Shoes

My lesson for Friday is definitely to remember that pretty shoes are NEVER what they seem and will cripple you with blisters at every given opportunity.

Today is still a work in progress. After such a crazy week getting the shop up and running I decided to sit down today with and do some mindless easy knitting. I had in mind to start a scarf with some recycled sari yarn I bought from an indian Ebay seller a while ago. The yarn doesn't seem to have much spin to it and has snapped a few times. I'm going to try and carry on and see what happens. My lesson will either be to give things a go and see how they pan out or NEVER carry on with a pointless skein of yarn.

No pics today I'm afraid.

Phew

What a week!!!!!

Setting up a new website and moving my shop away from Ebay has been an experience and a half. My learning for the Learn Something New Every Day will have to be that patience is the key when setting something up such as a new online shop. The link to it is The Craft Garden if anybody reading this fancies some paper flowers and there is 10% off all orders until 30th September when you use the code opening during checkout.

A trip to the seaside at the weekend which turned out to be a very warm sunny day.

Double Ender

Today I learnt that taking my two dogs for a walk doesn't have to be so hard.

They are pullers and I have tried just about every product out there to try and stop them. A Halti body harness seemed to work until Daisy started rubbing against every house we went past and it frayed. We are back to Halti head collars which I think are better than anything else.

As a last resort I bought a lead where they can both be attached to. I bought it without much confidence and that I would be pulled even harder. I was wrong. This is fantastic and it is made by the Halti people. Don't get me wrong they still both want to do their own thing but if one goes in one direction then the other has to follow so no red marks on my fingers from their leads.

Hope it carries on working.

Another lesson I relearnt this morning is not to go to the park in flip flops while there is still dew on the grass. I thought I would have learnt that lesson by now but obviously not and I dare say I will do it again.

OK Then

According to the counter at the side I seem to have had over 11,000 readers in the last couple of days. That counter said around the 200 mark on monday. Think something may be amok there as I am just a boring housewife writing a boring blog which my husband thinks is sad so no way would that many people visit. The counters must be playing up.

Learning something every day update:

Monday 7th September was to expect the unexpected and never take things for granted.

Tuesday 8th September was that it is still as emotional when your 3rd child starts high school as when your first two start.

Wednesday 9th September was relearning that the first few days of term are very tiring for the kids and tantrums are inevitable

Today - 10th September is learning that, since my 3 day delivery dryer that was ordered on friday still hasn't arrived, then the glorious sunshine we have been having the last few days should be embraced and put to good use with hanging the washing out.

Get On With It

Carrying on with learning something every day - 5th September was a lesson about take aways. They either turn up or they don't and saturday was a day for our pizza to stay at the shop and a lesson learnt that we won't be using that particular outlet again.

Lesson for 6th September is that plodding on with really boring knitting means satisfaction at the end of it. Having got through the monotony of countless boring rows is an achievement for me because I generally just give up and it goes to the frog pond. This is another term for ripping out all the stitches.

This was my lesson for yesterday. I have been doing a pair of socks which has 2 pattern rows repeated for what seems like forever. The only part that made it slightly interesting was the striping of the yarn. However, I carried on with it and I now have a completed pair of socks.

I have done the first 4 layouts for the Learn Something New Every Day class. No front cover yet. I've used a Love Elsie house shaped album I had.