What do I do now?

This morning I finished Monday's What I wore today sketch:turned the page and realised I have one double spread (or two days) left and my notebook is full!

How on earth did that happen?

And, more importantly, am I going to chose another notebook to start or shall I decide that just over three months is enough?

Which means I can stop trying to make the same two shirts, three pairs of trousers and 4 pairs of shoes look interesting day after day after day*...

(*Although, for me, what I was actually wearing isn't really the point.)

Just in case you ever wondered what my Snot Monster looks like...

Does yours look different?

One of the things that saddens me

is that over the past week or so my What I wore today sketches have become more, um, sketchy. And have, once again, stopped. I'm hoping that, once the very overdue issue of the Dolls Houses Past and Present ezine is published, I'll have the time and energy to return to the challenge of making my two uniform shirts look interesting day after day (after day!)...

Back to the drawing board

I was doing so well on the What I wore today project. I was enjoying the challenge of working the pages in my sketchbook so the left hand day flowed with the right (here are the spreads I liked best):

And then it suddenly stopped.

After showing the book to my friend yesterday I was inspired to start up again. But how to deal with the missing days?

At first I thought to leave the pages blank and just start with today. Then I decided I might sketch the days I remembered...Now the question is: do I leave them as sketches or ink them in?

Timing

I have big deadlines this week. The job application is due in by close of business tomorrow. I have a textile work to finish before Anzac Day evening. I just sent the call out for submissions for the May issue of the Dolls House Past and Present May ezine. And I have a six day working week starting today.

To top it all off my scanner has been having tanties all weekend. Which means I'm having to photograph my submissions for What I wore today this week until I can find the time to thwack said scanner upside the head (or find my old scanner and install it instead)...

Sunday: doing boring but important stuff

Like addressing selection criteria for a job I really really want. Getting the dishes and washing up to date. Tidying my study.

There were many other, more exciting things I wanted to be doing but they'll just have to wait for another time...

A Holy Day of Obligation

There are a couple of potentially embarrassing purchases in that there pile. I so love that I'm old enough that I don't care.

(And yes, of course I went!)

I couldn't resist...

I was invited to the opening of Shop Handmade last night. The invite said dress "After 5". I was tempted to wear PJs but finally decided the only thing to do was pull out the tails and shirt I bought for the Sturt Summer School party (which I never went to).So, feeling very Yves St Laurent circa the 60s (but the thrifted version) I trotted off to drink bubbles, eat gorgeous colour coordinated desserts and beautifully branded biscuits and spend this week's grocery budget on a fabulous yardage design tea towel to add to my collection:Black and white? Destination roll design? Featuring dessert and chocolate? How could I resist?!

(For photos of the event, check out the Shop Handmade blog)

Wednesday

Done

a) Daylight savings for the year.
b) The back of my 2010 winter jumper (thanks to an extra hour of knitting time last night).
c) Me, after a day in the library helping catch up with the Easter backlog.d) All of the above...

Easter Saturday: sorting and scones

Another day spent pottering around home, keeping an eye out for twinges of regret that I'm not up the road stalking Eddi Reader.

It's rather wonderful to unexpectedly have enough free time to slow down and move at a whole different rhythm, getting things done but with no feeling of rushing.

One of the things I'm especially pleased about is making time to empty all my wool stash suitcases and bags onto the workroom floor sort the resulting pile out and repack the suitcases (and some plastic bins gifted by my benefactor) in a much more logical (to me at least) way so I might actually manage to find what I'm looking for. And fit it into a smaller space. Now all I need to do is track down some old fashioned luggage labels to tie onto the handles and my task is complete.

I made scones for afternoon tea. Fancy cinnamon pinwheel ones. And I invited Cycling S around to share them with me:
(I'm loving the fact that the only things bought new in the picture above are two teaspoons and the knife. Oh, and the coffee table.)

And in case you think I've given up What I wore today already:

What I wore...

So I finally jumped onto a bandwagon that I used to hang out on years ago (since I've always thought visually, so in a time before blogging when I wrote in real diaries, I used to sketch my outfit for the day at the end of the entry as an aide-mémoire)

Green Bean Studios draws her outfits much more beautifully than I do and seeing them got me thinking that returning to the habit might also be a way for forcing me to draw more.

On Wednesday night I found myself sketching my outfit for the evening in one of the many notebooks I'd been gifted by my benefactor:Then last night, while finishing the latest Uppercase magazine, there it was: a whole article on the What I wore today movement*.

So I got out of bed, found my notebook and sketched Thursday and Friday:

(It'll be interesting to see how long this lasts. And more importantly how repetitively boring it becomes with all the stripes and work uniforms...)

*Just before the article on black and white stripes.