HAIR, LEBKUCHEN, AND THAT SINKING FEELING A few New Year bits and pieces Hair Yesterday I did my second Rhassoul clay wash. I had prepared my hair the night before by oiling it well as instructed, and wrapping it up first in a shower cap and then my sleep cap. Everything went very…
NEW STASH, A BIT ABOUT FOOD, AND MY PANTRY REVISITED New stash from Ebay After thinking that plastic lace table mats were well-nigh impossible to get in the UK, I have suddenly found them in abundance on Ebay! Perhaps I had been putting in the wrong search parameters... After my extremely successful coffee-staining…
Napkins from Lithuania A few days ago I received the final (I think! - I ordered so many it's hard to keep track!) of my packs of rice paper and napkins. I knew there was a delay on this one because it was coming from overseas, but I hadn't realised it was coming…
The downward spiral In 2020 we longed for the normality of 2019. In 2021 we thought that perhaps 2020 hadn’t been so bad after all. “Three weeks to flatten the curve”? Hmm. The majority are ruled by fear and are willingly giving up their basic freedoms and submitting to totalitarianism. However, for the…
Today is a special day Thirty-seven years ago today, I repented of my sin, put my faith in the salvation won for us by Jesus on the cross, and became a Christian. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Another week when I have had the most tremendous amount of fun in the studio. I just wish I had more time to spend in there. Stamp storage This week I returned to my new storage project, using the plastic baskets purchased from the Range. The die…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Not a lot, if truth be told. I've been too busy this week with other things to get near my studio. Much more of this and it will revert to its dumping ground status again. Shoshi the Tattooed Lady Last Friday I went for my radiotherapy planning…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? New laminator For months I have been toying with the idea of getting a laminator because I keep seeing stuff onlne about them and thinking how useful it would be to have one. I decided to go for it and after endless searching through hundreds of different…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Kitty throw A little while ago I made up the first "column" of squares for the kitty throw, just to see how it would go with the crocheting-together method. This was before I had added any embellishments. Here it is, complete with two very sleepy photo-bombers. This…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Working on the embellishments for the cat throw. I am finding the chart I made last week extremely useful, and it's fun adjusting it each time I complete another crocheted kitty, and seeing the bottom half of the chart gradually diminishing in number. As you can see,…
