Monday this week, I was up a little earlier than usual and headed out to do the weekly shop. OH gave me some money to fill up the car with petrol, just in case prices start rising in the near future. They don't appear to have gone up much yet, but who knows what will happen in the coming weeks.
I needed some of my usual and very expensive mouthwash this week and was fortunate to find that Boots were offering it at 30% off, bring the price down to £5.70, so I stocked up on three bottles to keep me going for probably the next month or two.
I also had a £5 off a £50 spend at Tesco to use. I don't usually spend this much in store, but bought some things I would normally get at Lidl to make use of the voucher. I don't think I overpaid for anything as I shopped carefully and stocked up on a few things we were out of. I also bought a few yellow stickered items for the freezer, breakfast items and meat mainly. The remainder of the shop I did at Lidl, plus a few odd bits elsewhere.
Tuesday morning, I went to my usual Zumba class at the gym. It was a really good class this week. I felt like I got a good work out and there were at least twice as many people in the class, which was good. It was a lovely sunny spring day, so the walk there and back was much more enjoyable.
I treated myself to some turkey bacon this week, so for lunch I made a bacon sandwich. It's not something I buy often, in fact I don't think I've had it for a couple of years, but I enjoyed it, as it is very low calorie.
I spent the afternoon making another sewing scrap basket for the craft table using some of the leftover waistbands, beltloops and pockets from the jeans I've recently cut up. It's quite a nice little hand stitching project and is a great way to use up these bits. I made this one slightly bigger than the previous one I made, but it still had pockets/loops for a needle case, snips, seam ripper and a little pin cushion to hang on the side. The one I have by the kitchen table I find super useful, especially to hold all the small fabric scraps and bits of cotton ends that I snip up. It just corrals everything I need when sewing and having a second one means I don't have to keep traipsing the first one I made between the kitchen and the craft table.
On Wednesday, I had a free day, so I spent some time making a trivet or table mat using the seams that I'd cut off the same jeans. More scraps used up for something useful. I've previously made mug coasters in a similar way. This mat is slightly bigger, although not quite as big as I'd like to have made it, but I had no other seams left to add. I think I'm done sewing for a while, save for gradually working on the hexi quilt I started a few years ago. For the rest of the month I'm going to concentrate on weaving the rug that I've made fabric yarn for.
On Wednesday afternoon, I just needed to walk up to our local library to return some books. I got one book out, which looks like quite an easy read. Here's a picture:
I wouldn't say I'm a reluctant environmentalist, but it might make interesting reading and it's the kind of book you can pick up and put down easily.
On the way back from the library, I noticed that someone was getting rid of a garden bench and had left it out on the street with a bunch of other items. I took a photo and put it on the allotment chat asking if I should get it for our little site. I got a positive response, which was a win, so I messaged Matthew and asked if he could come and help me carry it to the site, which was only 100 yards away. We sat it behind the new shed for now. It looks pretty good there. We needed somewhere to sit and chill inbetween spells of gardening and free is preferable to buying a new one. Here's a picture:
Hopefully, we'll all get some good use out of it.
This concludes this half of the week, I'm posting separately about the second half.
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