The second half of the week started with me waking up on Thursday after a long and deep night's sleep, which was much needed. I must have been tired going to bed, as I realised I'd put on my nightdress the wrong way around! TMI, sorry. Anyway, I stayed in bed a while reading. I'm currently reading this book that I got from a library in a different part of our borough:
It is a really interesting read. I'm into books about craft at the moment, but this book is about Craeft or the ancient traditional crafts dating back to pre-history, although a lot of it's content is still relevant to the crafts we do today. It's written by an archeaologist/historian and is fascinating. I'm really enjoying it, but it's due back to the library on Friday, so I need to renew it at our local library, as I'm only half way through.
I booked myself into the gym on Thursday morning and headed off after breakfast. I had a good workout, then dropped in at my favourite local charity shop on the way home, but didn't see anything I wanted to buy.
After lunch, I decided to decorate the shed for Xmas. We have a tiny little tree that we put in there and a few Xmas cushions and lights. It looked nice and cosy when I'd finished.
I then did some cleaning in the house. I vacuumed and mopped the hall, stairs and landings and cleaned the main bedroom thoroughly. I've still got the kitchen, toilet and bathroom to do, and LB's room, but they will be a job for another day. It felt good to give a few more areas of the house a thorough clean. OH and I watched the final of Race Across the World tonight, which we enjoyed.
On Friday morning, I had booked to go see another free festive film at the independent cinema on our local high street. Today's film was a classic, namely Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. It was a black and white, 1951 version starring Alistair Sims, George Cole (i.e Arthur Daley), a young Hattie Jacques and the guy who played Dickson of Dock Green I think. It was a great film. Christmas isn't quite Christmas without watching 'A Christmas Carol', whichever version and this one was definitely a good one. I don't think that it does any harm having our consciences pricked at Xmas time and this film does that, for me anyway.
When I came out of the cinema, I had to drop into the library nearby to renew my book and then I walked on to our local Lidl, which is over a mile away, to get a few bits that we had run out of and needed. I also picked up a couple of freebies, i.e. a bottle of lime and lemonade, that I put away for Xmas and a box of Lidl brand Jaffa cakes. I also bought a pretty expensive bottle of wine for OH for Xmas, which concluded the purchase of his Xmas presents and I also bought him some decaff coffee, although he gave me some money for that, as it's not really within the budget.
I dropped into a local hospice charity shop en route and bought this book for £3, which sounded interesting and a grey sweater vest for £4. I'll post about it in my monthly clothing purchases post.
I then walked all the way home again, so managed to get 8000 steps in, which was a bonus. I chilled for the rest of the day and didn't do a whole lot, but when LB went out later in the evening, I took the opportunity to wrap some of her presents whilst she was out.
I didn't stop at wrapping all of LB's presents, I also wrapped almost all of OH's, save for the hamper I've gathered for him. I just need to put that together at some point. I felt like I'd made good progress today with regard to Xmas. Just need to get the cards written and sent, finish cleaning the house and finish making LB's pouffe now.
On Saturday, I had good intentions of doing some sewing, but it didn't happen. Our neighbour asked if we could take their dog for the day, so most of my day was taken up with him; going on a long walk with him, snuggling with him on the sofa, etc. I did do a few small jobs, such as writing most of the Xmas cards I'm sending and hanging up the ones we've received, plus some laundry, but not much else got done today. Maybe tomorrow will be a more productive day.
As hoped, Sunday was a much more productive day. I spent the majority of it working on LB's pouffe. I began by making the bottom section which needed a zip inserting to add/take out the stuffing. Once I'd made this, I sewed each side and the top and bottom together in a random order. I'm hoping when the stuffing goes in that it will look okay. It seems cube like, but isn't exactly to my original dimensions and who knows what it will look like when I get it stuffed. It took a fair bit of concentration and that was enough for one day. I hope to get the stuffing sorted in the week and finally finish it. I will make a separate post about the final outcome.
I really don't know where time goes as we get nearer to Xmas. It just seems to disappear. I got OH's hamper put together today too, which was another job done. It wasn't too difficult, as we had wicker M&S hampers from last year that we were given by a colleague of OH and they still had their original shreddings in them, so it was just a case of arranging the items in the basket.
I hope your Xmas preparations went well this week.
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