What small DFW things will you do this week 07/12/20?

determined_new_ms

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster said:

Oooh what pattern @determined_new_ms?? 

this is it:

https://shop.deer-and-doe.fr/en/sewing-patterns/75-magnolia-dress-pattern.html

I'm making it in a onyx print  

DawnW

Hello all

Sorry, been mia for most of the week, not sure where the time has gone!

That dress is lovely DNMS

Stokegal welcome, we are a bit depleted at the moment but I am sure the long term regulars will be back, and in the meantime we have some lovely new people

Congrats on your citizenship Ditty, though in your place I would not have bothered tbh (far from being a fan of all the rubbish that is going on at the moment). If I were younger and could get citizenship for another European country, I would have been there. Still, we are where we are, and will just need to get on with it 

Not very motivated today, as I didn't sleep well, but I have done the following:

Early morning dog walk

Claimed £10 worth of Amaz*n vouchers from survey sites

HM soup made from fridge oddments for lunch

Kitchen clean up

Wrapped a couple of ebay parcels and a birthday present that needs to be posted

Listed a couple more items

Sold a mixing bowl on FB, now collected. Gave the buyer another bowl as well - I have so much crockery and this had no value and was in the way, though useful enough, and pretty. The lady was very pleased, and she didn't look as though she had much.

Reviewed / changed dog food order online due to stock levels

Donated to a charity, a couple of friends were doing a 10k walk for shelter

Made a couple of enquiries about having our conservatory renovated in the New Year - not very money saving, but needs doing as it is very tatty, and I will use money from savings to pay for it. It will make the house warmer.

Dinner will be leftover curry.

I still have Christmas presents to wrap and put away. Looking forward to seeing the dining table again!

Nagme

That’s a gorgeous dress, DNMS, and I envy your sewing skills!
Today I caught up on yesterday’s chores as I was too poorly, and I painted more shed in the sunshine. I have a lot of painting ahead so a bit here and there keeps me feeling like I’m progressing and I really don’t want to pay someone else to do it. HM chilli for tea. Received two surprise bottles from a neighbour who likes to collect our crab apples and raids us every autumn - crab apple gin, and crab apple vodka 🙂

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster

determined_new_ms said:

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster said:

Oooh what pattern @determined_new_ms?? 

this is it:

https://shop.deer-and-doe.fr/en/sewing-patterns/75-magnolia-dress-pattern.html

I'm making it in a onyx print  

Oh wow that is wonderful! I have a Deer and Doe pattern, a shirt. Not tried it yet. I love this pattern, l have something similar but a Vogue one. Please share it when it's finished!

determined_new_ms

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster said:

determined_new_ms said:

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster said:

Oooh what pattern @determined_new_ms?? 

this is it:

https://shop.deer-and-doe.fr/en/sewing-patterns/75-magnolia-dress-pattern.html

I'm making it in a onyx print  

Oh wow that is wonderful! I have a Deer and Doe pattern, a shirt. Not tried it yet. I love this pattern, l have something similar but a Vogue one. Please share it when it's finished!

Thank you It's a bit beyond my skills base actually and so it broke me for about 2 months. But Thursday when I was laying in bed I told myself sternly I was going to give it a bash. Hope it comes out ok! I get the impression you are quite the accomplished seamstress?

Thank you Dawn & Nagme  

determined_new_ms

Morning yay to a day off and yay to oh & madam being off as well today we are going to meet up with ds, his partner and my gs We are going for a walk and to exchange gifts. We're meeting at 11 which is a funny time if you have a 7 yo as hunger will strike while we're out. So I will make a sandwich and take some snacks for her Boo weather has cancelled our plans. Hopefully can find a window to meet. I will have to get a quote to post the gifts. 

I have spent 45 mins this morning doing the 4 princess seams on the bodice of my dress. Glad that part is done! Think I will manage to sew up the bodice today

Roast pork for dinner. Will divvy up los for another couple of meals during the week

dig out cake that is somewhere in the second freezer - after defrosting both one of them is a bit of a hot (or cold) mess!

hang up washing & do another load. Put away yesterday's

clean bathroom & mop d/s

watch a xmas film and write xmas cards wit madam later on

get things ready for madam for school for next week

Ok that's my lot. Hope you all have a great day

DawnW

Morning all

Been to a market this morning. Didn't hang around in the indoor part (part was in barns due to rain) as it didn't feel safe - too many people crowded together and not wearing masks, or wearing them on their chins   But the trader who sells bargainous cheese, butter, bacon and many other products around all the local markets and wholesale to businesses was there with their own wet weather cover. I got 2 big bags of parmesan shavings and half a brie, all dated till January for £5, and a dozen free range eggs for £2. I will split up the parmesan bags and freeze in small quantities. Just checked, and each bag weighs 1kg, so should last for ages. Also bought 2 big bags of blueberries for £1.80 from a veg and fruit stall. These are a bit wet, so are drying out on trays of kitchen paper.  I will make a blueberry cake later, keep some out for breakfast porridge and freeze the rest. May cook them down first.

A thoroughly miserable day - managed to get the dog out for a hike between rain, but will spend the rest of the day indoors I think. I need to do some washing, and that will have to go on the airer.

I have taken a pork joint out to cook for dinner, need to do some tidying up, wrap more presents, pack another ebay sale, write the rest of the Christmas cards and get them ready to post. Fortunately I have lots of free stamps from RM surveys to stick on them, and will only need to pay to post the few overseas ones.

Also need to try to establish whether the ebay seller wants me to return the broken and completely inadequately packed item she refunded me for this morning. And I may inadvertently have ordered 2 of the same item as replacement (not from her though!)

Not very expensive items, but I only wanted one to give as a present. I suppose the extra one can go in the pressie cupboard to gift another time.

Hope everyone has a good day

carrielovesfanta

Afternoon folks

Welcome to @stokegal
@ditty1234 - congrats on a lot of the pieces falling into place  
@determined_new_ms - I hope the dress is going well?

Sorry for going missing but Friday and then Sat morning were just absolutely manic all day with errands, then I wasn't feeling too good yesterday afternoon (my normal stomach probs. Am starting to think it's a yeast intolerance). Felt better this morning only to be struck own with some of the worst p. pain I've had in years. I feel like I've been completely beaten up now. The only thing that will even come close to touching it is codeine but it really makes me feel so ill that I just kinda deal with the pain. 

Still pretty tender and tired so OH has been helping me to plod through the cross stitch. We should have them finished today or tomorrow. They look really nice though. There's one for each of the houses on our little row. We have lovely neightbours so I like to do something for Christmas for them. I normally do chocolates but one of my neighbours has been diagnosed diabetic so I thought it would be mean! I really wanted to make mince pies this afternoon with the easy mincemeat I cobbled together. I still might. I also might marzipan the Christmas cakes but I'd like OH to help and he's in the bath at the moment. Maybe I should do the mince pies now instead of being a big baby!

Only other thing today was the OH got his latest SE support grant through so we sorted the budget sheet out, paid ourselves back for a couple of things and popped the rest into savings. Back to more of a normal routine next week. Gym in the mornings then studying most of the day. Gotta keep ploughing through the Nebosh stuff! 

Have a good rest of the day folks

clf x

determined_new_ms

carrielovesfanta said:

Afternoon folks



@determined_new_ms - I hope the dress is going well?


clf x

I haven't had time to do anymore but will sit down for at least an hour when madam goes to bed. I am pretty darn pleased with my princess seams though as they were tricky. Feeling very confident if I do an hour a day I will easily have it finished by the end of next week  

Sorry you are feeling so poorly. Hope it passes soon x

today I ended up doing an overtime assessment. Took me 2.5 hours and I get paid £95  

Nagme

Evening all
oof sorry to hear you also suffer with p. pain CLF, I’m the same, and I hate codiene too. This month I took half the normal dose and it was enough to take the edge off. I normally have what I call a codiene hangover otherwise. I also have mefenamic acid and tranexamic acid to take on the bad days - roll on, menopause! Managed to go out for a walk with DH and the doggo. Oh and last night I went out for a spontaneous Christmas light sighting with DS - there’s a road in the next village that goes full on with their lights every year, and it’s something we’ve done since he was a toddler. He still enjoyed it at 13 😌

 Not much spent apart from an electrical bits order online at CEF, three small Christmas gifts, and two dresses for me in the N3xt sale; shirt dresses are a classic and I really don’t have a lot of clothes that fit after going up a size this year 🙄
Found brown paper to wrap in-laws parcel so that’ll go 2nd class tomorrow. The last parcel will be hand delivered on our one family visit  on 27th.