Snow Joke!!

How amusing is this... in our dining room we have a cat flap which works really well as a cat flap but also doubles up as a gap to put the tumble dryer vent out of (the tumble dryer which is temporarily in the dining room because it's not in the cupboard that has no access... long story!). As you can see from this picture the vent from the dryer convieniently cleared some snow so that Mohair could make his way gingerly out the cat flap & survey his territory without so much as a flake of snow on a paw.

I decided to open the back door to take a couple of pictures of him & he is such a woos that he wouldn't budge an inch... so I got the biscuits out & gave a little shake.....



... Would you believe it, he took the plunge & over he came, even stopped for a sniff on his way. He jumped in the back door, ate some biscuits, went straight around to the cat flap & back outside on his perch.

How time has flown!

It's now May.. can you believe it? When I think about how long this pregnancy appears to be taking (yes I am aware that it's around 9 months) & how slow it seems to be passing us by & then weigh it up next to the fact that it's now May 2008.... take a moment to think about it!!! The last 8 months seem to have taken years to go by & yet the first 4 months of the year has flown by at such a rapid pace that next month we're half way through the year.... I'm finding this quite bizarre!

This morning was another all morning session of NCT, it was quite refreashing to be around ladies who are at the same stage of pg as me & have some kind of understanding as to how I'm feeling & whats happening & probably more to the point, the insecurities of being a first time mummy. I'm hoping that we'll all continue to meet up regularly. Plans have been put in place for this but of course you never really know how long that will last..... my own personal opinion... long may it continue.

Oh finally I have a stitching update... hooraahhh. Can't actually post an image yet as it's not finished completely & is also a gift for someone but I have just one small part of the finishing process to complete. I did realise after a short while that I hadn't stitched name & date on & although it will probably bug the heck out of me for all of eternity I had already used some iron on interfacing on it & was not really in the mood afterwards to detach the interfacing & stitch some more, my work was done for the day. Gimme another week & it may be finished completely!

As I'm not posting a picture of my stitching for today & I have decided that I really do like an image to accompany my posts I thought I'd add a picture of Mohair that I took last night. Cats are (according to a pub quiz machine) not one of the animals on the planet that can sleep on their back... erm... hello... I beg to differ with you there!!!!

Fingers Crossed

We had a viewing this evening on the flat, hopefully it went well, you never can tell but they were here for ages & looked at everywhere loads & then stood outside chatting with the agent for probably another 10 minutes after that. The young lady kept looking back at the building so I guess we'll just have to wait until tomorrow when the agents gives us a call & lets us know exactly what they thought. Annoyingly as I was staring out the window trying desperately to hear what they were saying Mohair went wandering past the window & off towards to the garden gate where 4 persons were standing. After they went he came wandering in the lounge window & do you think the little sod would share what they were saying... NOPE... not on your life. He sits there just staring at them while chat & just doesn't give me an inkling when he gets back..... cats...nightmare!

Monday was a bit of a bad/good day. I had to get up early to be in the shop at 9am for my framer.... exhausted me a bit, I just didn't realise how much. Luckily after I'd managed to calm myself & started re-stocking the yarns Franny turned up :-) this was a bonus, she was kind enough to get lots of yarns down off the shelf for me & generally helped me stock up so a huge thank you to Fran. Oh yeah & I forgot to show you these, check them out, Fran made them for me & brought them in last week.... I just know that you'll all be jealous as hell but it's tough, they're mine. With any luck I'll make a fabby pair of socks using them & make her very proud.

Pic of a WIP.. yes another one!

Ok so it's been a week since the start of the year & apart from some wonderful progress on day 1 I have yet to put another stitch in either of my Challenge pieces, this is not really surprising for me & I haven't actually put a stitch in another design so at least the challenge pieces are not alone :-)

I did bring home all of the WIP's that I had at the shop, this included the Quilt Sampler, Welcome House, Cabin In The Woods & Snow. Hopefully you should be seeing a picture of the progress on Snow so far... if not then I really did mess up the uploading of that picture as I thought I had.

This evening will be spent in our "Hobby" room... once known as The Office (for Greg's business), then dubbed the Spare Room & now it's our Hobby room as there is certainly nothing Spare about it & that includes space. We have some work to be done for business sale which has made some progress (allbeit slow) & that involves Greg mainly so I'm here purely for moral support so I thought I'd file away the WIP's for now & maybe add a few (don't want to get any hopes up) stitches to "Street".

You know I really need to spruce up this blog page, it's looking a little dull... maybe I'll see if I can find a fetching picture of myself to add.... ok ok... maybe one of the Mohair instead.. we shall see!!

I didn't manage to get any stitching done today so what started off as a really quick little cross stitch has actually turned into a bit of a nuisance. The problem being that although it's little it's also on 32ct linen & I'm beginning to wish I'd have done something equally as small only on a 14ct aida just to make it really quick.

This evening I have cast on for the 2nd of my baby blanket squares & managed about 10 rows.... this is quite good considering it's now about 10pm & i should probably be heading to beddy byes.

I think the Mohair maybe a little off colour, we didn't get home until quite late (Greg is on lates this week) & he still had some of his breakfast to finish off & didn't even ask us for his dinner, although did do his usual roll over for a belly rub the moment we walked in the front door. He's eaten some dinner now so hopefully he's ok, probably just missing playing outside with the mice.

Big yawn... night night. xx

They took offence......

Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 04:03 PM

....well not actually offence but more like "the fence". Finally, after what is probably 2 years from initially discussing it the fence down our side of the most beautiful property that we live in is being replaced. Well I hope it anyway as they've taken away the existing piece of crap that was commonly referred to as the fence & so far there is nothing in it's place. I'm sure it'll look lovely when done & I'm even contemplating putting up some trelis to grown something up.. yes thats right... I can do garden stuff when the mood takes me!!!

I hope they get rid of the annoyingly large tree that grows high to block out our light & hangs over the dirt & weed patch that I affectionately call our garden.

Mohair is currently asleep on the back of his favourite armchair, ok I know we only have 1 armchair but it's still his favourite.. for this week anyhow. I'm certain that he has one eye on the open window where they are working on the fence & the other eye on the window where he is to make sure that next doors kitten doesn't come bounding in to his territory, not that he'd defend it that well, just makes lots of hissing & spitting noises while the kitten looks on.. not budging an inch. We really do have a woos of a cat!!

Speaking of which... need to visit vet to pick up flea & worm stuff.

See ya

Lise xx