Procrastination - a mighty beast

Well, here we are! It's December 31st... New Year's Eve 2010. Tomorrow we start a new year and we all hope to start afresh resolving to improve this and change that. And like everyone who makes a New Year's resolution, I want to succeed, not fail! So I will not sabotage myself before the year starts. I will make just one promise to myself..... to procrastinate less. Not "to stop procrastinating" but just to procrastinate LESS. I procrastinate in all areas of my life: at home; in my work life; in my studio; everywhere! The procrastination monster is a mighty beast that is hard to tame so I will be happy to just control it a little bit better than I do at the moment! So here's to 2011 - and to less procrastination. Happy New Year! And just quickly before I go, I'm in print in the latest edition of Scrapbooking m.m. - a Swedish magazine. Wow! I've never been translated before! It's strange to see your instructions written in a different lan......

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RAW Bead Weaving - Very Magenta Daisies

Now that the Christmas celebrations are behind us, I'm in holiday mode for a few days which means I get to work on the little kits I bought earlier in the year to keep myself amused whilst everyone lazes around. I'm one of those people who just can't sit idle and I like to keep busy even when I'm relaxing. So these holidays I'm trying something new to me: bead weaving. I've always admired this style of jewellery but thought it looked too hard to do, so I thought kits were the place to start. Here's the first one I attempted. At first, I wasn't sure that it was the best project to start with when the instructions said to use two needles but it turned out to be really easy to create the pattern so it was a good choice after all. I got the hang of right-angle weave really quickly. I'm quite happy with the result but I've got to say that whilst the weaving was easy, when I read the finishing instructions and it said weave back here and through ......

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Post Christmas Baking

Christmas Day might have come and gone but I was back in the kitchen this morning baking more Christmas goodies. Forcer biscuits have become a Christmas tradition in our household and we only ever bake them for Christmas; once for our tree-decorating get-together in early December and then again just before Christmas. But today we had a belated Christmas lunch with our good friends who have become part of our family. It's wonderful to have such close friends when you are so far from your family at this time of the year. So this batch is for our adopted family. Don't they look pretty when they're paired together with delicately coloured icing. Yum! I know my last few posts have been food oriented but I just wanted to assure you that this is not becoming a food blog. Things will soon return to normal once I'm back in the studio creating again but in the meantime I'll be playing with some bead weaving kits I bought earlier in the year. I've been wanting to lea......

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