Today I have been mostly sewing cushion covers. So far I have done one patchwork one and 3 non-patchwork ones. Still to do I have one patchwork one and 2 non-patchwork ones.
Sewing cushion covers is easy and relatively quick :) although the patchwork has been driving me slightly crazy as it takes so much longer ... I'm doing them pillowcase-style so no need for ties / buttons / zips / etc. They will spruce up my room at Uni no end!
Photos to follow.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter Sunday
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
(He is risen indeed! Alleluia!)
Happy Easter!
Church this morning was good. We had a message which was a bit cheesy but was sufficiently self-deprecating so as to be really good :) I was worried it would be a twee "message for the kiddies" so was very pleased it wasn't. Had things like: Easter is Egg-citing (speaker: "you see what I did there? Yeah, yeah, I know it's awful ..."), and un-egg-spected ... yeah, it was good. Plus, we had one of the best songs ever - and one that expresses our hope ...
There is a Day
That all creation's waiting for
A day of freedom
And liberation for the Earth
And on that Day
The Lord will come to meet His Bride
And when we see Him
In an instant we'll be changed
The trumpet sounds
And the dead will then be raised
By His power
Never to perish again
Once only flesh
Now clothed with immortality
Death hs now been
Swallowed up in Victory
We will meet Him in the air
And then we will be like Him
For we will see Him as He is, Oh yeah
Then all hurt and pain will cease
And we'll be with Him forever
And in His glory we will live, Oh yeah, Oh yeah
So lift your eyes
To the things as yet unseen
That will remain now
For all Eternity
Though trouble's hard
It's only momentary
And it's achieving
Our future glory
We will meet Him in the air
And then we will be like Him
For we will see Him as He is, Oh yeah
Then all hurt and pain will cease
And we'll be with Him forever
And in His glory we will live, Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Alleluia. Christ is risen!
(He is risen indeed! Alleluia!)
Happy Easter!
Church this morning was good. We had a message which was a bit cheesy but was sufficiently self-deprecating so as to be really good :) I was worried it would be a twee "message for the kiddies" so was very pleased it wasn't. Had things like: Easter is Egg-citing (speaker: "you see what I did there? Yeah, yeah, I know it's awful ..."), and un-egg-spected ... yeah, it was good. Plus, we had one of the best songs ever - and one that expresses our hope ...
There is a Day
That all creation's waiting for
A day of freedom
And liberation for the Earth
And on that Day
The Lord will come to meet His Bride
And when we see Him
In an instant we'll be changed
The trumpet sounds
And the dead will then be raised
By His power
Never to perish again
Once only flesh
Now clothed with immortality
Death hs now been
Swallowed up in Victory
We will meet Him in the air
And then we will be like Him
For we will see Him as He is, Oh yeah
Then all hurt and pain will cease
And we'll be with Him forever
And in His glory we will live, Oh yeah, Oh yeah
So lift your eyes
To the things as yet unseen
That will remain now
For all Eternity
Though trouble's hard
It's only momentary
And it's achieving
Our future glory
We will meet Him in the air
And then we will be like Him
For we will see Him as He is, Oh yeah
Then all hurt and pain will cease
And we'll be with Him forever
And in His glory we will live, Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Alleluia. Christ is risen!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Bits and pieces :)
Lately I have been ...
-Messing about on the internet (yay, forums)
-Shopping: see below
-Reading "The Model Wife" by Julia Llewellyn, which is rather a good read. About a 22 year old who shamelessly has an affair with a married man (she's rather naive and believes all the "I don't really love my wife" stuff, and also is desperately looking for a father figure) then ends up marrying him after she ends up pregnant and finding things tough/awkward, but makes her way through them whilst slowly realising what a huge thing she's done.
-Crocheting round the edge of my squares-blanket - I should put a picture up, will do soon
-Visiting Church for the Stations of the Cross (yesterday).
I've had rather a successful shopping trip today ... new duvet cover set for my bed at College, £7.60 down from £9.50, new necklace £2.40 down from £10, and refrained from buying a beautiful pewtery-silver dress that was £30 down from £100 ... it was gorgeous, the fit was gorgeous, but the colour just doesn't flatter me. It's a colour I love but I must restrict my love to accessories, not big pieces, as it doesn't work with my skin. Boy was it pretty, though.
A random thought: I happen to be reading a blog at the moment which says "Spending cash registers in your brain in a way that swiping plastic does not." - something I've heard over and over again, often from budget advisors. Is this really true? I think it's a personality type thing and a generation thing ... I don't think it's true for me. I'm a grown up; I can recall how much is in each of my bank accounts (and so long as I haven't been making lots of purchases, yes, I do remember my current account balance to the nearest pound).
If I know money is tight, then I will be super-aware of how much I have in my account. Paying by card (not usually swiping these days!) definitely registers in my head as actual money being spent; I can go home and look in my online banking and see that the money's gone. Maybe that's part of it too - in the days before online banking it was easy to forget how much you'd spent by card that month?
-Messing about on the internet (yay, forums)
-Shopping: see below
-Reading "The Model Wife" by Julia Llewellyn, which is rather a good read. About a 22 year old who shamelessly has an affair with a married man (she's rather naive and believes all the "I don't really love my wife" stuff, and also is desperately looking for a father figure) then ends up marrying him after she ends up pregnant and finding things tough/awkward, but makes her way through them whilst slowly realising what a huge thing she's done.
-Crocheting round the edge of my squares-blanket - I should put a picture up, will do soon
-Visiting Church for the Stations of the Cross (yesterday).
I've had rather a successful shopping trip today ... new duvet cover set for my bed at College, £7.60 down from £9.50, new necklace £2.40 down from £10, and refrained from buying a beautiful pewtery-silver dress that was £30 down from £100 ... it was gorgeous, the fit was gorgeous, but the colour just doesn't flatter me. It's a colour I love but I must restrict my love to accessories, not big pieces, as it doesn't work with my skin. Boy was it pretty, though.
A random thought: I happen to be reading a blog at the moment which says "Spending cash registers in your brain in a way that swiping plastic does not." - something I've heard over and over again, often from budget advisors. Is this really true? I think it's a personality type thing and a generation thing ... I don't think it's true for me. I'm a grown up; I can recall how much is in each of my bank accounts (and so long as I haven't been making lots of purchases, yes, I do remember my current account balance to the nearest pound).
If I know money is tight, then I will be super-aware of how much I have in my account. Paying by card (not usually swiping these days!) definitely registers in my head as actual money being spent; I can go home and look in my online banking and see that the money's gone. Maybe that's part of it too - in the days before online banking it was easy to forget how much you'd spent by card that month?
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