Tempus Fugit

I've been home alone for a whole week now - with three days more to go - whilst P is away on business in Hong Kong.  Oh, I had such wonderful plans for these 10 days, what I wasn't going to achieve whilst I had all those hours and hours to myself!  Has any of it come to fruition - well, no, not really. 

I did have a VERY BUSY weekend for ebay sales last weekend, which meant mega amounts of packing and posting on Sunday and Monday.  I was really pleased - if a trifle knackered - with the resulting large payment from my Paypal account to my bank account.  This weekend should be much easier as I've only got four items ending on ebay on Sunday, although I did have a fairly mega listing session again yesterday afternoon (10 day listings to end on a Sunday afternoon - Sunday. apparently, being ebay's busiest day of the week.)

But, back to the plans.  I had intended to try and do something with my old 'about-the-house' trousers which are elasticated-waist velvety ones - one pair black, one purple.  The elastic at the waist has become really loose over time which has meant the darned trousers constantly slip down and drive me mad.  Now, in my defence, I've only just been able to find suitable elastic to mend them with as the local sewing shop only had narrow elastic, the sewing shop in Basildon has closed down and so I was left with good ol' ebay as my only source of elastic.  Sure enough, someone was selling just what I was looking for, at a very reasonable price, and it arrived this morning.  Maybe this weekend I'll get round to it.

 

I also had very grand plans for trying out these lovely iron-on transfers which I've had since the spring.  I've got as far as reading the instructions before but that was it.  Finally I think I've found some suitably soft, not too wide a weave, pure cotton fabric that I could use.  It's a vintage pillowcase from the charity shop which I hoped would be good to go as is but, sadly, it has one or two marks on it that just won't wash out so I'll use the fabric to put these transfers on instead.  I'm hoping then I can make the pictures up into cards.

It was the same with making another draught excluder - this time for the kitchen door - nothing has been achieved as yet, not even choosing what fabric to use.  The problem for me is that as soon as the light starts to fade around 4.00 pm then I lose all interest in trying to do anything that requires a sharp eye - and that includes dusting, hoovering and ironing.  Ah, excuses excuses!

Anyway I do have the next couple of days to try and achieve a few things from my potential to do list.  And all has not been entirely lost this week - I have managed to clear out a few things, and tidy a few more away and my knitting has come along wonderfully as that is something I can manage whilst tucked up watching a bit of TV in the evenings.

Spotted this leaflet at the local library this morning - sounds just my thing craft AND cupcakes - think I might give it a try.  Perhaps someone can finally teach me how to crochet!!

Comments

[Jennifer]

That looks like a lot of fun, I just learned how to crochet and am loving it.

[Catherine]

I'm impressed you get to 4 before ditching dusting, hoovering and ironing...I get to, ok, got to, about age 4 when I ditched it. The Husb has a very poor housewife in me! LOVE those iron-on transfers, they are VERY cool!
Hey, have fun at the craft and cupcake evening - sounds lovely x x x

[Ponytail]

Sorry to hear about the sewing shop closing down. It looked a bit deserted last time I was in Basildon, so have had to transfer my allegiance to Leigh (fabric) and Rayleigh (haberdashery)for all my sewing needs. Not that I have many - there's a summer dress on the table that's been wiating for me to finish making it since July...

[Caroline]

I know exactly how you feel, Elizabeth. Ashley is away for a few days every couple of weeks now, and I always have grand plans of things I'm going to achieve. And I never seem to get anywhere with them. Life getting in the way of other plans, I guess! Glad to hear your Ebay sales are going well, too - I'm going to list a couple of bits and bobs now for 7 days as I don't usually have anything ending on a Sunday, so I'll see how I get on.