You like that? Seven from Heaven. I'm doing 'seven from heaven' because it rhymes. I like that. So here is a curious collection of seven things which have made my life zingier this past week.
1. The Guardian on Saturdays. I don't buy it any other day. But I LOVE it on Saturdays. Actually, I NEED it. I read it all through the week. Then I use it to line the cats litter trays.
2. Etsy. I am an 'Etsy Cupcake' through another account so I pretend to be humble about that. No, I'm not telling you what crafts I make and sell on there. I LOVE Etsy as a seller and a buyer. It has dramatically changed the world by connecting like people, encouraging creativity in everyone, making it really easy to sell handmade and vintage items from anywhere in the world, direct from the artist or collector.
Etsy is the force of hundreds of thousands of individual artists, crafters and designers, vintage collectors and general wonderful individuals being empowered to sell easily online and in turn empowers individuals to buy handmade and vintage instead of mass-produced clothes, homewares, supplies, anything! I am looking forward to the individual sellers and buyers of Etsy suffocating bland global retail brands.
3. My vintage 1970's Radio & TV Times folder. I put all incoming paperwork in this folder (found in my main shopping venue, The Salvation Army store on Dumbarton Road, Glasgow) and my desk looks so pleasing and uncluttered. Am really loving the calm of cleared surfaces.
4. A box of Thorntons chocolates given to me by my friend, M, for Mother's Day on Sunday. (Actually, M overrides the chocolates in the Seven from Heaven department but that's a whole other website.)
5. Radio 4. Streamed via the iplayer website. God help me I am now very familiar with The Archers, Women's Hour and even Just a minute and Desert Islands Discs (which is brilliant!). Damn this getting-older business. But you know what? So are people like Nick Cave *swoon* and he might be on Desert Islands Discs any day now.
6. The vintage Mercedes Elegance my cousin has loaned us over the past several months. We have been calling it 'the beautiful automobile'. Not long after the wanton vandalism it experienced recently to its nearside window it has been given a death certificate instead of an MOT certificate. *sigh* So today is our last day driving it, our sweet little scarlet-red gangsta pimp-mobile. So long beautiful automobile.
7. My bed. I have spent around 75% of the last 168 hours sleeping in it.
I intend compiling a Seven from Heaven each week because it amuses me. And it's a nice gratitude journal thingy.
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