Tuesday Tidbits...

**  It's actually Monday as I start writing this. I almost never write my posts in advance, but I can't be bothered doing anything else tonight because my head is ouchy :(

**  Caused by too much grumping at my children I suspect. They were really tired today and more naughty than usual. I think we might all be getting a cold Gah!

**  In breaking news... today I (yes me!) baked!

**  There were as yummy as they looked too!

**  But it's ok you can relax - I'm not slipping into becoming a domestic goddess in the kitchen or anything...

**  After madly baking cupcakes before 8am (we had guests coming) I had had my fill of kitchen mastery and since I was then too lazy to make lunch I decided to eat 4 cupcakes instead. - They had fruit on so that was my part of my fruit intake for the day didn't ya know!

**  My contribution to dinner was chopping up baby tomatoes & cucumber and drizzling them with balsamic to accompany my Indian Takeaway butter chicken.

**  So yeah - no masterchef awards in this house any time soon!! Cooking and I are not usually friends. I would rather sew quite frankly :)
(Although really there's not a huge amount of that happening at the moment either)

**  So on that point I decided to make a 3rd mug rug to replace one of my previous ones:

... in the Goodie Swap. Both my partners liked the same mugrug (although I'm not telling which) so I decided to give it to the one who shouted loudest and try again for the other. 

**  This is the progress so far for my 3rd mugrug...

**  I used this tute by my friend Jill. It was a good chance to try out the technique since I have agreed to make Jill 2 in return for a block for my cheeky quilt.

**  I really like it (pretty predictable since it's my favourite colours!!) and the tute was really easy to follow - thanks Jill! Everyone in the swap thought I paper pieced it, but to be honest I really wouldn't remember the first thing about how to paper piece since I've only done it once - a year ago!

**  I think this will be the final glimpse of it that my partner gets though because I have some things planned which will totally give the game away, if she hasn't guessed already...

**  In other news I have recently learned never say never!

**  A few weeks ago I recall saying to a friend of mine that you would never catch me dead buying a vintage sheet!

**  I meant no harm by saying this because said friend (and lots of my other friends!) is very into vintage sheets and I admire that. They are just generally not a love of mine.

** But I take it back. Because on a crazy whim I walked past my local thrift shop (on the way to buy milk as you do) and spotted this lovely...

**  It made me so nostalgic since I had a Holly Hobby duvet cover in the same colours and style when I was a girl, and I thought it would make such a lovely quilt back, that I just had to have it...

**  So I stand corrected!! I am now officially part of the vintage sheet club.

**  Kind of. I don't expect it will become a habit though. But again - never say never I guess!

**  I am having 3 friends over tomorrow to help me brand 50 t-shirts for an upcoming conference.

**  I have to say that I'm going to be a little relieved when this job is over. The suspense of such a large job is looming over me and I think it might free up my brain a little once it's over. I hope so anyway!

**  I am on the other hand very excited about my first self-run swap! If you missed yesterday's post and would like to be part of the Scrappy swap 2011, then come take a read and play along with us! :)

**  Tuesday afternoon as I finish this and my head is still ouchy :( Be gone headache, be gone!!

And that is a glimpse into my Tuesday for the week.

Have I mentioned lately that I love Tuesday Tidbits? It makes such a nice change to bullet point instead of writing attempting to write cohesive paragraphs!
Couldn't do it everyday though.

Linking up today to Fabric Tuesday.