Is it already more than a week since my last post? How did that happen? Well, I guess because the only projects I’ve finished I can’t blog about, and I’m working hard to meet my writing deadline.

Last night I finally finished the sleeves of River Tweed and started on the collar. It’s a pretty big collar, so there’s a long way to go yet. I’ve also started another pair of socks. I sold another painting. Otherwise… no weaving, the canvas hasn’t arrived yet, I haven’t stated my Sketchbook Project sketchbook, no progress on the Big Project, and the Garage Project is in Paul’s hands.

But I did buy a jacket from the op shop that I’m going to alter, then paint. It’s my way of getting around the fact that I love the idea of sewing a jacket out of an old canvas, but don’t want to do the sewing part.

There have been other distractions. A big branch fell from our neighbour’s tree at 3:30am last Friday morning. This is a pic after we’d removed about 1/3 of it:

Yes, that’s a new fence, built last April. It stood up pretty well, considering. I’m glad I hadn’t got around to painting it yet! The branch came down half a metre from Paul’s car. so we’re pretty lucky.

And I keep finding Paul browsing cat shelter adoption pages. It appears to be rubbing off on me, too. I lost the entire morning today, looking at cat profiles. Something tells me we aren’t going to be cat-less for very long.