Necklaces

I received a delivery from PJ minerals Ltd and proceeded to make four necklaces. Eventually there may be photos. The first one was 14 inches long, mostly blue. The next one was 17 inches long, mostly green (including some great beads that look black until the light shines on them). Then I went for broke, decided tostop being so stingy with my beads, and made one 24 inches long in shades of brown and amber. And then I realised that I had some interesting read beads I'd hardly used yet and made a red one 16.5 inches long.

I feel very satisfied, and want to order more beads and make more things. Perhaps I should order some elastic and make some bracelets to match.

The only snag is that I don't actually wear jewellery very much. Ho hum. Perhaps I'll start.

What I have done and what I have yet to do

Well, another lot of flea-treatment has been done, and I brought the duvet to the laundrette, who washed it, and I found out about their bridal dress services, and I read High Fidelity, which surprised me, and Room at the Top, and started Here comes Thursday!. I bought a foot file to deal with the callouses on my heels and started sorting out crash space for the myriad afpers who are coming to this meet. I made four necklaces, none of which are particularly dreadful, even if ordering beads online meant that the colours aren't quite what I expected. I listened to the radio. I ate some of the bread I baked yesterday in ourr new breadmaker - it didn't rise properly, so it was a bit heavy, and it's a bit dull (I think I need to put something in it; plain wholemeal is bland as all get out, so the wholegrain we buy from the shop is nicer) but it was ok. It was either the lack of a vitamin C tablet or the old yeast.

I was woken at 06:30 by a new, itchy fleabite. 3 cats + summer = itch. For some reason, they hardly nibble on Rob, and they leap on me with fangs akimbo whenever they think I'm not looking or can't reach.

Bah.

Yet to do...

• Wash up
• Clear kitchen
• Clear dining table
• Clear spare bedroom so that it can be my office again
• Persuade Rob to go to Wickes and buy the wood for the TV cabinet he promised me - I wanted a shelf, which I could have done myself, but he said he'd do a TV cabinet. Meanwhile the clutter is driving me crazy and I can't do anything about it (in the library. The library is all stacked up now and only more shelving will help).
• Bake white bread for Rob.
• Study some. At least, work out what I should feel guilty for failing to study.