Boot Sales and Freecycle!!

I have had a lovely day today, we went to the boot sale this morning and ended up buying some stick insects for my little nephews and nieces.

A little boy was selling them at the boot- 10 for £1. After checking with the parents that they would like them we bought 2 lots of 10 and I have ended up with 4 myself.

We have read up about them on the interenet and found out what they like to eat etc and I am looking forward to watching them grow and mature.

They only hatched out in the past couple of days and will soon reach full size of 3-4 ins.

Ater the family came round to collect them, we had a quick look at the freecycle site and saw some lovely pine bedside tables on there,really well made and handy to hide away the clutter-luckily for us they were still available and very local so we went to fetch them.

We have previously had some storage stands off the same lady Tracy , so I took one of my small oil paintings for her as a thankyou.She was chuffed to bits with it-and exchange is no robbery!

We have been very lucky on freecycle , only yesterday we went to fetch some more storage stands for the garage, and also a brilliant back door for the garage.

While we were chatting with the owner of them, it came out in conversation that I'm an artist and the lady said she had a lovely big easel to go as well, Its a hand made one and is going to be every useful for bigger canvas, so we came back with more than expected!

Freecycle is a fantastic site-we have given lots of stuff away on there, from computer moniters to double glazing. Well worth a look at your local site if you are looking for anything, you never know what you will find on there!