Photo for Tessa

Just to satisfy Tessa's curiosity ... here's my basket of 'smalls' - in fact, here's a "before" and "after" shot haha ... the first photo is from when I first started blogging just over a year ago - and the 2nd is the result after a year's worth of stitching to fill it up! I eventually want to find a nice long narrow basket especially just for my needlerolls, which will give a bit more space to my pincushions again, but for now this will suffice. It's sitting on top of my new Ikea cabinet I made last month which houses my glasses, and is the first thing you walk past when you come into my wee flat. I can't believe how full that basket has got recently ... me thinks perhaps I'm going to have to find another one to fill again soon too ;)

before ............................. after
Aside from that, nothing to post about really - I've been feeling really down and homesick today, so a phone call home helped a bit before settling down for the night. I've just been moping around for the last two days, perhaps because I haven't been at work so haven't had the distraction of chatting to other people there, and I've really been missing Mum since she's been gone. Oh well, it's back to work again tomorrow for 4 nights of 6pm starts (my least favourite shift - yuk!!), so I'll have plenty of things to keep my busy then ... I might even sneak in a small stitching project for work too, seeing as every now and then we get a quiet night and can get a few stitches in between phone calls :P This time I'll make sure it's not a Lorri Birmingham kit, so there shouldn't be any errors for me not to notice!

And I'll soon be meeting Katrina face-to-face when she's over visiting Melbourne during the next couple of weeks, so that'll be a great cheer-me-up and something to look forward to :D Then on 30 Sep I'm hosting my very first dinner party since I've moved out on my own ... which is a huge big deal for me, as I'm inviting 4 people from work phew! I'm really nervous about it, but really looking forward to it as well - two of the ladies are definitely staying over for the night too, as they have a long way to drive, so it will be a fun social weekend, as we'll be finishing off with brekkie at St Kilda before they head off home. I'm not really social on the whole, as I'm quite shy, and having people from work in my home is a biggie ... I'm just nervous that people can be quite judgmental, but I feel secure enough with my surroundings now to make the move and invite people round ...

Over the next week I'm hoping to catch up on blog reading, as I'm usually little miss cranky pants during the day and don't get any stitching done on these shifts (I can't usually get to sleep until about 4am, and don't get a good unbroken sleep) ... I've decided I'm fed up with Newsgator now showing piccies on the subscription feeds, so I'm moving everything over to Bloglines, and I'm catching up on each blog at the same time as copying over the subscription details - unfortunately, though, it's going to take me quite some time to do it all, so my apologies if it's a while before I get to 'your' blog :)

Rightio, back into the kitchen again to finish cooking dinner ... a very boring Tuna Bake, that's going to last me for the next 3 nights ...