Crafty friends away day(s)

You may have seen the photos of the city itself on my other blog photosbyh but this is the story of the rest of the trip!

I spent Friday and Saturday in York for the Christmas market (thanks again Emma and John for putting Lin and myself up...) hope Misty has recovered!! but we did a little shopping, and the lovely Sam came on Saturday bearing PINK gift bags for us all...

I had to use it as a backdrop for this gorgeous heart decoration we bought in one of the craft fairs we visited on Friday... my wall is too pale and it doesn't show up well (which means I need to move it somewhere else or no-one will see it!)

Lin brought twigs and skulls for us, and I bought the Moomin keyring (I loved the Moomins, both the books and on tv!) so I had to have one..
bag of wool fibres - we bought two balls (and missed out on a stunning rusty red-y orange one that had gone cos we didn't snap it up on Friday!) and spent ages splitting it into 4 to share between us.... we only trod on Misty (Emma's dog) once... hope she's recovered!  The bottles and dominos were from the Works, sure I can alter the dominoes-  and the box...  the fabric is gorgeous, not sure what I'll do with that yet..

and this fabulous tray was £5 from the Christmas market (they had loads of sizes, I'd have loved more if I could have carried them home...) and the bag of dried citrus fruits will make a lovely Christmas display.

 The contents of Sam's pink gift bag was very generous, unexpected and very naughty - but thanks, Sam, we all loved them!









funnily enough I'd "borrowed" a couple of beer mats from the Carvery where Lin and I took Emma and John on Friday night... look ...

..in this version of the picture you can also see Lin's Christmas card (with the snowflake being blinded by the flash!) and Hels' Sheridan's burlap panel that arrived on Saturday , from a blog giveaway..