Self Isolation Day Four

Worst news of the day is that my younger daughter has had to cancel her wedding, just the same as my friend's daughter. it is so stressful for them and so very sad. Never mind we will make up for it at the rearranged weddings.

I only have a limited amount of fabric scraps left after my first cushion cover so today's cushion cover was smaller but I managed to finish it all and this time I had to use yellow poppers after wasting my orange ones yesterday. But here they both are and I am very pleased with them and they are all made from my fabric stash, so have cost me nothing.

My husband sent out a text this morning saying that he was running low on black grapes, I couldn't understand why and pointed out to him that he had half a packet left in the fridge. Later on in the day my daughter in law dropped off some 'essential supplies' in the front porch.

Fabulous 'essentials'!

Not long after this a friend of my husband dropped off some homemade jam, a couple of homemade  scones and a container of homemade celery soup. All left in the porch.

And then later in the afternoon my son in law popped round with two slices of homemade Nigella Lawson's 'Grasshopper cake' and two packets of black grapes! Anyone need any grapes?

What fabulous friends and family we have.

My husband didn't manage much today, he got up about 3.30 pm and then went back to bed at 4.30 pm. He did surface again about 7.00 pm which was handy because we had a family get together over the internet, it should have started at 8.00 pm but by the time I had worked out what I was supposed to do we managed to join the chat about 15 mins. late. Technology is a wonderful thing if only I could understand it!

The new printer has arrived along with some ink supplies and more importantly my sewing thread has arrived. I think perhaps I should finish my cushion covers first before I start my bag, after all there is no rush I have plenty of time.

Oh dear I am having problems with technology again, I don't think the internet is working very well. This will either not be posted or will be posted many times!!!

Self Isolation Day Three

Today I finished my cushion cover.

It took a lot more fabric than I originally thought so I decided to make the back out of normal fabric. I found an unused pillow case that was a perfect match for my colour scheme. Way, way back (probably about 20 years ago) we purchased a wardrobe for my younger daughter's bedroom, it was one of Ikea's the sort that came in sections. So there was a section for hanging, a section of wire trays and a section of shelves and drawers. It came with wonderful mirrored doors, available separately of course, but we couldn't afford the mirrored doors, so we bought a duvet set and cut it into curtains which we hung instead of doors, and the pillowcase was left unused. I have saved it all these years knowing that one day I would need it!

To make life easier I used poppers for the closing, well it would have been easier if I had put them the correct way round. I had to use 2 pairs of pliers to break the poppers off, very cross with myself for being so stupid, but I do quite like the finished cushion.

My husband announced that he was going to do some paperwork today as he was so far behind with it, unfortunately he didn't manage to make it from the chair to the desk, so it will have to wait for another day.

Had a very long chat on the phone to my friend who is self isolating on her own and in her words 'going stir crazy'. I wouldn't mind but it's only day three! Hopefully I cheered her up a bit. She mentioned that some kind person had left her some cheese, cat litter and milk on her doorstep which her daughter organised through a friend.

The trouble with this self isolation is that I spend more time on the computer and usually this means buying things! So today I have purchased a new printer and some inks. This will have to stop, I can't afford to buy things every day. To be fair I have been looking for a new printer for some time now, spending hours and hours reading reviews, checking technical websites, trawling through best buy sites and to be perfectly honest I am non the wiser. Well its too late now because I have pressed the button.

I am going to have to write things down as I go through the day because I'm sure I must have forgotten lots of things, re-reading this gives the impression that I haven't done very much today but I feel as though I have been busy all day and its definitely time for bed now. See you tomorrow.