Lunch Time Productiveness

I have been quite bad of late, I seem to have lost a lot of enthusiasm for most things. Well, technically speaking that's not true, I still have the enthusiasm, but what I lack is the motivation. This is true for all things creative, as well as all things healthy like exercising and cooking. (You should have seen Schmerc's face when it was my turn to make dinner and I presented a meal of potato rosti's, corn beef bake and beans straight from the oven - well except for the beans!)

I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get motivation back is by DOING. If I make myself do something, I get a wee buzz, and that wee buzz spurs me on to do more.

My new gaff is 2 minutes walk away from my work, so I regularly go home for lunch. That's all I do, lunch. Occasionally I clean and tidy, and then I lie on the couch sucking my thumb and playing with the cats until its time to go back to work.

Not today!

While I was lying on the couch sucking my thumb I realised that there is a whole host of stuff that I could be doing with the remaining half hour before work. I toddled off to my Doing Stuff room and got out some stuff to be doing. I completed two rows of the monkeys head (the monkey that I was supposed to have finished last Saturday as it was a present for Lewis. Oops.). The picture above is all I have so far - part of the head. I'm on the decreasing rows now, so its nearly finished. I need to make the eyes and muzzle from felt and sew them on before the hole gets too small.

I have decided that from this day forth I will use my lunch time to work on this project, and at night time with every spare minute between reading and soap watching I will work on something else.

If you ask me, that's quite a good decision. Oh. I forgot to add that I'm going to gym tonight too, so it is working out to be a very productive day indeed. '2 rows' and 'very productive' don't REALLY go hand in hand, but the productiveness really comes from the decision to be productive. That in its own right is productive :)

I hope this motivation lasts!

LT x

Sewing curves and volunteering

Happy Monday everyone!

I've not posted in a  while as I had hoped to have something great to show you - but alas, my project is hardly off the ground! I keep on uttering that I think I am more willing than I am able, and I have to say - its true!

I am trying to make a teddy for my nephews 1st birthday (6 days from now). I have all of the components drawn up and cut out, ready for assembling. I decided to create wee patches for the teddies paws and a bigger silky one for his belly. Herein lies the problem - I can't sew curves on my sewing machine! To be fair, I can barely sew a straight line at a constant speed, but hey ho! I decided to try it out on a scrap piece of material and I was almightily glad that I decided to try it out before plunging straight in. ooft! What a mess! So, until I manage to nail it, my next adventures with the sewing maching will be me practising sewing in a circle.

 See? I wasnt joking! It IS a mess :(

 

On a more positive note I found a really cool charity that is looking for volunteers to work with disadvantaged young people aged 16 - 30. The programme helps them in personal development endeavours through the use of the outdoors. It sounds mighty fine and I have been excited all day! Unfortunately the volunteer coordinator wasnt in today, so I'll have a chat with her tomorrow and send over my application form. It sounds 100% awesome. If I am able to volunteer I will probably stop volunteering with the Brownies, as this is more up my street and the experience could help towards a change in career in the future - if I was going to.

All in all, its quite exciting!

Is there anything exciting you at the moment?

LT x

A woman after my own heart...

Check out this blog: http://sweetnothingsbj.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/dirty-dancing.html

I'm posting a link to this, so be thankful:

1. You get to see a couple of really HOT photos of Patrick Swayze
2. Maybe this means that I will not ever create a post of the similar ilk.....

He he.

Happy Tuesday Mo Fo's!!

xx