Dear Sister: A very long ramble

Hello! So I thought I would share some new charity shop finds with you! (and other news!)

The other day on my way home from Lucy's I stopped at this shed/hall place just outside of a town called Usk near to Abergavenny, where on the 1st Tuesday of every month they have a sale, like a jumble sale i guess! Lucy told me about it last winter and we always forgot to go, but this time i remembered but went alone. We also went to the salvation army charity shop in Abvergavenny, which was great, and this house clearance shop full of old furniture and books.

I bought two birdy pictures for the living room, and two old books, one which is hand printed on painting (d.i.y painting, not art painting! but still amazing) I will take pictures of them and of the living room!

In the charity shop I bought a nice silky white blouse:

and a floral jacket thing with puffy sleeve's:

From the jumble sale i bought a floral shirt:

a knitted white sleeveless cardigan:

a big purple jumper:

a floral skirt and a denim shirt:

all for £1 each!

Also my new buys include 3 pairs of shoes from ebay! All very cheap!

In other news I'm going on a detox diet, where I'm cutting out dairy, wheat, sugar, salt, alcohol and smoking. I haven't smoked for about a week now, which is good! Lucy is helping me because she does a nutritional healing course. i remember i did this when i was younger, so i think i can do it again!

Robyn came over to Wales on Wednesday and we went to Lucy's together. The weather was horrible so we decided to have a baking and watching movies day. So we went shopping in Waitrose, which was exciting because its so posh! We decided to make wheat free chocolate brownies, and wheat free banana loaf. We also made dairy free and wheat free veggie lasagne! We watched the secret garden, then played scatagories. It was lovely! We stayed over and the next day me, Robyn and Lucy went for a walk, and we walked into a field with a family of horses and the two young horses came over and we gave them a tickle! Then we walked through a wood and found lots of blackberry's, and spent ages picking until our hands were scratched and purple! Then it started to rain so we hurried home, stroking some sheep on the way!

We then had potato cakes and scrambled eggs with banana bread for dessert for lunch, and then we departed! It was such a lovely couple of days, it always is when we visit Lucy!
I'm very glad that they are staying around until spring! We just giggled and chatted and were busy in the kitchen drinking tea and eating snacks, it made me very happy!

So on Monday I'm going to go to Cambridge because Fran is leaving for Spain and is having a goodbye thing, so I'll get to see her and Jonty, and hopefully Anna! which will be a very nice way to end the summer!

I'm looking forward to autumn though, wearing coats, boats, tights and hats and scarfs! And starting university and being busy!

My aims for this year are:
work really hard on my projects and dissertation
go to Spanish classes
join the gym
go swimming every week
make more things
keep busy!

So everything is very good and exciting at the moment, and I've had such a wonderful summer! I couldn't ask for anything more!

Right, whoa, such a long post! I'm going to make so lunch then some pear and blackberry crumble!

So here are some outfit photos: