Better

I’m feeling a lot better, if not yet fully well but my coordination is still a bit dodgy so pointy scissors and sharp needles are soooo not happening. I have trouble not stabbing myself at the best of times. At least my typing is much more legible and after cancelling some commitments I feel a [...]

Sometimes you win some, sometimes…

…you lose some. In the win category I finally managed to get a treasury on etsy. I was beginning to think it was impossible to snag one. Now I only have to achieve my goal of being featured in one. I live in futile hope!

In the undecided category…well it’s not quite a lose but not [...]

Making a memory

Once I finally mastered the dreaded blanket stitch and found out how easy it is my mind went blank. All those projects I swore I’d make if I ever learnt blanket stitch….not one came to mind. Eventually I found something I have always wanted to make: The Scotty Dog softie from Allsorts.

Due to it’s small [...]

Difficulties

Difficulties are rampant around here right now. The landlady and her made up lease are causing me some major stress and although we provided some prospective tenants I doubt she’ll take them (they’re Asian, she’s racist, you do the maths) and if that’s the case then we’re mediation bound probably. I can feel the huge [...]

Careful what you wish for

I wanted to embroider for months before I started. One day I randomly said to my mother that I might try cross stitch. Oops. She got quite excited and buried me in her old floss collection. Her idea of organisation consisted of several grocery bags, paper bags and sandwich bags shoved into two big shooping [...]

Be a tiger!

My friend Martin, who is awesomeness beyond awesome, has had a few personal and health battles but he actually said this to me. I said it right back because I don’t know anyone more tigerish than him. And then I rushed off to stitch it lol.

Rocking it like Martha Stewart…minus the insider trading

The weather has been bad. So bad. There’s been nothing but rain, wind and mud for weeks here and there’s more to come this week. I’m chomping at the bit to get out and about but given that I went for a slip in the mud a couple of weeks ago (at the shops no [...]

Blowing out the cobwebs

From my brain that is. I got sick of waiting for the childcare thing to happen, photographed and packed up all the books and toys ready to sell, moved my bookshelf back into the craft room (again) and was finally able to clear enough space in there to sew. And man, it felt good. It’s [...]

Thanks and stuff

Thanks to everyone who commenting on my trial by fire. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this childcare business since then. We’ll see what the future holds but for now I am focussing on me – embroidery and sewing (which would go a lot faster if it wasn’t utterly freezing in my sewing room [...]

Frazzled

I started care of that little 11 month old boy on Monday and today the care was stopped. These 3 days have been some of the worst of my life. He was so upset the whole time. And I was too. I burst into tears this morning, sobbed my head off and nearly did it [...]