Keep on taking the tablets. ...

Sitrep.

1. Laptop still critically ill. 
2. Still using the borrowed tablet. ..hence the blog title. 
3. Been told that I should change my vocation. .. to tattoo artist. 

Hmmm not sure about that but if you were wondering what brought that up, see what you think.

This is just part one,  there more which I'll show you as I go along. 

As for tattoo artist - na, not for me,  I'll stick to scribbling with a black marker pen.

Well the weekend just evaporated in a blink of an eye. .. hey ho, Monday tomorrow,  bring it on!!!

Dreamcatcher Ta-Da! (with added catitude)

Ingredients:

• Wire coat hanger (and husband with strong hands and wire cutters to remove hook part)
• Various cotton yarns in favourite colours
• Beads - lots of
• Time - fair bit
• Cat involvement - extensive
• Glue
• Scissors
• Tapestry needle
• Tea

Method:

• Artfully arrange your goodies and take photos (several). Causing husband to query what on earth are you doing?
• Placate husband with promise of the kettle going on after this next photo or next one or next one... 

• Leave artfully arranged items to put on kettle.
• Return to rescue same from the cat - who assured me she was choosing which beads to use.
• Return to make mug of tea for husband...and sons who decided they wanted too...one for myself as I felt I needed liquid courage.

• Feeling revived remove cat again.
• (Wo)man handle the coat hanger into a reasonable circular shape - wipe beads of sweat off brow and wish either had a ready made circle or had chosen a slightly less firm wire hanger.

• Wrap a thick neutral yarn around the circle, glue down, use a bulldog-type-clippy-thingy to hold together.
• Wash off gluey fingers, gluey table and gluey scissors and wonder how on earth you spread the smallest blob of glue over the widest area possible?
• Seriously consider another visit to the kettle for a second mug of tea - steady the nerves etc.
• Remove clip from hoop and realise that none of the glue originally intended to hold the yarn down got there - see above re: fingers/table and scissors...

• Make that second brew...to allow second blob of glue to dry...
• Return, start wrapping the coloured yarns over the neutral yarn.
• Add colours as you please - and yes this did please me :)

• Trim off excess as you go along.
• Carefully ensuring that you don't snip the wrong thread causing it to unravel as you work your way round.
• Re-wrap the unravelled yarn. 

• When finally wrapped - seriously consider a lie down at this point.
• Choose the yarn for the web centre - realise that the cat would like to have some input and choose her own colours...I like this one she told me.

• Refuse cat's colour choice, watch her take ball of yarn off and hide it in 'her' favourite box.
• Wipe blood off fingers after trying to retrieve said yarn and allow cat to keep it.
• Swear (optional).

• Start wrapping spider's web centre.
• Forget to thread on beads.
• Unwrap centre, thread on beads.
• Start again.
• Wrap, wrap and wrap.

• Start feeling a teensy bit pleased with how it is going (whilst blatantly ignoring the slightly squiffy web developing).
• Notice the lopsided round shape.
• Squish hard to make round.
• Fail.

• Start adding pretties to the base, eyelash yarn and beads.
• Be ably assisted by cat...Try this one she kept telling me, try that one....

• Sigh

• Finally, finally after much faffing and cat supervision, hang up your dreamcatcher, step back and try to take photos - only to find that, that rarest of commodities in the uk at the moment - sunshine - is thwarting your efforts.
• Close curtains - wonder if neighbours are wondering what you are upto.
• Take more pictures.
• Re-open curtains and see that the sun has gone again.
• Smile.

Feel that chuffty with one's self feeling again - skippity skip :)

Note:
I didn't have any suitable feathers and was not prepared to spend any monies when I have all sorts of crafting bits 'n bobs crying out to be used.
I used an already existing mini-catcher as the hanger with the final mini-hoop in the centre of my larger hoop.

Beads - stash
Threads/yarns - stash
Dragon flies - gifted
Happiness rating - Chest wide grin level :)

A little bit of a dream(er)

Thank you for your lovely comments the last few posts - you are so kind and when I read them I'm delighted that you have taken the time to say something - thank you!

I have (said almost with a sense of complete surprise) come to the decision I am actually a touch on the Bohemian side (there I said it).

Why it is a surprise baffles me, you just have to look around my home to see the not so subtle decor hints.... How I missed this major clue mystifies me too.

The amount of indoor plants that jostle for space.
The fact I have cats who think know they are hoomins.
The suzani type floor throw I bought from a junk shop 15 years ago when we barely had two pennies to rub together, the lights and stars and feathers and stones littering decorating every surface.
The lit candles and wafting incense.
Oh and the dangly earrings, the bangles and long skirts that fill my wardrobe.

Now I am obviously not a true bohèmien in the correct sense of the word - but I do seem to have great potential should I apply for the position full time!

I have recently hankered for a Scandi-style and as hard as I tried, I only seemed to have little 'spot-lights' of minimalist Nordic-cool surrounded by wild shades of terracotta, books and plants.  Then, as I was searching for something** on the 'net a couple of nights ago and came across an image courtesy of Pinterest (http://bit.ly/1P0SNfl)

I stared.

Eldest, who was sitting next to me, lent over and said 'that looks like our house'.  

He was correct. 

It does. 

Except it doesn't have the pile of cats sleeping in front of the woodburner - but that is a minor detail!

So I am trying now to embrace something I have always been - apart from being odd, but then I knew that. I think I am rather enjoying my 'new' personna - long live Bohemia!


**What I was looking for (and this clue will seal it for you) was 'How to make a dreamcatcher' Yup - see what I mean?

Any hoo, in my new guise I have made my dreamcatcher and will post it tomorrow - *shakes head at the absurdity of it all - so a leopard can change its spots or rather, it can learn to love and live in its spots with pride :)