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Auditioning suckers (I know they have a proper name rattling around in my noggin somewhere!*) for octopus arms...naturelment.
(I'm joining in the lovely Kirsty's Creative Space meme. Check out her blog Kootoyou for much crafty loveliness, and maybe another sea creature or two!)
*Edited to add...apparently "suckers" or "suction cups" is it. Though thanks to Auntie Google I now know that most cephalopods' suction cup glow in the dark - how cool is that...an 8 armed underwater flashlight! sort of.
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Sorry, didn't mean to just leave you hanging like that....until we get some lab results back the doctors aren't quite sure how to treat us (and who to treat), and meanwhile this bug just keeps on keeping on. It's settled into a bit of a routine if anything, so at least we have some little windows of time to get out in the fresh air (we're all definitely not contagious anymore!). Mostly though, we're just hanging out, waiting, and discovering what a PITA it is to have no energy at all. Craftiness is slow going...though my head seems fit to exploding with ideas, so I am trying to get ideas down on paper and projects underway when I can before it all disappears! I'll be back to full steam soon - I hope...octopi and birdhouses and hot air balloons and quilts await!
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...2 silly monkeys, a little wind, and a badly painted bright yellow gate at the salvage yard = perfection. One day we'll be able to add a mama who knows how to use her camera and photoshop to the mix. One day.
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If the act of organising and tidying gives me such a sense of achievement and - dare I say it - thrill, why don't I do it more often, and why isn't my house immaculate, or even vaguely picked up instead of the erupting masses of detritus that are spewed everywhere?
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Here's a big-ass pile of big-ass blocks that are in the process of becoming a big-ass quilt for my big-ass bed.
And in other news, in the past 24 hours I have
~had a very interesting conversation with a small boy about the intersect between volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, and diarrhoea. Some knowledge may even have been imparted, but I'm not sure it was anything to get me nominated for sensible mother awards;
~been in at least 7 appointments with medical specialists - all of them in the comfort of my own home, all undertaken by disturbingly young doctors (and one dentist who didn't look once at teeth but did spend a rather alarming amount of time with a stethoscope and my kneecap);
~spent at least 2 hours on the floor near the loo keeping a small uncomfortable person company;
~wiped untold rear ends;
~destroyed at least 3 trees in the wiping of said rear ends;
~wondered whether we can scrape up enough cash to invest in toilet paper companies;
~swallowed 5 Imodiums;
~overseen 7 showers and 2 baths (not including my own);
~oh the laundry; and the floors and the mopping...
~mixed enerlyte/gastrolyte sachets into water a total of 13 times. Except nobody here calls it enerlyte. Or gastrolyte. Or electrolytic orange flavoured medicine. Because Immy coined a new name for it yesterday which made us all fall about laughing and the name has truly stuck. So, make that 13 sachets of stinky poop juice. Yep, we're all couth and decorum around us!
...so what have you guys been up to?
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Dealing with several peoples' diarrhoea for a good few days straight will suck the life out of you. Pun intended. (sorry guys - the cumulative effect of lack of sleep, having a bug and dealing with several others with the same bug has removed my ability to self-edit out all my terrible puns. You'll just have to deal with it. Or run, nyuck nyuck)
D was also away at a work seminar for the weekend. For a bit of entertainment on Sunday the kids and I put together some little flatpack units for my studio in my (seemingly) never ending attempts to sort and organise that space once and for all in a way that's sustainable (I can practically see some of you wiping the tears of laughter from your eyes as you read that...One day it will be sorted! one Day!!!) These pics of us mid-project cracked me up...why yes, we do undertake our building projects in the lounge, in our pyjamas, with plastic John Deere hammers...doesn't everyone?
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I just couldn't shake the idea of that crocheted granny stripe blanket. So I started my version of one, using Attic24's info as a guide, but instead of bright wools, the base of mine is (going to be) random stripes of the gorgeous colourgrown organic cotton that I used for BahaCoca's summer hats. (The brand is Pakucho from Peru). I have 6 (or is it 7?) of the colourgrown varieties and am planning to just add stripes at will (and trying hard to be random!) until it seems like about the right size...the cotton yarn look a bit like string in the photo but don't let that fool you, it is super soft and snuggly, and I can't wait to have a fabric made out of this loveliness. Eventually. So yeah, a longterm project! So far, I'm a bit pleased...
The lovely Kirsty at Kootoyou runs the Creative Space meme each week...it's great to get a peek into what others are doing!
*actually my creative space today has been much more focussed on one small boy home from Monty as he was feeling poorly. In his own words (at the breakfast table no less): mama, some vomit just came out of my butt! Kinda says it all really, non?
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...because this is what we do to amuse and entertain each other. As if I might mistakenly believe the shirt wrote this. As if - we all know shirts are notoriously bad at forming capital letters.
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I used some gorgeous decorator weight FMF fabric that arrived as part of a birthday present (my first ever bit of FMF!) to make a quick new cover for the ironing board in my studio. Love love love it - and proof yet again that just-hurry-up-and-do-it-and-stop-procrastinating-over-fabric-choices-for-crying-out-loud should become part of my making mantra...this has been on the to do list for so long, took all of 20 minutes to make, and now I keep poking my head in just to look at the ironing board!
Now I just need to cover the other board (um yeah, we have 2 ironing boards and 1 iron. long story!) Any interest in a tutorial for my quick-and-dirty method of recovering boards? (I'm getting good at them - this was my 4th one, ha!)
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...of the Shoemaker's elves coming over tonight and applying the binding to these 2 quilts? Yeah, that's about what I thought too! I quilted them both over the weekend, and promise to share once the quilts are bound (either by me or - unlikely but still appealing - by small minions).
In the meantime, I think this will become a quilt for our bed, though making a decision on layout and style is about doing me in! (It's Anna Maria Horner in Good folks, what I have left of Garden Party, and a few solids. yum)
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