My Holy Grail...

I am addicted to craft magazines but in saying that I like only certain ones which I have gathered to me at an alarming rate. I think when we shifted two years ago I had ten or more good size boxes full to capacity and I had culled quite a few too! Since then I had slowed down to no more than a trickle - one or two every so often... Why do I like them you ask? For many reason I guess and I like particular magazines for different aspects too numerous to list...But overall I just like looking through them and relaxing, dreaming of a time when my life isn't 'done on the run' so to speak and I can take advantage of all those things I'd like to do...

Last Saturday I spent the quite a bit of the day with my friend 'I' who in the course of the day mentioned she had been given some magazines to browse through. She pointed to three boxes which were behind where I was sitting and  invited me to have a look and take some... Well, I didn't need to be told twice!!!! There was a good mix of quilting/patchwork and cross stitch from which I gathered a pile of potentials to take home with me for a closer look at... I have spent nearly every night through the week browsing - and have seen have some potential UFO's between their pages...

Don't be fooled by the deceptively small pile of cross stitch magazines - they are the top handful of about 20..

If that wasn't enough our local news agency from which I live a stone's throw from has just received new stock including the magazine 'Inspirations' which I used to buy occasionally... Heaven!!! I bought three - Inspirations having a bonus magazine included. P is off to the football soon so I intend to sit back and enjoy... There looks to be something of interest in each one...Like this for example...

Isn't it just delicious...

E last night surprised me with one of her finds which she had bought for me... She knows that this is my favorite fairy illustrator... I love Cicely Mary Barker's work - I have had her books since I was a little girl but not all contained in one volume. I really think this is where my strong belief in fairies grew from as these images were so much part of my 'growing' and imagination... I always wanted to be able to draw like Cicely but alas it wasn't to be...

I can never decide which ones are my favorites but these two  always make me smile...

I love the 'conversation' which is going on between the boy fairy and snail and the tentativeness and delight of the the Willow fairy as she dips her foot in the water...

Well, I am writing this between dashing in and out with baskets of washing and I can hear the final load on the last spin so I must away...

Enjoy your weekend and take care

Sharon x