Silk Screen!

I've just bought a one! Whoop!

And some blank tea towels, and blank shopping bags. In the end I figured it would be miles cheaper to silk screen my own tea towels rather than buy 100 of the same print.

Let the games COMMENCE

My first kickboxing class started in Abbots Langley - I had 7 people, most of which had done martial arts before, so I have a class of experts! Eek! I managed to intimidate one lady, I had the black belts demonstrate sparring, and they weren't going hard, but she ran like a little girl, saying, "I don't think this class is for me...". Heh.

On Saturday I chilled round at my friend's house. We did some dancing with her baby, fed the ducks, watched DVDs and made brownies. All good.

Things purchased on Saturday:
Petrol
2 packets of ginger nuts
1 gingerbread man

On Sunday we caught the coach to Portsmouth to meet my friend who is in the Navy. She is leaving soon, so we thought we'd better make the most of our guide! We walked round Warrior, and there was a steam and craft fair on in the harbour. The steam fair was pretty small, but there were a fair few traction engines there. The crafts were virtually non-existant. We had a lovely lunch, and a lovely dinner - for dinner pudding I had spotted dick, which amused the American couple on the next table, who were eating fish and chips and the guy was wanting to drink "Speckled Chicken" beer, but unfortunatley they didn't have any. They didn't even have Speckled Hen.

Things purchased on Sunday:
2 500ml bottles Pepsi Max
2 packets of chewing gum
hot dog and fries and onion rings, lime and soda
ticket to the steam fair
lime and soda and a piece of lemon cake
poached pear and feta salad, spotted dick with creme anglaise and a lime and soda

Things purchased on Monday:
Petrol

(this buying thing is turning out to be more food diary than buying diary ;-) )

Concussion

ouchie.

Purchased today:
12:30pm 1 battered sausage, half a portion of chips, no added sugar vimto £2.90
No web purchases today, but I did get a delivery of 2 sample tea towels. Score!

STASH!

My friend at work has just brought me a HUGE stash of her Grandma's fabrics. There is suiting fabric, denim, gorgeous fuscia silk, houndstooth wool, nice silky heavy black material that will be LBD material when I find a good pattern! There's some cute florals and also some silver sparkly velvet that I already have a bit of - I made it into some pyjama bottoms and I must say they are fantastic! There is also a TON of spools of thread and zips, long long zips that I can make floppy disc wallets with and yards upon yards of stretchy lace trim. I have promised to make my friend a flowery, lacey ra-ra skirt!

In other news today, I have invented a cool tournament system that we might implement at training over the next few weeks, to help keep people interested over the summer holidays. Basically, it's 2, 1 minute rounds of sparring and the winner goes forwards to the quarter-finals, then semis then there will be an ultimate winner out of the class. If we implement it over the whole of the club, then the winners from each class will go forward to fight each other. I think we need it, we get bored to easily. Or maybe I should just say, "I".

I'm inspired by Obsessive Consumption and so for the next week, you're going to see exactly what I've bought every day! I know, interesting or what? Anyway, today's list goes like this:

8:20am - 11 Litres of unleaded petrol @ 107.9p a litre
12:30pm - Sesame Ryvita, Chocolate Crispies, Solero Ice Lolly
No internet shopping so far today!
6pm groceries

Oooh and the stuff I ordered the other day for my little crafty things arrived today. I will be playing at the weekend!

Yesterday I did make it to the gym. I benched, squatted and good morninged, also laterally pulled down and had a nice s-t-r-e-t-c-h. I swear I was a cat in previous lives, I love stretching.

I also overdid the hamstring exercises, because I had trouble walking round Sainsbury's then had even more trouble walking up the hill to Hampstead Heath to watch the Typhoons fly over. My legs seem to be ok today, but they are nicely achey.

Hum. What to say today.

Well the outporing of my graphic efforts at work came today - 2 pallet loads of A4 reviews. Nice to start the day off with some physical exercise, unloading the truck!

I have been distributing those MMA leaflets again at lunchtime, I seem to have come away with fewer bruises and trapped fingers today.

I am partially working on doing something with 3.5" floppies, perhaps for the craft fair, perhaps not.

I am officially hating sparring in martial arts. Hate it. Don't want to do it. Want to go home. Of course if just needs something to get me interested again and I'll be all set. There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm for tournaments at the moment, perhaps that's why I'm not bothered about sparring.

I am making an effort to go to the gym tonight. I am determined. Apparently my "unfitness" is all in my head. If that's the case I should be able to rock on through some heavy squats and lifts and be fine tomorrow.

I have planned some quality printer-time tonight. There's a few things I want to make for the next craft fair and need to print some stuff out. I also need to carve out time to photograph myself making stuffies. At least it's the right weather for it at the moment. I might bring in the camera and tripod tomorrow and have a bash over lunchtime now that I've finished delivering all those leaflets.

Oh I had the wierdest, angriest dream last night. I was late for my friend's wedding and I was screaming myself hoarse at my parents who were supposed to be getting us there! This does not bode well for the future, we are having to get the train to Darlington on the morning of the wedding, which is fine and will probably work out well, but I think I would rather be going the night before, however there is no-one to cover my ladies class. So Friday morning train it must be.

More Shop and Cornwall

Here's another couple of poster prints in the shop.





We spent the weekend in Cornwall which was pretty boring this time. Although I did find the most amazing gingerbread-man ice-cream. Gingerbread-men and ice-cream. Together. With clotted cream on the top! The train down was horrendous, I thought I'd got a seat only to be turfed out about 10 seconds after setting off. The whole train was unreserved because of the bank holiday, so why this guy thought he had any more right to the seat I was sitting in than I had, lord only knows! So I spent a lovely 3 and a half hours standing. We got into Penzance at eleven and back to the in-laws at midnight just in time to see bonkers Boris win the election.

Saturday turned into nap-central. On Sunday we walked into St Ives, and on Monday we walked into St Ives again, although this time I found a charity shop with some cute cups that I will be using for some crafting!

The lethargy is almost lifting and I feel almost awake - I have been taking vitamin Bs in the hope that I might return to almost-normal levels of awake-ness. Unfortunately I am rotting my teeth with Pepsi as well, since caffiene seems to have no effect on my sleep patterns because I am so tired!

I am hoping to get a grand workout tonight because my sparring skills seem to have taken a nose-dive. My new classes start at Abbot's Langley (Watford) on Monday and I want to up my confidence a little bit before then. I am also hoping to get to the gym at least one morning this week since the cake belly is taking over!

More In The Shop

I haven't been doing much over the past couple of days because of some Migraine of Terror stomping on me, but the sun shone this morning so I managed to get a nice photo of this print I've been working on. Of course, it's in the shop. I've got a few more to frame and photograph, so that will be fun!

Tonight - boy beating. I am feeling a little more energetic. Be afraid boys, be very afraid!