MURPHY'S LAW!

 WELL!

After showing you my stupid foot/blister yesterday (after having it for TWO MONTHS!), last night when I took off my socks, this is what I saw:

ABOVE:  Soooo typical!  Murphy's Law and all that shit.  It finally broke open and the skin lifted.

*It was stinging a bit* ... that's why I took off me socks to look at it.

So now I hope it heals completely and I can stop being bothered by it.

My TEMU order arrived within the stated timeframe, and nothing was damaged.

So I'm very impressed.

What impressed me the most was the lack of Shipping Charges.

Often with overseas online orders, the shipping charges are MORE than the item you want to buy.

So, TEMU gets my vote as an online retailer.

ABOVE: This is one of the things I bought.  It's for #14 Grandbaby obviously.

Lacy got to try it.  Her reaction was just a bit funny.

The second thing I bought is also for the new baby... but it has to go in the wardrobe until Christmas 2024.

I am now going to have a really good browse through TEMU, with Christmas in mind.

I slept well last night.  I'm rather happy I thought to ask Lacy to come and stay while Stew is away.

Usually, I toss and turn all night long when Stew's away.  

Every teeny tiny noise wakes me up... I'm just a bit nervous on my own.

Stew is due back this afternoon, so that frees Lacy up to do her own thing again.

I am so lucky to have a Lacy, don't ya think?  She may have put us through some shit, and driven us nuts at times, but she always has our backs.  She will always come and help when we need her.  And she's LOVING and LOYAL.  Can't ask for more really.

I'm not forgetting others in our immediate family who we love and cherish, and appreciate so much, by the way. 

I am going to work on Kiwiana Braid Runners today.

I have 7 cut out ready for stitching.  And I cut out quite a lot of the black connecting strips yesterday too.... so it will be interesting to see how many 'tops' I can get done today.

A trip to Spotlight is on the cards too, I need some spotty black 'n' white fabric for the borders.  Totally forgot that the other day when I was there.

And that is me for now.  I am gunna stay in bed a bit longer.

Catch ya later.

Remember me saying my last market at Tamahere was the best one we'd had there? 

With the sale of the ordered runner I made yesterday, it became my BEST MARKET EVER!  How cool is that?  (bearing in mind that runner was ordered at that Market, so counts as a sale on the day)

Middle of winter and I had the best market ever.  I am going to put that down to changing our site position I think.

And there's still all the pre-Christmas markets to come.  Fingers crossed some of them are really good ones too.  😊

It's NOT all about the money we make either.  I get such a boost to my confidence when so many people LOVE my work, and tell me so. It's heartening and feels so good.

1.26 pm:  Lacy went home mid  morning, and I headed into the sewing room to get some work done.

So far I've made two braid runner tops.  My room is desperately in need of a vacum, so I will do that next I think.

Then I might head over to Spotlight for that border fabric.

Though, I might wait until Stew gets home...  he should be here in the next half an hour or so.

4.39 pm:  Stew arrived home safely, and promptly turned around and took me to Spotlight.

We found some fabrics for the Kiwiana Braid Runner's borders.  Not what I had gone down for as they had none left.  But all good, we found a couple of alternatives.

ABOVE:  This was one of the new choices for the border!  Dark Green... OMG!  I love it.

I wasn't sure about it, but it just WORKS.

I will certainly be doing a few more like that.

Now though, I'm done in the sewing room for today.  

It's wind down time for me, and Stew.  We are both tired and will no doubt head off to bed early tonight.

It's going to be another freezing night, so the  electric blanket will be going on soon.

Catch ya tomorrow.

DAY 14 DONE AND DUSTED

Almost had a wobble this evening... I am craving hot chips!  Fish!  Hot Dogs!  Grrrr.

I've managed to resist, but it was HARD.