Busy Times

I'm a bit late in posting, but its been a busy time. Last weekend I went to Belstead house with the Embroiderers Guild and had a fantastic weekend, just sewing it was great, snow and bad weather didn't put a dampener on things, Pauline Verinder was wonderful I will do another workshop with her. I have finished 2 of the pieces that I started there. I've also finished the banner I'm doing for an exhibition with the Material Girls and have come up with some ideas for my other pieces of work for the show in October. This time next week the ERTF launch day will be over, and we'll be thinking about our next event! Sorry to say that I've not got much done for my C&G course but at least I do know where I'm going. This afternoon I went to our Embroiderers Guild meeting and had an inspiring talk Barbara Weeks she was talking about colour and dying her own fabrics I want to do more of that!

Venue

I went with Chrissythreads today to look at the venue for the ERTF Launch day. Its a really lovely place with a nice airy feel about it. Its getting quite exiting as the day gets closer. I have decided that I am going to stand for election onto the committee, I was a little reluctant to stand, but it would be nice to see the first year out at least. My OH did say that if you start something you should see it through and it does show commitment. I suppose I am a bit concerned that I'm spreading myself a too thin, but I'm not standing for an officers job, I don't couldn't cope with that!
When OH gets in I've got to tell him that I've had a bit of a bash in the car, trouble parking! Its not too bad just a bit of paint scraped off the bumper and onto a gate post! Its the first time I've had a scrape in 35 years of driving, I just hope I go 30 years without another.

Getting on with it

Well today I've made quite a dent in some of the things on my to do list for the C&G. I seem to never catch up having 2 weeks off to go on holiday was not a good idea and to make it worse I was ill for a week before we went. I know that I'll get there in the end if I just keep at it. So today I've made a bonda web sandwich! made a really lovely bit of felt I'm over the moon with it and I've also made a couple of pieces of fabric using Grilon. Now I'm taking a little break and photocopying some of the work I did the other day using Gesso if I could work out how to put pictures on this thing I would. I'm not very good at computers, I keep meaning to do something about that, another thing on my list of things to do. It just keeps getting longer oh well I'd better get back to it! Bye for now, I'm also going to try and blog more often as I think it may help me to get things off my chest without them building up.

Spent More Money

Today we took a trip to Art Van Go and I managed to spend a tidy sum on inks, markel sticks and other must haves. Which of course I'll use now that I'm doing my C&G. While I was there I treated myself to a subscription to Cloth Paper Scissors. I've had it on my Christmas list for the past 2 years and no ones taken it up, I couldn't wait any longer! Then we went for a really nice lunch in a pub in Datchworth (thats the way I lure my other half to these places). Now I've got to cook dinner for my daughter and husband, well it was only a light lunch! Then I can settle down for the evening with my new copy of Cloth Paper.........