A severe talking to.

Twice this week I've had severe talks to myself about showing restraint by not buying something straight away and twice I've failed!

Thursday on the way home from a REinventing class I stopped into Calico & Ivy to pick up my magazine. 

I'm familiar with the shop, I know it's fabric wonderland.

All I had to do was stop at the counter, say my name, then pay & leave but no-one was behind the counter...so.... I thought I'd have a little look at the Echino fabric. 

They've new stock and everytime I turned a corner there was another 3 bolts leaning against each other...so...I bought 1m of 4 of them along with some bias binding and nearly left without my mag.

My rationale is I need them for marketing as they're going to look gorgeous in

Change of Heart Skirts.

I'm half way through making one for tomorrow so will be able to show you on Monday.

The other chat happened just this morning, on the way home from dropping Stella at a St Johns excursion, when I stopped into a furniture store to test-drive their couches to see whether or not my ideas were valid. 

Having always relied on Ebay & Gumtree to service my furniture requirements I was having a whole lot of trouble finding a couch that wasn't blue micro suede in the wrong configuration.

It took me all of 5mins to find one and it arrives in 4wks.
The justification for this purchase is Dans eminent and very significant birthday.

I'm now not leaving the house until tomorrow when I'll be way too busy with a whole day of workshops to spend any money - as long as I stay out of the gift shop and the cafe!

I would point out that his has happened before and seems a severe talking to doesn't work when you've got cloth ears!