Mooloo's New Home, New Year and New Start part 3

Savvy_sewing

Morning,
Feeling a bit better thankgoodness. Although I am really tired and drained. DGD has gone into nursery, she seems to be fine. Kids bounce back very quickly. I am going to be out and about today, but hopefully this evening with twin1 here I should get another evening where I am able to rest.
I did get up after my sleep and had some toast. Felt a little better but the stomach pains are still there. I am not sure its the same bug my Mum has , it may more be the medication I am on. Its the same sort of pains that i have had before. Thankfully they are not so bad.
I had a little play with my new sewing machine. I made a very very quick handbag out of a pair of jeans, just to test that it could sew over the many layers of denim that it said it would do. I am quite pleased with it as it did what it said on the advert. It will take me a while to get used to the machine, and I will need to decide if its a machine that I will need to complement my other machine, or if it can be used completely as my main sewing machine.
My face has gone all funny again. So after that little bit of typing I must stop, and get my head back into the right position.
The hospital appointment to see the Nuerology dept is in January.

icefairy

hope you feel better soon and have a good day:D

Eager_Elephant

I'm just wondering if you have any of that lovely animal fabric left? If so is there enough left to make something???

Also just wondering how your dad got on at the doctor's the other night? Hope he is ok and your mum is too!!

Savvy_sewing

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

I'm just wondering if you have any of that lovely animal fabric left? If so is there enough left to make something???

Also just wondering how your dad got on at the doctor's the other night? Hope he is ok and your mum is too!!

Thanks EE, Dad seems to be on the mend. Then my Mum went down with it. So its been a bug of some sort going through us all.

I went back to bed this morning until 11am when I had to get up and Take twin2 to councilling. I sat and read a book while I waited for her. I did debate whether or not to nip to Hobbycraft and Matalan, but decided that I would spend money I couldnt afford so stayed waiting.
I have called into the local stationers and bought some PVA glue and a glue stick, so that we can make our Christmas cards etc this weekend. Try and have the energy to get DGD finishing some off with me.
I have the animal fabrics left. Farm type scenes and one has some jungle animals on but I havent a clue what to make out of them at the moment.
I have only got 6 snowflake outfits to revamp and one Mary outfit to make so thats easy to do.
I have a bolt of lightblue fabrc given to me this last week, which will be ideal for Mary. I also have some small tinsell ribbons that will make ideal snowflakes on the net curtaining. The previous tinsel had already been removed and so I just need to stamp my own idea onto the costumes. I want to make some sort of headdress for them, but the teacher thought like a victorian mop cap!! yuk. I am sure we could do something a bit better than that. I will mull it over.
Some sort of halo effect snowflake is whats going through my mind.
But how to wear/attatch it to the heads I will need to think about.
Doily's come to my mind at the moment. Bit like a fascinator perhaps?

Twin 2 was rather subdued after her visit, but I hope that she will be OK.
Twin1's BF has excited the scene already!.
Twin1 is here, and I have been able to have a couple of hours rest this afternoon, and thats given me a bit of respite.
I still dont feel too well at all.
Molly seems to be very down too. Her daughter and husband are away and she is feeling it I think. Her sons are at home so she is not on her own, but non the less. I cannot go and visit incase the tummy pains I am having are the bug, and now the sore throat, as we cannot risk Molly getting anything else to deal with.:o

Thats my arm complaining about my typing. better go.

Savvy_sewing

Afternoon already.
Had to go back to bed a couple of times in spates yesterday, wish I had the opportunity to do so today. My sleeping is really bad.
I still have aches and pains in my tummy but I really think its my medication and not a bug. My eyes are quite gritty with tiredness.
I did sit for an hour or so late evening sewing some trim onto one of the nets for the snowflakes. Took it into Nursery this morning, and showed the head, to see if its what she wanted. She seemeb very pleased with it. So I will continue with the others in the evenings. Told her about the ideas for a headdress etc, and said that they may be able to make them. I thought I might play around and make one, and then they can copy it, or do what they want with it.
My eldest daughter, Biggest of Mooloo has taken up cross stitch, so I am creating a sewingbox for her for Christmas. Her MIL wanted to know if I had bought it yet. None of her beeswax. Anyway she has decided to buy Biggest a second hand sewing machine for Christmas as non of her children are into sewing. So it looks like Biggest may be interested in more than just her cross stitch. Which is nice, as she has never really done any sewing of significance before. Her cross stitch is beautiful.
I have had a few exchanges of email with EXBF, and so feeling rather glum today, but there is still the resolve that I am not going backwards again.
I went over to see Biggest to chat after I had taken twin1 back home. I was rather fed up of twin1 and of DGD really this morning. Going through the why am I doing this????!!!!
I am sure its only as I am feeling rather raw at the moment, I knew I would have days when I was stronger then others of course.
I have so many little sewing projects to do, and some on the go. That its annoying me that I am not able to sew when I want to. Grrr to ill health.

Right, when I am at the bottom rung, what do I do? I pick myself up, dust myself down and start all over again. So here I go, onwards and upwards, and best foot forward.
We have the dentist in an hour, and thats about 35 minutes away, so time to stop, get the teeth clean, hands and face for DGD, and get moving.
Catch up later no doubt.
Oh my ESA is in so I can definitely afford to pay the rent, and the council tax went out automatically. So it may be tight but we are getting there. Just. It will be a homemade christmas mostly though!.

whiteguineapig

just a thought, would it not be better to stop the texts and emails now? you seem to be fairly set on what you want to do, but you seem to be making it harder for yourself keeping going over old ground

Keeping_Motivated

I agree with whiteguineapig, keeping the contact going is just another 'cycle' that you both can't seem to get out of and it can create manipulation (on both parts) before the usual 'cycle' begins again.

Savvy_sewing

Your probably right. I just dont want to leave him sort of stranded over in china. He is feeling the difficulties more than I am as I am the one who took action and he hasnt quite got his head around it. After so many years I suppose i feel that its not a major problem. it was just that this morning i was trying to explain that his No commitment - yet- dangle was not good enough, and why. So yes that was a tough one.
He will be back in the country on Monday and if he wants to actually talk to me then he will be able to. After that I agree the messging will have to stop. He will have to get used to his life and I will mine.

Well the dentist wasnt all bad. DGD is fine of course. I just need a little bit of a clean up so thats not bad at all. DGD was well behaved and very chatty to the dentist and his assistant and asking why I was having an exray etc.

Well we are home now, the housing have finally rung me back after my email, 3 weeks or so ago? and agreed the amount that I am to pay for the rent over the next few weeks, and then by Christmas I will be back on track, and will only have to pay £71.13 a week. Which will be easier for me to pay, and also to be able to get my budget sorted again.
The last of my Christmas fabrics have arrived and I am hoping that I can now get on and finish all the makes - body and time willing of course.
One of the Mums asked if I was selling my christmas decorations, but I said not this year. they are for my tree, but I will try and make some through out the year, ready to sell for next years market. I dont want to put any pressures on me now, as I have enough on my plate at the moment.

whiteguineapig

i just feel you are being too nice (you always seem such a nice person!)

minimoneysaver

Have you thought about putting more on ebay? I was on looking for draft excluders, shopping bags and a swim bag for my daughter earlier. Had a quick look on your page and noticed you didn't have anything listed.