The Angry Dome

If you saw Futurama tonight, you would have seen the Angry Dome. I need one of those!

Breaking my own rules

Sally and I have had several discussions in the past about the role of lists. I am a firm believer in using a list to write down what you are supposed to be doing, as an action plan. If it's not on the list, you aren't supposed to be doing it!

Whereas Sally is more along the list of putting things on the list to remember to do them at some point, so you can get on with doing whatever it is you feel like at the time.

Now I am finding, along with the compulsion to start alot of things and never finish them, I am also deviating wildly from my own list. Very naughty. Theoretically I should be working on my mother's Xmas present (and a multitude of other things) but instead I have been making myself shorts and also digging through my stash to see what is in there. This has resulted in more projects - turning some printed cheesecloth into baby wraps and also making some crazy lizard pants for my brother for Xmas. Hrm. So the purpose of this post is to guilt myself back onto the actual approved list. I might just write all my extra projects down on it instead...

Progress made!

I am definitely pleased to report some progress on the sewing front this week:

• Four bassinet sheets and 4 changing mat covers completed. Not without a LOT of swearing at the overlocker. For some reason, it likes to break the upper looper thread completely at random when doing 4 thread stitching. Might be time for a new part or two.
• Using this pattern kindly supplied by Sally, I have now completed
• Five cute little baby dresses - yes, I know, possibly an excessive number given they are all the same size but they were just so EASY and used up little bits of material that weren't good for anything else. However, that excused doesn't really apply to the dragonfly and white/orange/purple ones, so not sure what my excuse is there. Material buying frenzy???
  
• Three cute little vesty shirts and some bloomers. Note to Sally: Bias binding make this quite easy. I tacked the curves on the bias binding to make them nice and smooth, that was the biggest effort on these.
  

Lots of thanks to Mr Paul for persevering with putting the snaps on all of these for me. It was all a bit too hard to do myself... and seeing how many HE stuffed up the first time, I am glad I didn't do it myself! It feels like it took an age to do all of these, but now they are done, it's actually HEAPS of stuff done all at once, which is kinda cool.

In other news, writing this post as given the universe a big clue to steer these freaks away from me - haven't had any rude comments since the 22nd! Yeah!

Other good things:

• Only 5 more client-facing days at work left... then the rest of my time to mat leave will be spent on the couch doing things over the internet
• Work is finally upgrading our laptops and I might get a new one before I go on leave!
• The accountant made a mistake in our tax last year and we are getting back an additional $2800!
• Paul has stained the deck and it looks fantastic!
  
• We finally got a cheap ipod stereo for the kitchen and I can listen to music while washing up without blasting the neighbours.
  

29.5 weeks

29.5 weeks, originally uploaded by Kim (GGS).

Suffering from lack of closure

I am sure there is some kind of nesting instinct at work at the moment because I keep buying more material and notions without finishing much of anything. I am almost at the stage of going to a craft store every day! On the go is:

• 4 babies dresses that need snaps, and another that hasn't made it past the material buying stage
  
• 2 babies tops that ALSO need snaps, and another also waiting to be cut out
  
• Bassinet sheets. Prototype is half done on my floor, but needs to have the other three corners fitted before I unpick it and make it into a pattern for some more
• Cot sheets - but at the rate I am going I will use all my material on bassinet sheets and have to go back for more (yeah!)
• Covers for the changing table mat. No action here, just a mountain of terry toweling that has been washed and is now looking at me. Really, the job would take about 3o minutes to make 3 or 4.
  
• Stuffed frog - I have gotten as far as ironing the material and photocopying the pattern but that's it.
• Mobile for the babies room - purchased a big whack of felt today with no intention of doing much on it for weeks... but I really really needed the felt today!
• Material for Mum's Xmas present has been purchased and a rough design drawn up. This one is a bit fiddly so waiting for a day that I am not cranky to get into it.... hahahha
  
• Trying (via Sally) to track down material for Dad's Xmas present.

Soooo, my goal for this weekend is to finish some of these bloody things. Hopefully can knock over bassinet sheets, changing table covers and the snaps this weekend... if I actually post some photos, you will know I am successful.