OK - to set the scene. TC is not a skinny girl. She needed to change a lightbulb. She picked the least solid item of furniture in the room then stood on the central point.
The piano-stool did not make it through the ordeal.
Saddened by the casualty TC embarked on a mission to resurrect the seat.
This is the result.
Saturday, February 06, 2010
re-upholstry... the TC way
Friday, January 29, 2010
Hats for Haiti....
What do you think of my prototype. It's to sell - I'm not planning to send it there.
not much happening
I have been keeping my head down for the last week or so. I have organised a whole lot that needed doing, I have done my tax return, I have made some things to sell at our Brownie sale.
I have not been out much and I have not done anything very funny.
Hence the reduction in blogging.
I will give you an example. Yesterday:
7am was wake-up time (later than usual).
I arrived in school 9.30am to find that the admin assistant had typed up my timetable wrong, and the boys had all been given incorrect times for lessons.
I spent much of the day practising trumpet in my unattended slots.
I left school 1.15pm and drove home, stopping at the pound shop to look for glass tea-light holders for Brownies and toilet roll. I got the toilet roll but not the tea-light holders.
I drove home and taught again (3.30pm).
I went to pick my boyfriend up from the train station (around 8pm), then stopped off on the way home for a take-away.
I typed a letter about the Haiti fundraiser for the parents of the Brownies & printed 30 copies (9pm).
I printed off Thinking Day letters for the girls who missed the 1st week when I handed them out.
I printed an attendance sheet and noted last weeks attendance and £ on my computer.
I went to bed (11.30pm).
Today:
I got up, showered, turned on the laptop to print off more Brownie stuff I had forgotten about.
In 10 mins we leave for work. My boyfriend is coming to Edinbro too but he has a day off.
John & Edward
They are just so funny.
They talk so much!
For my across the pond friends I will try to find a clip tomorrow to show you what I mean.
Inimitable.
jumped the gun
it's ok - it's brown again. A brief moment in the dying process sent me carrot orange. It has darkened though now. My first time using this 10min dye.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Brownies
It has been a very busy week. I have been covering teaching for a friend, as well as starting Brownies back after xmas (we had to cancel in the snow).
We have planned our Centenary Camp.
I have planned our term out after speaking to the Brownies.
I have also spoken to my assistant, helper and the DC about putting on a Haiti fundraiser with the girls in February... which looks like it's going ahead on Valentines Day.
So: I now need ideas for quick, cheap, effective crafts or baking or sweet-making that people will want to buy.
This week I need to ask for the census fee. It pays for insurance etc, and some units don't charge it (taking it out of funds). We have always taken it separately, but this year I have changed it since Christmas. However this means we'll be short so I have to ask for a tenner. I also have to ask for some cash for camp (a BARGAIN price for all the cool stuff they'll do, mind)... so I feel there's enough info going home this week already - I'll tell them about the sale next week.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Reply to Mrs S
I am temporarily off knitting right now, as I want to make a slouchy hat but haven't time to search for the circular needle I need. I do have an ongoing project though, which we calculated in the pub last night will take 12 years at the rate I'm going to complete. This is it.
Friday, January 15, 2010
I need to go to work now.
This has been wk1 of term - so my first week back at school, band, and 2nd in the office.
Shock news.... It is tiring having to work all day. Also - this is tax weekend so I'll be staying offline til it's done.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Look what I got!
It's such a beautiful sewing machine. And my grandma kept all the parts - it has the oil, the rubber mat, the knee thing, all the feet and needles... It is amazing.
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