At the end of June I put myself on a three month spending ban. In July I didn't purchase anything, but in August I went into town for the first time in months, and the lure of the charity shops was too strong to resist. I was a bit like a kid in a sweet shop and came home with three clothing items...
It's been exactly ten years since I started World of Joy, so I thought it would be fun to look back at my first post, where I introduce myself, to dissect it a little and add a few photos. -----Hello, I'm Hazel (Still true). Also known as Very_Hazel (No longer true). I have been blogging for the Very.co.uk VBlog for the past six months...
I sat down one Saturday and spent the afternoon making a dent in my mend pile. It's a very satisfying use of time. My ancient jeans needed further mending. I showed Andy and he said 'soon you'll be mending the mends', too late, that's exactly what I'd just done! As long as they fit and I can keep patching, I'll keep mending. I had...
I finished my Wearing It All Summer 2020 challenge yesterday. I've shared weeks 1, and 2 and 3, and weeks 4 - 6, so here are weeks 7 - 9.These are the final few weeks of August, turning into September. Week 7 was a week of dresses. The final three were ones I had in the pile of stuff waiting to be listed...
delete all the junk emails that have been languishing in my inboxcatch up on reading all my favourite blogsmake a significant dent in my mend pilepeel off all the sticky tape from the paper used to wrap my birthday presents for recyclingfinally get loads of items listed on ebayenjoy a little more sunshine before autumn takes over make a new art purchasediscover that...
