Stitching and Other Pleasures

Hello dear readers...you're probably wondering where I've been (or maybe you're not?) for the past month or so. Well, I've been stressing and slumping. An interesting combination I think.

I'll tell you about the slumping first. There I was stitching merrily along on Angel of Winter when I got to the bit that has Wisper in it. Don't know about you, but I'm not a huge fan although I do love the end result. Well this baby is a blend of Wisper and DMC so it's double trouble if you get my drift. So the result is that I've chucked it into a corner and have not picked up a needle for more than a week! Shock horror. I'm now thinking that I may need to start that Lizzie*Kate christmas number to get myself out of it. Yeah, any reason to start that I hear you say!

The stressing bit has nothing to do with cross-stitch at all. I've been sewing. There...I've said it. Because I've lost 15kg (that's 33lbs for you imperial gals) at WW I have absolutely no clothes to wear that fit me. I'm going to the Australian Sewing Guild convention in 2 weeks and need clothes (I'm in Sydney and it's in Perth so for you yanks, that's the equivalent of New York to LA)! So I've been stressing about what size to make, whether it will fit, how it will look...you know the sort of thing. So amongst all of that, a friend asked me to make her an outfit for her 50th birthday party which is Saturday night. So I've been labouring over that as well and stressing myself out cos sewing for someone else is such a totally different kettle of fish! Anyway, it's done and I've delivered the outfit and she loves it thank goodness. Part of it is on my sewing blog at nosilasews.blogspot.com. The rest will be there after the party when I take some pics.

So...what else? Oh yeah...I also got me a new laptop. We all know how time consuming changing your puter is. Well this is even worse cos it's an Apple Macbook! So I've had to completely learn a new system and I'm still attempting to do that. It's a huge learning curve and I haven't really been completely happy but I'm coming to terms with it now.

Then this morning, a friend offered me a job! Oh the irony! I had decided that I would apply for a night sorting job at the PO after I got back from the convention. It never rains but it pours. So now I've been offered this other job. Ergh..decisions!

So that's my month. Now I shall take a big deep breath & go start that Lizzie*Kate! LOL.