Having come back from ship and rejoiced in having my lovely comfortable bed back again, I then had to pack up my stuff again as I have moved. For the first time in about 5 years Nikki and I are officially living in different houses! I have moved to near Poole to help look after my grandparents. Thankfully Nikki was… Read more »
This winter I will get a bit of a chance to do some sewing again since I am back in the land of communication and sewing machines… So I am planning to make the most of my time. One problem with sewing nice things for myself is that I need them to be practical, as when I am on ship… Read more »
It feels like I have been absent for ages… And it has been nearly 2 months since I last posted, I feel I should post more often but for this time I have been away from home and more importantly the internet but on Weds I am coming ‘home’ for the foreseeable future, well the next few months at least…. Read more »
This weekend I have travelled around the South Coast seeing family. I was on my way down to Devon for my (non-maternal) Grandmother’s Birthday Celebrations, a nice sit down meal at Exeter Golf Course which was lovely and nice to see her side of the family which I haven’t seen since a similar gathering 10 years ago. It was also… Read more »
I have managed to get some sewing in recently which is good and have spent some time working out how to fit a few staples to my weird body shape, ok so I have only done a small amount of fitting and have still got to work out how to deal with my sway back but that is another issue…… Read more »
We have been looking on Freecycle a lot lately to source things for our new raised bed (more on that soon) and I have expanded out to also look at FreeAds and GumTree, well the other day I saw a post for a pair of walking boots in size 7 and as I’m looking to sell my old too small… Read more »
This week we had our first “proper” harvest from the garden, we have had bits and bobs here and there in the past and quite a lot of certain vegetables but this week was the first one where we had a half decent quantity of a range of veg. This selection contained some carrot thinnings which whilst being very small… Read more »
When looking for a dress to wear to a wedding the other week I had a very limited time to find something so ended up with an “If I cant find anything else” dress which was nice but didn’t really flatter me (and part of it was not on the grain properly which bugged me), but knowing that I might… Read more »
So I am having issues finding time (and motivation) to sew at the moment. I find its hard to sit down at the machine knowing that there is so much else that should be done (DIY etc) and I have so little time. I am currently counting down the hours till I leave again, I’m off at 6 in the… Read more »
Reading Sewaholics post about making time for different hobbies and being sat here reading blogs early in the morning thinking that I need to get up and do things I think that I’m going to have to follow in Anneke’s footsteps and start scheduling in my time more… To be able to do this I need to work out what… Read more »
