Saturday was our last Birmingham Stitchers meet up of the year, the cafe had honored the booking that Hilary and Sue made a while ago and reserved a table for us, so we were all able to sit together this last time. We stayed longer than usual, 10 -4pm rather than our usual 12 - 3pm. I took Mary Margaret along again and managed to get her skirt finished and her legs stitched. You would have thought in that time I would have got more stitching done, what can I say, I'm a slow stitcher.
No photos because I've shared photos of the inside of the cafe we meet up in recently, (I will say though that on Saturday it was bloomin freezing in there!) Here how Mary Margaret Is looking now.
This weekend there was a Christmas Wool Show held at the International Conference Centre in Birmingham, I didn't buy an advance ticket as I was undecided until this morning. So glad I made the effort, it was a lovely show, not too busy and lots of people that I hadn't heard of before. This is the first time this year at a wool show and of course I didn't really need anything but you never come away empty handed from these events do you?
So a busy but lovely weekend, and I needed it, I didn't go out of the house for four days last week after last Saturday's outing, my hip and butt cheek was painful and I just felt meh, but then by Thursday I forced myself to go to the shopping centre as there were some things I needed to get, thankfully it was much quieter and I managed to get everything I needed to. While I was there I called into the pharmacist to ask if there was anything else I could throw at this pain, I'm just sick of taking co-codamol, and surely long term that's not good anyway. She recommended a diclofenac gel and touch wood, (tapping my head here), that, along with some lavender essential oil in the bath water, the purchase of a knee pillow, for spine support and some exercises I found online, I am finally in less pain, yayyyy. I might even be able to go for a decent walk this week.
I've got a couple of things to get done this week and then I'll be all sorted for Christmas except for the wrapping.
Hope your Christmas preparations are going well, are you all organised or do you still have things to do?
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10 comments:
Nice things you got at the show. What colorway is the WYS yarn. It is very bright and fun.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Oh, how nice it is to have stitching meetings like this, unfortunately we don't have them. Great progress with Mary Margaret.
And such a great purchase at the wool festival. Wonderful.
My Christmas preparations are going well, a lot is finished, the presents still need to be wrapped, but everything is going pretty quietly for us.
Have a good week, Martina
What a lovely lot of buys you had from the show, I'm just beginning to think of joining the U3a craft group, I can do anything there. so maybe knit some socks.. loved the stitching groups I used to go to.
What lovely goodies . Enjoy hugs June.
I'm glad you have something to help with the pain, long term pain drags you down, you had a good visit to the show and purchased some lovely items.
Your buys from the show look good :)
All the best Jan
You got some lovely items at the show. I really like your yarn choices.
God bless.
I am a slow stitcher, too, Maggie, so I understand :) Still... some progress is better than none, right? You got some goodies--the yarn looks lovely! I do hope your pain continues to go away. It's never fun being in pain, but especially hard at a busy time of year like this one! Take care now ♥
Lovely goodies from the wool show. It doesn't matter whether you need anything or not, it's very hard to resist when you go to a show. Glad to hear you've got a bit of relief from the hip pain, long may that continue. Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas.
Just stopping by again to wish you a Merry Christmas.
All the best Jan
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