Five on Friday

Hello everyone I hope that you have all had a great week!

Five Little Snippets

Pondering
I have been just a bit demented this week it happens everytime I finish a project. As two of the CALs I have been working on have come to an end I find myself at a loose end.  Don't get me wrong I still have things on the go but not as much as I'd like, sometimes it can take me ages to make up my mind what to add to my wip list because there is so much I want to do, before I start anything I have to ask myself... 
Will it be useful? 
Do I need it ? 
Is it suitable for a charity? 
Have I got enough stash yarn to make it? 
Will I have to buy yarn and can I afford it? 

I have discovered this about myself.. I have to be making a blanket, it can be any type of blanket but there has to be at least one or two going on in the background, I know at least three that I would love to do but which??? 

What are you all like can you move smoothly from one project to the next without out too much effort or are you like me? anyway

the pondering continues and once I make up my mind you will be the first to know.


Health Matters
I'm pleased to tell you that the foot injury from last week is now completely better, the knee must a bit more complicated because it still hurts when I bend it I have a feeling it could be arthritic in nature  which means it will be a  case of just grin and bear it.  I still went to step fit and to the gym and managed fine so I will stop moaning about that particular issue.  

If you all cast your mind back to the beginning of February I took quite ill and was diagnosed with Gallstones and told I needed an operation, I had to wait three weeks for an MRI scan and this week a whole two months later I actually got to see the consultant for the result. I was hoping that by some miracle said gallstones would have melted away after all the healthy eating I have been doing, but no such luck I'm afraid, there the little blighters were in all their glory staring out at me from the computer screen, lots of little stones just waiting to slip into my gall duct and cause me more pain. So I'm on the waiting list and I have to undergo lots of tests before the big event so happy days ahead.

Stash-busting
I have been stash-busting fence paint! yes you are right you did hear me correctly, I had several tins of bits of leftover paint in different shades of brown, I mixed them all together to produce a rather fetching shade of something which I'm going to call chocolate brown and painted this fence 
before...

After

 I know what you are thinking...it doesn't look much better to me! and you would be right it is a bit patchy but it does look a bit better, as well as painting the fence I painted myself too, even though I was dressed in my best paint gear I had splashes all over my arms, face and hair what a mess!  It didn't matter too much because I was in the back garden and no one could see me but I have the front fence to do too maybe I should paint it under a cloak of darkness. 

Clock
I have been wanting a clock for my study for ages, yes I know there is a clock on the laptop and on my mobile but I needed an 'in your face clock' that would remind me at a glimpse of just how much time I was wasting on the laptop so I sent for one from ebay look how it arrived......

It wasn't even packaged properly for goodness sake of course it's going to break, anyways the seller refunded my money straight away and this was going into the bin along with all the empty paint tins but as you know we crafters are very.... well crafty, I said to myself hang on there Linda don't be silly it's still a clock even if it's glass face has been smashed so here it is now

all tarted up I like it better like this dont you it's a pleasure to look at. :)

Crumpets
I don't know why but this leads me on to crumpets, maybe because it's lunchtime and I'm fancying a couple spread with peanut butter am I the only one who likes peanut butter on their crumpets? I always get strange looks when I mention it to anybody.

Nothing nicer with a cuppa tea served  in my favourite mug ( I sound like a blinkin commercial )

I hope you all have a great weekend are you doing anything special? I'm going to Harrogate Flower show on Sunday can't wait! fingers crossed for good weather, see you soon. :) 

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