Making up...

I was a bad NaBloPoMo-er yesterday - no post from me! It was a busy weekend, and I'll try and take a couple of pictures of what I was doing; and somehow I completely forgot I hadn't blogged last night, and proofread a friend's short story instead.


Today, I phoned the boiler-installer/plumber to report the final demise of my hot water supply (I have been procrastinating since just after Christmas on this, so entirely my own fault it died over the weekend); good news was that he's coming to fix it and is reasonably sure of what the problem is; bad news is he can't come till next Monday. (So it's going to be cold showers here until then! Thankfully the heating is still working fine; and if it gets cold again at the end of the week, I'll go into work a bit early and use the shower there!) Another bit of good news is that my lovely employer gives leeway for the fact that nobody lives anywhere near work and everyone has a "domestic emergency" from time to time, so there's a small amount of annual discretionary leave for this sort of thing...


But the cold water, the time-of-the-month, the rainy weather and the prospect of a repair bill have taken a toll on my willpower; I am about to heat up the first frozen pizza I've had since June...


But it's not all doom and gloom... things could be an awful lot worse... And look, pretty things!

I made the humbug pincushion a couple of years ago when I was teaching embroidery, but the lovely Fimo pins were a Christmas present from Jan. I originally intended to use them in the pinboard, but it seemed that you needed way too much pressure to get them in there, so the pincushion now has suitably eccentric pins.

I think the one below, half Arts-and-Crafts, half Murano-glass, is my favourite... Thanks again, Jan!