loving my sewing

i've been finding myself really enjoying doing my patchwork recently, i find it really relaxing just sitting watching tv and running together a few rows of the patchwork to add to the quilt, i've even gone as far as buying the wadding and the backing material as i am so convinced i'll get it finished LOL
this is what it looked like a few days ago, it's got at least another couple of rows added to it now :) i originally got the material from qvc , it was an anna griffin fabric charm pack, but they don't do it anymore and i had ran out so i had to order some more fabric, i just googled charm packs and went for the cheapy ones when what i really wanted was the moda fabric charm packs (next quilt maybe LOL) but some of the fabrics that have arrived are really pretty so i'm quite pleased :)

nervously watching the weather forcast, we are due to go up to glenacre this weekend to have a trip up to the xmas markets in edinburgh, we have had some snow today and there is a lot more due over the rest of the week, but i've looked on the traffic scotlanf website and there are no road closures where we are going so i'm keeping everything i have crossed that we get away

lazy sunday afternoon

well i never did get any scrapping done, i have a pile of new computer games to play with and a pile of books to read so i cocooned myself on the sofa and veg'd out all afternoon, eating haribo and drinking hot chocolate LOL while hopping around uk scrappers i came across a new circle journal starting in the new year with the theme of "music to scrap to" you do a cd with 10 tracks on it then send that with your cj on to your partner who scraps one of the tracks :) sounds unusual and i've done nothing like that before so i'm going to give it a go.

finally got round to watching the last two episodes of downton abbey last night, they had been sky+ for ages and just didn't seem to get time to watch them and luckily nobody told me what had happened, i absolutely love that series and maggie smith was fabulous in it, so glad they are making a new series :)

a crafty weekend

is earmarked for this weekend, i did get quite a bit done yesterday as i had the day off but so far today all i have done is print out photos for my holiday albums, must crack on with those as i am really far behind, then next weekend it's jedburgh/edinburgh and the following weekend its the cyber crop over on uks, i wasn't going to join in but as usual i pressed the button and now i'm a christmas fairy LOl i also pressed the button for a mystery kit and class kit too LOL and then today i spent an bloody fortune in pc world on ink, papers and new computer games LOL oh well kit's only money LOL

d-day

a notice went up in the staffroom today about a meeting we all have to attend at the beginning of december, no mention whatsoever about what it's about but most people seem to think it's when we will find out whether or not we will have a job after xmas :( no use worrying about it until the day me thinks so trying not to think about it, anyway i came to the conclusion that really to do everything i want to do i really need to give up work and become a lady of leisure then i can get all the scrapping, cardmaking, knitting, crocheting and quilt making i want to do out of the way LOL got the patchwork wall hanging out again last night having decided i want to make it into a quilt so i got a few bits sewn onto it and now i'm off to search online to see if i can get anymore squares to go onto it :)

post holiday blues

have hit with force. i am freezing cold, very tired, feel sick and think i've got another uti :(

a wonderful week

just back from another fab holiday in scotland, we stayed near oban at tralee bay in a willow lodge, absolutely gorgeous lodge and park, the area was beautiful and the weather wasn't too bad, it was very cold and on the second day we woke up to snow on all the mountain tops, visited lots of places we hadn't been before, took loads of photos and spent lots of money, but hey ho that's what holidays are all about LOL

then mid week i got a text from r at work to say that ofstead had arrived to do the nursery inspection, to say it made my week was a small exagerration but i did giggle about it for at least a couple of days LOL

off to sort my photos out now LOL lots to sort :)

why

do i seem to be surgically attached to the laptop when really i have so many other things i should be doing right now LOL