This week's stuff....

Health:

Last week we both had an opticians appointment and I already knew I would need glasses, its been four years since my last check up but now we have the HC3 form we are making the most of it and getting all our health appointments up to date.

Shopping:

Afterwards we went to Sainsburys last week and spent our £50 gift voucher on food, the nearest shop from the opticians was in Huddersfield so we went there, we bought our usual food/cat litter etc, the prices as you would expect are slightly more expensive than other supermarkets especially the 'basics' range which are twice the price of Tesco value goods, the only thing we found to be cheaper was the cat litter at just £1.28 a bag (Tesco is £1.58) and we've earned 100 points on the Nectar card as well. It cost us £1 for parking so a cheap shop really.

Sewing:

I've made another shoulder bag from my favourite pattern, this bag is no7, I posted some photo's on my facebook page the other day and on my twitter page too but if you've not already seen them then here they are, I've took photo's both with and without the flash to get an idea of the true colours, I'm just using the camera on hubby's phone at the moment because the digital camera I have just eats batteries, certainly not the recommended 650 photo's that you are supposed to get and at £6 ish for a pack of four lithium batteries, its cheaper to use the mobile.

The above photo is the best one to get an idea of the colours, the design and fabric is called "Roseberry Sunset". It's only a small shoulder bag but lots of room inside and I've managed to find some lining fabric to match and stitched on some lovely wooden buttercup design buttons to finish it off.

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If you are looking for a one off handmade pressie then there are lots of ideas on my website and

reasonably priced as well. http://www.freewebstore.org/Sykesssillysite

Josie x