For some strange reason, I convinced myself and my family this week that Mothering Sunday was Sunday 23rd March. OH reminded LB to send a card, which she did, along with a parcel of seeds as a gift for me, which was very sweet. She knows me so well - flowers, lettuce and beetroot - perfect choice. OH bought me some flowers and chocolates too, Maltesers, of course. (My favourite)
After reminding OH to send a card to his mother too, LB then informed us that it was actually next Sunday 30th March. Anyway, it turned out okay, as LB was going away for 10 days on Tuesday, so she would have missed it whilst she was away. Maybe that's why I got it in my head it was this week.
With Mother's Day celebrated a week early, I had to head to work for an afternoon shift. It was super busy, busier than I've experienced in a while, which made it pass super quick.
In the evening, OH and I watched another couple of episodes of 1883 on Netflix. (Thank you Jackie for telling me about the next series 1923, we'll be watching that next if we can get it)
On Monday, I had the day off and headed off out of town shopping. I took my newly made leopard print handbag with me to try it out for the first time. It survived the outing and worked well for me. I had a 10% off voucher to use at Lidl this week, which saved me over £10.
After putting the shopping away, I went up to the sewing room and did a bit of work on the scrappy rolls I'd started over the weekend. I sewed together all the very small scraps into long enough lengths to use and then created a couple of long scrappy pieces using the card machine paper, before tidying them up with a rotary cutter. The only difficulty I found was that my rotary cutter was not very good. A case of buy cheap, buy twice, as the saying goes. It will do for now, but it isn't the greatest. I may invest in a better quality one at some point. I now just need to decide how to use them. Here's a picture of the strips I made:
On Tuesday, LB flew off early in the morning to visit a friend for a few days. Thankfully she got there okay as it was very foggy at the airport when she got there. I'm hoping she has a nice time.
I was booked into my usual class at the gym and then after lunch I went up to the sewing room and continued making more scrappy lengths. I've decided on a project to use these for and made some progress with that. I also did some work on the scrappy project bag I started last week and now I just need to do some hand sewing on it whilst I'm watching TV and it will be finished. I'll do a separate post about these projects when I've finished them both.
On Wednesday, I was due at work for 1pm, so I went out for a 3km run in the morning and then showered and got ready for work. At work I was given an extra task to do, which kept me very busy all shift and made the time go by super quickly, which is how I like it. I was informed that we've been given a pay rise, which sounded good, until I worked out that it's not much more than current inflation. I guess anything is better than nothing, I do consider myself fortunate to have a job at all.
On Thursday, I headed to the gym in the morning, as the Saturday sessions have now ended, and had a good workout. It was a lovely sunny day, which does make a difference. Life feels a little more hopeful when the sun shines.
In the afternoon, I went upstairs to do some long overdue cleaning. I wanted to get LB's room clean and ready for her coming home at the end of next week and the stairs and main bedroom desperately needed cleaning, vacuuming and mopping. It took the whole afternoon, but I threw the windows open and let some fresh air in, changed the bedding and towels in the bathroom and it felt great to get it done. The sewing room still needs a good clean, which will get done eventually, but the next job will be to clean the downstairs of the house, as it is more of a priority.
On Friday, I got out for another 5km run. It felt like a really long run. It didn't help that I kept my phone on my pedometer page, so was looking at it constantly, which made the distance seem longer. I was due at work in the evening. Work was good and passed okay. I am working all through this weekend and on Monday too, so I'm getting some extra hours in for a change and I'm also working a couple of extra shifts next week, as it is Eid Mubarak and many of the staff will be celebrating and spending time with their families. The following week, however, I have booked a week off work in order to spend time with LB while she is home from Uni for a week and I'm really looking forward to it.
With no gym class on Saturday morning, this meant that I could enjoy a lie in for as long as I wanted. Bliss. I stayed in bed and finished reading this book that I got from the library a couple of weeks ago.
It was my first full book read this year and I really enjoyed it. It did get me thinking about sustainability and what I could do to make more effort in this regard.
After lying in on Saturday morning, I eventually got up and ready and headed to the sewing room for a morning of sewing. I worked on four different projects. The first was cutting down a 100% cotton dress to a blouse that I can wear for work and creating a whole big length of black cotton fabric from the voluptuous skirt to use for other projects. I've still got to finish the hem of the blouse. I'll post again with pictures when it's done.
The second project was making a couple of jar openers for OH's sister, who he is seeing next week. I had given some of these to his mum and his sister must have seen and used them, as she told me she could do with some herself, so I made her some. I had quite a bit of difficulty sewing the rubberised fabric, as my sewing machine foot kept sticking, but I came up with a way to overcome this by using the adding machine tape to cover the rubberised fabric and then ripping it away once sewn. It worked like a dream.
The third project was to finish the scrappy roll project I'd started, but I'm posting separately about this, so I won't go into detail here.
Finally, I made another elasticated seat cover for my sewing room chair. I'd made one previously but it was looking worse for wear, so I made a new one in the same fabric, as the back has been covered in this fabric.
So, it was a pretty productive morning and I really enjoyed progressing these projects and using things from my stash to do so.
I then had a late lunch and headed off to work for the evening. Work was very busy again which was good. Another colleague left tonight, which was sad and hailed the end of another week, albeit a busier and more productive one.
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