Running out of time?

As we have come across a few...ummm...shall I say hurdles with our pieces for Project 3 I was wondering if  you would like me to extend the reveal date by a week or two.

The current reveal date is

Sunday 12 February 

but I am happy to extend it by a week or two if that helps everyone in being able to complete their pieces.

What's the consensus?

Also if you have any ideas for designs
you'd like to tackle in
Project 4
then please either comment here or feel free to drop me an email!

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Time flies

Gosh time is just flying by at the moment.

The hours at work seem to drag by yet my time at home passes too quickly!

I haven't been beading as much as I'd like to be as I have slipped out of the habit of beading on my lunch break at work.

Anyway I just wanted to let you all know that I am still about and promise to be more active in the coming weeks. I might even have a few bits and pieces to share!

Heck I even hopped back on my exercise bike yesterday!

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Sweating the small stuff instead of calories...

I really feel like I am slipping into a deep, dark hole at the moment.

At the start of the year, when Spencer commenced school, I returned to working 5 days a week.

I had been working four days a week for around the past 6 years.

I am struggling with this change.

I find my weekends are now filled with boring mundane tasks housework I would normally leave until my day off on Monday so that the weekends could be enjoyed as a family.

I miss spending my Mondays with Spencer, even if we didn't do a lot we were still able to spend the day together, just he and I.

I have been so busy at work too.
I now finish work at 3.30pm instead of 5.00pm which you think would be a great thing but I am finding that my days are so rushed now, knowing that I have to race out the door to pick up Spencer from school.

I get the train and then a bus and then Spencer and I walk home from school... with us walking in the door around 2 hours after I leave work!

It's a long day - even with finishing so early.

I thought working 5 days a week would make my workload easier but it seems to be harder. With leaving early it turns out I am only working an extra 2.5 hours a week!

I am now finding by the time I get home from work/school, get Spencer showered, unpack his lunch box, do a few things around the house I get around fifteen minutes to relax before I need to start thinking about what to cook for dinner.
By the time I eat dinner, wash up and get Spencer to bed it ends up being around 9.00pm and I am stuffed like a turkey at Thanksgiving.
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia but I hear that turkey is stuffed pretty damn fine!

I know it's the routine of every day life I am complaining about but at the moment I just feel there are not enough hours in the day or in the week for that matter to get everything done.

Don't even get me started on the fact I have done hardly any beading in the last 2 weeks.

I know I shouldn't be sweating the small stuff but sometimes it's good to sweat right?

And from what I hear  it's a great way to burn off those extra calories.

Ohhhh is that the wrong kind of sweating?

Ok... rant over!

I promise to post something bead related next time.

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