Will it or won't it storm today?

Maybe......we had a few sprinkles this morning, not enough to be called rain. It's getting dark and cloudy, and it's only 4pm.

A little sample of my beadwork today. This is a necklace I made with a Clover thread cutter, and it has been overseas twice as it's fine to take on planes. The large pink bead, and smaller pink spacer beads, are from one of my grandmother's necklaces. The necklace has a matching scissor fob too, using the same colours - vintage pink glass beads, with new Swarovski emerald beads, bronze metal beads shaped like little pillows, and seed beads in bronze, green and gold.

On Saturday at the Guild meeting there was a sale table; the contents of a stash belonging to a quilter who died a few months ago. I bought: a large bundle of green fabrics (because one can never have too much green), a lot of which were 19th century reproduction fabrics - yum; a bundle of yellow/gold fabrics (because I loved them); and 2 metres of a pretty floral print, lavender-coloured fabrics on a pale background. I didn't need any more fabric because I already own an obscene amount, but they were soooo nice........this is my retirement stash for when I stop working.

Thinking on weather.....wouldn't it be lovely to live somewhere where there is no summer. Autumn to spring, with a mild winter in between, would do me nicely. But no summer. I don't do heat. 25 degrees is my top. Think of a lettuce leaf that has been out of the fridge for a while, getting limper and limper......that's me in summer. End of moan. Thank you for listening.