I received my swap apron on Friday. It's so cute and so springy. Included with it was a recipe for Chicken and Wild Rise Soup that we'll be making up as soon as we can gather up all the ingredients. There was also a card of three big vintage buttons. These were extra cool since I had been thinking just that afternoon that I really needed some nice big buttons for my button box - now I have some!

Here's the front:

And here's the back:

This is a reversible apron (two aprons in one!) and I love the piping on the pockets. Here's a look at one of the pockets and the buttons:

Since this apron arrived just as I was starting dinner (and I wasn't going to wait to open the package) it has already been given a good test drive and performed beautifully for making dinner, washing dishes, doing laundry and working on some craft stuff (more on that later).

Thanks Andrea  :)

Spring in our living room.

Reusing seems to be the easiest of the "Three R's" but the least advocated. When was the last time the City suggested you donate your old clothes or make new pyjamas out of an old sheet or save your yoghurt containers? Fortunately thrifting is pretty popular anyway. I was over at my sister's on Friday and she sent me home with a few things that she no longer wears that I liked the look of.

One of them was this sweater. Jane said there used to be a button but it had gone missing somewhere. I threaded a ribbon through the button hole to hold the sweater closed under my coat when we went out on Saturday (because even though it was March is was really cold outside and I wanted the extra layer). As soon as I had the ribbon on I loved this sweater - it was comfy to begin with but now it was super cute too. I wore it for the rest of the day and all of Sunday too. Cute, cozy sweater are essential for cold weather.