Darcy Struble

Sewing for a funeral. Just a top of some sort for me to go with the knit skirt I have already and I am hoping I get time to do something for the kids.

I hate funeral preparation the week is always so busy and I have had it with busy weeks full of interruptions.

I am very much looking forward to getting this sewing project over with so that we…[Read more]

Sewing for a funeral. Just a top of some sort for me to go with the knit skirt I have already and I am hoping I get time to do something for the kids.

I hate funeral preparation the week is always so busy and I have had it with busy weeks full of interruptions.

I am very much looking forward to getting this sewing project over with so that we…[Read more]

Oh yes he did thanks Nicole. Who said it took a week? More like a day.

I spent the week running around after kids – 4and a half hours at the doctor’s waiting for my 10.30 am appointment just to get medication for a recurring cough. Then a trip to the hospital with the other one to get meds for an infection because we had no doctor available.

I…[Read more]

Oh yes he did thanks Nicole. Who said it took a week? More like a day.

I spent the week running around after kids – 4and a half hours at the doctor’s waiting for my 10.30 am appointment just to get medication for a recurring cough. Then a trip to the hospital with the other one to get meds for an infection because we had no doctor available.

I…[Read more]

Very exciting trip to the city today to poke ’round a few salvage yards for materials to start my sewing room storage system.
My husband Jed and son Hugo are building it and both love timber and using recycled items.
I am pretty excited although it won’t be a quick project. Jed takes forever to build stuff but does an awesome job when he gets…[Read more]

Very exciting trip to the city today to poke ’round a few salvage yards for materials to start my sewing room storage system.
My husband Jed and son Hugo are building it and both love timber and using recycled items.
I am pretty excited although it won’t be a quick project. Jed takes forever to build stuff but does an awesome job when he gets…[Read more]

Making costumes for free is such fun

I did 😉

I wish I could sew but can not
My children want supper, what rot!
I just want to stitch
(and perhaps to be rich)
But such skills are for free, I forgot.

(Last line in sarcasm font)

Making costumes for free is such fun

I wish I could sew but can not
My children want supper, what rot!
I just want to stitch
(and perhaps to be rich)
But such skills are for free, I forgot.

(Last line in sarcasm font)

Don’t you remember the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper from Ghostbusters?

@admin, you can tell I have been hanging out with a Canadian. 🙂

I wish I could sew but can not
My children want supper, what rot!

Ah, I see we have a Limerick newbie who’s not familiar with the form. Here’s a sciencey example:

There once was a young lady named bright
Whose speed was much faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.

So ours above should go:

I have so many patterns already
To make clothes for Janie and…[Read more]

HAHA! That is hilarious! I remember having a hard time when I first went to London trying to get some uneaten food packed up at a restaurant. I asked to have it to go, then asked for carry out. I was down to miming that I wanted to eat the food I had paid for at another time and location and did not want to simply dump it into a napkin. Finally an…[Read more]

We used to call what you call those (lemonade with icecream) spiders. Don’t ask me why.

When I was in the UK at age 8 we would buy sweets (we call them lollies) and pop was any fizzy drink.

Just to twist the words further, we get the “dags” off when we crutch sheep! My mum used to refer to loose threads hanging off a seam as “daggy bits”.

We used to call what you call those (lemonade with icecream) spiders. Don’t ask me why.

When I was in the UK at age 8 we would buy sweets (we call them lollies) and pop was any fizzy drink.