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Another week gone, help where are the days going to. It's been a non stop week for me.
Another fair last Sunday thankfully a great deal better than the previous one and held outside in the sunshine.

So to my work table this morning - not a great deal of activity I'm afraid.

Template for the adult aprons, a card/letter from my penfriend waiting to be answered and the pink folder contains all the relevant info for the Dames in Spain Christmas carol concert and fair next Wednesday.

I am going to meet the choir mistress this morning to iron out the last minute queries, hopefully won't be to lengthy a meeting so I can continue to my sewing class, missed out last week because some of us went searching for a wool shop and found it and bought more wool - yes it's an addiction.

So that is me for this week, will try and get around to you all before the weekend.
Have a good week.

Will leave you with this, my QC still grieving for her brother and is ever by my side.

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Good morning everyone,
Will begin this at 7.30 am Wednesday, but won't be completed until much later as I am out for the day with my sewing group, we are going into the city of Almeria as we have heard of a rather large wool/handicraft shop there and are going to suss it out so to speak. But of course this being Spain we will coffee and lunch in between shopping. So apologies for lateness.

Many of you will know last week one of my cats was very ill  and was hospitalised at the vets, well sad to say on Sunday morning he lost his fight. I have had him and his sister since they were kittens so it is very sad as his sister (the one that is usually sat at my desk) is really unhappy. They slept, fed and even went out together.

This was him two weeks ago when I first took him to the vets because he had lost weight.

This was where I found his sister  lying by his grave after we bury him in the garden.

Ok life goes on and now it is Thursday morning and I am only 24 hours behind. Yesterday was so tiring when I returned home I collapsed in the chair and fell asleep.
We found the shop and all I said about not buying any more wool was forgotten. A fantastic shop, wool and patterns so much cheaper than UK.

My desk this morning it a jungle. (Thursday)

At the front is some wadding I unpicked from quilted material as I couldn't buy wadding here. it is to go between the advent calendar I am making (you can just see the pockets. My magic book that contains my 'all to do' from various organisations I belong to. Finally the box of 'to sew' Christmas goodies. So before I begin sewing this morning I have to clear the table!

I did my first fair here in Spain and it wasn't a success, I don't think the organisers had advertised it and in the end they didn't charge for the stall. This Sunday I am doing another one but this time in my home town which I know has been advertised and is an annual event and well supported. It is in aid of the local dogs home.

My stall last week

So now I must get on and catch up - sold the advent calendar pictured so have to replace. 

Sorry so  late late posting but better late than never, I will try and catch up with you all between now and the weekend.

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Good Morning Deskers, it is early morning 5.36am to be precise. So this is my table photographed just now.

And on this well used table you see this morning the finishing touches to various items before the fair on Saturday. Thought the stall should have a little decoration so quickly ran the bunting triangles up yesterday, now ready to take to my sewing class where  I will turn them inside out. Behind stuffing for the tortoises one finished the other requiring its' scarf which I shall also finish well start at the sewing class. One snowman waiting to go into the pocket of an Advent calendar that I have made and a few suns and bubble bee waiting to be attached to their sticks - these make cats toys. Then the over locker that has been working overtime these last few weeks. Oh forgot the baskets waiting for Christmas material lining to put my snowman poop in (see post a few weeks back)

This week as visitors to my face book page will know, has been very traumatic my fluffy cat Kavvie lost a lot of weight all of a sudden so a visit to the vets,  he has an intestine infection so antibiotics, on Saturday I took him back as he wasn't eating at all and he has been in the vets since then on a drip. I am going everyday to see him.  Having a terrible time with the other cat my desk companion QC as they have been together since birth over 12 years ago, they lie, play and sleep together. This morning I am taking her with me to see him, call me daft I don't care, but my cats mean the world to me.

Apart from this I am organising a carol concert and fair for the Dames in Spain and then found myself involved with the organising of a How to Keep Safe talk by the Guardia Civil (Civil Police). Translating their leaflets and making posters and publicity.

Also last Wednesday my phone, internet all communications died on me. A trip to the phone shop (in another town) where they told me my bill hadn't been paid, The bank account wasn't correct I have been a customer for over 25 years and the bank account has worked all this time. Turn out when the girl did the new contract for the fibre optic she put the wrong number in. Nothing so easy as paying over the counter, no I had to go to the post office in the another town and pay, take the receipt back 24 hours later as the account had been blocked and she could enter the correct number. Fortunately a few hours after paying all was up and running again. Nothing is ever straight forward when things go wrong in Spain.

Help I am retired whatever that means.

Have a good week and will try and visit as many of you as I can and when time will allow. Have an early doctors appointment this morning before sewing class.

Now to try and link with stamping-ground.blogspot.com wonder if she is up and running yet?

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Good morning deskers. Well actually good evening really as it is Tuesday evening.
This was my workroom earlier on today I was at the sewing machine with a cat meowing  round my feet, so picked her up and placed her on the chair on top of a rug I have been making for years, as you can see there isn't much more to be done, so who knows by Christmas ..... Peace and quiet. At the left side is a bucket full of wool, then some of my store boxes and many rolls of bias binding. I am really looking forward to packing all the fabric away and going back to card making but can't see it being before Christmas.

This is my other working table I found this animal material in my stash so thought a few children's aprons might go down well.

A week on Saturday I do my first craft stall here in Spain, can't be much different than the UK. I have been practising my Spanish so I can talk to the Spanish as well as the English. I wonder what the Spanish will be looking for?

Have spent two mornings at the vets this week with one of my cats, he has lost an awful lot of weight, turns out he has a intestine infection. So after blood tests, ultra sound scan, special dietary food I hope he makes a good recovery.

HELP I'm at the vets.

Took this photo while we were waiting for some results. He was not a happy pussy as he had to have his stomach shaved for the ultra sound scan.

That's been my week well some of it, I don't seem to have stopped some days, but keeping busy is better than sitting in a chair bored.

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White rabbits. here we are the first of November nearly another year gone. Quite a sad week for me this week as it will be the 1st anniversary of my sons death, I honestly can't believe it.

Still life has to go on so what is on my work desk/table today, this is it pictured at 8 this morning.

Starting at the bottom the support bar off a clothes hanger. Although they are child hangers I use for the peg bags the support has to be taken off as it shows.
Then a bag of wool purchased yesterday, yes I said no more buying wool but I wanted to knit another flamingo and hadn't the correct colours, that's my excuse well have you ever seen a flamingo that is not pink? Also in the bag are a few more bits and pieces purchased from the Chinese shop a good source of crafty items to be had in one particular shop that tries to cater for handicrafts. (We have no craft shops here in the Almeria region of Spain).

Then some posters I have designed for our Dames Carol concert, along with other song sheets etc. How did I get involved with this I do not know,  I said yes to the arranging of the stalls but can't remember anything about posters and song sheets and meeting with the choir mistress.
Two more dog bandanas and a pile of peg bags, made from some material I was given this week see also flowery material and check one. My paper cutter I have been making the price labels for all the goods and pricing them up. Then my over locker used for making the peg bags.

So that is my desk/table for this week, not very interesting my tidy craft room from a few weeks ago looks as if a bomb has hit it. The funny thing is though I know where things are even when it is a tip.

Now to join with all of you and Julia our host at stamping-ground.blogspot.com 

Off in a little while to my sewing/knitting group just wondering what to take with me today, has to be something simple as with all the talking we do can't concentrate on complicated. Knitting is always the favourite.

Have a good week everyone.