Winter ills…
When the winter ills hit the house and one vacillates from being Super Nurse to not quite so Super Wife and back again, one’s attention span is pretty short.
So what to do?
Despite the fact that I might be feeling seedy myself, but only in a mini-way you understand, I do rug up and take the dogs for a walk. The fresh air makes me feel better and I heed the words of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother who claimed a brisk walk can cure a cold.
And then, back to the couch while Currently Less Than Super Husband sleeps off the bug in bed. My brain isn’t too sharp so I play on Pinterest for a while. Lovely dreamy things to look at as well as some more input for the Tobias board.
And then I go to e-bay and have a window shop for summer clothes. Beats thinking about winter ills, that’s for sure.
Then to Amazon – bookmarking some research books.
Goodness – all that walking around stores has exhausted me. Time for a cup of tea. Then my email pings with a new post from Anna Scott Embroidery and from Mai Tai Collections
I become lost in Anna’s and Mai Tai’s blogs – filled with colour and beauty. And no, I don’t own a Hermes scarf but I would love to. Maybe when I sign away movie rights! (Fit of coughing!)
I take out my bird embroidery and finish the last little stitch…
And I also pull out La Bicyclette … the baby rug I’m embroidering to augment my gift cupboard.
It’s a design taken from the wonderful Jenny McWhinney Grandmere book.
The little boy mouse has merely been made into a girl by the addition of a gathered strip of grosgrain ribbon as a nifty little skirt. I’ve found an image of wonderful flower embroidery on Pinterest and will try and embroider a similar wildflower verge for my little mouse’s ride through the country.
Husband’s asleep, dogs are lying in the window in the sun. I’m dozy. Not such a bad way to spend a Saturday.
Hope you have a good one…
Apart from being poorly this sounds like a rather lovely day! I love your embroidery. I was once, many years ago, rather keen on embroidery myself but haven’t done any for a very long time. My Saturday is just starting and I’m yet to get up…suspect it will mostly consist of photo editing, grocery shopping, and procrastinating about all the other things I should be doing 😉 Hope you all feel better soon.
Hi Kathryn… thank you for the compliment re the embroidery. I’ve said many times it’s a form of moving meditation.
And husband appears to have turned the corner – think it might have been the chicken broth at lunchtime.
Nothing like procrastination, by the way. I’m doing it with Tobias right now.
Your embroidery is beautiful!
Thanks so much Denise. I’m really very amateur. You should see the work of the ladies I stitch with! Wow!