It hangs below my Angel in the front room – seems appropriate given what happened last week because – Oh my goodness – I nearly had a fire!
The morning sun fills my craft room and makes it a very nice place to work. Last Thursday however it nearly caused a tragedy! Bright sunlight was streaming into the room and onto my lovely magnifier lamp which I use for close work and threading my overlocker. Unfortunately the magnifier top was burning my calendar!
It’s not very often these days that I am up before DH goes out and often it is an hour later when I arise. In that time the fire could have taken hold and I could have lost all my fabric at the very least, at worst the whole house could have gone up while we slept!! I can’t help but think my Guardian Angel woke me up that morning and helped me get straight out of bed! (Thanks Dadxxx)
So if you have one of these lamps make sure it is not near a window or that you cover the glass magnifer top at all times – you never know when the sun will come out. Hope none of the lovely crafters at the Handmade Monday linky party have had anything so scary happen? but if you too have any danger warnings please let us all know!!
Gosh that sounds really scary. It is weird how events happen sometimes. Thanks for the warning.
Hi, I just left a comment on your blog but it hasn’t shown up – not sure if it failed or it’s being held somewhere? x
That was a narrow escape! Just goes to show, doesn’t it? Glad tragedy was averted x
Oh my word, it just goes to show how easily something awful can happen. Make sure you test smoke alarms regularly too!
I seem to test them every time I have a shower!!
That does sound scary – glad nothing major happened.
Luckily (or unluckily!) I’m in no danger of that with my workroom being below ground level and getting no sun 🙁
Wow, what a lucky escape. Somebody was definitely watching over you. Sending you big hugs and hoping you have a much less eventful week this week. xxx
Wow – that’s something that can so easily happen to any of us. Thanks for sharing it and so glad nothing happened.
Gosh you have been lucky !!! Your Guardian Angel was certainly looking out for you xx
That was lucky! It’s amazing that something so seemingly innocuose could cause so much potential damage.
I like your pretty bunting.
Oh wow, that was a lucky escape!! I’m glad that story had a happy ending and that your guardian angel had your back 🙂
Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago – we popped to the pub for a quick drink, we were only gone half an hour but in that time the glove we use for our woodburner had fallen against it and started smouldering alongside a whole pile of dry kindling and logs….. the whole house was filled with smoke when we got back… i’m glad we didn’t stay for another drink!!! :/
Gosh, that was a shock for you too – at least when these things happen it forwarns us for the future. A friend has just commented on facebook that glass paper weights can do the same thing!!
Glad I read your blog posts, wouldn’t have known about this otherwise. Very worrying. Hope you have a good week.
That was fortunate, I think God / Guardian Angels do have a definite role in keeping us safe. Have heard of cross stitchers who have had near misses with magnifiers and sunlight too. Glad you’re all ok xx
So glad everything worked out okay. It reminded me of an occasion about 25 years ago when I woke in the night because I though I could smell something and our fairly new tumble dryer had overheated and set on fire. I smelt it before there was smoke to set off the smoke alarm. It made me so nervous and I’ve never left electrical appliances running while we’ve slept since. It’s meant to be a good week for you 🙂
Wow that was fortunate too – sounds like another Angel intervention!
Eek! We once had a similar problem when I was little, a mirror hanging over the mantlepiece that set fire to a cushion… burning feathers is a smell you never forget!
How lucky! You must be very relieved… Sue x