What’s your ‘thing’?

Stationery (I love notebooks in good quality paper and I love my pencils long and with erasers. However, I also love orchids (phalaenopsis). I think they are the most forgiving and generous plants ever. Mine are into their Sixth flowering now. Have had them for three years and more. The blooms last for up to three months and only need watering about once in two months (when I remember!). I do spray the Leaves at times with distilled water.

I used to be exactly the same with Tetris back in the day, lovebeigecardigans1955. Or worse! DH said he was mightily relieved when my Gameboy died (and I made a conscious decision not to replace it!).

I think this is a bit of an addiction for me. I play Patience on the laptop (when I'm tired of reading or sewing etc) and will do so past the point when my eyes start to water and my back aches. I get especially annoyed if I keep losing. It's a good job that no money changes hands or I'd be living in a cardboard box under a bridge.

Books wool and any pretty bits of material to make cusions and throws or just to look at. Mainly charity shop stuff. I didnt realise i was no different to many other people. I just like to collect and re use.

I'm learning to crochet and I'm 'hooked', it is very therapeutic and takes my mind off my arthritic aches and pains.

I love fabric because patchwork is my thing. Also books, books, books. Can't imagine living without them.

Oh dear!
1. My iPad is practically surgically attached to my hand.
2. Property programmes and websites (although I've lived in this house for thirty years and have no intention of moving short of a major health crisis for one of us).
3. Cushions - colourful linen prints at the moment.
4. Scarves - I have a collection that I started fifty plus years ago.

I've lost interest in books sadly (internet surfing means my concentration span has been decimated) so have had a book cull.

Another one DH. Christmas puddings (miniatures). We have 21 in the cupboard.

Horses! Not actually horses but anything to do with them, rugs, girths, boots, bits (lots), so many things I just need terribly for my funny little horse. Am not rich btw n don't buy beauty stuff or clothes (would be wasted on me anyway, ha ha). Sure there are some horsey grans on here who know this guilty pleasure?... n long-suffering other halves too...

Ever since childhood I have loved stationary. I still do. Books and more books plus I must have at least 500 unread books on my kindles. I have always loved crafts,knitting and sewing but find it difficult to get knitting wool here. Most of my spare time now is taken up with doing giant sudokus which I print off from the internet. I have even tried lots of different papers to find the best to print them on. Same with mechanical pencils which last so much longer now I can get the push on rubber ends to use after the rubber has worn down. I have so many new pencils that I have told my DH to give them to the children at the local school if anything happens to me. I know, I should get a life....

Handbags are my weakness, oh and books as well.

Handbags are my weakness, oh and books as well.

Books, bookshops. I'm a bookaholic. Love new but also good charity shop buys.?

My thing is cookery books too. I have loads always buy more but there could always be THAT recipe in the next book!

So many things ... knitting shops, knitting websites, knitting magazines, patterns especially vintage ones (hence the stash in my spare room), the kind of paperback books they sell cheaply in supermarkets (hence the pile by the side of the bed), this blooming laptop and the internet generally and, randomly, those instant mocha things in sachets. What started out as an occasional elevenses treat is now my drink of choice.

MissAdventure
How odd...so do I. They have a shelf all to themselves in the bathroom and I even have some, still ribbon wrapped, in a chest of drawers along with small towels which go in the downstairs 'cloakroom'.

Tins. I love tins, especially if they have a tactile, raised surface - bas relief maybe I can call it. M&S do nice ones, at Christmas in particular. Other providers are available.

Thanks Cheerytree59 will do!

And how could I have forgotten BOOKS! I've loads of books on the Victorians and artists of that era in particular.

Yes, lipsticks and perfume, love them both. And books! Our library often has book sales and ,even though I use my Kindle every day, when there’s a book sale I always come out with a huge bag full. I do share them around my sisters though, so it’s really a form of recycling !

* plant holder ... Not lot hold.

* to hang pictures....not hand

Scarves. I just counted mine. Is 47 too many?

I use them for all sorts. At present I'm using six scarves as curtain tie backs. All different but in toning shades of sage-y greens.

Never get dressed without my lippy and esrrings. From good earrings to Asda earrings. Love to browse costume jewellery earrings.

Kindle books are always my go to and I filter them to be at least a 4* and above rating.

Pieces of ribbon and lace, scraps of fabric. To hand pictures on the wall, and a piece of fabric tied around any container and tied with ribbon/lace can make a lot hold etc to coordinate with a room's decor.

One man's rubbish is another's treasure. ;)

Books from Charity shops, Crafting things for making cards.Collecting anything from my favourite place in Cornwall where I am writing a book about, I love everfything about the place (addicted)

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
Factual stuff and crime a la Grisham, Michael Connelly. Amazon is my friend.
I have lots of books on the ecnomics of football (nothing to do with money) Russian and American politics, the oil industry...and cooking and I'm a sucker for nice kitchenware but finding a splayed s/s sauté pan at a reasonable cost is proving difficult. I don't like non-stick pans.
Bedlinen, pretty lingerie and lighting are on the list too...plain white bedlinen and lots of pillows. I did splash the cash on a quilted satin throw in blush/nude in M&S's recent sale. I won't talk about my shoe collection housed in a leather and metal steamer trunk and wrapped in reams of tissue paper with a photo on each pair. I like heels. ??

My downfall is fabric. I have stacks of materials and I cannot resist buying more. If I was eager to sew it it wouldn’t be so bad but I fear spoiling it with my limited sewing skills!