Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

Memory_Girl

SmlSave wrote: »

and...breathe MG! I'm knackered just reading that!

i've just read it back - i think i've lost it you know.

,.......... and i'm knackered too

mg

Memory_Girl

whatatwit wrote: »

Well done Workinmummy.
If you've only got 15 mins, then it's amazing how much can be achieved

On my 100 day challenge, I'm pleased to report the following progress.
As part of my "work" area, I wanted to increase my business, so having toyed with an idea for a couple of years, I started to research the viability of it. I decided that on both the space and the financial costs aspects that it could work.....so I'm going to be offering an ironing service from work. I took delivery of my hangars and polywrap garment covers yesterday and managed to pick up a very good but cheapo ironing board, so I just need to finalise my prices and sort out some signs/leaflets.....but as of tomorrow I will be Mrs Twit Ironer Extrordinaire :j :j :j

So before I go to sleep tonight, I'll order myself some customers.

Off to the bank now....byeeeeeeee

if you lived closer to me .............and i was solvent

ironing is my pet hate - when i was younger - and thinner - i used to buy everything with lycra so i didn't have to iron.

no seriously ............. the guys who invented lycra should be nominated for a nobel prize or something :rotfl::rotfl:

memorygirl

lucielle

Still no book.
L

Memory_Girl

dfw844 wrote: »

Hi Memorygirl,

Have been reading up about Montessori methods. I love the idea of 'useful' work. Did you attend a Montessori school? Just wondering how you came to find such a wonderful place.

unfortunately i didn't attent a montessori school - but my boys will. there are quite a few montessori nurseries around - but as far as i know we - and our sister school in edinburgh are the first inthe uk to offer up to 12. we now do up to 18 and in that we are unique. its an eye opener though, i've really become involved in my boys education rather than just handing them through the door at 9am.

I have discovered just this morning that we have much upheaval coming at work. I'm trying to put a positive spin on it and look at it as an opportunity to change how I do things. There is some sadness with it though, as it may mean less staff here. For me it could be good, but I don't like looking at it that way when other people may lose jobs.

clouds and silver linings - eh? remember that the unviverse only sends you what it knows you can handle - or some quotation like that anyways. keep calm and carry on - there thats better. good luck with however it progresses

Going to have a good chat with DH tonight, he can always get me excited about new things, and come up with ways to make the less nice things easier to handle. The Universe must have sent him to me. Glad you've got your order in for one too, MG.

i wanna, i wanna - does he have a bruv??:rotfl:

Hope everyone else is having a good day. The house is coming along even better - since my mighty decluttering has revealed so many unfinished jobs I spent last night glossing paintwork. I was surprised how quickly I managed it when I just got on with it instead of messing about. Now I'm trying to resist the urge to put things back on windowsills - I'm now alergic to untidiness but I don't want everything to stick to tacky paint!

isn't that always the way - when you actually knuckle to do the work it never takes as long as you've bullt it up in your head to be. mind you if i ever come up with a solution to procrastination i will make my fortune

memorygirl

Memory_Girl

Helen105 wrote: »

Sometimes life has its ups & downs.
Spent some time with power file & saw cutting through the skirting board, balanced the bookcase on the two volume boxed set of the Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, whilst I removed the piece of skirting board & et voila the bookcase was in, same height as the other one, looked great!
Then in my eagerness to fill it I swung round and smacked my head on the edge of the tv. I'm now walking around with huge bruise & bundle of witch hazel soaked cotton wool on the side of my head.

Might be safest to wait a while before I go on the porch roof & look at replacing the little cracked window :eek:

congratulations on coming up with a crative solution to your shelves............... but poor you with the bang on the head.

hope you feel better now

memorygirl

Memory_Girl

polesalot wrote: »

I think an energy meter would scare the hell out of me! We'd end up going back to candles.....

british gas sent me one - and the one thing that made the bleeping thing birl like a top was my kitchen light. it wa sone of those 6 bulbs on a metal pole jobs and it was always on because the kitchen faces north.

needless to say it soon got swapped for an argos special that takes energy saving lightbulbs - apparently saving about 16 pounds per month in leccie.

still go to change the one in the top landing - need to wait for dad to be here, and the one in ds2 new bedroom. start counting out pennies i think.

memorygirl

Memory_Girl

lucielle wrote: »

Still no book.
L

aw lucielle - thats not good.

it would have given you a great excuse to sit down and do some "inner work' as i say - known to others as vegging out:D

fingers crossed for monday morning

memorygirl

Firewalker

Hi people, hi Memorygirl!

Yep - I am all for sequential obsessions. The difficulty I am having is finishing things while the obsession is still active. Have to learn to work much faster. I seem to remember Edit Piaf saying that she never manages to finish the jumpers she starts knitting for her lovers because she knits slowly and loves fast.

And to day I was looking at a website that is probably worth checking out for fun - it is called The Real Cougar Woman. I am not certain how is it making moneybut apparently the woman who started it - Linda Franklin is doing really well out of it. Possibly it is because there is a whole package - a book, a website, a philosophy, a large target - women over fourty; it discusses menopose as normal part of aging and as a new begining rather than an end. I like it...Need an idea like that.

Firewalker

Nitha

Haha I am just the same, the amount of half finished projects I have is ridiculous - DH calls me hobby of the month

Memory_Girl

Firewalker wrote: »

Hi people, hi Memorygirl!

Yep - I am all for sequential obsessions. The difficulty I am having is finishing things while the obsession is still active. Have to learn to work much faster. I seem to remember Edit Piaf saying that she never manages to finish the jumpers she starts knitting for her lovers because she knits slowly and loves fast.

Firewalker

ooh - ilove that - did a show once about edith piaf, pretty sad but she didn't make life easy for herself did she.

i want to find out how to make life easy

memorygirl