lace and mirrors

Two ongoing hoops. Mirrors in one and all kinds of stuff in the other....truth be told I needed to 'move on' with the lower piece last night...but...that meant the sewing machine and basically I couldn't be bothered. I know that sounds terrible, idle, unmotivated but it was late...am I excused? I embroidered mirrors instead, didn't get the gin out, still stitched...am I forgiven? The machine will come out later today when I have attended to a few other pressing things...

You may have noticed that I have moved my copyright text to the centre of my images. Why? Well there is a huge debate going on at the moment about pinterest and copyright etc..I haven't  contributed to it in any way, just read and digested. Basically I think the concern surrounds copyright of an image being lost somewhere down the line and it has been (rightly) pointed out that this is more likely if the text asserting your copyright is at the edge of the image as this can be cropped out...good point. So it has been moved, slap bang in the middle. I hope it doesn't intrude too much, it is quite small....

I don't have any other news really. I went out to panic buy some petrol this morning...fumes won't get me very far and I have a theory...panic is over now, well it might be....BUT.......they are talking tomorrow...ha!! Suppose the talks break down at lunch time?  You know what will happen don't you....panic! So you best get off the computer and go get some too...don't say you weren't warned.

(who needs a Prime Minister to create panic when you have me?)

fiddling

This is how I have spent the last few days, fiddling and going nowhere in particular. I was hoping that merely stitching without a real purpose would fire the brain up, ha, no such luck! I made small things mainly because nothing seems to be moving from here so I kind of thought, ''what's the point?'' Making the puffs was a pleasure though, they are so cheerful, brighten stuff up which we need as it's so dark and dreary here. I swear it hasn't stopped raining for weeks. I don't even like summer but even I am sick of the rain now. The other tiny piece is a small, precious fragment to do as you wish with. I think it would be a great and delicate addition to one of my ''little books of embroidery'' alternatively you could use it to wash the floor! It would have to be a little floor though. Anyhow these are now listed and I'm not holding my breath!!Now I am wondering what to do next. I think when the neighbours snuck in with their washing in the middle of the night they left with my imagination. it's as if my brain has dried up, my batteries have run out. I will spend most of this weekend alone due to numerous factors, number one being the return of the football. Everytime I mention my team on here we get beat but I am going to risk it.....come on you blues!! I am actually very excited, I love football but I digress. A mostly solitary weekend means time and space for a project. Normally I would have it planned by now, be extremely focused with a plan of action. Nope, nothing. Let's hope it appears in the next hour or so. Any suggestions would be very gratefully received, who knows it might kick start something. Perhaps I could start a new line of designer floorcloths. What do you think?
p.s. sorry for the poor photographs, it really is very dark here, I kid you not.