Aimee’s List it Tuesday prompt for this week is ‘I’m a sucker for….’
Here’s my list. I was hoping to illustrate this with photos but the camera has gone walkabout. Anyway…
Yarn. Let’s start with the obvious, shall we? I’m very open about the fact that I find yarn very hard to resist. I love the colours – bright jewel colours, soft muted tones, solids and variegated colourways. I love the textures – fluffy soft angora blends, slippery silks, lovely lofty wools, sheeny bamboo mixes. I love fat squidgy yarns and tape yarns and yarns with a bit of sparkle. I find yarn shops irresistible. This is why I have so much yarn. And of course, each ball or hank or skein contains so much raw potential. It can be almost anything. Sometimes I buy yarn with a pattern in mind, but other times something sings at me and begs to be taken home, where it waits for the right project to come along. Sometimes it waits a very long time.
Colour. I suppose that conveys that I’m a sucker for colour. I love colour. I admire people who furnish their homes entirely in neutrals, and in magazines they looks so calm and restful, but I couldn’t live in them. I love putting colours together. I love playing with yarn and fabrics. I love icing and decorating cupcakes and fiddling with my colouring pastes and a load of sweeties. I love settling down with a cup of tea and some paint charts. I have dozens of nail varnishes I’ve bought because I couldn’t resist the colour.
Sparkles. At heart, I’m a magpie crossed with a seven year old girl. I love a bit of sparkle. Hence my love of sparkly pens and beads and edible cake glitter.
Books. I love books and have them in almost every room. I can’t pass by a second hand bookshop, and scan the bookshelves of charity shops. And when I need a little treat I go and have a little splurge on Amazon. I have written before about my adoration of the public library. I have piles of books I’ve yet to read or cook, sew or knit from, but I still accumulate them. (I do give books away, though – if a book isn’t going to be read again it goes to the charity shop. I have picked up so many of my own favourites from charity shops that it seems churlish to hold onto a book that might otherwise be someone else’s favourite.)
Stationery. Paper, notecards, pens and pencils. Post its, paperclips, markers and highlighters. Files and folders, subject dividers. I love it all. I adore stationery. Even boring office stationery. One of my favourite things about running my own business is doing the stationery order. My husband lets me do his stationery order too.
Shells and pebbles. I cannot go to a beach without coming back with a bag of shells or pebbles. I just can’t. There are consequently bowls of shells all over the house. I have just started collecting sea glass too.
Tea. ‘Cup of tea?’ ‘I’ve got one thanks… oh, but I’ve nearly finished it. Go on then, I’ll have another…’.
Soft furnishings. I drive my husband mad with this. I adore bedding. I have more sets of bedding than we could possibly need but I love it. I’m making the bed on a bright, crisp day? White cotton bedding. Dreary and dark? The deep red, or the cheerful floral. And cushions! God, I love cushions. My husband says we have too many and often flings them on the floor with an exclamation ‘Bloody cushions! They get everywhere!’ but we do not have too many cushions. Such a thing is not possible.
Shoes with a strap across the instep. I have high heels with straps across the instep. And flats. And slippers. I even have trainers with straps across the instep. I don’t consciously choose them, but they leap out at me. I have more than one friend who refers to shoes with straps as ‘Sally shoes’.
Baby clothes. I am a complete sucker for baby clothes. Completely. I try to keep it under control but I am so, so glad when the baby needs pyjamas or vests. Or socks. And I do sometimes weaken and buy tops or pinafores or dungarees (Dungarees! Who can resist a baby in dungarees?) because they are too cute not to.
Salted caramel. Mmmmm. I deeply regret the day I put ‘salted caramel’ into the Pinterest search box. Don’t do it, people.
LOVE your list…and good advice about the salted caramel! : )
Oh, the detail… glorious, wonderful detail… I didn’t want you to stop! I got so caught up in your narrative that I was almost in a state of dejection when I got to the salted caramel. Speaking of which, I am on my way to an art date, and now there is no way I can go without swinging by Starbucks to pick up a salted caramel mocha first.
I’m right there with you for the first half dozen items! Although I’m much sterner with the yarn now, since I ended up with so much of it at some point (don’t know when or how that happened!!!).
I am agreeing with you on all these!
I have never tried salted caramel but will certainly do so after reading this wonderous post!
I’m with you with everything (well, except baby clothes. My baby is old.) Stationery, tea, bedding! How I do love bedding! And salted caramel. (And now I’ll end up having a salted caramel mocha tomorrow, I think!)
Yum. (Oh, and I couldn’t help myself. I searched in Pinterest. I get lost there for awhile as it is … and salted caramels there … oh my. But you did warn me!)
wonderfully detailed list! love this.
OMG.. salted caramel. . . yes, yes, yes. . I hate salt on anything… except caramel . . . then put it on popcorn 🙂 mmmmm..
I had tea too but I should have added colour and books good ones.
great list. we share some of the same items… i cannot walk the beach without returning home with pockets full of shells!
Have you read any books by Trisha Ashley? I think you’d enjoy them- they’re all set in a colletion of little villages in Lancashire, and all the heroines keep hens, and bake interesting puddings, and knit and stuff- they remind me of you!