Charity shops 4 lyf

I flippin' love charity shops. My boyfriend Josh hates them with a passion, dreading that every time I enter one, I will exit having acquired a new grandad jumper or massive cardigan or something else along those lines. Which probably just makes me love them even more!

And this is why he was relieved when I assured him my newest second hand purchase was in fact not an item of clothing, but a work of art to add to my growing 'home' collection. Well, I say relieved... he was until he found out it contained cross stitch, at which point I was reprimanded for reverting back to my granny-ish ways :)

Isn't it beautiful?! Someone has spent a long time making that, and I will spend a long time admiring it. It has definitely rekindled my love of cross stitch too, I am currently trying to find a pattern so I can start making some of my own.

And who knows, in years to come it might be appreciated by someone like me who finds it in a charity shop (probably after Josh has secretly given it away!), and decides they too want to take up cross stitching, and theirs ends up in a charity shop, where someone like them finds it, and decides to make their own... and so on and so on.

And that my friends is why cross stitching will never go extinct, because it is beautiful and it will always continue to be. The dinosaurs could learn a lot from it.

That is all for today. Happy Friday!

Amy x