FELT FRIENDS

 

I just could not resist this little craft book by Naomi Tabatha and it's in English which is good because I have a bit of trouble deciphering Japanese how to pictures. The stitching is so neat and small, this will be the hardest part as my hand stitching is still a little uneven. It's raining today so I have the perfect excuse to start sewing I'll try a kitty first as the shape isn't as complicated as some of the others. Furgus came home with a bleeding paw on Wednesday night and he would not let me look at it. He hissed, snorted and growled as I chased him around the kitchen and the floor ended up looking like a crime scene. So a trip to the vet was booked, it's so sad that whenever we put him in his travel box he thinks he's going back to the cat home and gets really upset. The sore paw turned out to be a bite, the nice lady vet gave him an antibiotic injection instead of tablets, it lasts for fourteen days so much easier. Furgus was so well behaved at the vet he didn't bite and he only snort-growled once when his teeth were looked at. A little extra spoiling when we came home made him a very happy cat.

AMELIAS NEW DRESS

This is my gorgeous new monitor an Acer S221HQL, also brand new speakers and keyboard, this has made such a difference no more squinting at the screen next, on the list is a new printer. My computer had a couple of problems including sound which  I thought could be the speakers but it turned out to be more serious, wiped motherboard drives not by me but a well meaning family  member. I've found a great computer fixer in the Hobart area called  Computatune.  Greg Burns will come to your house plus he's very reasonably priced, new customers about $60.00 ish for the first hour he can do anything with Windows.

The only crafting I've managed has been a dress for my Blythe doll,  I'm a grown up with a Blythe doll fascination and I would secretly like to have more Blythe's but I'll have to save all my gold coins again before  I can buy one.  I wasn't a girl that liked Barbi or dolls it was our dog and cats, books and drawing instead. Someone gave me a large china Shirley Temple doll when I was little, her teeth used to glow in the dark and I couldn't go to sleep unless she was covered up. The cover always seemed to fall off during the night and I was sure she was a haunted doll because she would always end up back in my room even when I hid her outside.
Mental As Anything were in Hobart last Friday night so some friends and I decided to go and see them. The venue was a little scary ( older bogans) so our group felt a little out of place, but the band was great. Martin Plaza is much shorter in person and they can still belt out a song in tune. There was sing-a-long fun for everyone.

SILVER BIRDS

My red birds now have little silver friends and they look like they're chasing each other all over the Christmas tree. I managed to make two Christmas stockings,  Rudolph for my flatmate and Cats for Furgus.  Kirstie's Homemade Christmas  did make sewing a Christmas stocking look easy but I had to do some fiddling because I couldn't remember how to layer all the pieces so you only had to sew each stocking once. I made the lining a tiny bit smaller so it would fit inside. I used to work in wardrobe years ago and an older wardrobe Mistress told me it was bad luck to sew something perfectly you should always include a tiny mistake. So I never feel bad when my stitching is wobbly I'm just keeping an old tradition alive.