Early mornings.

I'm on a day off today, as I was yesterday. However... Andy's car broke down the night before yesterday - his starter motor had decided to give up the ghost. Its really an old banger of a car and I'm surprised that it gets him from A to B most of the time! He's on a long term placement at the moment as a supply teacher in Surrey which is quite a trek in his car every day. So, as he does each morning, he came to say goodbye before going to work yesterday at 5am (he normally leaves at 6). He was planning to walk to Brighton train station which is around 5 miles away and the weather was absolutely freezing cold! I told him not to be so silly and to go scrape the ice from my car so I could take him... I really was still half asleep and after I got back home, went straight back to bed. Then when I woke later it seemed a bit like a strange dream - all a bit surreal really! Thankfully the garage managed to replace the starter motor so it's back to normal today, but I was wide awake after he went at 6 and here I am on my PC at some unearthly hour once more!!

I updated my Blog links somewhat yesterday as many Blogs have moved/changed names etc, so hopefully I've not missed anyone. Plus I took a couple more photos: Egyptian Sampler which I haven't touched for a few months now and hadn't taken a photo of in ages, and also a new one: Frederick the Literate which I started in October and haven't gotten very far with... yet!

Petal Fairy HD

Thought you might like to see my finished Petal Fairy conversion :o) I finished her in August, but with all my PC problems I only managed to upload a photo recently and for complicated reasons (which are far too boring to go into here) I can't put her in my Webshots album. Grrrr! She is my own conversion and is stitched on Silkweaver's Spring Garden 32ct jobelan fabric which is slightly darker IRL. I'm very pleased with the results - it is my first major conversion and definitely won't be my last!

Things are pretty much the same elsewhere in my life. I went to see my Dad yesterday and he's still finding it hard & being a bit unreasonable but I guess things will get easier with time.

Yesterday I received a letter informing I'd been selected for interview at a job I'd applied for which will be on Friday 21st October. Its a job I'm not quite sure if I want or not just yet, but I shall still go to the interview & see how things turn out. Wish me luck just incase!! ;o)

I was very naughty last weekend & started another project - it's from my stash though so I won't be too hard on myself! I'm stitching Frederick the Literate which is a Dimensions kit. If you haven't seen this particular one it features a cat snoozing amongst some bookshelves with lots of aptly named cat type books! My Dad's middle name is Frederick and as he loves cats & books I thought I'd have a bash at stitching it for him for Christmas. It could be a close run thing though as to whether I get it finished in time! It's on black fabric too..... but looking ok so far.

I have a nice weekend coming up - its my birthday on Sunday & Andy has some surprises up his sleeve for me, the little sweetie! I know we're going out for a meal & we're going to see something at the comedy club in the evening, but other than that I'm not quite sure what he has planned or what he's bought for me! As anyone who knows me will tell you, I am terrible with surprises - I always manage to discover what friends or family have bought for me or what they're going to do but this time I really do have absolutely no idea!!! My 30s are scooting by, which is a bit scary... but hopefully there aren't too many grey hairs showing just yet!!! :o))))