Autumnal
The pleasant weather has amazingly continued into the weekend, so this morning I ignored the housework to go for a walk. A few resulting photos of autumn-coloured prettiness:
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t’s been a busy but very productive weekend. The first thing I achieved was yesterday morning, when I got a load of firewood delivered, and managed to get it stacked into the garage in record time. That hadn’t been the plan, because I was supposed to be going to Mr Harvestbird’s birthday party, but when…
Being realistic
Remember those Christmassy mini-quilts I was making? That I was going to give to pretty much everyone I know? Yeah, they’re still sitting in a pile next to my sewing machine, half-quilted. And there is no way I’m going to get them finished by Christmas. As usual, I totally under-estimated how long each would take,…
I have NOT got a cold
‘m trying very hard to ignore the headachey sniffliness which has been creeping up on me since yesterday afternoon, because I absolutely don’t have time to have a cold at the moment. We’ve got our office Christmas party tonight, and there’s a tonne of stuff I want to get done this weekend, and three more…
Options
One of the fun bits about quilting is once you’ve got your main pieces made, and have a million possible ways to put them together into bigger blocks. I started playing around with a few options for the Three Dudes block this morning, and there were so many possibilities! I was tempted by this pinwheel…
Toast and jam
irst Toastmasters meeting of the year tonight, and as always it was a lot of fun. I was the “Table Topics Master”, in charge of the impromptu speaking section of the meeting. I did have a set of prompts prepared to use to assign speaking topics, but as it turned out we had a huge…
Radio Silence
espite appearances, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth. I’ve just been kind of busy. Semester started two weeks ago, and it was very much a case of straight in the deep end as far as workload goes. I’m loving the course though – it’s much more hands-on than the last paper I…