Once again I need to do a catch up due to a serious lack of blogging on my behalf. I really must get back into the habit of making regular posts (and yes I haven’t forgotten about my holiday blog … well I had, but haven’t really had time to do it, but I will get it sorted soon).
Anyway, my cold is at long last subsiding – I can finally breathe through my nose again and the coughing fits have reduced considerably. I spent the weekend with my sinuses so blocked that they caused my face to feel like it had been hit by a shovel and making all my top teeth ache really badly. In fact the pain was excruciating – if you have never had sinus pain you will have no idea just how bad it is. Sinutab and hot steam didn’t really improve the situation and it didn’t help that almost every time I work in the pub I lose my voice so I sounded even worse than I felt. At least I made it into work. In fact I ended up working alone on both Saturday and Sunday as everyone else had phoned in sick (mainly with hangovers which I definitely didn’t appreciate considering how ill I felt).
Last Wednesday evening, Andrew and I went to see The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. It was a very unusual film, both enchanting and emotional (yes I cried, but then that’s not really a surprise is it?) but I am not at all sure that I completely understood it – it was rather strange and more than a little existentialist. Andrew’s comment was that the director had obviously taken some very good drugs! We agreed that we had enjoyed the film, although I certainly wouldn’t rush to see it again. I guess I’ll watch it if it ever makes it to TV though.
In (yet another) vain attempt to break my crafters block I (along with a number of the Sinful Sisters) have signed up for the Product Playground course run by Big Picture Scrapbooking. The idea is to spend 6 weeks working on different projects using embellishments that we already have in our stash. As I have hundreds of bits that I’ve not even really looked at, let alone used I thought this should be the perfect opportunity to actually use some stash – and even get on with some scrapbooking as I haven’t been able to do anything since the cybercrop.
This started on 1st February and the first weeks projects include the use of bookplates. I think I am supposed to get a card made and a layout done using them before the end of the first week. So far I haven’t done anything (yep running behind already) but I still had the final Discworld CJ to complete before I could do anything else and although I knew who I was going to do (yet another variation on my hero Lord Vetinari), my broken printer has considerably reduced my productivity. I have finally completed the CJ this evening (for some reason blogger won't let me upload the photo atm) and I have just dug out some bookplates.
Anyway, my cold is at long last subsiding – I can finally breathe through my nose again and the coughing fits have reduced considerably. I spent the weekend with my sinuses so blocked that they caused my face to feel like it had been hit by a shovel and making all my top teeth ache really badly. In fact the pain was excruciating – if you have never had sinus pain you will have no idea just how bad it is. Sinutab and hot steam didn’t really improve the situation and it didn’t help that almost every time I work in the pub I lose my voice so I sounded even worse than I felt. At least I made it into work. In fact I ended up working alone on both Saturday and Sunday as everyone else had phoned in sick (mainly with hangovers which I definitely didn’t appreciate considering how ill I felt).
Last Wednesday evening, Andrew and I went to see The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. It was a very unusual film, both enchanting and emotional (yes I cried, but then that’s not really a surprise is it?) but I am not at all sure that I completely understood it – it was rather strange and more than a little existentialist. Andrew’s comment was that the director had obviously taken some very good drugs! We agreed that we had enjoyed the film, although I certainly wouldn’t rush to see it again. I guess I’ll watch it if it ever makes it to TV though.
In (yet another) vain attempt to break my crafters block I (along with a number of the Sinful Sisters) have signed up for the Product Playground course run by Big Picture Scrapbooking. The idea is to spend 6 weeks working on different projects using embellishments that we already have in our stash. As I have hundreds of bits that I’ve not even really looked at, let alone used I thought this should be the perfect opportunity to actually use some stash – and even get on with some scrapbooking as I haven’t been able to do anything since the cybercrop.
This started on 1st February and the first weeks projects include the use of bookplates. I think I am supposed to get a card made and a layout done using them before the end of the first week. So far I haven’t done anything (yep running behind already) but I still had the final Discworld CJ to complete before I could do anything else and although I knew who I was going to do (yet another variation on my hero Lord Vetinari), my broken printer has considerably reduced my productivity. I have finally completed the CJ this evening (for some reason blogger won't let me upload the photo atm) and I have just dug out some bookplates.
I do have an idea for a card, but not sure I have what I need stash-wise – loads of stickers and rub-ons but not the one word I need, and at the moment I have absolutely no idea of what to do for the layout. Yet again my lack of printer is letting me down as I’d normally just do a layout featuring Kiefer or the Chelsea Flower Show, so now I’ll have to find time to go through the photographs that I do have printed and use some of them as I can’t afford to get a new printer at the moment. Perhaps the time has finally come to do my New Orleans or Disney scrapbooks!
I also have several birthday cards that need to be made for the next couple of weeks (2 for this week as its Leanne and Tina’s birthdays on Thursday), so I need to get off here and get on with some crafting. Of course now all my craft stuff is out the lounge looks a complete tip again. I really need to win the lottery so I can move to somewhere that I can have a dedicated craft room and then I can have my craft stuff out all the time and still have a wonderfully tidy lounge. Lucky I don’t get many visitors!
I also have several birthday cards that need to be made for the next couple of weeks (2 for this week as its Leanne and Tina’s birthdays on Thursday), so I need to get off here and get on with some crafting. Of course now all my craft stuff is out the lounge looks a complete tip again. I really need to win the lottery so I can move to somewhere that I can have a dedicated craft room and then I can have my craft stuff out all the time and still have a wonderfully tidy lounge. Lucky I don’t get many visitors!
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