THAT WORKED

 While Stew was outside in the yard on Saturday afternoon, he found the poker that came with our brazier.

He immediately knew what to do with it:

ABOVE:  it became the 'rail' for the Braid Runner to hang on.

ABOVE: Of course I had to hang the runner up to see how it looked.

I absolutely love how it looks on the wall!  And the hooks and rod look awesome too.

When it's on the table, I might hang something else on the rod.  Not sure what yet though.

Looking at the photo above... I can see I need to centre that painting.  It's 'off' now that the hanging rod is there.

I've got a bit of housework to do today... my usual 'do all the jobs' day.

CATCH YA LATER.

9.15 am:  OMG it is so cold this morning.

ABOVE:  We have an absolute pea soup of a fog this morning.  It will probably hang around until this afternoon.

It just makes the day so cold and dreary.

I stayed in bed until 8.30, cos I simply didn't want to get up and face the cold.

As it is, my hands are frozen.

I'm in my sewing room with the heater on, waiting to actually warm up.

I can't function when I'm this cold.

I know it's not as cold as some places can get, but it's what you are used to that counts.  Here, really cold is anything under 10 degrees C.  It is 9 degrees C inside MY HOUSE.  That's 48 degrees F for you fullas that are still in the dark ages!  lol

So, until it warms up in here, I'm sitting under the heat pump.

I have managed to get another large Braid Runner finished today.  No point showing you, it's very similar to the last few.

Then I had some lunch.  I had a couple of the beef rissoles I made last night.

BIG MISTAKE.  OMG I'm suffering from acid reflux something rotten!!!  What was I thinking?  I should have known they were too rich for lunchtime.  

Weird how they didn't upset my stomach last night?  😟😕😖

After lunch I decided to make a smaller Braid Runner.... about 2/3rds the size of the previous 21.  (TWENTY ONE!!!)

ABOVE:  Just as gorgeous as the slightly bigger ones.  It measures about 1 m X 45 cm.

Apart from sewing, I've spent a good portion of my time online, trying to source more of the Kaffe Fassett fabric that I used the most.  

That would be the Multi Coloured Blue spotty one that is in the border of that runner (above).

I think I have tracked some down in Christchurch.

Fingers crossed they can find it in the shop and send it to me asap.

They have just relocated, so are in a tizz right now... I'm hoping they do find it, cos there's virtually none in the country.

And I do NOT want to order from overseas.  What with currency exchange rates, and postage, it makes it virtually three times the price to get it here.  

One of the disadvantages of living at the bottom of the bloody world!  Though in saying that, I'd rather be here than anywhere else thank you very much.

I stopped sewing around 4.30 as I was feeling really tired and unwell.

I was making stupid mistakes, having to unpick several times.  It was clearly time to stop.

I came inside, turned on the heater, blanket on, heat pod on me knees, panadol on board, Losec on board  ... BOOM.

Much better.

It's going to be a quiet evening... just how we like it.

Time to say...

CATCH YA TOMORROW