Waffling on the weekend

It's my last weekend before I start studying.

I have the latest issues of two of my favourite magazines as yet unread.

And a lovely new white cotton waffle-weave blanket from Just Bedding (long-time readers will know of my love of decent bed linen).

So what's a girl to do but make the bed and return to it for a day of luxurious languid reading?

Finish it off Friday freak out

I made the fatal mistake of thinking it was a good idea to start gathering my unfinished (hell, unstarted!) kits together in one place:

The really freaky thing is that this is only the more recent ones: I know I have a stash of older ones tucked away somewhere. Including kits that have moved country. Twice.

Perhaps this week's #FinishitoffFriday challenge should be to dig them out, consolidate them all and face the fact that I have enough to keep me going for quite some time?

Baa-ewe-tiful!

Finish it off Friday: feeling sheepish

There really was only one choice for this week's Finish it off Friday project.

 Jewel Lewis's Shirley the Sheep kit.

This should be a quick build: the instructions seem clear and straight forward,

 and the contents well designed...

The morning after

That

was 

 quite

 some

 party

(Whose stupid idea was it to store the bed behind the piano to make more room?)

Spotted something missing?

I guess you may have noticed a severe lack of folding chairs at yesterday's party.

 Never fear, they are being worked on, but the paint wasn't dry in time for the set up. Which made me decide I needed to leave space at the party for mingling (and maybe dancing).

Besides, the chairs had decided to head in a whole different direction once I remembered the spotty fabric tape I picked up on my last trip to Daiso...

(School) house party

And so the day of the party finally arrived. The bunting is up. And everything's ready for the first guest.

And here you are! Welcome! You're right on time!

Do come inside.

 There's heaps to drink. Grab a glass.

 Would you prefer non-alcoholic

 or alcoholic?

There's quite a spread to chose from (I'm expecting rather a crowd).

 There's even a specially-iced cake to mark the occasion. We'll cut it later in the night when everyone's here. In the meantime, help yourself to something sweet,

 savoury,

and, of course, there's lots of cheese.

Take a seat, if you wish. I'm sure more guests will arrive shortly.

My muso friends were tuning up earlier and have just ducked into town to collect a couple of last minute things. They'll be back soon and then things will really get started.

Feel free to grab a chair outside and wait for them to return. If you get peckish you can access the food from out there.

 Blogging for nine years? I know, who would have thought?

I'm glad you could make it!

It's a start

This morning I dug out the black and white bunting pieces I bought from Scrapmatts at the 2013 craft show.

And then I went on the hunt for my booze supplies

(most of which I found in still in the Brio, after that New Year's Eve party...)

Finish it off Friday: Five months?

On one hand, it seems positively juvenile in the length of time it's spent in the pile.

But on the other, I can't believe it's been so long since I put this aside to deal with when I had the time...

But if I'm having a party, I need folding chairs. And so the time has come to clean these pieces up, return to the spray can and get them ready to PARTY!

(I'd originally planned to make Pantone chairs, but I think it's a safer option sticking to plain black for the party.)

While I wait

So. The big box didn't get picked up yesterday after all.And so I remain at home waiting for a collection which has been promised this morning.

Since I don't know exactly when it'll be picked up, I can't start any big projects.So instead I'm doing a lot of little piddly jobs that I've been meaning to get to for months.

Like making miniature versions of The tiny Times magazines I've worked on:

 Now I'm thinking I should make more sets to go in this year's convention goodie bags...

A very big box...

... full of very little things.

All ready to be picked up tomorrow.

Clean and empty and ready to go

What a job that was!

Because I'd originally furnished my 1975-78 Lundby house with a mix of furniture brands, I needed to swap out the existing non-Lundby furniture with Lundby items before I could start packing it.

(See all the stuff at the front? Non-Lundby.)

Which left many rooms

very bare.

So I had to refill the house before I emptied and packed it. Luckily I had many items in my 1973-74 Lundby house that I could swap across.

I really should pack

..but I needed egg cartons to pack into. And a friend said she had some but I'd need to pick them up from her. From her farm an hour out of town.

And once I was there it seemed churlish not to go visit the locals. Lollipop the pony and Lucky the sheep.

 Cupcake the miniature horse.

Diesel the dog, Puss in Boots the cat. Various chickens and ducks and guinea pigs.

And the garden (where we ate tomatoes and raspberries and blackberries picked straight from the plant) and orchard (freshly picked peaches.)

By mid afternoon I declared that I really should pack and finally left.

But I was half-way to the dolls house shop. And I needed to pick up party supplies. It seemed silly not to swing past...

 After a chat and a rummage, I declared that I really should pack and finally left with my purchases.

I got home. Unpacked the egg cartons

 and declared that I really should do something about dinner and left the packing until tomorrow...