Weasel

The estate weasels have me bummed. Our 3rd property fell through yesterday after a lot of hard work from me. It always felt a little wobbly from the get-go, so I can only presume it was for the best. The weasel says that there will be another property exactly the same on the market in a week. I have heard that before, and am still waiting to hear about a carbon-copy of house number 2!

Yesterday I spent my evening in the gym, and crafting. Both great ways to take my mind of the impending no-house doom. Unfortunately I had to buy some more stuff for a few projects I wanted to make, and now the bedsit is fit to burst with craftiness! DH has suggested that we have a big tidy up at the weekend to make the place nicer to live in. I suppose it can't hurt, and I might end up clearing out a fair bit to the charity shop! I might even find some clothes other than jeans and T-shirts. Or at the very least, some other t-shirts...

Oh yes, and the Kata is officially nailed. My instructor says that it shows that I have been practising. Heh! What does he know? I haven't done a jot outside of class, but I will let him believe I work hard...

Inspiration

I seem to be full of it at the moment, and not in the "I will stalk the internet and make something slightly like this" way. I'm hopefully going to be abusing my sewing machine a little bit over the next couple of weeks, and bringing in some new lines for flurogoddess.

House buying is proving to be a roller-coaster ride, but there you go! Hopefully we will have a house at the end of this, but I am not getting my hopes up this time, this is the 3rd property we've made an offer on.

I have set up my little online stall at Blank Canvas Arts who are running the craft fair on Electric Avenue in Brixton at the end of the month. Any Londoners reading, pop down and say hello, and more importantly, buy stuff! I'm only kidding, you know I love you all. For your money.

Martial Arts is proving hard work. I am having real trouble retaining students to my new class. Without wanting to make excuses, I have a feeling it's because I am female. And butch blokes just don't want to be taught how to beat the cr@p out of people by a little girl. It upsets the testosterone levels, I think. My own personal training is going pretty well though, I seem to have nailed the Kata footwork. Bring on 2nd Dan.

In which we meet a family of ducklings and make pretty things

Early one morning I was on my way to the gym. I was riding along the M1 at a fairly good lick. The car in front swerved to the right to avoid something in the road. Having recently had a very close shave on my bike I decided not to swerve and to hit whatever it was. From a distance it looked to me like a cardboard box or a paper bag in the road, only when I'd passed did I realise that it was a mother mallard duck with a brood of 6 new-born baby ducklings. In the middle of the M1. At 6:30am. Fortunately I missed.

Magic Roundabout Flowers





as always, in the shop

Summary

1) Spa day - fabulouso

2) Meals out - spanking

3) House viewing - dissapointing (to say the least)

4) New Martial Arts Class Attendance - singular

5) Gym workouts - super

6) Shop sales - encouraging

Can I have my week back please?

Ok, who stole Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday? And how is it now Friday? How did that happen?

I think I've just been trying to recover from last weekend and have only just woken up!

On Tuesday I got my "MMA GOALS" list, which includes coaching a guy to his black belt by January 09! Ha! A teensy bit optimistic methinks, but we shall see. Also, it's basically just what I'm doing now but written down!

On Wednesday evening I took pictures off ALL the products I have on my craft stall, notecards, posters, noticeboards, everything! Now it is all on DaWanda. The shop is almost full.

Last night I took the ladies' grading, which was an experience! Fortunately all the students who I solely teach passed. We had one unfortunate, but she will have the opportunity to re-take. Because of the grading I was home late last night, and I did tell the DH that I would be home at that time, but he rang me anyway, to see where I was! I got home to him "baking". Now the DH's idea of baking is mixing up some flour and maybe some butter and then adding stuff. He'd kneaded up this wierd buttery dough but it had no sugar in, so we had to add icing sugar. Then we put raisins in the dough and jam on top and baked it until browned. It made a kind of heavy scone-type effort. I think he had overworked the dough because it had the same texture of manky shortcrust pastry! Still, it was a nice thought!

I also got my 'tocks to the gym this morning, since I had promised my friend I would work on her free weights with her. Unfortunately she'd had a late night working in the pub so was too tired for a workout. I still had a pretty heavy, but pretty basic workout; benches, squats, good mornings and lat pulldowns.

Pre-gym time (which is pre-eyes-open) I made it to ASDA to buy some secret things for secret 30th birthdays at the weekend. I hope they will be ok, otherwise I will have to run home early and alter some other secret things!

Crafty Ninja On Tour!

The weekend craft fair was a mild success! At least I took more than I paid for the table! My button earrings seem to have been increadibly popular! So I will be making a few more of them for the Brixton show and I am also branching out into some other earrings. The teacup candles went down a storm, they sold out within an hour, then another lady came back to buy them, so I had to take an order!



That's my mother there, looking dazed and confused! Heh!

I've managed to clean the silk screen off today, so I will be burning another image onto it soon, there are a couple of secret things I need to make before the weekend.

I am aiming to get back into the gym today - albeit depending on estate agents etc.

Jumping On The Bagwagon

This is all over the net - but here you go! I've not seen it on a bag, or red on white rather than white on red.



Spanking!

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