Kinda Halfway

Last night I decided that I wanted a bit of a mini-grading in mma, let's call it a "half-Dan". I've been floundering around a little bit, not really knowing what to do, thinking that it might be easier to stay at home some evenings, thinking that there's no real point to improving my sparring since we aren't doing any tournaments, I'm not going for grading any time soon, so I have no real "goals" (hate that word really). So we had a chat last night and Lee is going to come up with a mini-grading for me, that will help towards 2nd Dan. He is insistant that I can't quite do 2nd Dan yet, and that we need to leave a year or two inbetween, but I did tell him that actually it's been 6 months since I took my black belt test so time is fleeting.

Last night I made my first sale on DaWanda, which was great since I only loaded all my stuff on there yesterday! And the best thing about it - they only charge 5% of the sale fee, when you sell. The listings are unlimited in length, so if you don't sell, you don't pay... Love it! Also, you can get them to send you a text message when you make a sale - how VERY exciting!

Psssst - I just checked on the silk screen and it hasn't stuck to the newspaper! I get to expose it at half 11! I can't wait.

And Another

Which I really like!

The photo emulsion is back on the screen, so hopefully it is drying without newspaper sticking to it today! Then tomorrow is exposure and a print run. Fingers crossed!

Finally

Got these sorted!







Unfortunately I am learning the heard way that newspaper + photo emulsion don't mix. Gah!

Last night I had 3 students at my class. I noticed how conditioned I am to a 45 minute class - at quarter to 7 I had run out of things to do, so had to improvise with some more partner techniques and a little bit more sparring!

Keep Calm and Carry On!

The vendor pulled out of our house sale today.

Boo hiss.

I walked the walk on Saturday - bra and all!




The rest of the weekend was spent in relative tranquility - passed out in bed, reading books on typography and dozing and eating apple pie!

On Friday I printed out some more posters for the craft fair. I have a couple of things to do for the fair at the weekend and I am done ding dong! I am preparing a screen for a set of bags I will be making for the craft fair and etsy. They might go on etsy first...

Screen Printing First Try

I'm pretty impressed!

Tea Light

For the fair of craft. (Not for sale on etsy, I don't think it would survive the post!)

Argh!

We are having a pain dealing with our vendor and estate agents. I've just been on the phone to the agent and he is writing to the vendor. I am so sad that we have picked a bum vendor and that it isn't going as smoothly as we could have hoped. We knew there would be messes and stresses, but 4 weeks without any action is really starting to annoy me. I am almost thinking like we won't be ending up there. DH is going to go round to the vendor's house and try and talk to him. I think if I went, I would end up beating his head against a window.

My blank canvas totes came today, and the tea towels. They are super lucious! Unfortunately no screen printing set yet. :-( Perhaps tomorrow. Perhaps.

Oh crikey, I forgot that I was going to cut out some leaves for my moonwalk bra this lunchtime. It still hasn't really sunk in that I will be walking a marathon overnight on Saturday.

I want more chocolate. Send me some!!!!!!!

PS The silk screen turned up later in the afternoon! Whoopee!