My day in photos...

It was last November I did a "day in photos" post, so thought it was about time I did another one  :)

The day started at 7.20am, I get up with Hubster these days so Ruby doesn't need to go back in her cage after breakfast.  It's not a hard-ship, I find I get more achieved throughout the day when I have had an early start.

By 7.30am I was sitting with a brew, catching up on my Celebrity Big Brother guilty pleasure and adding a few more pieces to the patchwork project I have going on at the moment.

At 9.00am Ruby and I went for the first dog walk of the day.   When we are out we practise our home-work from Puppy Training Classes.  I have walked a figure of 8 round two trees on our local green  (teaching her to heel) so much that the grass is starting to look bare!

Here she is 'staying'.  She's a good girl.

I found a lovely piece of dried wood on the park that I simply had to take home.  No idea what I will do with it, but I needed to have it.

Home again, and my Fitbit Flex App (it's the pink band thing on my wrist in the photo above) tells me how many steps we took and how far we walked, as well as how many active minutes.  I have the lap of the greenspace and park down to 25 mins now.  As Ruby is just a pup we have to limit her to 3 lots of 30 minute walks a day.

By 10.15am I was in the supermarket, getting supplies for the evening meal.  My son, Iain, and his partner, Helena, were coming for tea.

11.00am - home again and making coleslaw (no onions) as Iain loves coleslaw, but unless it is home-made it tends to be full of onions.  I used carrots, red cabbage, radish, wholegrain mustard and mayo.

Early lunch today at 11.30am as I was ravenous for some reason.  Quorn sausage sandwich  :)

But while I was eating it I forgot the butternut squash roasting in the oven for tonight's tea.   Luckily still salvageable, well most of it.

12.00am was housework time.  I find it so hard to knuckle down and do housework when there are so many crafty things I could be getting on with.

And talking about crafty things, by 1.00pm I was photographing my new design "Squiddly Diddly", for a blog post.  This cute little squid is a child's 'comforter' toy, and will be available as a kit very soon - as soon as I have written up the pattern that is.

At 2.00pm I was sitting down at my computer putting together a class list for November.  I take a break from teaching in December and a bit of January so I needed to get the popular classes squeezed in before then. and yes, you can still see the protective covering on my laptop screen.  I have a thing about leaving them as long as possible.  Must be about 18 months old now  :)

At 3.00pm, in-between writing the class list, I got distracted and drew some Halloween figures onto Shrink Plastic, these will be samples for my Half Term Kid's Club which will be held at Hobbycraft, Carlisle, in October.

By 4.00pm I decided I had had enough time at the computer and wandered downstairs to prepare the dinner for the evening.  Butternut squash (burnt) and mushroom enchiladas for myself, and chicken enchiladas for the carnivores.

By 5.15pm it was time for another little dog trot.   When will Ruby learn that pulling my socks off as fast as I put them on is not a good way of getting out of the house in quick time?

At 5.30pm it's play time on the field.  There is nothing she likes better than to play and run, and get tangled up in the extendable lead.   Have you ever tried to grab an extendable lead as the dog runs?   If not, DON'T, it really blooming well hurts and gives you a very nasty friction burn.

 6.00pm back home again and my Fitbit Flex app now tells me that I have hit my targets for steps and active minutes today, so I feel I have earned a glass or two of wine tonight now  :)

6.30pm and Iain and Helena turn up for dinner.  They get treated to a barrage of animals all wanting attention before they can eat though.

At 8.00pm after dinner, which was lovely by the way, Helena was admiring my patchwork project so I offered to give her a quick lesson. 

She quickly got hooked and they left at 10.30pm with an armful of fabric, needles and thread  :)

11.00pm.  Bedtime.  It's been a long day.

My day in photos

I thought, for something different, I would take a photograph, every hour, on the hour.  Even if I wasn't doing anything exciting.

9.00am - The bedroom window, in the semi-dark,  wake up, snap a photo, attempt to go back to sleep - doesn't work, get up.

10.00am.  Painting styrofoam frames, for a little plan I have at work to spruce up the "classes shelf"

11.00am.  Watching Jerermy Kyle on Sky+1.  What's more chav-like than watching Jerermy Kyle?  Watching it one hour later.  In my defence, I was Shona sitting - as she is recovering from a tonsillectomy and has been a bit sick this morning.  Jeremy Kyle - the show that shows you where your taxes go ;)

So here is an extra photo.  One sickly child (age 20) with a heated bear on her sore face and neck, searching for shoes on her iPad - which goes to prove you can never be too sick to shoe shop!  (Yep, that's a sick bucket by her side). At least the rainbow ripple blanket is getting used

12.00am.  Blog writing. I try and get a blog post out every day, not sure if even half of them are interesting (much like this one perhaps) but I like it  :)

1.00pm.  In The Shed, packing up some orders.  I only have a few a day, thankfully, but I really do need to get some of this stock shifted.

2.00pm. Lunch time. I go to get a bowl of delicious home-made lentil soup, that my Mum brought over yesterday, but someone's beaten me to it. Wonder who that might be :/

3.00pm. No: 1 son, Iain & his girlfriend Helena, came round for a brew. Millie got straight up on Iain's knee, she misses him. I said "Got to take a photo of you for my blog", this is the result,

4.00pm.  Working on a Soutache sample for Bead & Banter class tonight - always leave everything to the last minute. I am sure people think I am extremely well prepared for everything, the truth is I'm not!  ever!

5.00pm.  Went to Aldi to get some bits to make more Fridge Cake, seen as the last lot was so popular.  Going to try some different recipes so watch this space.   (Forgot syrup, so won't be making those tonight!)

6.00pm. At Hobbycraft for Bead & Banter.  Two new ladies tonight, so big shout out to Claire and Joan  :)

7.00pm. Still working, some attempting some Soutache, others doing their own thing.

8.00pm.  A quick sit down with the new issue of Carlisle Living.  Actually, I didn't get to read any of it as I pottered about washing dishes and stuff instead.

9.00pm.  Decided to go to the local pub, The Gosling Bridge, for tea.  Otherwise the Hubster & I barely talk to each other.  He does his thing, I do mine, so we have 'date nights' instead.

I had Cauliflower Cheese Tart & Chips with salad, they forgot to take the onions off the salad - that's what is piled up on the napkin behind.  He had fish & chips.

10.00pm. Sat down, watching TV and crocheting.

11.00pm.  Bed time, Hubster works an hour from home so has to get to bed in good time, I am a bit of a night owl and can stay awake for hours so use that time to do a bit of internet browsing and Candy Crush playing  :)
Tonight I am looking for crochet patterns on Red Heart.

Goodnight all  :)