Back to work

Hmmm...  Yet another reason not to be cheerful.  I'm not sure I fully thought the theme of this blog through when I named it, did I?!

Actually work, on the whole has not been to bad, so I guess that is a reason to be cheerful.  But enough about work already.

We went blackberry picking at the weekend and the fruits of our labours are currently sat in 3 large jars of sugar and brandy.  We are fast running out of kitchen work space as they join the 5 jars of raspberries in gin that I started a few days before.  It'll be a few weeks before they are ready but we miraculously still have a few bottles left over from last year.  I have about 3 kilos of cooking apples that my nan gave me that I have to find something to do with.  They don't make a great liqueur, unfortunately so I shall have to think a bit more about that.  All of our spuds are up out of the ground & are now bursting out of our under-stairs cupboard.  I'll be chopping & blanching a fair bit tomorrow I reckon!

Today's reason to be cheerful:  The wedding album will be completed & ordered tomorrow!! 

Last day of the holidays!

Generally not a reason to be cheerful but I'm going to make the most of it.  Particularly as I was roused from my lie in by a phone call about Friday's staff training.

So, how to forget about the fact I have to go back to work after 5 1/2 weeks off.... 

I decided to sort out our study a bit so that the crafting mess I've created in our spare room can be moved.  So I moved the printers around, had a chocolate (orange cream from a box of Cadbury's Roses - mmmmm) and then got a bit bored.  Mom asked me yesterday to make a Christening card for her cousin's little girl.  It's not for a week or so, but I thought I'd get on to that instead.  She wanted me to use one of my sixpences, for luck, on it.  So, I put something together for her.  Which resulted in me making 3 different designs (including one for a boy).  They are photographed & ready to be posted in my Etsy shop, or at the very least sent to school with mom so she can sell them to her colleagues.  I was very pleased with the result.  Only trouble is now, I prefer it to the one I'm going to have to give!

I then stuck some Happy Birthday (etc...) stickers onto my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cards & they look great.  Then, I made some good luck cards, again using the sixpences and some cute little envelopes.  This lead onto a design I've had in my head for some multi purpose cards where you write your own miniature message & pop it into the envelope stuck onto the from of the card.  This will make great use of some scrapbooking paper I got from etsy a few weeks ago.  I need some 3mm ribbon to do them though so that had to be ordered from ebay.  Also ordered myself some more envelopes, while I was at it, as I'm pretty much out of them now.  I included a few larger ones as mom said I should made some bigger cards.  At her school, on someone's birthday they have a card that gets sent round for everyone to sign.  A little A6 sized one isn't really big enough so I'm going to design some A5 ones for her.

The last thing I did was finally get around to setting up this blog.  This is my first attempt at blogging & I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing but I'm giving it a go which is the main thing.

Today's Reason to be Cheerful:  The nectarines are finally ripe & ready to be eaten.