Having another nice weekend at home with no firm plans, I decided to make this one another productive one. Tom and I went to Salisbury to set up our joint account and change my name on my account, and I also bought some fabric and costuming bits. I wrote some thank-yous, tidied the house, organized the utility room, cleaned and turned on the new chest freezer (freecycle WIN!), did a tiny bit of gardening, and started to work on my badger costume. The costuming part of the productivity went… not so well. It would appear it’s been too long since I did anything like this and I have blatantly forgotten how to sew. I tried to make myself some elbow-length black fur gloves for the costume, but repeatedly made them too tight! This was rather frustrating as I have made so many gloves before and haven’t made this mistake in a long time.

I wanted to have finished the gloves by the end of the weekend but gave up as it clearly wasn’t happening – I’m going back to the drawing board on those and may have to knock-up a pair of test ones from cheap fabric just to be on the safe side.

I have also apparently lost both of my glue guns, which is very bizarre especially as I used one of them not three months ago and Tom remembers seeing it out recently. Common sense says it should be in the spare room with the rest of my craft bits, but I’ve hunted and cannot find the bloody thing! I have located the box of black fabric glue sticks though so all is not lost, since glue guns are pretty cheap to start with.

On Sunday Tom and I went for a walk, since I was getting itchy to take some Autumnal photographs. We wandered down a lane and through some fields – not a long walk but enough to find some nice colours. I also discovered a hedge bordering a field which contained huge quantities of sloes, blackberries, elderberries, and rosehips – mostly now gone over but would have been marvelous a few weeks ago! I will have to remember it for next year. I also discovered a cherry tree near to the church, though the cherries were small and hard so I suspect would not make good eating. Maybe they could be cooked with though?

Can you tell I’m liking this whole foraging thing? :D

Today is another dreary Monday… grey, cold, dark. Bah! Roll on Friday.

I just bought a LOT of purple ribbon.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250313217571&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:UK:11

This stuff better be nice! I only needed 50M of the stuff for card-making, but I figure the other 50M can be used to decorate, oh I don't know, EVERYTHING! I could probably make myself into a purple satin mummy with this if I wanted. I'm going to have a very purple wedding, oh yes!

I also put in an order for a whole bunch of purple mulberry paper, white linen card blanks, and lilac card for the purposes of invites and RSVPs. As soon as it all arrives I'm ready to start putting it all together!

Because I am not wise in these matters.

Are wool and yarn the same thing? A quick search seems to imply yarn can be made from wool but is not the same thing. For crochet, do I specifically need to buy yarn or will the bags of knitting wool I have in my loft suffice?