All quiet in the house (except for me coughing still). James and Laila are in bed and Keith is at work. Should be finishing soon though.
Update on the bookmark job - we've whittled it down to 300 now. I had to order one particular bead from the U.S. and get it Fed-Ex-ed across here because I have so little time to get them done. The shipping cost more than the 350 beads I bought eek! Oh well - I did factor that into the cost when I gave them my price. Yeah so hopefully they will be here in 3 to 5 days and I can get cracking!!!
Argh this cough is driving me NUTS!
Better get off here as I have washing to fold and wet washing to hang on the drying rack. FUN ha!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Cold :(
So the cold finally caught me! Thought I was going to escape it but nooo. Of course I got it worse than the rest of the family - typical.
Have been freaking out about the bookmark beading job. Trying to source the right beads is proving next to impossible and now looks like the closets to what I want will have to be sourced from the U.S. argh. This means added time taken up for shipping it out here and doesn't leave much time for the actual work. I am going to have to committ to significatly less than they want although I can't imagine why a library wants 2000. Especially when they find out the cost!
Anyway it is stressing me out a bit.
Today Keith has taken James and Laila out shopping to give me a bit of time to myself. Bless him :) So far I haven't done anything except eat honeycomb yoghurt and drink tea (and browse online). I've been looking at wool dying links. Would love to have a play with that sometime!
Trying my hand at some fleece pants for Laila at the moment too. Not sure how they will turn out lol!
Ok I need another cuppa again ;)
Have been freaking out about the bookmark beading job. Trying to source the right beads is proving next to impossible and now looks like the closets to what I want will have to be sourced from the U.S. argh. This means added time taken up for shipping it out here and doesn't leave much time for the actual work. I am going to have to committ to significatly less than they want although I can't imagine why a library wants 2000. Especially when they find out the cost!
Anyway it is stressing me out a bit.
Today Keith has taken James and Laila out shopping to give me a bit of time to myself. Bless him :) So far I haven't done anything except eat honeycomb yoghurt and drink tea (and browse online). I've been looking at wool dying links. Would love to have a play with that sometime!
Trying my hand at some fleece pants for Laila at the moment too. Not sure how they will turn out lol!
Ok I need another cuppa again ;)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
OMG
I really should post here more oops.
Today I had amazing news! My author friend Fiona McIntosh emailed me with another bookmark order.
Harper Collins commisioned me to make 100 jewelled bookmark tails for her last fantasy book "Goddess" which everyone loved.
Now she has lined up a job from Burnside library for me wanting bookmarks for her new crime novel coming out later in the year (August?).
The catch this time is that they are talking numbers around 1000 or even 2000. Eeeeek.
Not really sure I can cope with that amount but there is room for discussions. Now I'm off out tomorrow to look at suitable beads and pricing to give a quote. Scary but exciting :)
In other news Laila slept in her cot for the first time alst night and went 10:30pm til 7am. So lets hope that keeps up lol! She's sitting here chewing her sock as I type. Time to start tea. Apricot chicken mmmmmm.
Today I had amazing news! My author friend Fiona McIntosh emailed me with another bookmark order.
Harper Collins commisioned me to make 100 jewelled bookmark tails for her last fantasy book "Goddess" which everyone loved.
Now she has lined up a job from Burnside library for me wanting bookmarks for her new crime novel coming out later in the year (August?).
The catch this time is that they are talking numbers around 1000 or even 2000. Eeeeek.
Not really sure I can cope with that amount but there is room for discussions. Now I'm off out tomorrow to look at suitable beads and pricing to give a quote. Scary but exciting :)
In other news Laila slept in her cot for the first time alst night and went 10:30pm til 7am. So lets hope that keeps up lol! She's sitting here chewing her sock as I type. Time to start tea. Apricot chicken mmmmmm.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
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