Once again, I'm continuing from my previous post for this week. Wednesday started in a slow but productive fashion. I got a shower and got ready in a nice leisurely manner, sorting and putting away some laundry as I did so. I then went downstairs and did a few household tasks that I just couldn't face the night before and started another small task on my to do list. This one was to wash and iron some new towels I'd bought, ready for use.
After breakfast, by which time it was nearly lunch time, I headed into the shed to do more work on the sofa. It's almost become part of my daily routine now, but I will be so glad when I've completed it. I was in there nearly 3 hours, listening to Handel's Water Music and Vivaldi's Four Seasons as I worked. I just kept going as I could see the finish line getting closer and I managed to finish attaching all the velcro. At least I can now move onto the next part of the job, which is attaching the other half of the velcro onto the cover, but by machine hopefully, as my fingers are shredded. That was a job for another day.
I was so cold when I eventually got back into the house, that after lunch, I decided to get the last of the foraged fruit out of the freezer and made into jam. That helped to warm me and the kitchen up and it was another item off my to do list, as I'm trying to free up space in the freezer and we are down to our last two jars of homemade jam. Sadly, I managed to burn the jam, as I forgot about it whilst getting engrossed in another item on the to do list. I managed to save half a jar which tastes okay, but my pan is looking a bit worse for wear.
Anyway, the task that distracted me was to re-organise my Xmas brooch collection which was now too extensive for the board I had pinned it to, so I needed to make a new pin board for it. Here's a picture of the finished board:
I probably should have used a plainer fabric for this job, as it looks a bit busy, but it will do. I'll know next time when I need to make a bigger one. There's a few gaps which will probably get filled this year, so I may be increasing the size sooner rather than later. Many of them are vintage, but some are not and I have lots of different earrings to match. They are just something I like to collect for fun and wear during the festive season. The vintage ones are getting harder and much more expensive to find these days, but I usually treat myself to at least one each year.
A couple of parcels came today, one was for our holiday in January. I'm having to use a cabin case for the first time ever on a week's holiday, so I needed some bottles to decant my toiletries into and had ordered a set on eBay. It's going to be a real challenge for me to pack so lightly.
In the evening, we retired to the living room, to watch an interesting 3 part series on the Renaissance in Italy, mostly about Michael Angelo. It was very interesting. I continued with my hexi quilt as I watched it.
On Thursday, I was late getting up and still suffering a bit with vertigo, so I decided not to go to the gym. Instead, I decided to get straight on with finishing the sofa cover for the shed. I machine sewed the velcro onto the two pieces of the cover, which took a few hours, as my thread kept snapping and I kept having to re-thread the machine, which was very frustrating. Eventually, I got it finished, fitted onto the sofa and then I took a lint roller to it all to clean it up, before adding soft furnishings. Here's a picture of how it looked once finished:
Definitely not perfect, as I ran out of velcro, but good enough to get through Xmas. I may tweak a few things in the new year, but for now I just can't face it. I'm happy with the results, but I am not in a hurry to tackle such a large and time consuming project again any time soon. In total, apart from the hours of time I spent on it, it cost me just £25 for materials, which is pretty good to lengthen the life of this sofa.
Here's a picture with the addition of some soft furnishings and twinkling lights, to make a cosy Christmas nook in the shed:
The rugs were the items I bought from IKEA. They were £9 each and just help to make it feel a bit more cosy and snug. I just need a rug for the floor now and it's done.
To reward myself for ticking off that mammoth item on the to do list, I didn't do much else for the whole afternoon. I tided a little, did the washing up and worked on my hexi quilt.
On Friday, I was up early and off to the gym for a workout. When I got back, I went to drop off some donations at the charity shop. They'd been clogging up the landing for months, so it was good to finally take them and was another item ticked off the to do list.
I then decided to start cleaning the upstairs of the house as it was a mess. OH had been sanding and painting more of the floorboards upstairs, but had now finished for the time being, so I could finally clean up. I started with the master bedroom and it took me most of the rest of the day. It felt good to get it done though.
On Saturday, I got up early and continued with the cleaning upstairs. We moved LB's furniture back into position in her room, as OH had been painting the floor in her room. I cleaned the bathroom and did some laundry and then had to get ready and go to work for the rest of the day. I was on a long 2 till 11 shift. I was late getting there, as some new roadworks had appeared and had caused gridlock on the route there. It was pretty busy and passed quite quickly though. I also got to leave at 9.30 pm which was a bonus at the end of the week.
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