i've been mending this week. Sometimes I amaze myself!!!
Monday was a public holiday, so i put it to good use!! I kind of remember telling my husband to 'suffer' -as he left for work. The university he works at doesn't get the public holiday - he will get 2 1/2 days paid annual leave over Christmas though. I read 2 books and then thought i'd better get moving and make a start on the mending. I'm easily distracted!
I mended a t-shirt for Thomas (minor detail that I'd had it a year to do!), I mended a pair of denim capri pants ( popped the stitching beside the fly - which kind of tells me that they were a little too tight to wear ), a blouse, a cardigan, another t-shirt, a pair of shorts, a skirt of Laura's and coverstitched the hems on 2 more tshirts. I set up my coverstitch machine which i bought xx years ago and had never used and it worked beautifully. I did have to google a tutorial on how to release the fabric from the machine - I'd forgotten!!!
Totally loved the idea of a 4 day working week - should happen every week!!! I was really looking forward to my next lot of annual leave which I was planning to take straight after Easter. 17 days off for only 9 days out of my annual leave allocation ( i'm counting the weekends and public holidays as well) - until our branch manager informed me that he had tendered his resignation and he was finishing up the Thursday before Easter. Yep, looks like my leave will be cancelled - major bummer!! Interesting times ahead for us at work - again.
Laura left to go back to Melbourne to University 2 weeks ago She has swapped unis and enrolled in a different course. She completed the first year of Game Design last year at RMIT but discovered that she didn't like it. She applied and was accepted at Deakin Uni and is now doing a double degree in Secondary Teaching and Art.
Jen
Friday, 13 March 2015
Monday, 5 January 2015
Happy New Year 2015
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Goodbye 2014 - Hello 2015
Lots of plans and ideas - now to implement them!!
I am aiming for a productive year.
Over Christmas/New Year, my sewing room became the junk/storage room - where everything got shoved into in cleaning up for Christmas. I finally excavated in there yesterday and tidied up - and now have it all but
clean again.
My sewing pattern addiction has not abated. I need to buy a couple more storage tubs to put the latest lot in. I've taken a bag of patterns into work to photocopy front & back of the envelope when I have some spare time.
Spotlight,I'm pleased to say seems to be having more regular pattern sales with patterns costing $5-00. I keep a listing patterns I want to buy on my phone.
During the New Year sale at Spotlight,I picked up a couple of pretty fabrics. A cotton sateen in a lightish grey with a splashy floral print and also a blue paisley print on a cotton pique. I'm thinking skirts. I'd love to get some more of the cotton sateen to make a matching jacket - I feel another trip to Spotlight is in my future!
I washed the lime rayon that I bought several months ago yesterday - only to discover that I had left it on my sewing table in front of the window - a little bit of sun damage!! Lucky I bought a little extra and should be able to work around it. I'll be buying a blind for that window on the weekend.
Jen
Sunday, 14 September 2014
Washing & Ironing
Hi!!!
Have been on holidays from work for the past 2 weeks - it's been great not having to get up and go to work.
I haven't done anything exciting at all, and have kind of wasted my time off, if I'm being really honest with myself, however, I did clean the bathroom though!!!!
I've read lots of books, watched lots of dvds (Game of Thrones, Touched by an Angel, Longmire, Continuum, and am currently watching 3rd season of my all time favourite - Battlestar Galactica), cooked some nice meals.
Woke up on the first day, with a sore and swollen eye - Conjunctivitis again. My 3rd bout of it in 3 months so it was down to the Dr to get a prescription to clean it up. It took several days to heal and thankfully, it wasn't both eyes this time. The Dr ordered blood tests and a glucose tolerance test - so it was back on Monday to get all those tests done and back Friday morning to get results. I already knew that I was glucose intolerant and classed as having prediabetes - thankfully, I haven't yet developed diabetes 2, but I've been told it's important to get everything under under control - eating properly, exercise, losing weight (again). etc. Bummer.
I've had several expeditions to Spotlight whilst I've been off and have bought some lovely fabrics. I bought a pretty daisy print - actually it was a curtaining fabric. A length of blue suiting - which I bought on Tuesday, only to discover it went on Sale on Wednesday at nearly half price - aarrgghh. Why did I not read the catalogue more carefully? On Friday, I bought a lime green rayon. Lime is not really a colour I've worn in the past - but I was drawn to this.
In the past, I used to wash and iron every piece of fabric I bought - as soon as I got it. In recent years, I've gotten lazy and have just put them away.
I had the brilliant idea of washing quite a few pieces - that was easy. Now it's time for ironing - which I hate, and it's taking ages to do. Most of my fabrics are between 2m - 5m, so lots of ironing to do.
I've had to retake Laura's measurements. Since starting Uni in March, she has lost about 16kg (35lb) in weight - lots of walking and stair climbing.
I spent 3 days this week waiting for a plumber I called to show up - he was supposed to be out Monday afternoon. Neale rang again Thursday morning and he finally sent one of his men around. to do all that I needed doing. He discovered that we had a as lea happening as well - so that got fixed as well. Now I'm pretty sure that I won't be waiting for very long until his bill arrives though! I wonder if I can charge him for my time wasted??
Now I need a plasterer to come in and fix up a hole in the cornice and ceiling - we had a heater in the lounge room that was removed by the plumber. I think I'll just tape up the hole and wait to Neale has leave at the end of the year before we get that fixed up.
The weather has been glorious of late. I'm hoping that all the cold weather is now a thing of the past. My hayfever hasn't kicked in as yet - but I've stocked up with Zyrtec for when it does.
We've had to buy Laura a new laptop computer this morning - her laptop has just died (power supply problem) she went to use it yesterday for her design work - assignment due on Monday and no go. She can't get the info from it and we've now got to send it away for a warranty repair which could take several weeks. We're hoping that she'll be able to get the programs she used downloaded to this one and will just have to redo all the work again with apologies to the lecturer that her assignment will be late. She's only got about a month of uni before 1st year exams start. Not a good time for a computer to cark it.
Jen
Have been on holidays from work for the past 2 weeks - it's been great not having to get up and go to work.
I haven't done anything exciting at all, and have kind of wasted my time off, if I'm being really honest with myself, however, I did clean the bathroom though!!!!
I've read lots of books, watched lots of dvds (Game of Thrones, Touched by an Angel, Longmire, Continuum, and am currently watching 3rd season of my all time favourite - Battlestar Galactica), cooked some nice meals.
Woke up on the first day, with a sore and swollen eye - Conjunctivitis again. My 3rd bout of it in 3 months so it was down to the Dr to get a prescription to clean it up. It took several days to heal and thankfully, it wasn't both eyes this time. The Dr ordered blood tests and a glucose tolerance test - so it was back on Monday to get all those tests done and back Friday morning to get results. I already knew that I was glucose intolerant and classed as having prediabetes - thankfully, I haven't yet developed diabetes 2, but I've been told it's important to get everything under under control - eating properly, exercise, losing weight (again). etc. Bummer.
I've had several expeditions to Spotlight whilst I've been off and have bought some lovely fabrics. I bought a pretty daisy print - actually it was a curtaining fabric. A length of blue suiting - which I bought on Tuesday, only to discover it went on Sale on Wednesday at nearly half price - aarrgghh. Why did I not read the catalogue more carefully? On Friday, I bought a lime green rayon. Lime is not really a colour I've worn in the past - but I was drawn to this.
In the past, I used to wash and iron every piece of fabric I bought - as soon as I got it. In recent years, I've gotten lazy and have just put them away.
I had the brilliant idea of washing quite a few pieces - that was easy. Now it's time for ironing - which I hate, and it's taking ages to do. Most of my fabrics are between 2m - 5m, so lots of ironing to do.
I've had to retake Laura's measurements. Since starting Uni in March, she has lost about 16kg (35lb) in weight - lots of walking and stair climbing.
I spent 3 days this week waiting for a plumber I called to show up - he was supposed to be out Monday afternoon. Neale rang again Thursday morning and he finally sent one of his men around. to do all that I needed doing. He discovered that we had a as lea happening as well - so that got fixed as well. Now I'm pretty sure that I won't be waiting for very long until his bill arrives though! I wonder if I can charge him for my time wasted??
Now I need a plasterer to come in and fix up a hole in the cornice and ceiling - we had a heater in the lounge room that was removed by the plumber. I think I'll just tape up the hole and wait to Neale has leave at the end of the year before we get that fixed up.
The weather has been glorious of late. I'm hoping that all the cold weather is now a thing of the past. My hayfever hasn't kicked in as yet - but I've stocked up with Zyrtec for when it does.
We've had to buy Laura a new laptop computer this morning - her laptop has just died (power supply problem) she went to use it yesterday for her design work - assignment due on Monday and no go. She can't get the info from it and we've now got to send it away for a warranty repair which could take several weeks. We're hoping that she'll be able to get the programs she used downloaded to this one and will just have to redo all the work again with apologies to the lecturer that her assignment will be late. She's only got about a month of uni before 1st year exams start. Not a good time for a computer to cark it.
Jen
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Home Alone
I'm home alone and trying to keep warm.
I'm currently off work on sick leave. I woke up early yesterday with a funny tummy and feeling very queasy. so thought I'd take a sick leave day - normally I'd go to work . Today I'm somewhat recovered but with a nagging headache so elected to stay home and rest/relax. Probably a very mild dose of gastro - but not fun. I've been reading and watching dvds. I'm on a ''Lord of the Rings" marathon today.
Neale flew to Adelaide yesterday to attend the funeral for one of his cousins - he's due home tomorrow night.
Neale finally completed his exergesis for his Master of Fine Arts - it's been a long 4 years studying part time. He's been officially told he has passed. He is now in the process of completing the paperwork to enrol in doing his Phd. - another 8 years of study coming up, although he hopes to complete it a little faster than that.
Work has been extremely busy up until last month. I was unable to take my usual 2 week break in March. The company I woke for was awarded the contract for 'çleaning of Morwell' after the mine fire, so that kept everyone hopping. I think we organised cleaning of over 900 houses, all council buildings and streets throughout 4 towns. We also had to start 2 very big contracts at the same time.
I've got 2 weeks annual leave booked in for September and so can't wait.
Was not feeling the love for work last week - the Manager and I really got reamed out by the 2IC of the company a week ago. Apparently nothing I/we do is done the company way and if I hear the phrase 'moving forward' one more time, I'm going to scream! I really can't stand 'management speak'.
Laura has completed her 1st semester of University. She's been at home for the past 6 weeks on mid year break - but went back to Melbourne on Monday - Uni parties to attend!! She texted me her results yesterday - 3 distinctions and a credit and she thought she wasn't doing well.. Very proud of her.
Morgan - son no 2, was in a car accident a month ago - not the phone call anyone wants to receive. I'd just walked in the door when Morgan rang to say he'd been in an accident. He's okay, but wrote off his car. He had to brake suddenly causing him to skid and veer into an embankment and ended up flipping his car onto the roof. Thankfully he was unhurt and didn't hit anyone else. Unfortunately, it has proved to be a very costly exercise as he had neglected to pay his car insurance and still has a sizable loan to pay off. I'm just thankful he escaped uninjured. Of course it was so dark,cold,wet and windy the night of the accident and I just can't get over that I was just 2 minutes ahead of him on the road.
My sewing room is in a mess - alas, not from my industries. The family (Neale & Laura) have put some stuff in there for the time being- to get it out of their rooms etc!! I'm redepositing it all back to them - well apart from the bed frame and mattress that managed to find it's way there instead of the shed.
I've been stalking the pattern websites for latest offerings. I quite like M6995 and M6993 (skirt & Jacket) and also M6996 (cardigan)
Have just seen the Vogue have release their Autumn patterns - I've got 7 of the new ones added to my wish list - just waiting for a very good sale at BMV now.
I've bought some very nice fabrics from Spotlight - cotton sateen and some knits. I love corduroy - but managed to restrain myself as I have several (okay quite a few - maybe alot) pieces already in my collection.
Best wishes,
Jen
I'm currently off work on sick leave. I woke up early yesterday with a funny tummy and feeling very queasy. so thought I'd take a sick leave day - normally I'd go to work . Today I'm somewhat recovered but with a nagging headache so elected to stay home and rest/relax. Probably a very mild dose of gastro - but not fun. I've been reading and watching dvds. I'm on a ''Lord of the Rings" marathon today.
Neale flew to Adelaide yesterday to attend the funeral for one of his cousins - he's due home tomorrow night.
Neale finally completed his exergesis for his Master of Fine Arts - it's been a long 4 years studying part time. He's been officially told he has passed. He is now in the process of completing the paperwork to enrol in doing his Phd. - another 8 years of study coming up, although he hopes to complete it a little faster than that.
Work has been extremely busy up until last month. I was unable to take my usual 2 week break in March. The company I woke for was awarded the contract for 'çleaning of Morwell' after the mine fire, so that kept everyone hopping. I think we organised cleaning of over 900 houses, all council buildings and streets throughout 4 towns. We also had to start 2 very big contracts at the same time.
I've got 2 weeks annual leave booked in for September and so can't wait.
Was not feeling the love for work last week - the Manager and I really got reamed out by the 2IC of the company a week ago. Apparently nothing I/we do is done the company way and if I hear the phrase 'moving forward' one more time, I'm going to scream! I really can't stand 'management speak'.
Laura has completed her 1st semester of University. She's been at home for the past 6 weeks on mid year break - but went back to Melbourne on Monday - Uni parties to attend!! She texted me her results yesterday - 3 distinctions and a credit and she thought she wasn't doing well.. Very proud of her.
Morgan - son no 2, was in a car accident a month ago - not the phone call anyone wants to receive. I'd just walked in the door when Morgan rang to say he'd been in an accident. He's okay, but wrote off his car. He had to brake suddenly causing him to skid and veer into an embankment and ended up flipping his car onto the roof. Thankfully he was unhurt and didn't hit anyone else. Unfortunately, it has proved to be a very costly exercise as he had neglected to pay his car insurance and still has a sizable loan to pay off. I'm just thankful he escaped uninjured. Of course it was so dark,cold,wet and windy the night of the accident and I just can't get over that I was just 2 minutes ahead of him on the road.
My sewing room is in a mess - alas, not from my industries. The family (Neale & Laura) have put some stuff in there for the time being- to get it out of their rooms etc!! I'm redepositing it all back to them - well apart from the bed frame and mattress that managed to find it's way there instead of the shed.
I've been stalking the pattern websites for latest offerings. I quite like M6995 and M6993 (skirt & Jacket) and also M6996 (cardigan)
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| M6996 |
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| M6995 & M6993 |
I've bought some very nice fabrics from Spotlight - cotton sateen and some knits. I love corduroy - but managed to restrain myself as I have several (okay quite a few - maybe alot) pieces already in my collection.
Best wishes,
Jen
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