These are a few bits I made yesterday. I'm loving the cute clashing colours with the green checker. The coat is a work in progress that I started last week, this is the back panel across the shoulders, I want to do lots more of this patter around the bottom of the coat and on the front. I originally got this Ben Sherman coat in the Dublin swap shop Shebeen Chic for free, but I couldn't decide what to do with it.
As some of you may have noticed I took a little break. I realised working 7 days a week wasn't really that healthy, so some part of my brain decided to switch off. It was lovely, I did normal things like play poker(which I lost in grand 'All in' style), went to the pub, and a surprise birthday party for a friend of mine. We will also be heading away this weekend to Doolin, a gang of us have booked a house to celebrate my friends 30th, should be good craic. All in all I'm feeling really good, and normal, and not like my usual workaholic self. I have been tipping away on a few bitsfor the shop in Ennis, but I haven't been doing crazy 15 hour days.
Eek online shopping is very dangerous, I just bought a mannequin. Everyone warned me that this would happen, the disastrous combination of a credit card and a broadband connection. Ah well I've needed to buy one for ages, and a 100 quid is not bad compared to some prices I've seen.
It was a complete washout today at the market, actually the word rain doesn't really do justice to the weather we experienced, the worlds population of cats and dogs pouring out of the sky would be a better description. I was completely soaked and exhausted by the time I got home. It was one of those days that all the traders were muttering 'why am I doing things?'.
I have discovered a new joy...audiobooks!! I know that sounds a little batty but they are really great to listen to when I'm doing hours of hand sewing. I found myself watching lots of films when I had sewing to do, but I mostly ended up missing most of it because I wasn't looking at the screen. I came up with the idea of getting audiobooks ages ago, but me being the eternal procrastinator I didn't do anything about it. Yesterday I tried to download some but I was very confused and frustrated by odd things like bit torrent and seeding (does anyone know what they mean cos I don't!). So instead I tottered down to the Library signed up to a new membership, and strolled over t the audiobook section. I was a bit appallled at the old ladyness of their selection, lots of Patricia Scanlan, and Daniel Steele, but there were a few gems in the rough. Also after a bashful enquiry I found where they had the Harry Potters were hidden(doh, in the kids section). So for free I scooted home with the first 3 Harry Potter books, a Terry Pratchett, E.M.Foster's A Room With A View (one of my favorite books), and Bridget Jone's Diary (which I've never bothered reading but I'll quite happily listen to it). What a wonderful idea, the library, I'm in love all over again, it brought me back to my preteen days when I couldn't afford books and I was always in the there with my mother.
This is the Soviet inspired invitation to the opening of the Robert Byrne Memorial Park that I did last week.
I got a text from Marian telling me about a Stitch and Bitch that was going on tonight in Limerick. I had always wanted to go to one, and had previously tinkered with the idea of starting one, so I was rather chuffed to get the text. Apparently they have it every week in The Old Quarter Pub, on Tuesdays at 7.30pm. It's an open group and anyone can turn up! So get your kneedles/crochet hooks/wool out and start crafting. It was a small gathering of just 4 of us, but I am told that it's normally bigger. It was lovely, informal and a really nice group. Unfortunately I normally work on Tuesday evenings, but hopefully I'll be able to make it at least once a month. Sometimes with the when I'm crazy busy I feel like a bit of a hermit working away by myself, so it was lovely to be working and socialising at the same time.
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This month it slipped my mind to hold my monthly prize draw, but I decided that I would still pick a winner from my list of entrants from previous months. So congatulations to
I have an admission to make...I'm a big Trekie, not the custume wearing, Klingon speaking type, but still a fairly big fan. Ever since I was a kid I was completely addicted to Next Generation, I am that person that Sky One was playing all those re-runs for. So it's no surprise to you then that I went to see Star Trek last night, and I loved it. There are obviously moments that you have to suspend belief but that's the whole point. I thought the characterisation was great, and it was really entertaining, a good balance of plot, action and special effects. John grumbled and moaned about having to go see it, and balked at the idea that I might wear my Star Trek t-shirt. To anyone that's a trekie, go see it, to anyone who is not it's a really good action flick. I must say I'm very tempted to buy the box set in HMV of all the original Star Trek Movies...would that be too nerdy??
I was sitting down the other night watching the fantastic Brideshead Revisited, and I got the urge to trim my hair. 'An inch, two max' I was thinkng. No folks I did not do the sensible thing and go into the bathroom where there is a mirror, instead I curled up on the sofa with Jeremy Irons and a scissors. In the end I took off about 5 inches and layered my hair. I'm really shocked at how well it looks. My hair is wavey so I get away with the fact that it's uneven. My recessionista brownie points have just gone up another notch me thinks.
Congratulations to my sister Sandra and her husband, as they had a baby girl yesterday. She is yet to be named but she is happy and healthy and that's all that matters.
This is a very short post as I'm running out to the market. 
