I participated in a giveaway recently and got pulled from the hat ! My first time !
Elizabeth of Making Good Use was celebrating a whole year of blogging and had one of her gorgeous teacosies up for grabs. Pop over, say hello and see all the lovely things she makes.
Wrapped so beautifully.......
cutest of cards...
my cupcake cosy in situ....
a lovely surprise.....
Thankyou again Elizabeth - be assured they will be put to very good use.
This is the view from my sleeping position.....trouble is I'm not sleeping. I hate that clock and its mocking neon digits. At 0226 I turn it round. It gets to the point where I don't want to know the bloody time. Maddie waking at approx 0630 if I'm lucky......hmmm, that gives me 4 hrs then. Great. And that's if I get to sleep right now.
This happens quite a bit, this sleepless phase. I've felt it coming for a few weeks. Usually starts with a couple of later nights due to work or just general 'going to bed later that I should'. Feeling wide awake at bedtime. Feeling energised, on an upswing in a creative way, be it with sewing or house decorating or tackling the garden. I ride this a bit, averaging 6 ish hours. Then bang...a night like last night. My brain would not switch off. It seems the more tired I am, the harder it is to get to sleep. And I'm a woman who is a very grumpy and intolerant moo on too little sleep (more so than usual, before all those that know me say it ;). And I stress about everything when I'm tired, including blogging! It's amazing how it alters my perspective.
I'm doing the usual, milky drinks, lavender oil, concentrating on the breath, no computer just before bed, etc, etc. My mind just laughs at such efforts and gets back to incessant churning. I know the way out is forcing myself to go to bed ridiculously early one night and breaking the chain, but I've got two nights on call to get through first.
So here I am.......zombie woman this morning. Huge shop to do, dog to walk and toddler group to attend. I may scratch the shop and the poor doggy and hope that the playgroup tires Maddie out enough for a sleep this afternoon - fingers crossed.
Going to try and spend minimal time on here and concentrate on not being evil to everyone, looking after myself, not feeling bad about not posting much (just pictures for a while I think - promise they'll be pretty, unlike the one above!) and getting the old sleep back on track.
I'll still be checking out my faves but may be a bit on the quiet side, hope you understand ....x
