Some Honest Active Doing

Made a promise to myself to write regularly - an exercise in discipline and to increase my mental fitness in this skill....of course I am struggling to find the time or find any sense in my daily routine which would allow me the space and any leftover brain fuel to be able sit down and do this properly so I've come up with this exercise instead.....

Am going to have a draft blog post on the go where I can quickly dump words, sayings, and ideas which come over me...probably add in some links and to do lists there too....just a dumping ground for words so I can keep up with my goal of writing a little bit regularly.

When I hit....200 words? I'll post it publicly - i'll add the time frame it occured within and that'll be it.

My hypothesis is that a theme will exist or emerge naturally, and it will be an antidote to my procrastinating habits.....an honest first active step which is even more important than having the idea in the first place

(I have been such a fan of ideas but haven't gotten much off the ground....so its nice to have finally worked this out!).....

Here goes.....(see you soon)

Our state of Maximum Happiness

I've spent the last week wondering how I was going to write about all that has been happening of late. But with it all coming to a head at about 6.30on Friday evening, I have officially given up trying to inject some sort of deeper selfless meaning to it all.

I could not care in the absolute slightest if I come over as the most hideous nasty skite in all the land.

In the history of my perfect little family we have just had one of the best weeks on record.

I'll let the pictures do the talking......



First day at School

Ella & George celebrate their 5th and 1st Birthday







First draft concept pics for house reno





Our new baby - 4 metre tinny aka "Smiffy II"

The past week brought us 2 massive milestone birthdays for our oldest and newest, a first day at school, the arrival of a perfectly fabulous little boat into our family unit and the first draft of some insanely beautiful designs which will renovate our cozy little house which we love so much into an uber glam but utterly functional, cool and family orientated home we can continue to thrive in.

Its been a week where i have decided that there is an absolute limit to feeling happy and excited. You can't just keep feeling happier and prouder as each and every new achievement occurs, your brain and body has to have a maximum happy state or you risk combusting or something. So we have all been happily glowing at our maximum level this week, topped up to the brim with good news,  achievement and reward for hard work!

But there is a new challenge on the horizon....how to find the extra $250 a week the bank will probably need from us to pay off these renovations and keep us in engine juice for plenty of ocean bound adventures. May have to live off fish and our vege garden for 10+years, but any (work from home preferred) 'job' suggestions would be gratefully recieved too!
 

Don't panic it's not contagious

I spent yesterday morning in a bit of a quiet fluster.

I spent a good 20min in the bathroom doing some serious contortions in effort to check the right side of my body for further signs of small red blistery dots (yes yes Shingles!). Have been feeling a bit tired and under the weather of late and when I woke to find my right knee all aflame....(see pic below).....I admit I did a little freak out.

2 coffees later however and I am now forced to rank this episode above the sewing a blanket to my trackies incident of June 19th in my gallery of crafter embarassments.

Reason: To avoid unwanted stitch-clothing incidents which have been threatening on my current applique heavy project, I have tended to roll up my trakcies or pyjama's or whatever my chosen crafting outfit might be and applique away using my knee to stablise the work. I came to this method as I was confident that I am unlikely to applique the snakes and ladders on ella's birthday blanket to my own skin.

So after joining the dots (ahoy a pun?!) I realised that the dots were infact the self inflicted wounds of a serious crafter. Yes I have been spearing myself repeatedly for the last 3 nights.

The most obvious question facing me is why didn't I notice this 'spearing' and therefore avoid worrying myself about how I would cope with a contagious and very painful disease while sharing the joys of my youngest's 1st birthday my oldest's 5th birthday and her first day at school all happening over the coming week or so (you get a sense of my rising panic?).....

I can't tell you the relief I'm now feeling, knowing it is all quite harmless and simply the result of a pleasantly plump knee, and a couple more glasses of wine than is wise.

I won't resort to wearing crafter's chaps or a teflon apron etc but I will wear my wounds with pride as a badge honouring my growing skill and prolific output.

It's also with great pride that I announce that as of Saturday I officially entered the world of 'professional' textile artist recieving payment for my first sale of 3 blankets (including 2 commissions). Thankfully all I feel now is smug and not the slightest bit itchy so it seems there really is no better time for me to "Hang out my Shingle" in earnest!

.....(hahahaha - gold star homonym humour anyone?)