Last week at the garden centre I treated myself to a little jasmine plant. It was completely in bud, but hadn’t started to open yet. I’m always a tiny bit wary about buying jasmine plants. I don’t really have  a good record with keeping them happy. My house is too dry and sometimes the little […]

I’ve been reading about Sarah and her 40 bags in 40 days for Lent project – the gist of which is to rehome (bin, recycle…) 40 bags of unwanted stuff during Lent. I don’t think the project started with Sarah, but I’ve certainly been motivated by what I’ve read on her blog! Her photo montage of […]

Today I decided to copy everyone else out there in blogland and I bought these… to organise my projects with. Nice eh? As I may have told you before, my office and sewing space is the size of a pocket handkerchief. A small pocket handkerchief at that. No, honestly, I really truly do spend my […]

Some days just go west before they’ve even started. Today I don’t think I managed to one single thing off my list – it’s just been a complete write-off. I’ve nursed a headache and helped with an awful lot of homework that someone should have started a very long time ago, I re-shopped for the […]

Maybe procrastination was what it took, or maybe writing about procrastination made me feel guilty enough to do something about it. Whichever was true, last night I made some decisions about a new quilt and also worked on novel planning for a piece of work that I started ages ago and got stuck with. In […]