Friday finally arrived. I had a very busy morning in work but finished at 12.30pm for a half day. I decided to have my lunch at work because I am back on my slimming world plan and I need to eat properly to lose the weight I gained (I originally lost 42lbs but have put 14lbs back on recently). After lunch I headed to the Stitch and Creative Crafts Show, King's Hall, Belfast. This is just 2 miles further up the road from my office. I should have walked to help with the weight loss but to be honest I knew I would be doing plenty of walking once I got there!
Stitch and Creative Craft Show
The entry fee was £7.50 - not bad. As it was about 1.15pm when I got there it was fairly busy. I did my usual thing which is walk around each aisle first and see what is on offer then walk around slowly comparing prices, deals etc.
I did notice this year that there were loads of jewellery making stands and I was really attracted to some marcasite beads - I think I must have a thing about black shiny things! I admit I was very tempted to splash my cash on a jewellery making starter kit (I had taken my money out of the bank and was only allowed to spend the cash I had in my purse!!).
I also noticed that this year pro-markers are the BIG thing. I already have the starter pack I got a couple of years ago as a gift - they were very expensive and I have only used them a few times as the colours I have are quite limited. Saying that there are a range of new colours out and I think they will be brilliant for colouring in rubber stamping - I ended up getting 4 of new packs for £20 - bargain considering I paid £8.99 for 1 pack a few weeks ago - now I wish I had waited! Typical me!!! The packs in the show were £6.50 each but if you bought 4 packs it was £20 - you do the maths!!
I also spend my money replacing the punch I broke the other day and getting the final corner punch in that particular set. Double sided sticky tape was another bargain - 14 rolls for £5 so I grabbed that bargain too as I use double sided tape for everything. I got envelopes as I always seem to be running low on them and finally I got 2 precut decoupage sheets that I can use on DS's birthday card as he is seriously into the RAF and Royal Navy - these decoupage show an aircraft and pilot and the other is an aircraft carrier - I am sure he will love either of them!
I left the show and headed for the bus into Belfast and met a couple of people who were looking for Bradbury Graphics, they were asking the driver where it was and as I was on my way there I offered to show them where it was. You would think I had enough after being at the craft show but I had seen my favourite watercolour paints (cosmic shimmers) and there wasn't the collection I was looking for at the show but I had seen them a few weeks ago in Belfast. The two ladies and I had a lovely chat as we walked to the shop after the bus dropped us off (I had also done my good deed for the day helping a disabled lady off the bus as the driver couldn't or wouldn't lower the step any further down). I got the paints I wanted which is the Christmas collection - I know it's not Christmas but the red and green are the colours I needed!
So finally I got the bus home and unpacked my bag, fed the family and had a soak in the bath. Unfortunately this wasn't the end of the day..................... we were off to a wedding evening reception! So after my soak it was time to time to get my glad rags on (and my new shoes) and head out. We hadn't planned on staying long but ended up staying 4 hours. The bride looked beautiful and we had a good night. The day finally ended for us at 1am when we went to bed - I had been up 18 hours!
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