Seeing as I love Halloween so much, I thought I’d build a new blog header just for this month – these are probably my favourite Halloween pieces that I’ve stitched to date … love, love, love those bright colours!
I attempted to kit up two small Halloween projects yesterday ready for stitching (Just Nan’s Scream Girls and Lizzie*Kate’s Hocus Pocus), but it turns out I’ve ‘mislaid’ half of the DMC that I need. I basically thought “oh, sod it” last night, and just put a few stitches into Just Nan’s Winter in the Square instead. I think perhaps if I hurry up and stitch up those things I’ve already kitted up, my DMC will miraculously appear again! Either that or I’m going to have to do a stocktake and take a run out to Spotlight to stock up again 😦
I must say I did leave the house for an hour today, for the first time in a week – even my old neighbour on the bottom floor climbed up the stairs to see if I was OK ‘cos she hadn’t seen me out and about for so long … anyway, I did a ‘quick’ trip to the Post Office to pick up my mail and send a few more little parcels off to their new homes, and popped into the bank to deposit a couple of cheques, finishing off with a spot of ‘healthy’ food shopping for a few bits of fruit and salad items, plus 4 litres of fresh orange juice. I’d forgotten to eat anything (although I haven’t been eating too well for the last two weeks since being ill), so I called through the McD’s drive-through on the way home to get a small burger to tide me over … Well, within an hour of eating it I’ve had intense stomach cramps and basically been in and out of the bathroom ‘clearing it out of my system’ ever since. I’m now looking at all this lovely healthy fibre-rich food/drink and thinking “hmmmm”…
I am supposed to be doing my final unpacking of boxes etc this week on a week off work, and I still have barely any energy to do anything – I’ve been lucky that I’ve been able to stitch, as that’s all I’ve managed. The house is a pig-sty, and every room I walk into just depresses me more. Bless my Mum, after talking to her on the phone this afternoon after my ‘gastric attack’ she’s offered to fly over to help me out for a few days until Katie returns home (she’s been overseas for the last couple of weeks) – I have to make my decision whether I need her to do that by tomorrow …
In the meantime, I’m going to take it easy again for yet another day – I have to admit I don’t even have the energy to really stitch now, so I may just end up taking my fed-up body into bed and cuddling up for an early night …
Feather Stitching 
LOVE the header, Anne!!!
Love the blog header Anne. Take it easy…you Mum coming over could be a good idea. Get better soon …[[Hugs]]….
Great header! Do take care, it sounds like you could use some caring by mum.
Love the new blog topper, a tribute to Just Nan, but I am really worried about you. Your Mom there to help sounds nice but you don’t want to infect her. Things like that are even harder as we get older. The orange juice should help. Take care, CJ ok;-)
Your new header is awesome! I sure hope that you are feeling better 🙂
I can understand why you love Halloween – I think it’s neat too. The designs that people keep coming up with are so colourful, as you said, and so cute!
You must be tired of me (and others!) lecturing you about your health, but if you continue to write about it, you can expect to be lectured! You really MUST see a naturopath or other specialist about your immune system, Anne – you get far too many illnesses for someone your age and with your natural vitality, which shows so clearly in your blog. The right person will do more than blood tests and/or X-rays, to find out what is going on inside you – vitamins, change of diet, and other stuff should sort you out. Sharon will back me up on this, I’m sure you know!
Cuddles Anne. Let Mummy come over and poil you for a bit.
Such a cute header, Anne. I hope you get your card soon, but I just want to thank you so much for the sweet RAK, Anne, it was so unexpected! It really did catch me off guard and was an awesome treat to get! Thank you. I love the fob and everything you included. You know you were my very first blogging/stitching friend? That makes you a special friend that I’ll never forget. I appreciate your thinking of and remembering me. I hope somebody there gets a handle on your health issues. I know there is nothing more frustrating and depressing than chronic illness. Hugs, Deb
Isn’t it funny how when you need something, you can never find it… but a few weeks later is magically appears? I am like that with the floss and with fabric… and it’s annoying because if I really really want to stitch something, I’ll go and buy what I need, only to later find I indeed had them!
Sorry to hear that you still aren’t well, but as the others have said, I am glad you’ve got some help coming.
As for the McDs, had a craving for that myself recently and boy did I regret it. Went straight back to the healthy high fibre stuff which instantly made me feel better… but the weird thing is, before I started Weight Watchers I used to eat all sorts of crap and NEVER felt bad. Now when I do eat badly, YUCK!
Healthy food conspires against us, tells us “Yeah, got you now, you go back, you WILL regret it… MWHA HA HA HA HAA!!!11!”
Ahem *cough* also, love the header, it’s my kinda Halloween 😉
I hope you feel better soon.
Hope you are feeling better soon Anne. Love the header.