A Few Photos

Here are a few select shots from our weekend walking on Sunday.

Most of these were taken on Shad Thames, however the glass building is the North side of the river, near Tower Bridge.

We had an amazing afternoon cream tea in the Teapod shop.

A Little Bit of Fun

Hello!

I have a few nice pictures to post from the weekend. Unfortunately the husband has run off with my CF card and the card reader. I took a billion pictures of buses for him, and he needs them at work today. I hope Ove ARUP will be paying me for my services to Transport Planning ;-)

Anywho, so you will just have to make do with a cute little flickr meme from Mary Jane, Midge & Mink




The method:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

FREE Father's Day Cards

Since I am in the handmade bidness, I have designed my own father's day (and father in law's) cards.

So here you have it, 2 designs for you, for free! Because I love you.

First, for all the hepcats out there - a card featuring Miles Davis and secondly, for the Daddy-Cools, a trendy typographic card.

Go to my freebies page here

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