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On the 30 May 1431 Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake. Fast forward years to 1983 to a little town in the northwest of England called Bury I was born.

So the other day was my birthday. I’m now 39. I was pretty shocked by the number of people that wished me well on Facebook. At last count it was over 100 not that I’m keeping track. Over the past few weeks the most important thing that’s happened is not my birthday but the fact some of my work was taken on TV as a sample. Something I have done was taken on TV to show off a new product. It was for Sanntangle and Sandra took it to Crafters TV and on to Hobby Maker. I was chuffed to bits with the reception it received. Here is a picture:

While I was doing it all that kept running through my head was “Coeur de la Mer” (the heart of the ocean) and the titanic theme tune. So I knew it had to have a faceted gem in the centre and the whole thing had to be blue. Not sure where the bow came in to it through but hey it’s my work and I decided it needed a bow, so it got one. And just to prove it was on tv here is a picture of my laptop screen showing it on Hobby Maker.

I think because of the titanic association I decided it needed to be on something old looking. So I cut it and the bow out and mounted it on an aged and distressed piece of paper. I aged and distressed it myself.

Here are the other tiles and tangles I’ve done:

I also decided to go back and do tile number 1 again so I could look at how far I’ve come.

The tile on the left was my first attempt at tile one. And I did that on the 28/7/20. The one on the right is my the latest attempt. I think I’ve made quite a few improvements and the newer one looks a lot better than my first attempt.

I’ve the weekend I also had a bit of a play with the dragonfly stencils.

And I added a few flowers there too. I did while sat in church while the private readings were happening on Saturday.

Speaking of church I am a little worried about one of my friends there. She is having problems with her legs and they are causing her a lot of pain and discomfort. She is one of those people that will do anything for anyone even if it runs her into the ground. I’ve been bullying her to stop and rest and I know full well it’s eating her up inside that she has had to stop but she needs to rest and stop for awhile along with the treatment she’s been given by doctors and stuff. So please spare a thought for her and s at a little prayer so she is back and fighting for soon.

A couple of weeks ago I made a card with unicorns for Mason’s sister. She needed a present so out came Dorris (not that she’s been away). And the soft toy pattern and I made a bunny:

No idea where it came from but thought it looked plain and a bit boring so I made the bunny a tie. And it needed a bow so used some pink ribbon. Mum took the rabbit to a contact session Mason’s sister was at and mum said she loved it.

Last week mum took me to a shop called Abakhan . It a fabric shop and there are a couple dotted all over the country. We went to the one in Bolton. We didn’t know what to expect but when we got it was amazing. It was a fabric junkie’s idea of heaven. There was almost too much to choose from. After lots of looking around I found some fabric that I wanted to use to make another bag. This one is going to be a knitting project bag. So I now have all the bits I just have to get it cut out and started. I might do it this weekend.

I have made a new bag for mum:

It even has an inside zipper pocket:

I’m happy with it and so is mum so that’s all good.

While I was at knitting the other day I found out that I share a birthday with one of the ladies. So I needed to make a card for her and this is the one I came up with:

For my birthday mum is taking me to a tangle weekend at the end of June. We’re going on the Friday and coming home after the workshop on Sunday. She even said that we could leave early on Friday afternoon and visit the shop at the Haribo factory on the way. That would be interesting and I know that when I’m there I will be like a kid in a sweet shop. That would be awesome!

I am looking forward to that weekend though as I will be able to meet up with people I’ve only talked to online. I’m excited. I did have a bit of a wobble when it was being booked. I had decided I wanted to go, I even suggested that they could take me on the Friday and pick me up on the Sunday. But after that I started worrying about how I could get about where my wheel chair could go and how I’ll be able to get to and from the hotel and to restaurant. You name it I was worrying about it. Because of the mistake I made last year booking the wrong hotel I was stressing that I’d booked the right one this time. So much so I couldn’t get to sleep until I’d checked the hotel a couple of times. But I’m sure it’s the right hotel. Just need mum to ring up and make sure that the room were going to be it is easily accessible. I’ll probably need to remind her when I remember.

Last week I had a weird experience at the Gong Bath. while we were there all I knew what that I was going to learn something and I did. As per usual I had some crystal out. I was in a merkabah made of merkabahs. I took off my jewellery. All I had on was my merkabah pendent. I also had a small piece of meteorite on my 3rd eye. It was an interesting session.

I started the session off in complete darkness. I thought I was in space. Someone came to meet menut I don’t know who it was. It turns out that I wasn’t in space but under the sea somewhere in the Mariana Trench.

I was taken to Atlantis. While I was there I was taught about the elements and how to use them when it comes to healing. I was also given a huge book on healing. I said I wouldn’t be able to read it all and remember it. I was told I wouldn’t need to and the information will be available whenever I want it or need to use it.

I was taken into another room where I was going to receive some healing. There was only one healer in the room. He started off working at my head then all of a sudden he split into all sorts of different colours. He split the way a prism splits a beam of light into different colours. Each person/colour started working on different parts of the body. The feeling of receiving the healing was brilliant, it felt amazing.

I can’t remember if I told you or not that I’ve signed up to start training to be a healer at church. That feels like the next step on my journey and something new to learn about. When I’ve done that I’m sure I’ll find something else that I can start working with.

I think that’s about it from me at the moment so o will wish you a great bank holiday weekend and all the best for the queens platinum jubilee. I’m going to go to the attic projects street party on Sunday, I though I’d be better to do something as it’s unlikely I’ll see another platinum jubilee. Have fun what ever you’re doing this weekend all the best.

Love and Light

I really am slacking with posts at the moment. I don’t know why but when I decide I’m going to do a post something happens so I get distracted or I sit there watching videos on Facebook or YouTube. I think I might need someone to sit me down and do a post. But then if I do that it might end up becoming a chore and I’ll end up hating posting and I don’t want that.

So what’s new in going on for the last few weeks?

The usual things really knitting, tangling, sewing, reading, listening to audio books and card making. From just typing that it doesn’t look like I’ve done much. But let’s start with knitting. Well I call it knitting but that’s only because it’s knitting group. I haven’t actually been knitting, I’ve been working on my crochet blanket.

This picture is part of one of the blocks I’ve got to do. On this one I have a couple more rows/rounds to go before it’s finished. I did mess up though. Because of the colour changes I’ve done I didn’t buy enough yarn. But ClarkeCraft still had some so it wasn’t too bad.

I think I’m at a total on 12 of them now. I have to do 16 of those blocks then some of another and then some squares. Then the fun starts of trying to sew them together.

There have been tangles like normal

The new tile swap started on Monday. The tangle we’ve got to do is connected loops. I started one tile but I didn’t like the way it was going so I put it to one side to start again with a new tile. I picked the new one by pulling 20 tiles out at random and rolling the 20 sided dice. The number that came up was 19 so picked up tile 19.

I decided the tile needed a little bit more so I wanted to ink it then give it a sprinkle of salt.

This is how it came out after it dried and removed the salt

As you can see it looks amazing so of course I got straight on with working on it.

Not quite.

I looked at the one I was unhappy with and tweaked a few things then added some more then carried on with that one and now I like it again. So I finished that one off. I’m not sharing a picture of that because it hasn’t even made it out the house yet and I haven’t done the letter.

It normally where I would share the one I received but I think it got lost in the post so I haven’t got anything to share. Fingers crossed one comes through soon.

While I was deciding what to do for the last tile swap, I started putting some ideas down in my sketch pad and these are some of the ideas I came up with:

I kept thinking about flowers with that swap it just seemed to fit with the idea of bubbles.

The other thing I’ve been doing has been sewing. I decided I wanted to make a toy so I went through the different books I had and found this.

It came from

And here is my elephant

It’s cute and I think I might just have to make another. I do have some fleece though that was left over from the camp blanket I made for Harvey. I’m thinking of making a teddy or something from it. Well that’s the plan, just have to decide when to do and then what colour, dark blue or bright luminous orange. But as it’s fleece it will be very cuddly.

I’ve seen myself a new book/phone stand cushion thing to use when I’m in bed so I don’t have to constantly hold the phone if I’m reading.

Sticking with sewing And moving on to patchwork. I’ve been playing with half square triangles. Here is a picture of the first block I’ve made:

I was impressed with myself so I turn the block into a row:

When I came to measure that row up with the quilt I’m making it was a bit too long. So I needed to make my quilt/patchwork thing wider. So went through loads of ideas. Do I use strips on either side or do I do something else. As I’ve been playing with half square triangles I decided to do some more to go round the sides. This is the smaller row I’ve done:

I haven’t sew everything together yet. I have the big row one of the skinny columns. I’ve done the squares for the other column but haven’t seen them together. It will all come together though. It might take some time but it will come together.

And lastly from a crafty point of view I’ve made a card. It’s for Mason’s younger sister who’s going to be 5. So I went with what I think might be a safe bet for a 5 year old girl. I went pink and with Unicorns.

And with that I think your all pretty much up to date.

Love and light.

It’s been ages since I posted anything. I’m sorry. I keep feeling like I really want to post something really deep and meaningful. But then nothing pops into my head to write about only updates of what I’ve been doing recently.

I know for the last few days I’ve been feeling really really tired. No idea why. I’ve been sleeping at night and haven’t had any late ones. Just for the last couple of days I’ve been fighting the urge to go for a sleep. The other thing for the last few days is I’ve been feeling rough and bunged up. After talking to someone today It turns out the pollen count has been pretty high for a couple of days. After hearing that it clicked. My hay fever has been playing up. So back onto the piriton for a while I think. Or maybe try one of the others that’s out there. There are a few.

So tangling wise there have been a couple:

I can’t remember which order they were in but they’re the ones I’ve done. it’s also time to share the Tile Swap I received:

It was from a lady called Bridget Fudgell. When I received it o found it really fitting. The symbol of the all seeing eye of Horus seemed to fit really well for me. Especially with all the psychic and mediumistic work I’ve been doing.

Here is the tile I sent in for the tile swap with the accompanying letter. No idea where the name Veronique came from. It must be the deep dark recesses of my brain.

I’m also in the process of sorting out the current tile swap. I’ve done the tile and just need to add a couple more things then get it sent off. I have to do it soon though as the deadline isn’t that far away now.

I’ve also been doing some sewing over the past few weeks too. Last time I told you about the bag I’d made. Well, since then I’ve made a hanging organiser with loads of pockets:

And I’ve also made another bag. This one is loads better than the first though.

I got the coloured fabric in a mystery fat quarter pack. I saw it and knew I had to use it for something. And I decided to use it for another bag. This bag has more shape than the last on . It was a pattern in the Stuart Hillard’s book Bags for life. It was the Overnight Attaché bag. There is enough room in the bag for all the bits that I normally carry round with me. Well all the pouches that have the stuff in that I normally carry around with me.

Also last week me and mum went to one of the monthly gong baths and I finally remembered to take a picture of them before the session.

You can just see in the background the air beds we use. We just lie back and someone plays the gongs. It really is a great experience. Just lying there relaxing while the sound of the gongs takes you away.

During gong baths they have been some interesting things that have come up. The session that was the most interesting was when I had a piece of meteorite on my 3rd eye. During that session I was off and flying around. It was an amazing experience. The sad thing is that since then I have lost my meteorite. I’ve no idea where it could have gone.I’m sure it will turn up somewhere though.

Jumping back to sewing for a moment I also made another pouch that I can use to carry round my working crystals.

The crystals there are just some of the ones that go in my working crystal bag. They all have different uses so you could say that it is a bit of a tool box/bag.

Right now I’m just chilling in my room eating Jammie Dodgers typing this and watching Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. It’s not been on long but it based on the true story of the lady from Sheffield that went to his high school prom in drag. I’m no mt long into it and so far it’s been quite good.

I think that’s about it for now especially when the Jammie Dodgers are calling and I want to watch the rest of this film before I fall asleep.

Love and light.

Last Thursday I did medium type things again.

On Tuesday, I was asked by Dawn if I’d do the service on Thursday night with Tracy. Then the nerves started but Wednesday mum took me out.

We needed to try out a cafe/restaurant that we are thinking of using for the MS group to have afternoon tea. So we went to Cuppacino and it was brilliant. The food we had was great. And of course the desserts were brilliant to. I had sticky toffee pudding that was good but because we were thinking of using them for afternoon tea I had to make sure the scones were good. I can safely say that they weren’t good, they were amazing. So on top of my meal and desert I had a scone with jam and cream too. It was for research purposes of course. Nothing to do with the fact I’m greedy and like food.

After that we went over to Bury. Mum had a prescription that needed to be collected and so did dad so a trip to Boots was needed. Of course while we were in Bury and it being a market day it would be very rude not to visit the fabric shop. Again I spent some money. I got some grey waterproof fabric that I’m planning to use to make a bag. And I also bought some lovely woollen fabric that would make a brilliant toasty snuggly blanket. The only thing it needed was to have the edges sorted so off to another stall to get some bias binding.

Wednesday night we had an MS meeting were we reported back about the restaurant and I fed back everything that I’d been up to.

Thursday night came round and it was time for the service. I didn’t really know what to expect and I learnt not to plan anything and just wait for spirit to tell me what I was doing. During the day I did ask spirit to give me a hint about something to talk about if I ended up doing the philosophy. I was given the word Hope.

That was it, just the word. I did have a bit of a think about it but decided just to leave it up to them and they would help me talk about it at the service. And as expected they did. I don’t remember much about the service because when I’m working like that it doesn’t really go in and register. It’s like the information just goes through me.

I did get some constructive feedback at the end from Tracy. I’m always open to feedback like that because they’re things to work on to make you better. So the feedback was that the messages were good but I need to work a bit more on providing evidence. So that is something I’m working on when I practice with people.

The only thing I remember from the service is how uncomfortable I felt. I had to use the stool that was on the platform because my pain was quite active and rearing it’s head. And sew was the dizziness. I’m not sure if it was something as part of a message I was supposed to give or if I was just having a bad day. Normally when I’m on the platform spirit are quite nice and they take the pain away for a bit but this time they didn’t. Maybe it was the anxiety of working that kept the pain there. I don’t know.

The other thing I started on Thursday day time was a bit of bag making. It took a few days. I started on Thursday cutting out the pattern from the sheet. The pattern was huge and it felt like it was taking forever to cut out the pieces.almost to the point where I nearly couldn’t be bothered doing the next bit.

Once all the pattern pieces were cut out it was then time to pin them to the fabric and start that. It got to the point where I had to start getting ready for church so the bag making had to stop.

So got ready for church and had the service. I’ve already talked about that. So on Friday I started with the cutting out the parts and sewing the bag. I spent most of Friday and Saturday working with Dorris on the bag. And now it’s time to unveil it:

While making it I decided to put some interfacing on the fabric. Then found that the bag didn’t have a lining so it was going to look rubbish inside. So rather than that I used the pattern pieces again but this time out of some normal cotton fabric I did the body of the bag again but used it as a liner.

After finishing the bag it was just empty so mum suggested making some pouches to put stuff is so using the lady over fabric I started making some zip pouches. I decided I’ll definitely need one for my pils and other lotions and potions . For that one to make it a bit special I decided to use some of that Holland and sherry fabric that I used for the worry monster last week. But on top of that I have 3 pouches. All lined of course. 1 had a band that matched the bag.

Because I was bored of always having to put up with change in my pockets I decided that I was going to make myself a little coin purse.

I think that’s about it for the adventures with Dorris so here are pictures of some cards I’ve made and the tangles I’ve done.

That’s about it for last week.

Love and light.

It still doesn’t feel right talking about the good and fun things I’ve been doing especially while there are people that are still fighting for their lives and their country. My heart goes out to all of the people that are fighting, fleeing and losing loved ones to this senseless war.

I pray that a swift and satisfactory resolution can be found. And that love, light and healing goes to wherever it is needed. And I ask you to do the same.

So lots of things have happened since my last update but it all pales in comparison to the other things happening in the world.

Tangling:

I got tile swap 14

It was from a lady called Rose Morgan

And this is the one I sent

I did send a letter with it but it was hand written and I can’t remember what I wrote.

Sandra has released a new stencil set about sea life. I haven’t got it yet but after seeing all the samples from the design team I wanted to have a play and I came up with this.:

I’ve only done a bit of colouring and shading and I haven’t touched it since. Thinking about it I really should get on with it and get it finished. There is still a fair bit to do.

I’ve done a couple of cards over the past few weeks:

There is another one but it’s a Mother’s Day card and I’m not sharing until after that. Speaking of Mother’s Day I have the joys of removing all my metal work and spending half an hour lying in a stupidly noisy polo.I have to go for an MRI. I think it might be with contrast but I can’t remember.

I’ve also spent quite a bit of time sat in front of Dorris. I’ve started some patchwork. I think it may become a quilt but I’m not sure yet. I’m going for something called a disappearing 9 patch.

I started off with blue and green.

This has then gone on to add green and red

Then a few more green and red:

I’ve also sewn some more patches that I then need to cut up and sew together again to add to the creation. These are the other patches I’ve sewn:

I’ve also sewn some phone/ tablet stands:

And a big one:

The big one was the first I did and it isn’t brilliant. The smaller ones are sew much better.

I’ve finished reading with a bit of listening to a book called Scythe. It’s set in the future where you can’t physically die. You become deadish and are revived to carry on with your life. The only way to die permanently is to be gleaned or killed by a scythe. It isn’t anywhere near as bad as that sounds.

When I say part read and part listen I had the audio book and I downloaded the digital version of the book so going through it I partly read some of it and partly listened to it.

I finished that book and I’m now listening to another book called spell monger. This one is interesting. It seems to be about a retired battle mage that’s working as a spellmonger in a little village that gets attacked by some goblins. He finds the goblins using an ancient powerful kind of magic and he’s now gone on a quest to figure it out.

Anyway. Please send love and light to the people of Ukraine and pray for a resolution to the conflict.

Love and light.

What the hell is going on with the world? My heart really does go out to all of those affected in Ukraine 🇺🇦. I wish each and every one of you love, light, peace and healing. I pray that a solution can be found and those responsible are held accountable and dealt with appropriately.

I really do hope and pray that a swift end can be found to this appalling situation.

It doesn’t feel right to talk about everything I’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks. It really does pale in comparison to what’s happening. I’m sorry, I truly am.

Her are the tangles:

Here are a couple of pictures of the other project book I made for a friend to keep her knitting bits and pieces in. I mentioned it last time:

I finished my octopus. I decide that he didn’t look right with just eyes and that he need something else, so at first I added a smirk. But he still needed something else so I gave him a scarf then just to finish off the look I gave him a Bandana. So here he is, let me introduce you to Neville the octopus:

Today I started a new project a crochet blanket here is the picture from the pattern

And because it me and I like to be different I have decided to use chunky wool and different colours. This is a picture of the beginning and so you can see the colours of the wool I’m going to be using:

In the meantime please spare a thought for those in need and send love to them all.

On that note, good night and love and light.

So much has happened over the past 3 weeks. I kept saying to myself after that happens I should write an update. Then something else came along and I decided after that I should write one. But things kept happening one after another.

Because so many things have happened I’m not really sure where I should start. The thing that is sticking out so much in my head is something about the local group of the MS Society. At the meeting at the beginning of the month our group coordinator said she was going to be stepping down from the role. She’s been doing it for about 20 years. She’s decided that because of health issues that she doesn’t want the responsibility anymore. I did try telling her that she had to work a notice period of 20 years but she didn’t quite believe me.

No idea why.

So she said she was stepping down and that position was being advertised. One of the other team members suggested I should go for it but I didn’t think I was good enough so I put it out of my mind. A few days later we went to Anne’s (the old group coordinator) 80th birthday party. That was fun, I’d made a card and it was the first time in forever that I did myself up and went with mum.

That’s the card I did and here is a selfie of me all dune up.

I did my face and everything. It’s been ages since I did that. I only went plain and simple but I think I didn’t do a bad job,

While we were at the party one of the other people there asked if I was an artist and said the card I’d made for Anne was beautiful and that I should make and sell them. It gave me a bit of a buzz.

It’s always great to get compliments.

So while on a bit of a high I decided to do something. I decided to apply for the position. I had no idea why I did it or if I would even be good enough to do it. That was the Sunday afternoon. On Tuesday I got an email saying that my application had been checked and I was invited to an interview in the next week.

While waiting for the interview I kept thinking that I wasn’t good enough or I didn’t have enough experience and that I wouldn’t get through. And that was before I even started worrying about the fact I had an interview. (Anxiety is a bitch) so the day of the interview came round and that was on zoom with 2 other people. 1 of them I had no idea who he was and the other is someone that I only dealt with by email before. I knew her name but other than that I’d no idea who she was. So during the interview I was asked different questions like why do you want to volunteer? And some other interview type questions. Well it turned out that it wasn’t an interview but more of an informal chat where they wanted to get to know me and a bit more about me. During the time the odd thing was mentioned about when I start and things like that but they were so pretty subtle so during that time I wasn’t sure if I’d got the position or not then towards the the end of the meeting they actually confirmed that I had the job. They they went through some bits of paper work and book me on for an induction session. That induction is the Thursday coming up.

I keep thinking if I should get a diary or a Filofax or something. Then think I should make myself a journal. Or should I do it all on my phone. I’ll figure it out eventually.

The only person in the group I’ve told (other than mum) is Anne. We have a planning meeting on Tuesday afternoon, so I’ll tell the rest of the group then. I keep thinking that they will take the role away or find someone better or something. I think that is just the anxiety. I realise now that this is likely to get worse as time goes on. I’ll probably start panicking when I’m responsible for the different activities and everything that the group does but he I can panic about that later. You know when I’m done panicking about something else.

So yeah, I’m the new group coordinator for the Bury and Northwest Manchester group of the MS Society. That’s to go along with the Communications volunteer and the Admin Volunteer there are probably a couple of other roles mixed in with it all too. So next week we’ll see how things go when I tell everyone else at the planning meeting.

So over the last few weeks I’ve been working with Dorris quite a bit. I’ve done an online weekend workshop for Sewing. One day was based on dressmaking the other was based on quilting. On the dressmaking day we made a skirt. Well started to make one. I’m doing it for mum. I’ll get it finished eventually and get a picture of her modelling it. I’ve done the elasticated waist part I just need to hem the bottom. On the quilting day we made a project book that can be used to store sewing bits and bobs. Here is my version:

A friend sew my version then wanted me to make one for her. But rather than sewing she wanted it to store all the bits that are floating around in the bottom of her knitting bag like scissors and tape measures and cable needles and stuff like that.I finished it and gave it to her this morning and she loves it. But as you’d expect I don’t have any pictures.

Sticking with sewing I’ve also made a zipped pyramid bag.

I also made a glasses case that has had my glasses in for about 30 seconds:

On to knitting, I’ve also finished the crochet blanket I’ve been making:

I’ve made some other cards:

And of course there has been some tangling. Here are the tiles I’ve done:

I’ve had a bit of a play with the new For The Love of Bees stencils from Sandra:

Last week I also received Tile Swap 13. It is an absolutely amazing tile by Sur Ainslie

And here is my tile swap submission:

And here is a picture of the letter that went with it:

And the next tile swap starts tomorrow so I better make sure I get thinking about that as soon as the video starts. That’s if I remember to join in at the time.

But I think that’s enough insane prattling from me so I’ll say ……..

Love and light.

So yeah, it finally happened. Covid has made it into the house. Dad and Mason have it. At the moment(time of writing) me and mum don’t). It was first found during the normal Sunday morning test. Mum, dad and I came back clear, mason didn’t. I’m proud to say o didn’t freak out.

I did ask if I could spray him with detol or set him on fire (jokingly) to disinfect him but I was told No. That started the daily testing. This morning Dad’s test came back positive but me and mum are still clear. I think that will change though over the next few days. I think it came home from school with Mason. I knew it would happen, it was always going to be a case of when, not if.

So over the last 2 weeks quite a bit has been happening. Me and Mum spent a day at Sanntangle HQ. I’ve had a physio appointment and spent a lot of time playing with Dorris.

So the day at Sanntangle HQ. It was a long day. Early morning get up, sit in the car on the way to Scunthorpe it was a bank holiday Monday so the traffic wasn’t too bad. It was quite a clear run over. On the way we drove past one of the most wondrous places on the face of the planet (well I imagine it that way) it’s not Disneyland. This picture will say it all:

It is one of the ancestral homes of Haribo sweets. Mum said we couldn’t stop so I just had to think of all the wonderful sweets that were being created. As we went past I did have to calm down the golden bears in my bag. They were getting a bit giddy.

When we got to HQ we said hi to people and then the tangling began. We each got a secret mission envelopes. The first thing we did was draw a tiny Lotus flower.

When I say tiny it was on a circular piece of card that is about an inch across. The card was then stuck into a little wooden holder. Later on Sandra suck a cabochon over it to make a little pendant.here is my little Lotus flower:

After the little lotus we started on the first other piece of the day. Form just some random looking shapes in a stencil we can put with a birds in a frame:

Then it was lunch time, after that we stayed the second piece which was fantasy flowers in a circular frame. I was very happy with the one I did. By the time we were doing the frame I started drifting off. You know when you get that feeling of when your eyes start closing and you’re fight really hard to stay awake. I was starting to feel like that so the the shapes and lines I was drawing became a bit rushed and scruffy. Because I wasn’t happy with the work I’d done I set myself the task of doing it again.

The yellow on was the redo and the blue the original. Here is a close of the yellow piece:

I was a lot happier with that version and while I was doing it I decided to add some colour.

As per usual I’ve done some tiles over the last two weeks.

I also received tile swap 12:

That looks great but it opened up into:

Amazing I was blown away. It’s awesome. I was also asked by Sandra if I would do another tile for someone else. So I didn’t just get one. I got two. Here is the other tile I received:

Here is one of the tiles I sent in

And here is the other:

I’ve also spent a lot of time playing with Dorris and I’ve done quite a few things with her. I made a large drawstring project bag for mum. Something she can keep her current knitting project in.

I made myself a new face mask:

It’s got sloths on.

I’ve been playing with some patchwork:

And I’ve also started on another bag project for Mum. It’s a patchwork tote bag:

Here is one side:

And here is the other:

I’ve still got to add a few things and sew it all together and maybe change a few things round but it’s coming along and keeping me out of mischief.

Something else that happened last week was I had to have a tooth out. Because it was a wisdom tooth I had to go to a specialist that way I’d would only need one attempt rather than possibly 2. But it was quite quick and mainly painless. I didn’t even realise he had done the anaesthetic. I just though he was doing the normal poke about thing that dentist do before they do anything. Before I knew it it was numb and he said he was about to start and to let him know I’d there was any pain. The only pain bit I felt was a bit of a sensitive teeth feeling at the start. So he left me for a minute or so then carried on. After that minute there was no feel and the. He pulled the tooth out. The only pain I’ve had since is a bit of an achey feeling. And I’ve put that down to getting to close while brushing my teeth.

Anyway that’s about it from me for now. Stay as safe as you can. Fingers crossed I get away without being infected and I’ll see you all soon.

Love and light.