My fabulous weekend has come to a close ....
Stephen who so wonderfully unexpectedly turned up at work on Friday is now on the train back to Sydney to get a flight back to Perth.
I know I am loved and I know I can get through the rest of this move.
I am aware that I should not require external validation of my self worth - but sometimes it just helps. Stephen and Alison met over the course of the weekend and both seem to get along very well. In fact Stephen met all of my Gosford friends and seemed to get along with all of them.
Both Stephen and Alison helped me a little bit with the packing and cleaning out of the shed and fridge and Stephen helped me sort out some cupboards about what to take and what not to.
But mainly he just helped me de-stress. Lots of cuddles and brunch and we went to the movies twice.
I still have a lot to do before Thursday but I now feel like I will actually be able to get it all done.
And it appears that, if he can swing the leave, Stephen will be spending Christmas with me in Melbourne .... {silly happy grin}
No stitching update this week .....
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Your weekend sounds a whole lot more fun than mine! So if I understand this right, you are moving to Melbourne, right? Dunno how come I thought you were moving to Perth....
Because Stephen lives in Perth?
Well he lives there for now .....
One good thing about moving - you get to sort out what to take and not .... and to discover which alcohol bottles don't have enough left in them to bother packing ....
{sniggle} I'm even more happier now with an even more goofy grin on my face .....
mmmm - home-made mudslides ......
I found the stash of chocolates Stephen left for me too .... and the macadamias and the cashews ....
Sounds like a fab weekend.Glad he and Alison get along especially as you'll have both of them for Christmas:)
Maybe - Alison has a job interview in Brisbane !
Brisbane is 10 plus hours drive North of here. Melbourne is 10 plus hours drive South of here .....
Nice to hear such a happy report. I totally cracked up at the "no stitching report this week" comment. With your having so many better options, whipping out your stitching just sounds a bit fuddy-duddy.
Yeah, what Tracy said :) Glad you're on good footing to whip this move into shape and get it done! And Yay for Christmas!!! Though Alison possibly going to Brisbane - gee, when you guys move, you really move, huh? Though, I guess when I think about my moves, so do I.... guess I'm figuring in the other-side-of-the-world part into yours, too :) Good luck this week!!!!
Sounds very good to me, Mel! Nothing better than have some support and help shortly before you move!
I keep crossing my fingers that everything works out well with your move and that within a short time your furniture arrives and is placed and you can go on with your new life :-)
Yes, I said crossing my fingers, because at the moment I'm SO not in stitching mood, so I can use them for something else for a while.
It sounds like your weekend was just the break you needed to re-charge a bit and get yourself through the rest of the move. I hope it all goes swimmingly from here on out!
That is exactly it Paula !!!! When Stephen turned up at my work my first words were "what are you doing here?" followed by giving him the hugest hug - I think I scared him with the intensity of the hug.
His words "you're having the crappiest week and I thought you could use the support".
He didn't help much with the packing - I'm still sitting here surrounded by boxes and stuff I need to put in them !!!!!! But he certainly did help with my headspace.
Its Spring and you prefer to be gardening?
Ha !!! Stitching is *not* fuddy-duddy ... mind you, having Stephen witnessing me packing up my stash was a bit ummmmm hmmm .... he made one comment! Just one comment about "don't you have enough fabric now?" and my scowl set him off in roars of laughter.
I explained the concept of SABLE and he thoroughly approves and agrees with it as a concept :) Phew!
No the main reason I don't have a stitching update is everything is packed. BoInk, Faience and Sisu's RR are in my new backpack with all my important documents (birth certificate, car registration papers, paperwork for new job and home) and I am not opening that backpack again until I am away from here.
I would need more than a four day visit to restore my sanity if I lost any of those items !!!!
Mel, Stephen definitely sounds like a keeper. Ain't love grand??? I'm so glad you had such a fabulous weekend.
Only when you realise that my mother has a factory (literally) in her back yard, 100 feet long, 30 feet deep and 15 feet high which, except for the industrial machines (sewing, overlockers, buttonholers etc) and the 5m x 3m cutting table is packed solid with rolls of fabric floor to ceiling will you understand quite how much I was joking about the 'enough fabric' :-)
Sod !!!! I knew your mother was a seamstress but I didn't know (or cotton onto) she had *that* much fabric!
Good thing I'm not in the SCA anymore :)
I have seen my mother lay out a cut 100 layers high to make 500 of an item in 5 different colours, outline the pattern on the top and then cut the whole thing in one hit. You don't want to see her cutting wheel - it's the sewing equivalent of a power saw. (She has actually cut the top of a finger off with it more than once, stuck it back on with Elastoplast and kept going. Tough woman, my mother.)
She buys wholesale (of course) and keeps the ends of rolls and other bits she picks up cheap in case she thinks of a use for them.
I have vivid memories from my childhood of shoving stuffing into furry elephants (and other things) when she had a contract to make furry plush toys. Our lounge room was literally hip deep in neon-coloured animals. (I remember the green most - it was eye-watering.) And when I say furry, I'm talking 2 inch long fur.
I happen to know that she still has some of that green fur around - I've seen it. And I was barely in high school, if that, when she was making those...
Eeeep! I don't need to meet this woman do I ???
We're past the whole "meet the parents" routine - we're too old for that right?
It's got to happen one day PMSL.
Would love to be knee deep in that much fabric.
Oh the things I could make with it...I miss sewing stuff .
Love the new background BTW
industrialising your background, Mel? Looks like the fabric used to wind around future mummys, LOL :-) looks nice though.
My mum having been a tailor as well used to have loads of fabric as well, but not quite that much, Stephen! That might have even scared her! She only sewed for family and friends.
Mel, stitching slump has not really been replaced by something equally productive, just hanging around and not doing anything much. It'll come back!
I've been productive and stitching this week - but I've been flitting from piece to piece. Worked on four pieces already and its only Wednesday.
Mum *forced* me to work on a new piece last night! I admired a new chart in her stash so we hauled out her fabric and floss stash and mine from the car and kitted it up. I started it too. Got a hundred or so stitches in .....
That's very good actually :-)
BTW, I sent off your birthday package to your new address yesterday. I gather it will take a week or so, then you get something to welcome you to your new flat :-)
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