It really doesn’t feel like 2 months since I last wrote a blog post. But it would seem it is! It’s been a very, very busy 2 months though. In those 2 months I have dealt with –

  • school holidays (Holiday? What part of it counted as a holiday? Holidays are meant to be calm, relaxing experiences aren’t they?)
  • preparing paperwork for SEN stuff (don’t even go there!)
  • the anxious wait for GCSE results
  • actually getting GCSE results
  • the resulting jubilation and a teenager who suddenly realised her whole world was about to change
  • sorting out college start for aforementioned teenager
  • teenager starting college and loving it so much it’s all we hear about

and a whole lot more! I’m pretty sure I managed some gardening, some seaside time, several days out, lots of trips to the ice rink, no end of tidying up (aka trailing along behind young people restoring sanity where they left chaos!) , quite a bit of cooking and even some quality family time. At least I’m told it was quality family time 🙂

Oh, and I did get some work done, just didn’t have time to even take photos of it never mind write about it!

The last of the young people, the oldest teenager, finally returned to education at her new college (oh, that still feels weird not saying school!) a couple of days ago and sanity is finally, slowly returning to the house. And with sanity comes work, proper work!

Over the last week I had 2 orders to complete and also sorted out the work area and fabric stocks, checked the machines are all ready to go and, the best bit of all, finally found a supply of remnants and roll ends of Christmas themed fabrics! Those fabrics are now all washed and inspected ready to start working with them next week.

Tomorrow I have a trip to a wharehouse clearing out old fabric stock but as I have no car (some one booked it in for a service without me knowing grrrr!) this could be fun. At least it may stop me getting carried away although I do have 2 very large trolley bags and the phone number of a taxi company with people carriers. And the number of a man with a van . . .

And I mustn’t forget, the new website is getting there. It really is! Wish me luck and maybe it will be ready to use in a couple of weeks!