So close, we can smell mortgage freedom!

Karmacat

Ouch, hope you're not too bruised, madvix. 

So interesting about the blinds - do you plan to leave them down all day, or do you have a little mechanism to pull them up?  I managed to put a badly fitting blind (made from a single piece of curtain) in the kitchen, which has massive gaps at every side, but still gives some privacy and presumably a little extra warmth.  There are hooks down the side of the window frame, inside, so I've literally tied a piece of string to one of them, and I pull it back and forth as I'd like 🙄 

themadvix

Thanks Cheery - not too bruised, although my finger is sore where I put my hands out to break my fall....

The plan is that they will be in addition to the bamboo ones - I envisage we'll just hang them up in the evening at dusk. Not sure yet whether they'll go under or over the bamboo ones (probably over for ease of hanging) - they won't look beautiful, but they'll hopefully keep it warmer, which is the main thing.

themadvix

Annoyingly apparently my boss/friend is OOO today and so I won't now get paid for that bumper timesheet until into the NY. I'll get the holiday pay I put in a claim for next week, so that's something I guess, but it would have been nice/necessary given the lack of my work to have the rest too... Oh well.

Have just been to see cat sitting charges - these are the long-term ones, but my friend/partner-in-crime has been seeing to them for the last fortnight - she's off to Italy to see her family for Christmas, so I'm on cat duty over Christmas. I also have another one I'm visiting 22nd-26th (once a day) and I've just agreed to do two visits to another (my first ever repeat client) on 27th. But no more! At least it's a bit more lucrative over Christmas. And then my Italian friend takes over the first two from 30th December for a fortnight, so I get a nice break and over NY and my birthday.

savingholmes

Irritating re the timesheet. 

Glad you have some cat sitting to take up the slack.

themadvix

I’ve finally got the wrapping started! The first one took ages as the machine played up and I had to unpick a bit, but the second two were much quicker and I was getting more efficient too. Think I’ll be able to knock some more up tomorrow but will need to get some more ribbon - currently using stuff I already had that we used to use to hang cards on.

Gift tags required too, but Mr MV suggested initials cut out of fabric - think I might have some felt upstairs that would work and save faffing with hems. Can punch a hole in them and attach to ribbon.

Karmacat

Felt for the initials!  Very nice, I could do that.  I've wrapped three so far - photos on mine on the Sunday.  In the meantime, have a lovely weekend  

QueenJess

Ooh - the present wrapping looks lovely.

savingholmes

Looks cool. Very well done.

newgirly

That looks great Vix 🙂

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lovely! I've not thought about tags yet. Last year I relied on all the bags being different and my memory, but this year many of them are the same fabric 😂