Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

beanielou

lOok forward to seeing the handbag!!

moo2moo

Didn't stop yesterday. By 9am I had three loads of washing done and on the line. At 9:30 we were making the most of the sun in the park, lost track of time and spent two hours there. DD2 racked up a impressive 260 photos whilst still finding the time to climb trees. Ame home and did a lot more tidying, shuffling and chucking out. OH is slowly moving stuff from his old shed to his new one, ready for all the stuff in the house to move down to the old shed. It's meant we've unearthed windows that I haven't seen for a couple of years. The spiders have been having fun. Feeling so much more cheerful about everything.

In and amongst I finally got round to blocking the shawl which is more amazing than I could ever have dreamed. Its also ridiculously big.


The handbag is still wet so no further progress on that. I did stay up until almost midnight in my determination to spin from start to finish another tiny bit of fluff. I'm firmly hooked and its something I can do when I can't concentrate of anything else.

Today is DD1s last day of school. Shes just a bit excited at the thought of her holidays starting tomorrow. DD2 is more than a bit miffed that she has four more days to go.

lucielle

That looks lovely, Moo
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Igamogam

I know I have said it before....but that shawl really is fandabby

Piquant_2

The shawl is amazing moo. You could make a lot of money selling them. That's if you could face making more

I can't wait to see the handbag.

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

The shawl is amazing moo. You could make a lot of money selling them. That's if you could face making more

I can't wait to see the handbag.

Thank you but I don't think shawl knitting is a viable way to earn a living though. Without the extravagent yarn (all £11 of it) I'd guess I've put somthing like 90 hours of blood, sweat and tears into it. Even without the many blips it wouldn't have been that much quicker.

Meanwhile have almost finished the tediously dull tea cosy for the owner of the village shop, its only taken me four months to get round to it. I've also completed the main part of a sack tea cosy, theres just the small matter of a couple of mices bums, a few heads and several gazillion ears between me and completion. Its fun to do but I wish I'd thought to dig out mouse coloured yarn whilst cramming the stash into the cupboard last week.

DD1 was a bit miffed to find that her first days holiday was spent at the supermarket. We now have ample food to withstand a siege which is just as well because the total bill was an eyewatering £125 and there wasn't a single impulsive or extravagent item on it. Even the strawberry shoelace fragranced liquid soap was the cheapest non-value range option on the shelf.

Have found childcare for the cancelled date next week. Just have to phone up and pay during daylight hours to confirm the booking.

The OH is being scarily helpful. I came home to find him sweeping floors which is most unusual. Hes also got as far as runing the shed electrics into the house which means at some point we have to empty the loft to get to the farthest flung corner in order to connect it all up. Much more chucking out will take place. Have ruthlessly chucked out a whole lot more tat from the house. The unfinished extension is now almost free from machinery, tooling and man tat. Have cleaned it from top to bottom. Its huge now its not crammed full of carp. Keep moving stuff from the house to Land Rover land where OH is taking the not even vaguely subtle hint and doing something about it.

Am staying up far far too late doing crafty things but its working wonders and my hand spinning is improving rapidly. Its still far too slow to be able to spin any viable quantity of anything but its a lot more even that it was and I'm figuring out why I've been making the mistakes I'm making which is all part of the learning process.

Still waiting for the handbag to dry but its almost there. Hoping to finish assembling it by the weekend.

moo2moo

*Happy Dance* For today is the last day of school for the summer
Obviously its not the last day of work but its the last day involving 45 toilets for quite some time. I won't be missing that part of my job whatsoever.

Have taken DD1 to work with me for the last couple of mornings. The poor kid is exhausted by it all. Two hours helping out in Early Years yesterday was enough to send her to sleep for the majority of the afternoon. Turns out she doesn't want to work with small children when she grows up because they kept asking really annoying questions and staring at her. Mind you she did find the time to eat an ice lolly and finger paint an aquarium so she can't have worked all that hard.

The OH has ordered the final final lot of stuff to put the finishing touches to the shed. Theres nothing special in his order but its still almost £300 of stuff just to wire the interior. Total and utter madness. Hemorrhaging money again. Need to rein this in before we end up back where we started.

Finished spinning another teeny bit of fluff, a teeny 3.3g bit which is almost perfect. Most chuffed with it with the minor exception that its a laceweight and I was aiming for double knit..... just a minor blip then. Need to figure out how to add more fluff whilst spinning. Fortunately theres no shortage of fluffy stuff for me to practice on but OH is home for the next few days which means I'll be roped into assisting in the shed instead of bumbling about doing fun stuff.

moo2moo

Ugh, ugh and more ugh. The OH decided yesterday was the perfect day to do the great shed shuffle which meant emptying shed #1 into the house, shed #2 into the new shed and then moving shelving between the three, not that theres space to swing a cat in order to achieve this. I'd like to say that progress has been made but I'd be lying. His idea of a ruthless clear out involved relocating rusty cans of 10 year old paint from one shed to another. Meh. I fear a very long weekend is ahead of me. One which I will be starting with a screwdriver and hammer if only to prove that the contents of the paint cans are totally and utterly useless and destined for the tip, a trip I will gladly take them on myself that very same day.

Rather glad school has finished for the summer as its going to take me all summer to deal with the current level of carnage.

Trying_to_be_good

Morning, moo. I'm empathising with your shed de-canting saga - I'm still waiting for our new shed to dry out fully, particularly the new concrete slab, before I can seal or paint any of it. I decided it was better to do any internal sealing/painting before we fill it with the stuff that's everywhere else (making mess and taking up space).

Have you 'done' anything to your slab to stop it powdering/absorbing muck, and anything to the internal wood? I could get everything re-stored into their new homes this weekend if I don't do any more to it!

moo2moo

The slab is made up of 2" thick paving stones on top of 1" of sand and 6" of hardcore to allow for drainage and its raised a foot above the surrounding ground to ensure that happens. The shed itself has been liberally slarted with 30l of farm strength creosote applied with a pressure lance inside and out at least three times in the hopes of keeping out the worst of the weather. And just to make sure its totally weather tight the roof has 25l of liquid tar spread over it before the roofing felt was applied at double thickness with the overlaps and edges sealed with more tar.