Wow, I can’t believe I haven’t written anything since July! Where has the time gone? I used to think that once the October School holidays were over that something mysterious happened and November and December just went on fast forward, one minute you are thinking there is plenty of time to get ready for Christmas and then suddenly it’s next week! These days though, I’m beginning to think that the slippery slide starts to happen in July!
Why is it that the older we get the faster time flies? It’s not fair, now is when we need the time to fit in all the things we want to achieve, do the things we want to do. If only we didn’t have to work to pay the bills we would have plenty of time!
So what have I been doing for the last three months? Not much, I think! A bit more knitting, a bit of beading and lots of nothing! The end of last month saw our local show back on again after being cancelled last year due to the equine flu. I took two days off work to help out on the Vanessa’s Wool ‘n’ Craft stand and had a lovely time. Where else can you sit for two days beading and have almost the whole town pass you by! We had absolutely beautiful weather, which is unusual as most years the Show marks the start of the spring rain. I placed three items into the beading section of the show, a beaded cab necklace, my ‘Bead a garden’ needle case and the Ndebele twist bracelet with the embedded crystal. I won two firsts and a second so was pretty pleased with that.
The spring weather has arrived and with it a fresh free feeling, there is nothing like a spring breeze to make you want to take off. I love this time of year, after being couped up for the winter you just feel a need to get out and about go places! In fact last weekend my husband and I took off for the day and visited a nearby town, Canowindra, to look through the art galleries and antique shops. It was a beautiful day and the countryside we drove through looked magnificent. It was very relaxing wandering along, looking in shop windows and everyone we talked to seemed to be happy and relaxed.
Unfortunately, I have so many things to get done in the next couple of weeks I’ll have to spend most of my time indoors! Although, I guess I could set up a table out in the garden and bead out there… now there is something to think about.
I am getting geared up for the Sydney Bead and Gem show which is on the second weekend of October (10/11/12th) , I am teaching two classes again this year – Peyote needle cases
and Ndebele twist
(details can be found here at www.beadandgemshow.com.au ) . I’ll also be helping out Donna Fox of Sympatica at her stand in between, so if you happen to be going, make sure you come and say hello! I’m also having a stall at the High school fete at the end of October so need to stock up for that and classes that I need to organise as well.
Now if I could just get away from this computer I’d have plenty of time!
Cheers
Sharyn
