Hideaway

So this week has not been great, I have had a bug and it has made me really sensitive so my IBS has been having a field day.  I spent three days at home doing nothing instead of working.

I intended to do lots of tidying and sorting this long bank holiday weekend but I knew I was not up to it so I went to the bead shop Saturday and set myself up with some projects instead.  So I had a productive few days crafting.

I made a necklace from a free pattern using pinch beads, which were handily on offer this weekend.  They make little round berries.  The necklace is to match a multi coloured dress I have.  It feels summery.

Having finished that, I set about the Beetle pattern.  I just have the legs to do now.  I couldn't get the back to go right.  The delicas I had just were not sitting snug with each other and it really bugged me after the snug precision of the rest of the design.  So I redesigned the back.  It does not irritate me now, but it took up a lot of time, reworking and tinkering.

Next I have beads to make a hexagonal donut to which a lot of strands are attached to make a lariat.  This is an old favourite.  I never made one for me though.  I have a black top with gold edging and a waist band with gold, silver, purple and turquoise.  The donut matches the purple and the strands will also pick up all the other colours.

I also have all the feathers now for the fire dream catcher, so I can finish that.

My boss leant me a rock mill!  I don't know if it works yet.I am almost nervous to try it.  I also need to collect enough rocks of similar hardness to do a load.  Somehow it is worse playing with someone else's very old toys....  It doesn't come with instructions. lol

I have some things to add to my list of possibilities though.

60) Play Crazy Golf

There is something about crazy golf.  Not pitch and putt.  I like the different things you have to do , like get the ball through a building or bounce it off walls etc.  I think hubby and I played it maybe ten years ago in lanzarote, certainly not since.

61) Go to the National Marine Aqarium

We took my stepson when he was young but have not been since.  If J wants to go to Plymouth to look at bikes, he can bribe me with something I will enjoy :-)

62) Go to Rogue Kitchen

We were going to go to this last year but there was no way with my stomach as it is.  They tell stories and you cook food over an open fire.  It sounds pretty cool.  Next year....

A Helping Paw

After last weekend I have been feeling perkier again. 

This was the weekend of the Cactus Show!  long awaited....  It gave a chance to meet up with Cactus Man, who I have not seen in quite a while.  It was good to catch up.

I wasn't sure what to expect (apart from cacti).  The hall was full of cacti and succulents and some of the specimens on show were very very old.  A lot probably spend their pampered lives in greenhouses.  The variety was abslutely astounding...

And yes, they had a stall selling them and yes I did purchase a few.  They truly are wierd and wonderful.

And they had some really good homemade cakes on sale to.

I also spotted a second hand three piece suite for sale.

Our Lounge has long been my craft refuge and things had piled up while my energy was low over the years.  I hadn't wanted to get a three piece suite because I didn't have the energy to deal with everything that doing so would entail.  But I saw this one and it was time.

So it has been in the back of the van since Friday night as we have tackled the behemouth that sits below.  We are not done yet, really but we are done enough to get the three piece suite in - once himself gets back from the tip.

It is pretty astounding that we have done this....  A real indication of the change in me.  A huge deboning process.  We have let go of an awful lot.

It feels good. 

It will feel even better when I am sat there tonight on a sofa, with my feet up on a recliner, watching TV, with a dog snuggled next to me, stuffed between me and my man.

I will try not to think about the small dog I managed to trap in the recliner while trying it out, before buying it....

I was mortified.

(We wondered where he had gone and he was gone a while.  I spotted these two paws stickingout)

Fire and Things

Not feeling much enthusisasm today.

Maybe I used it all up working on a fiery dream catcher for my sister.  I have put a lot of effort into it this last 48 hours.  It's a complicated one.  It isn't quite finished though.  I ordered some feathers which are not here yet and so I just need to use some of them.  i will attach them to some fo the felted dangles.  Everything else is done.

In my world of plants - I have killed a cactus and my ivy seems to be rather unhappy.

The cactus is one I have not had long.  It has been in a spot where it receives misting....  I think it rotted,  There is now a hole and I can see inside and thee is nothing.  Maybe it was already sick when I got it.  Either way, I think it is beyond saving.  It rotted above ground.  All the other plants it sits with are fine - including the once very unhappy Euphorbia.  They seem to like the misting.

My Ivy definitely got overwatered and I am not sure it is going to recover.  I have stopped watering it at all for now.....





Everything else continues to flourish....

I need to buy some more swarovski for my second enchanted lake, but it is expensive and I don't want to pay out for it right now  not when I will only use a couple of each bead.

So now my fire dream catcher is on pause, I don't have much on the go.  It's wierd, I start looking at my South and everything suddenly feels different.

Did go to a new restaurant this week. And got two more plants - a fern for the bathroom and a dragon tree.

I stayed up late two nights.  One night waiting for hubby to get home from work and working on the fire dream catcher - the other watching eurovision which was good fun.

Fire definitely run out....

A Day of Finishing

So I started this dream catcher last year amd it has sat waiting for months. It needed something more than just feather dangles. I was passing trago one day and suddenly knew what I needed - fuzzy white wool.

So I finished it today.

I like the fuzzy white wool. It brings back the wintery feel. It was the beads I first fell in love with though.

I also finished My Enchanted Lake. It was pretty tricky.....