The art of no craft

How do I have as many hours in a given day as anyone else and not feel productive?  I'm hoping to change that.

Last weekend my too-small-to-be-of-much-use table looked like this:

Another episode of all the gear no idea, this is me crafting such fripperies such as feathery bits for my little hat and a watch-parts pendant for White Mischief. The remainder of the feathers may end up on the wall at some point.

It strikes me that being able to solder (accurately; and at home rather than in workshop or at a course) would be very beneficial but I cannot take on any more hobbies at the moment. Or buy anything else that could be classified as 'equipment'. So superglue it is for now. There was probably as much enjoyment gleaned from taking the old watches* apart as reconstructing them.  Though I would say I'm all about whether something works, as opposed to why it works. That may explain my challenges with knitting patterns.

This weekend the table looks like this:

Proof-reading so that I can earn some cash for a mooted diving trip; but also firstly for San Francisco.  I am trying to simplify a little and I think there's a declutter coming.  For a while I've been trying to avoid acquiring 'stuff' but I'm not sure it's working so well.  Well, there's stuff ie those delectable Dan Hillier prints
(will put the photos in the last post to show off their gorgeousness) which is good for my soul - and then there's bucketloads of crap.  Magazines whose subscriptions I can't figure out how to cancel; spare bedding with nowhere to store it; and 'stuff' that doesn't have a home here yet.  I tried to make it to a yarn swap/sale last week but TFL foiled me and the bag of yarn for sale is still in the hallway.

So while these tools of the trade have occupied me most of the weekend

I've also cast on with some of the precious Debbie Bliss silk from the stash.  I really did try to do the bolero from the Pure Silk book but seriously (in pursuit of sanity) short of paying someone to write me a line by line pattern, and despite assistance from helpful Ravelry people, I have decided to try the plain shrug. I have made it to the second section (where it asks you to cast on another 38 stitches mid row - still working on that).  But the colour and the drape will be fabulous so it's worth persevering.

There's lots at my day job to keep me busy too.  My uncle is visiting the next two weekends. I am terribly behind on my laundry (putting it away - my bedroom looks like Benetton with lots of folded clothes everywhere) Need to get going on making a few extra hours in each day. I have some ideas... deleting the newly-found Stumble Upon may be the best one... (Penni, that's all your fault!)

* though of course now I am utterly suspicious of all those pre-White Mischief transactions as one of them may have been the cause of the paypal nightmare.  Latest update is that the money that was claimed from my paypal account, though not from my bank account because I'd alerted the bank about it, has now been credited back to my account.  Hence more calls to paypal to explain that now there's money in my account that isn't mine.  That really is ironic. 

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[Fliss]

Proof reading, arghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Something I have to do all too often, along with writing indexes and writing footnotes/references. Still it pays the bills huh? The watch stuff you are making looks most fascinating!