Busy Crafting Week

Sometimes days run one into the other with no breathing space between them. Well that's how it can feel. I work three evenings per week, Mr H has one evening off a week - he is off one of the days I am not off, which helps juggle our children - who are very patient and have sadly got quite used to there basically being a parent missing most evenings. It's quite something if the four of us eat together, as quite often the one day of the week we could all be together, a saturday, the girls have something. I'm not moaning about it, it's the way it is and is accepted - most of the time :-/
Last week, we had music to do, we had homework, we had an extra with...

design an Easter egg competition with No2 D. Papier mache takes days to work on, build it, let it dry, build it more, let it dry, build it, etc... So the usual, but I had my Guild Regional Day with the young quilters in Perth. SO there is a fair bit of organising and bringing things together.

Then on Saturday, No2 D and I got up at 7 to leave and it was horrendous blizzards. SO what do you do? Well we got the stuff in the car, wrapped up and set off. Three times the car decided to swing one way when I was turning the steering wheel the other, and we hadn't even left our area!!! 

We trundled along the motorway, taking two hours for an hours journey. AND STILL lorries over took us - what's that about!!! Every time a lorry passed us we were engulfed in a cloudy, slushy, snowy blanket for what seemed like ages until our extra fast wiper blades cleared a space to see out. It wasn't much fun. 

Well anyway, it went very well, and we were only down three children meant to be attending due to weather. I alas didn't take many snaps as I forgot to take my camera... but I did take a few pics with my phone.

Easter chicks using stitch and flip fabrics. We made ruffles for the tail feathers and the children pinched the faces for setting in the beaks. They got on brilliantly and, a little like childbirth you immediately forget the stress and worry as soon as the work and giggling starts. Why is that? Anyway it was a fun filled day of adventure and this week will be a little less stressful.

AND... No2 D came joint winner of the comp with her Spring hanging. She was very pleased.

Here's the thing though... last week I was tempted, due my total lack of time, to tidy out my sewing room, make two pairs of curtains awaiting construction, and clear the garden. THIS WEEK COMING, when I have spaces in the days.... it doesn't interest me in the slightest!!! What's that about???