The trouble with this self employed lark is that it is very hard to not think about Ochre And Ocre / Switch off and generally have some down time - hence its Sunday afternoon, and I'm updating this blog!
It may also due to the fact that my husband, is away this weekend, following yet another of his "mid life crises"! This weekend it is navigating at a speedboat race somewhere in North Wales. Ok - I could have gone to watch, but I'm still scarred by memories of freezing to death at Liverpool docks - husband nowhere in site, as he's hanging around with his other mistress somewhere, (caressing her prop that kind of thing!!). I know its good to have hobbies, the fact that his other hobby is beating people up, (well ok self defence, aka free fighting), he always seems to be coming home with some injury or other! Apparently it is a cut hand this weekend....
So what's a girl to do? I need to get my own hobby - apart from trawling the net for inspiration for hours / aka shopping online...
Now the need for me to learn french has passed - I'm keen to pick up my Italian again - although I seemed to pick it up best whilst bombing up and down the M1 to work, at 90mph.
Or I could do dressmaking again - I did a quick costing exercise yesterday, (occupational habit), and worked out I would be better buying the dress I love at Boden rather than making it! Fabric is so expensive - I do have some Ochre fabric left from making curtains, but I don't really want to look like a well upholstered sofa...
So why am I surfing on a Sunday night - its my new way of comp shopping - I'm forever tearing a page out of a magazine to check out a new website. My latest find is some really gorgeous interior fabric and wallpaper from Sarah Hardaker. Ex Osbourne and Little / Habitat, she has added a contemporary twist to some classic ideas. Even better is the fact that her fabric is printed here in the UK. Check out her website at www.sarahhardaker.co.uk. The only problem looking at lovely interior ideas like Sarah's you end up wanting to redo / build a new house....perhaps that is the hobby I am missing!!
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