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Jul20

Staycation!

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Before inventory at work, I booked a week off. I knew it’d be something to look forward to, after the extra shifts and overtime, and now I’m appreciating my good planning.

Day 1: I looked at the week ahead and booked myself into some gym classes. Monday, I just did a regular self-directed workout, with some treadmill time and some weights machines.

I did laundry, cleaned up the kitchen and mopped the floor, and then treated myself to a few blissful hours in my sewing room.

This is another boro/sashiko project, probably a bag, but this time I’m covering the whole surface with stitching. I’m not rushing it, just stitching away while playing YouTube videos or Netflix, and it’s very relaxing.

The weather has been in the 30s every day, and even in the basement it’s been uncomfortably warm. Add to that the hot flashes that I’m getting every day now and sometimes I’m mopping my face as my glasses slide down my nose.

I’ve been reading a series of novels by Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling) which are detective novels. I read the fourth one in the series first, because I picked it up at the library not realising it was part of a series. And I only realised that J K Rowling was the author once I’d finished it. So I requested the rest of the books from the library and quickly devoured the first three.

The book above is the fifth one. Admittedly it’s a large print version, but still, it’s huge compared to the others. If you’re interested, the first book is called The Cuckoo’s Calling.

What do you think of this adorable pincushion? One of my co-workers left this week, and I gave her one of the bags I’ve made as a leaving gift. She gave me this with a lovely note.

I’ve been eating quite a few apricots this week. Our tree produced a fair few this year, and even though some fell on the ground before I could get to then and others were occupied by earwigs, I still got to enjoy those little packages of edible sunshine.

Our valley has been hit by smoke again this summer from the numerous wildfires around the province but I am grateful that we are only breathing smoke and not having to deal directly with fires in my neighbourhood.

Take care, everyone.

Dec7

Scrappy days are here again!

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I found myself with extra time to sew this weekend. I was supposed to work Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and have Wednesday and Thursday off. However, shit happens and as it turned out I developed a sore throat Saturday evening after dinner.

With covid at the forefront of everyone’s minds right now, and after a terrible night’s sleep, I texted my boss Sunday morning and told her I thought I shouldn’t go to work and that I would get a test that day. That meant lots of sewing time, and knitting and Netflix too (I completed the yoke of Turtle Dove and divided for sleeves and body).

The test result came back this morning – negative, thankfully – by which time the other assistant manager had been asked to fill in for me today. So more sewing time was had, as well as a bit of housework and some menu planning for the week. I baked lasagna and chocolate chip cookies to keep the family’s tummies happy.

And this is what I made…

scrappy trees with cinnamon stick trunks
16 tree ornaments/gift tags from quilting cotton, some batting and pink soft fabric
a round pincushion with a moose button (hard to see the moose in this photo)

I know exactly who the pincushion is for. The other things I have made/am making are being piled up in my sewing room at the moment. I am just enjoying the creation of them and looking forward to deciding who to give them to.

Mr Fixit and ds3 went out yesterday and bought a tree and we have set it up and decorated it with a red theme and strung lights everywhere. I think we are in the same frame of mind as our neighbours – make more of an effort with Christmas/Solstice/Yule this December because it’s been such a blah sort of year. Get the tree up early, brighten the place up with more fairy lights, bake more goodies. We are fortunate in that the five of us live under the same roof and Christmas will be very similar to previous years because the rest of our family lives so far away that it’s almost always just been us. We only travelled to visit them on the other side of the Atlantic one Christmas, and we surprised them all. That was 1999. The kids were aged between 1 and 7 and we had a great time. Mr Fixit’s parents, who used to come over quite a lot, usually visited in the spring or fall for the least extreme weather, but they did come one Christmas and the funny thing was that it wasn’t a white Christmas in the valley. We had to drive up to the ski resort for some snow.

Have a happy and bright day!