Busy bee

A real busy bee is actually accomplishing things, so I'm more of a faux version, but I'm okay with that. Spring is so fleeting, after all! Put on your smell-o-vision and imagine a blend of honey and vanilla, and you can appreciate these blossoms with me:

Come July with its leaf-withering heat I'll forget how gorgeous this flowering treeshrub can be, but right now it's the best ever.

I forgot to share my amazing score at the recent local rummage sale. No vintage linens this year but with luck you'll share my love for Susan Cooper and feel the wait was worthwhile:

 

Yep, Greenwitch AND The Dark Is Rising, in the paperback version of the same hardcover edition I read as a kid at our library! Same cover art, anyway. I personally prefer the updated paperback artwork for this newer edition (on the left) over the originals above and the ones in our local shops currently (on the right)

Still, the spine flop and print size on the new-to-me vintage ones are excellent so I might have to chase the rest of that set too!

 

Meanwhile, my sewing efforts continue, now in the form of stitched up sleeve rolls. I've been doing a cheat and running them through the sewing machine, but I've been stymied by this particular T, which I soooo want to wear, because I don't have any thread in its shade of green. 

I'm wondering about hand stitching the sleeve roll-ups with more of a tacking situation from behind, in my more plentiful off-white, so it doesn't show. Anything's better than constantly having to roll them up manually, as their natural length is exactly right to look maximum weird on my arms, but it would be nice if the whole thing didn't come off looking too haphazard. 

Technically, for a T, haphazard is the point. But my personal fashion goal is 100% 'pyjamas that pass for office wear' and sloppy sleeves don't really fit the bill.

Just this brief Hug today I'm afraid, as we have a busy Saturday schedule not exclusively involving Plants In Ground! Hopefully your weekend is equally exciting and I'll see you next Saturday. Thanks as always, so much, for stopping by to see me.