The second part of this week has been quite relaxed and varied. On Wednesday morning, I took myself out for an 8500 step walk which was nice. It was nice to walk in open spaces with no traffic or fumes and just breathe in fresh air here in London.
When I got home, I spent the afternoon sewing. I did a couple of small sewing tasks and then finally got around to doing more work on LB's pouffe. I've posted separately about this sewing session, so you may have already read about it. It felt quite productive though, as I made some progress.
On Wednesday evening, OH was out with some friends for an Xmas drink, so I enjoyed myself watching Game of Wool on Channel 4. I've heard that a lot of knitters don't like this programme, but I find it entertaining. They are very skilled at what they do. I for one am in awe, as all I can do is a basic garter stitch.
On Thursday, I got up and went to the gym. OH was already there when I got there and we both came home together via a local cafe, as he needed to eat and it was pouring with rain. It was a nice treat, although I only had a peppermint tea.
I didn't do a lot on Thursday afternoon. I didn't want to do anymore sewing and I couldn't motivate myself to clean ready to put the Xmas decorations up, so I had quite a lazy afternoon. In the evening, we watched the penultimate episode of Celebrity Race Across the World, which we enjoy, and I then once OH had gone to bed, I watched Kirstie's Handmade Christmas, which was also on Channel 4.
Before going to bed, I got inspired to make yet another couple of items from the denim jeans I bought. Once again inspired by Pinterest, I found a pin to make denim coasters from the remaining seam and hem pieces. I worked out that I had enough offcuts to make one coaster from each type of these pieces. I didn't start work, leaving that until the following day.
On Friday morning, I was due to go and see a free film showing at our local independent cinema. Our local council were funding a film each week over Xmas, which was free to over 55's. This week's film, which started at 11am, was called The Shop on the Corner. It was an old 1940 film starring James Stewart, as a shop clerk and an actress called Margaret Sullavan, as a shop assistant working in the same store. It was actually a good film, one I've never seen before and was actually pretty funny. It brought back memories of watching old movies as a child on TV and as it was a kind of feel good film, similar to A Wonderful Life, I came away feeling uplifted, which can't be said of a lot of modern films.
On the way home, I dropped into a local chariy shop for a festive mooch, but I didn't find anything I wanted to buy. Just as well really, as I won a couple of auctions on eBay, spending around £11 on two items; one a vintage Kitsch Xmas decoration and the other a small gift to put in my reusable Xmas cracker. I now just need to find small gifts to put in LB's and OH's.
I spent the afternoon, working on one of the denim coasters using jeans seams. It took quite a while, but I managed to sew all the remaining bits of seams into it, including the belt loops which were small, so I sewed them into the centre. The finished item almost looks like the growth rings in the bark of a tree. I still need to stitch some felt on the back and possibly cover the top with PVA to protect the fabric, but I'm pretty happy with the outcome. There isn't too much fabric left from the jeans now, enough for a project for myself and another idea I've got in the pipeline for all the small offcuts solely of denim, not seams, hems or plackets, just plain fabric, that is much easier to sew with.
I've got one more coaster to make, using the hems of the jeans. It's currently pinned in place so you can get an idea of how it will look when finished.
Our car went in for it's MOT and service on Friday. It needed a couple of new tyres and a headlight bulb replacing. It cost a few hundred pounds all in, but it's not too bad to keep it on the road for another year. It is 13 or so years old, so it's doing okay.
On Friday evening, OH and I watched George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Jay Kelly on Netflix. It was watchable and OH thought it was a great film. I wasn't so enamoured of it.
On Saturday morning, I got up after barely sleeping at all and headed out to the last free gym session of the year. OH joined me there and we both had a good workout. After lunch, I finally got around to cleaning the two living rooms, so that I could get the Xmas decorations and tree up. It feels good to get that job mostly done and the house feels a lot more festive. There's a few jobs still to do, such as hang my fabric paper chains, the front door wreath, any cards that we have received and a few lights that I needed to put batteries in, but they shouldn't take long.
OH headed out to the allotment today to paint preservative on the shed base, which will be erected in 10 days. Later in the evening, he went out to have Xmas drinks with his cycling friends. I decided to have a chill evening watching TV.
On Sunday, I woke up feeling groggy after a very good night's sleep, which I was grateful for. The day didn't get off to a great start though, as I found out there was a problem with one of the new tyres on the car. One of the tyres, which are tubeless, had not sealed and the air had come out causing a flat tyre. OH had had trouble with it the night before on his night out and it was flat again this morning. Anyway, he managed to get it pumped up again and hopefully it has now sealed and will be okay. I was a bit nervous going out to do the weekly shop in it, but I was only going locally, so OH could have come out to me if there was a problem.
I did the weekly shop a day early at our local Lidl, as I had a £5 off a £70 spend voucher there, that needed to be used today. I ended up spending way more than the £70 - over £100 in fact, but I did get a gammon ham and a panettone for Xmas, plus a few small Xmas gifts, mostly edible. I also needed a bottle of gin, as I'd run out, so those things alone pushed it to well over £70, which is about what I spend most weeks.
I did have a small accident on getting the shopping out of the car. The fridge bag had fallen over in transit and the eggs fell out and to the ground, as I opened the boot, so I lost a couple of them, which was annoying, but stuff happens.
The rest of the day was relatively chill. LB finished off my wrist warmers with a row or two of crochet, so hopefully they won't now unravel and I can start wearing them. OH made a curry which was delicious and we watched another episode of series 2 of Landman on Paramount.
How has your week been?
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