Yay!

Got up, washed rug in bath, had visitor, sorted dry laundry, hung wet laundry, washed wool laundry, emptied and refilled dishwasher, repaired torn pyjamas for Emer, made a note of decluttered items. Yay!

Thank yous!

Thank you to Rachel & Tony for the books and elephant for the children, and to Ny for the month-to-view calendar for all of us (I'd love more information on where you got the planet notepaper and on the background to the images).

Lovely lovely Christmas, going on forever!

Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle

SEWING.

The sewing machine is one Janice left with us when she went home to Canada before Linnea was born. She brought it over from Canada to begin with, so the manual is bilingual. And never made sense to me before, but did the last time I looked, and now I can thread a sewing machine, which means...

I have repaired two duvet covers, one pair of Rob's pyjamas, one pair of Linnea's pyjamas so Emer can wear them, one of Rob's shirts, a laundry bag, and I forget what else. I am making a sewing box (slowly). I have a pile of mending which is shrinking a lot, and I am more willing to tackle it than I ever have been. I have finished TWO tubes of glue in the past week, between repairing kids' toys and making the sewing box, and I used the padding from an en-route-to-landfill carseat for the pincushion in the lid.

But I'm going to need pale pink thread if I intend to continue. And a pinking shears. (These are not related items).

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