May 24th 2015 - Sleep (or lack of)

May 24th 2015 - Sleep (or lack of)

This quote fits me perfectly - I'm so tired..... but i'll probably be awake until 3am for no reason!  This is most nights.  Usually it is because of the pain in my knee though, which isn't getting any easier a year after surgery on it!

I can sit on the sofa and almost be asleep yet I go up to bed and i'm wide awake clock watching for hours!  It drives me mad.

May 7th 2015 - Genealogy

May 7th 2015 - Genealogy

I have spent today searching and matching hints to my family tree.  This quote just about sums it up!  There's not much else I can really.

May 3rd 2015 - Iron on transfer

May 3rd 2015 - Iron on transfer

As part of my family learning and the making of a story sack we had to design the sack as well.  Most of the group used fabric pens and drew their design on or used bits of material or a printed a picture laminated and glued on but were linked to the book they have chosen.  I decided that I wanted my story sack to be universal and able to be used for any books.

I asked my friend who did me some iron on transfers the other Christmas if she still had any and if she would do me one to go my sack.  She agreed and posted it to me, thanks Col!  It didn't arrive until after I had been to the school last Wednesday, not that I know HOW I would have ironed it on at the school anyway. Lol!

Then when I went to iron it on the other day I hunted the house high and low and couldn't find the iron!  Me and hubby remembered that it went in the bin after it burnt/melted my sons shirt and we hadn't replaced it.  (I don't iron very often and when I do it's usually shirts for going out.)  So I had to wait until yesterday to go to town and buy a new iron.

The quote that is going on it is from Dr Seuss.  Here is the pic with it printed in reverse (so that it's the right way once ironed).

The next pic show it turned over and the "printed bit" is now facing the sack ready to be ironed in place.

Here I am ironing the image into place on the sack.

Here is the sack with the ironed quote in place.   

My story sack is almost complete now.  I just need to finish fixing the quotes into the felt book which I am going to stitch onto the front of the sack under the Dr Seuss quote. 

Most of the contents of the story sack are complete as well.  I have the book - Pirates love underpants, a Golden pants trophy that I made, a monkey in underpants that just needs a banana making, a pop up pirate game (bought) and a few other bits.  I'm not saying all as I want some of them to be a surprise for my children.

February 13th 2015 - QUOTE

February13th 2015 - QUOTE

Todays pin is an inspirational quote that I found on pinterest.  I have added it to my board depression and moods.

I had a good day yesterday for the most part, I was at a meeting in the  evening which went on longer than I thought so I was hungry but never mind.  By the time I got home I had quite a few messages about something that I didn't know was happening and this turned my mood very quickly, however I wasn't feeling down about but very angry!

This event of yesterday that I knew nothing about made me realise that I need to get a grip of my moods and move upwards.  There is no point in moping about things that have happened or that I can't deal with, I need to sort out what I can deal with.  So I have spent today making phonecalls to try and sort yesterdays problem, although I don't have  answers yet and may not for a very long time I have started things in the right direction.

February 8th 2015 - Word Art

February 8th 2015 - Word Art

Today is a very dull and gloomy day outside, its really foggy and I can't even see the houses across the road!  This doesn't help me with feeling low and depressed.

So I decided to find some word art to colour in via the paint programme on my laptop.  I chose this image on pinterest for todays pin.  It says:

"some days you have to find your own sunshine"

Which I thought was great for the weather and my mood.  I will add a pic once it's coloured in.

Here it is: