My day has been frustrating. Got up expecting to feel better but didn't. Thought I would pop to our NEW! knitting shop, get some more yarn to finish my round/square cushion, didn't realise it is shut on Monday. That will have to wait until tomorrow then.
However, not all is lost. Nipped up the road to a charity shop that I havn't been in for ages and it had a half price sale! Was very excited. Managed to find a lovely (well, I think it is, husband begs to differ) tapestry picture. It was £1.50 in the sale. What a shame to think of all the hours that someone has put in lovingly and it ends up here. Anyway, could not leave it. It needed a new home where someone is proud of it. Arrive home to husbands mumbling of 'thought you were going out for wool' and settle down to have a good look with two more Nurofen. Now, this makes me very inquisitive and feel even more attached to the picture, it was made in 1961 by a man, has been professionally framed and has, sellotaped to the back, a ripped out calendar page of exactly the same view ( albeit from the later time of 1985). This makes me think that the location/view must have meant quite a lot to the person who made this picture and makes me wonder about the story behind it. Perhaps it was a much loved holiday destination (being a picture of an Essex village when the picture was framed in Yorkshire) or perhaps the creator hails from those parts? Well, unfortunately I will never know but I will love it just the same (even more when it has a new frame!).
Sorry, would you like to see my ameteur photo of it?
This photo does not by half show the lovely colours and craftmanship that has gone into this work. Oh, and the village is Finchingfield, Essex.
Happy, happy, happy.
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