Well Christmas has been, the New Year has begun, the kids are back at school and Elvis has left the building! The year is well and truly underway! After my flurry of beading before Christmas I have to say I haven’t done a thing since!
There are a few reasons for this, firstly I was away over Christmas, then when we arrived back home I went into overdrive and gave my house a big clean (and oh my did it need it!). After that we had visitors for the Elvis Festival, which was even bigger this year than ever before! We had a great weekend with our friends and even attended a few ‘Elvis’ events (if you are interested there are some photos in my flickr album). With the Elvis festival came storms and rain, on the Sunday night the heavens opened and it poured down. As usual when we have a downpour my darling husband realised the gutters were overflowing and headed out into the storm to clean them out. As I passed through the lounge on my way to get him a towel I heard the sound of running water coming from my beading room. My first thought was that I had left the window open but when I went to investigate I found it was closed but there was water pouring down from between the architrave and the window frame. Talk about panic, I shrieked, our visitors came running and we quickly moved as much as we could away from the window (which was no mean feet as I had left it in quite a mess after my pre Christmas flurry of beading) and used just about every towel in the house to try and quell the stream of water- especially when we realised it was happening in the office above the new computer as well. Meanwhile hubby (still outside) discovered what the cause was and with drill in hand fixed the problem. Needless to say when everything had settled my Beading room was in an absolute mess.
It has taken me nearly four weeks to put it back into order. Why so long? Well I decided while I was at it to reorganise and move things around. I’m not sure if I have made it better but at least everything is put away and labelled so hopefully I should be able to find things now without having to pull the room apart!
In the last week or so Summer has really hit hard and I feel so sorry for people in Melbourne and Adelaide who have had unrelenting high temperatures. On the local news the other night they said this was the hottest January for many years with several days of 38+. Summer is not my favourite month and I tend to go into a sort of ‘hibernation’, going from home to work and back again. In fact I even ‘like’ being at work because at least it is cool (and that is saying something). At home I tend to stick around the family room where I can sit under the air con and I don’t do much, hence another reason why I haven’t done any beading.
So I have nothing to show. Not even of my pre Christmas beading as most of the pieces sold before I got a chance to photograph them (and I’m not complaining about that!). Now that my beading group has started back and my workspace is all spick and span I hope the creative juices will start flowing again soon.
Keep Cool Sharyn
