Today I have won

• an illustrated mug for work
  
• a bike pump twice the price of the one I originally attempted to buy, at no extra cost, to arrive by courier before the end of tomorrow
  
• a hot cross bun
  
• at blocking my first shawl
  
• at sending out terrifying e-mail and making terrifying phonecalls

things of beauty

• Michael Michaud's nature-inspired jewelry - sadly, the shop isn't loading and the things I thought were most breath-takingly beautiful aren't featured on the website proper (the rosemary necklace!) -- (littlebutfierce, do you like the style? I am maybe Plotting a Thing.)
  
• Paula Bolton, again with the jewelry; I am particularly enamoured of the bee brooch, blackberry brooch, snowdrop brooch, and of course the snowdrop brooch.
  
• unfortunately I was unable to track down the Alpine strawberry pendants or the pussy willow brooches
  
• oh dear goodness FairyGothMother has, in their sale, a corset I have been lusting after for literally. years. In my size. For less than sixty quid. But given the size of illness-related outgoings I've had this week I think I should pass on it. ;_______;
  
• ages ago, I went around the National Gallery with randomling and had a great time. Two pictures we particularly noted loving: Niccolò dell'Abate's Death of Eurydice (the background detail! the cityscape! the light!), and Giovanni Girolamo Salvoldo's Mary Magdalene
  
• this story synopsis: "Sixteen-year-old Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher’s daughter, wasn’t wanted when she was born due to an imperfection. She wasn’t supposed to have lived, but through amazing circumstances she survived, thanks to some very protective cows! When her life is threatened again through the flooding of her village in the Flatlands, she is taken in by the Oaks family from Wander, who help care for her until she has recuperated. While there, with the help of the dairyman’s attentive son Owen, she discovers she has a special gift…a very sweet gift involving chocolate. Now Emmeline has gone from being unwanted to wanted by everyone in the kingdom of Anglund, including those who would use her for their own gain and greed." (The Sweetest Spell, Suzanne Selfors)