On the plus side, the rest of the house is the most sparse it’s been in near enough a year. The unecessaries laying around are all tools and stuff for the decorating plus the bikes as we currently don’t have a hut.

We were supposed to have made a lot of headway with decorating the living room at the weekend there, but it was M’s birthday so I was at her wee party and then W’s sister, brother in law and the kids came to visit so we headed off to the beach with M in tow (to give her parents the chance to tidy up the bombsite that 5 kids managed to leave behind) and had a blast. Pizza hut for dinner was a huge let down though, the service in the Kilmarnock branch was terrible. Very very very slow and the food wasn’t that great when it did finally arrive. The kids were fed up waiting on their food. W being his usual self tipped, my tip was just for them to provide a better service. I won’t be going back to that branch in a hurry.

I doubt I’ll get to potter about with it as it W’s birthday today. He’s 31, but I mock him that it’s his 32nd year. It was more fun last year though when he had his turning 30 crisis and I continually pointed out he was then into his 31st year on this world. He got his own back last month thoug (

We’re at an age now where we don’t have a scooby what to get each other as pressies so we have agreed from now on we will treat each other to a nice meal and I have said we can go to the cinema tomorrow evening as well. I’m not a fan of the cinema, but he misses not going, so thougth I’d be nice for a change. Avatar 3D it is. Another migraine here we come /

Oh, drama yesterday. My car ran out of juice in the middle of a set of traffice lights on the main road through my town. I was mortified! What do we do in a crisis…..yep……phone the parents, lol. Dad came to the rescue with a can of petrol from the local garage (that in all honesty I could have walked to had I not been guarding my car). Two janitors from the school came out to give me a push off the main road onto a quiet side street while I waited. At least a 5 min rescue drive along the main road is better than the last time he had to bail me out – when I locked my car key in the car a 2hr drive away from home. He was great, drove the spare key to me, no fuss. He’s way too good to me at times.

I’m feeling very very tired this week which I assume is an aftermath of the weekends migraine so nothing interesting is really happening.

Bit worried about my wee car. The poor thing coughs and splutters into life when I turn the key instead of firing up no probs. Another thing to add to my dad’s to do list. We are down to 1 car at the moment since W’s had to be scrapped so we can’t afford to loose another car. I shudder at the thought. I finally got my license in April 2008 (so why do I still have P plates on my car I hear you ask – just out of lazyness and the fact that it annoys W) and since then have had the luxury of being a free agent when it comes to getting out and about. I don’t want to have to go back to relying on public transport. Getting a train to work everyday is more than enough for me, I absolutly hate buses (more so the Glasgow ones which thankfully I have no need to venture onto these days since persuading W to move away from there). I’ll be keeping everything crossed that it’s alright. In all honesty it’s probably getting fed up of being starved of petrol, but it’s far too expensive these days. When W passed his test 3 years ago it was 70 odd pence per litre, now it’s up at £1.17 per litre. Daylight robbery!!! Grrr!

I’m obsessed with puppets/muppets. Immature? – nah!

Had no choice but to struggle on into work this morning as I’m on a warning for my attendence because of recurring migraines, and since lunchtime have been struggling a bit. I don’t want to take more pills while in the office tho as I don’t want to be all spaced out, but I do feel pretty sick! Looks like I’ll be having an early night.

Still waiting on my vice arriving (it has been dispatched though, woohoo!), so I don’t want to potter around with the demoulded pieces anyway until I get it. I have lots of ideas kicking around for more pieces, but I’m a. running out of resin, b. pretty skint, c. pretty skint even after payday comes as there are 3 birthdays in the next pay period, d. we’re trying to get a move on decorating the living room so that should be my prioroty and e. I’m a bit lazy at times.

No notable antics from the kitties this weekend. Harry is enjoying his new found freedom now that the catflap is open from dawn to dusk and Oscar is being his usual grumbly self. Harry didn’t appear home for a few hours on Saturday so W decided to wander round the square to look for him and found him lying in ‘the enemie’s’ garden. We think Harry broke his hip fighting with Peter cat, but either they have called a truce and are happily co-existing in the same area or they are having a very long standoff with each other. Either way, within 10mins of being brought back to our garden, Harry trotted off, no doubt back in search of Peter cat.

I have the decision now of leaving them as they are, or trying to sand them down and put another wee coat on them. The perfectionist in me wants them smooth and shiny but the realist in me says it’s never gonna happen. I might try it on the worst one first and see how it goes.

Harry has his vet appointment today. I’m stuck in work so am waiting on a phonecall from W to see how it goes. I’m assuming they will be pretty happy with his progress but keep him on his pain killers for now. He jumped up on the kitchen worktop the other day and has scaled a tree in recent days, a sure fire sign that he’s getting stronger. He had struggled to jump on anything higher than the couch ever since his op.

He never used to mind going to the vets, but he’s not so keen anymore. I think he may have seen it on the calender as this morning he was not in either of his usual places when I woke up, instead he was chilled out in his bed on the couch, paws in the air, dreaming of his ‘happy place’.

Oscar had a pretty low key evening. Must be regaining his strength for more hunting!

K now knows I have made one specially for her, but I have made sure it has not been in any of the pics she has seen of them and she is definetly intruiged.

I ordered a Dremel multi vice yesterday in the hope that it will make sanding and drilling easier, but it could take up to 10 days to arrive. I want it today, Grrr! I was going to buy a £10 hobby vice from Homebase, but while browsing around to make sure it was what I wanted, I chanced across the Dremel. It’s £30, but I was sold on it’s tilt abilities and rubber grips (I found it for £27 pluc £4.99 postage and packing).

Oscar is back on the hunt again after a months break. A wee vole met it’s maker yesterday afternoon, the poor wee soul.

Harry has his vet checkup tomorrow. He’s still limping too much for our liking, but I figure it’s still normal at this stage. He’s still on his daily painkillers, but is getting out for a run around for about an hour or two in the morning and another hour in the late afternoon. He had got used to being stuck indoors in the months after having his hip removed, but now when I get up each morning I find him keeping vigil by the catflap waiting on his morning jaunt.

My friend is moving house today, my other half has been roped into helping with the flit. I can’t wait to see it, this has been over a year in the planning. It’s a new build 3 storey, 4 bedroom house, and from what I have seen so far, looks lovely. I’m jealous and excited for them. Will be great to see how excited and proud M is at having her very own bedroom and a secure garden to run riot in. I’ll be going for a tour after dinner <note to self – get a card!>.

I have been trying out all different things to embed and so far it looks as though material is going to work the best. I purchased some fat quarters at a recent hobbycraft event to try out and although not demoulded yet, I think they look pretty swanky! I just wish I had more funds to buy in lots of glitter and the like as I’m limited as to what I put in my rear layers.

Not so good news, Oscar the cat is back on ‘the hunt’. For months now I have enjoyed seeing our resident robin milling around the garden, but no more! Oscar decided the robin would make a good ‘gift’ and yesterday afternoon ‘purchased’ his gift, decided gift wrap was an unnecesary inconvenience and proudly placed it in our hall!

He was in an extra weird mood all day so I suppose I should have expected something, but he has never brought anything of the winged variety home. It’s usually just voles, which we have to either dispose of or catch, check over for wounds and decide if the SSPCA is required or a short stint in a dark quiet box to calm down before being placed back in the field is required.

I wish he would go back to basics and collect leaves again! Leaves I can handle. You don’t have the horrible pangs of guilt with a leaf, but when a little life is snuffed out all because your wee furry man wanted to play, it’s absolutly breaks your heart.

This week I have given myself a kick in the rear and bit the bullet.  I have cast the first and second layers of what I hope will be my first wearable pendants.  So far so good, however I know at least 4 of them will not turn out ok. 

I tried covering my cutouts in PVA glue to stop the resin seeping into the paper, but must have missed some bits as there are wee splodges through some of them that completely ruins the appearance.  Oh well, live and learn.

On the plus side, I’m so far really happy with the way the round pendants are turning out.  Just need to decide how to finish them off – Glitter, clear, pigmented – and then it’s onto the dreaded sanding!  With my shaky hands I’m reluctant to touch them with a rotary tool but will just have to keep chanting – ‘DON’T FEAR TO FAIL’!