today, including the front door and window above it. It's going really well, doing one room a day - has totally stopped the guilt when I'm sewing that I ought to do some housework!! and it keeps surprising me when I notice cleanliness instead of dust and grime of normal!! Even surprised my Mum yesterday - she thought the kitchen looked unusually clean and tidy!!!! Hmmmm.

Now I know some might think I'm cheating by taking the hall as a room in itself but our hall is over 30 feet long - if you remember when I painted the end wall pink! So I'm not cheating, promise!!

Hope you all have a guilt-free weekend whatever you're doing! I have a feeling there's going to be football, football, football in our house of 4 males!!!

My day is made!! and I get to tick one job off the list....

I woke up this morning to a lovely kind message and a blog post all to myself!!!!!! from SparklePetal. She had bought some felt and other stuff from me and left a comment to say she was happy with them.

It made me smile and brightened my whole day. So, a MASSIVE thank you to SparklePetal who by the way, has a beautiful blog with such gorgeous pictures. Come back anytime, SparklePetal, you are always welcome. x

It is lovely when someone gets in touch, I send lots of parcels out and I sit here blogging without really having any evidence of anyone actually being out there. I suppose most bloggers are like that, but if anyone is reading this, PLEASE leave a comment to say hi, don't just lurk there in the dark. I don't bite.......much!

You know those jobs that have to be done, but you just keep finding other things to do, putting them off because you think they might be a little tricky?

Well yesterday, I did one of them!!! I finally set up the new website for V for Violet which can now be found here!

And it wasn't half as bad as I'd been imagining - in fact, once I got started, it was a whole lot of fun. I must admit that recently poor old V for Violet which has become rather neglected in favour of the more glitzy, loud, shouty 'look-at-me' Feltgirl!!

I love having the two sides to my little business, I am happiest in my little sewing room making and sewing things, but I also love all the buttons, ribbons and of course the rainbows of felt that surround me whilst I'm doing the making!

I love organising and choosing colours and finding new yummy items to put in my shop.

But sometimes, there are so many things on my to-do list that it's like wading through treacle.

However, the Make the V for Violet website can now be ticked off. It's not perfect, but it's there. Next step is to make it perfect!