Sunday

It´s lovely to wake up on Sundays...I open my eyes and wonder why I´m still in bed when it´s already so light outside, I listen to the silence for a few seconds because I´m usually the first one to wake up and then it dawns on me, it´s Sunday! I am delighted that the day lies ahead of me, no stress, no appointments, we can do whatever we feel like, eat at no special time, run around in pygamas all day if we want too, WONDERFUL!
Earlier this week I took part in my first group swap...the color-iffic swap-o-rama. I received my parcel from a lovely woman in France, it´s pictured above on the left. When I found the parcel in my mail box after work it felt like christmas. What a treat! I looked to see where the parcel was from and got really excited when I saw the french postage stamps, then I went inside, cleaned up the kitchen to enjoy the feeling of anticipation a little longer. I wiped down the kitchen table, made myself a cup of coffee and then I carefully opened the parcel and unwrapped my goodies. Every little thing was lovely! I immediately put the bookmark in my current book, hung the keyrings on my bag and displayed the crafty things on the shelf above my sewing table.
This morning, daydreaming in bed with the whole lovely day ahead of me, I decided that I would make something out of the material and the rose that Christine sent. I bought some nice linen a while ago and after a few hours at the sewing machine, I now have a lovely table runner. I use to love pink when I was a girl but people teased me about it and as I got older I went for other, bolder colours but I must admit, even today I LOVE PINK!
In the afternoon Erich and I dropped into a little junk shop not far from here. I have taken a picture of what I bought...some lovely little chinese bowls, small glass bowls for ice-cream, a sugar bowl and really old cream jug and a vase that has intricate porcelain flowers on it. I am looking forward to spring when there are trash and treasure markets on almost every weekend. We sell, swap and buy and the children are really into it aswell. It´s a great way to pick up second hand books, furniture, craft materials and toys that we could never afford otherwise.
Now that Sunday is coming to an end I look forward to a new week, a new challenge and all your new posts that I find so encouraging and uplifting. Come on new week! I´m ready for you!