Saturday 5 January 2019

Happy New Year to everyone

Hope you have all had a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to the new year ,To be honest christmas this year has got in the way for us as my husband has had the results from his Mri and it shows no sign of strokes but he his still having the disabling events that slur his speech and the loss of use of his limbs ,
 The last episode saw him to fall on all fours and i had to try and get him back into his chair , He had two one day after the other recently and  is now waiting for an emergency appointment with the neurologist and the holiday has held this up.



 Anyway i still made some effort especially with the christmas gift wrapping, I always have lots of broken jewellery so i used it to embellish gifts.

















I had all the ribbons and paper in the red and green lot left over from previous years and the robin transfers i bought a few years ago , All i had to buy was one roll of paper for the second lot and some tags which cost me £2.00.

I was also not in the mood to bake christmas cakes this year but bought two reduced from Aldi at £1.99 each after christmas,




I want to do some sewing as i am getting bored  but  unfortunately i  decided last year that life was too busy for any sewing so i  sold my sewing machine ,
 Now i regret it so much , I bought the singer one from an auction but  my daughter used it as a prop for the school play and it came back minus the original needle, 
Plus i am not sure how to thread the lozenge shaped bobbin ,So today i advertise on freecycle to see if anyone had one to give away and an hour later i had this one delivered.



It's a bit tatty , It looks better in the picture than it is really but there is no bobbin case , I think i have one somewhere and  will go on a hunt tomorrow , I am just wondering it they are a standard size 
 It  also needs a needle not sure if a universal one will fit but i will try it , It does work and seems like a heavy duty one , 
The problem is i can't leave my husband alone at the moment and can't earn any money so i need to watch every penny hence not being able to buy one outright.


This christmas i had two lovely cath kidston presents.




Tonight we are having our version of a chinese curry.


This is off amazon , We don't like Indian , well i don't like either really, I  just have a stir fry 




This photo is from a couple of weeks ago , We do tend to have this though on a saturday evening.


   xxxx