Days Off, Where did they go...

I have had 3 days off, and I am not sure where they went...

I had the complete stop day... that went quite well except I didn't get to watch a teenager do my housework...

I know you all knew that wasn't going to happen, but I had to have hope...

Then it was Anzac Day here, so in the afternoon I opened my shop but it was a very quite day in our wee village [300 people and you never see them all at once, it is kind of like the lights are on but nobody is home]

Then, Thursday, and to be honest I did not want to function... 

But...

Life interferes with that sort of attitude, and I was awoken to my phone ringing, and 

who was it?, 

no one there... 

why not

because it was calling from my daughters pocket while she was herding the cows for milking up the valley.

So up and coffee until the Brain Cells began to gel, and creativity swept over me.

Earring production was the order of the day and 30 pairs later I had slipped into random creations from twisted wire that will become some item in the near future that will eventually make sense...

Thanks to a couple of tourists who were looking for gifts for their ladies, two necklaces are now on their way to Christchurch...

Appreciation of my Talent and Artisan Creativity has been received and I feel the warmth...

Thank goodness for those who can identify with the craft of the Not So Normal Artist...

Day Off / Public Holiday / Day Off / YEAH!

Yeah, tomorrow is my Day Off and first official rest day, since declaring 
Tuesday Rest Day!
Schedule

• Get Up
• Put Jarmies on
• Fill Hot Water Bottle
• Make Coffee
• Light the Fire
• Get cosy on the couch
• Read
• Lounge
• Eat
• Snooze
• Receive Visitors
• Watch a Teenager clean my house
• Lounge 
• Snooze
• Relax
• Dream
• Eat
• Lounge

Sounds alright to me...
Might be harder than I think...
I am not too good at doing nothing...
So of course you won't be hearing from me tomorrow...
Why...
Because it's Rest Day! 
Yeah


Then...
Wednesday is a Public Holiday [Anzac Day] Followed by Thursday [Day Off]
Double Yeah!...

Saturday Morning Driftwood Gathering Expedition

                                                                                        

When I come here I wonder


why has 
it 
taken
so long
to come back...


Coming here makes me realise I missed it...

West Coast 
Best Coast

Which piece will be the first...
Which piece will be the last...

What will they become...
Where will it end up...

How did it get here...
Where was it from...

Mawhera and back...

Thank God It's Friday...


Some time has passed since I walked this way, my Day Job has shrunk to 3 days a week, and you would expect that to give me more time. But no, that is not what happened.


First I had a brush with gluten... lots of discomfort and having to come to a full stop and do some Soul Searching about my working 7days a week, non stop, always planning the next move creatively and never switching off.


So I switched off for 3 days, as I had no choice, I was broken...


I am now back full throttle with a renewed itinerary for life...


I have been gardening at dawn emptying old planter pots getting them ready to replant with lots of vibrant colour to excite my creative senses. Raking acorns and oak leaves, gathering them not because I have a squirrel, but for what they may become. Hats for Peg Dolls, Window Threads, to grow into Bonsai's, and all the other things I dream up between now and then.


So its dark out side now, and a tad cold, so I won't be gardening by the moon tonight. Instead I will write my shopping list for my Saturday Morning pilgrimage to the big smoke of Greymouth or as the Maori named it Mawhera.


I will need to buy ingredients for my Sunday Cafe at our local Community Centre. Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies and other Tasty Morsels.


I will take a trip to the beach to my favourite spot to gather driftwood for making crafty stuff, the beach at Greymouth is West Coast and can be pretty wild, its always worth watching the bar if a fishing boat is coming in...


Curtain Hooks to hang the winter curtains, double curtaining is a theme in my house at this time of year.

Then home to open my Retail Therapy Outlet "Currantly Oddfellows" and greet tourists...who will buy my wares and give me some cashflow for the next journey to Mawhera... and load new photos of my creations to the www.


My mission for this week is to learn how to add a links to my blog... to direct you to http://felt.co.nz/shop/bbbling and other such sites...












Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have enjoyed my chatter...


RBMc

Blackball Bling, I am still here...

Well its been a few days, and I started off with a rush and my stats tell me my blog was being viewed.


It has just been the weekend and I did my wee catering venture at our local community centre [Blackball] on Sunday.  It went well, with minimal advertising. Text messages lure locals in for Sunday Morning culinary treats.


This morning [Monday] I had a wee rush of Swedish Tourists on a Geography Field Trip to NZ in "Currantly Oddfellows" for some Retail Therapy. They read my shop window blurb and phoned me enticing me away from my morning coffee to open for them, and now some Blackball Bling is on it's way back to Sweden. And then I was off to my Day Job.

These "Wish Upon A Star Window Adornments" were popular. 


The one to the left is now on its way to Sweden via a World Tour of New Zealand.


So if you are in Sweden keep your eyes on windows near you incase you see it appear.

I recently sent a order of these to the Chatham Islands, they are to be hung in a local garden.

I can make these in bulk and you can purchase them via Etsy or Trademe using Paypal.  Contact me via

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackballbling/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackballBling
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Currantly-Oddfellows/318393324892169


My Day Job is now 3 days a week, and tomorrow is my first day off with this new schedule, which is going to leave me more time to be create and get my creativity loaded on to the www...