Today is a good day…
After yesterday and my ante-natal funk brought on by being immobile and generally achy I did actually manage to sit down and finish off the bedroom curtains. Hurrah!
Jon came home not long after I’d finished - he actually managed to get out of the office on time and not be thwarted by DLRs, Tubes, or Trains (oh my!) and was in the house just after 6:30. We got the old curtains down and popped the new ones up and tried them out…
And the black out lining does what you are led to believe. Jon exclaimed and I was reminded of being deep in a cave which we had visited a number of years ago outside Killkenny. They take you right into the back of it and turn the lights out. The only thing is with this cave, your eyes *never* get accustomed to the darkness.
Jon was also particularly pleased because the street lamp across the road was no longer able to get a bit of light in at the side that always hit his face.
After that we had a nice tea of Lemon Sole and couscous, only marred by my attempting to choke on a single cous and a cat using this as an opportunity to steal the last bit of fish from my plate. I soon recovered but being heavily pregnant and coughing is not at all fun. Amelia got her own back later by sprouting 3-4 extra limbs and using them vigoursly.
Then it got worse. After we had finished watching the second part of The Colour of Magic (which we really enjoyed - we are HUGE Pratchett fans) we decided to sit up in bed with cups of tea and I’d crochet while Jon was looking at OU certificate courses in Astronomy. Alas this scene of domestic and intellectual bliss was not meant to be as he ended up getting phoned for work (having stupidly agreed to cover someone else’s on call shift for yesterday).
Again Amelia wasn’t playing fair and didn’t give her poor father the excuse of “I can’t help you now, the people who deal with this system aren’t in again until the morning and my wife has just gone into labour…” So he had to make do with everything but the labour part.
In the end he got to bed around 2am. and was called again around 6.
This morning, we woke up to the usual cat/plastic duet which signals that two cats want their breakfast so I got up and shuffled my way downstairs - steep stairs and swollen feet and ankles are not fun and I was prepared to spend the better part of the day languishing in bed feeling sorry for myself. However the post arrived with a spare charger (whoot!) some new pliers, some more ballpins for earrings and some Etsy Felty goodness! Which I had bought from Lupin. I bought a lovely plump little hooty owl pin which will be part of my birthday present for my mother-in-law in July(I think) unless I give it to her sooner in honour of becoming a grandmother, and a tea-addict pin for my long suffering tea-addict husband. For myself I bought the first of the new pincushions and I know I will end up buying one for my mother as well.
This pincushion is fabulous. It is a nice size in *all* dimensions and this is a real bonus if you do beadwork as most beading needles are very long. The cushion is tall enough that you can push the needle in a decent way and not have them poking through the bottom. And as many of the long needles are quite bendy it is good to be able to protect them from getting kinked in transit. Also the circles all over the top seem to me to be a good way of organising all your different pins and needles…
Lupin also has a crafty blog and runs the Craft 365 Group on Flickr, which is very nifty.
I’m now going to drink my rapidly cooling cocoa and tidy embroidery floss into a box before making some more earrings. The new charger is charging so hopefully there will be some more pictures/items up this afternoon.
Tags: Crafts