Stitch This

  • Open the door

    Today is the start of the rest of my life. What a corny cheesy line but amazingly I woke up this morning feeling like it was true. It’s 10 PM and so far I have cleaned a huge amount of poo off my youngest child, joined weight watchers and downloaded voice recognition software to my…

  • Inch by inch

    Sometimes realisation comes to you when you least expect it. It happened to me the other day. I suddenly realised that I was never going to get better. It sounds dramatic but it was just a small shift from normal thinking to be honest. I had been thinking how tired I was from walking the…

  • In training…

    If only professional training courses were so easy… Spotted on the way to work the other day. Make me laugh anyway.

  • Hang out the washing… Christmas

    Hang out the washing… Christmas

    Right, this year, I’m going to get organised about Christmas. I’ve spent some of this afternoon having some ideas about what I can make friends, presents for teacher, and how to use my stash up to make some interesting Christmas ideas for my Etsy shop. All I need to do now is sketch the work,…

  • Of berries and brothers

    Today had the real feeling of the last day of summer. We spent it outside eating a long lazy lunch with lots of children running around screaming being neither Long or lazy. I baked all morning and made, amongst other things, a pie with homegrown apples and blackberries. I used self raising flour to make…