Day 49 of 100, Tuesday 11th December

Up an hour earlier today! And a good thing, too – the phone rang at twenty to eight, my delivery is outside! WOW! When I placed the order they scheduled delivery for the 18^th December – and here we are!

I won’t be watching them right away, I just got into the Jon Pertwee Dr Who Seasons and am still enjoying those.

My back was still painful this morning, I’m afraid. I fear it may be time to invest in a new mattress – but with all the expenses of this move, it will have to wait. Quite a while, I should say.

With the early delivery the mippies got out early as well, Mewthos, however, is mewling around the house – he wants me to play with him. So I pick him up for cuddles over and over and over again till he’s quiet! Lady Jane decides to get cuddles while I’m on the toilet – she is quite a determined little girl and knows when I can’t ‘escape’ ha ha!

With the ‘success’ of my little basket, my mind went off on yet another tangent last night – this time making baskets instead of going from store to store asking for boxes. They could hold light weight items, like curtains, clothes, etc. That’s really where I usually go wrong, my mind races along the most fantastic ideas and my body can’t keep up (or should I say reality can’t keep up with my dreams) and then I loose interest.

Ha Ha Ha, Rose’s lawn is being mown right now and suddenly I have three cats underfoot! Literally under my feet! Even Ziva has come in to get away from the noise. And here comes Romeo, just to complete the set.

My second basket is coming along nicely; I’ve used the structure I meant for the first basket, where I had run into a problem. I made the sticks too hard, so I couldn’t weave with them, but by using soft, flat sticks, I can weave around the hard ones. And they actually help hold the shape. I did have to add another stick, to make it an uneven number – had to ‘steal’ one from Lady Jane, ha ha! While working on it, I’ve come up with a lot of ‘next time, I should …’ improvement ideas.

At the top of the basket, trying to finish it off, I’ve run into another problem – the tightly wound sticks won’t bend to weave into the basket, they just break. So I need to come up with an idea how to finish the top of this basket.

What a laugh! Mewthos is now calling me to come with him … it’s time to water the garden! Sorry, Mew, but the wind is just too unpleasantly cold tonight!

I’m winding a flattened paper stick through the top two threads and sticking it with glue onto each of the warp sticks, which I’ve had to cut off. I’m pulling it through the gaps using a paper clip as my ‘needle’.

Part of me just wants to finish my basket – but I need to eat, bath and I don’t want to go to bed late again. I woke and got up nice and early today, I’d rather not loose the momentum which is finally going in the right direction! It really looks quite good, though, I’m quite happy with the result! I’ll also need to exercise some discipline when I’m working again, halt projects mid-way regardless how much I’d like to continue, to tend to normal chores and daily necessities. And, of course, I can’t neglect my kitties! They’ll need their daily dose of cuddles and play-time with me as well.