Not to plan.
The last week has just been one of those weeks! You know the ones where nothing goes the way you had imagined and nothing gets done to plan. It seems like all of my good ideas have had to be scrapped and that all the things I had wanted to get done just haven't happened.
It started this time last week when I received a package in the mail. I had hoped that the package would be the fabric I had ordered to make 3 of my nephews' Christmas presents. I looked at the package, saw the company logo and realised it was the fabric. I had spent hours looking for the perfect prints and was so excited to finally have them. I opened up the package and guess what??, there was fabric in there but it was certainly not the fabric I had ordered. OK, there goes 3 of my "handmade gifts" to the "have to buy" list!!!!
I then had a mixture of other mishaps in the form of a playing up sewing machine, a day of sickness, tooth pain which turned into a root canal, more terrible storms with me panicking and waiting for the house to flood, late night wake ups etc etc etc. OK, there go another 3 gifts from my "handmade gift" to the "have to buy" list!!!
So I had to give in and spend a night at the shopping centre!!! It was pretty painless and quiet but I still felt like a bit of a hypocrite after all of my declarations on here and to my family and friends that I simply was not going to enter a shopping centre!
It is now afternoon here, the mailman has been and there is only 1 more day of mail delivery before Christmas and guess what?? The handmade gift that I bought through Etsy have not arrived!! I ordered them two and a half weeks ago thinking that this would be plenty of time for delivery but I guess I was wrong...... Please mail man be nice and don't make me add another 3 presents to the "have to buy" list with a last minute dash to the Shopping Centre on Christmas eve??!
I also managed to get NO Christmas themed sewing started or finished. I have put this picture of Rudolph here to pretend that I did, even though he was made about 6 months ago so that is a bit of a stretch! I did however in the previous weeks get a few gifts made up and am happy to say that at least 8 people will definitely be getting a homemade gift.
That is better that none I suppose and we can hope that the Etsy purchases still reach me in time.
I decided today, amongst all of these happenings to stop worrying about Christmas. No matter how much I worry about the shopping, how many gifts I made, late mail, illness etc etc it will still always be a beautiful time. Once the shops are closed and the clock ticks over it doesn't matter what I managed to get done or not, it is all about sharing precious time with those that I love and I know this will be a blast no matter the circumstances.
So that said, I decided to look into the new year and just start sewing!!! Not sewing that I had to get done on a schedule, not sewing that I had to go and buy materials for, not sewing that I needed for any apparent reason, but sewing "just because" I feel like making a bundle of softies over the next few weeks and enjoying "just because" sewing. They will probably find their way to the Etsy store since that has not been restocked in months, but maybe they won't, It doesn't matter, I don't want to give them a purpose but just enjoy them. I started today with some Mrs Perkins' and here are their yummy skins!
I look forward to stuffing them now over a few cups of tea while I relax and look forward to a beautiful festive season. - Melly
