Bureaucracy rubbish

A friend of mine kindly rang me, to tell me, that a friend of hers had had a clear out of her loft and had donated her grandmother's and her mother's button boxes to a charity shop in the town where I work. GGGrrrrrrrr. If I got round to the shop quickly, perhaps they may still be there!!!!!! She suggested!!!!! Well you know me, where buttons are concerned, a bit of a button bore to say the least! Well I hot footed round to said Charity Shop with no luck, as the lady behind the counter was'nt really, how can I put this nicely........ alive. Harsh, I know, but we do have buttons at stake here. Tried again next day, different lady volunteer, who had a word with the shop manager, who was out back. To cut a long story short, she said that the Manager had not come across them yet, but she would put them aside for me if she did. Yeah right! The nice lady voluteer hissed out the side of her mouth that they had had new regulations about what they could sell and she said 'in all probability they had been binned'......yes, that's what she said.....'binned'. I must admit to blanching when she imparted this little bit of info. By all accounts the recent rules and regulations now as to what Charity Shops can sell are very strict i.e. they are not allowed to sell knitting needles or patterns and they can only sell brand new wool, still in it's original packaging. The nice lady voluteer told me that they had become like any other shop just selling clothes and books. I think it is outrageous that in these days of green issues and recycling, it seems that most of what is donated to Charity Shops goes in the skip because of the Laws that are currently enforced. Rant over........ This weekend, I have been mostly making: (I do miss the 'Fast Show') Envelope #1 I do love this picture of this Robin. It's the shape of the bird that does it I think. Anyway, sweet little envelope, lovely cream colour, collaged with bit of letter and Liberty Lawn. Peep Po....Envelope #2 and feeling quite inspired by the feedback I gratefully received about the mono printing, out came the ink and roller this morning.....I mono printed this flower onto this 1905 envelope and had a blissful quiet afternoon embroidery away. Thanks to jackie of dogdaisychains for the creative award. Very much appreciated Jackie, thank you. I have to pass this onto seven other blogs, so that's for me to think about now. So many blogs, so little time. Thanks for stopping by.x