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Ouija Board Embroidery

i seem to be drawn to doing things that ruin my eyesight.

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Manchester- please spread the word!

since we last spoke...

Things have started to look up a bit. I told some people some things i needed to tell them, i got a new permanent job and i planned a summer holiday with my best friends in the world. YES.

making earrings (getting thread and stationary attached to elbows)

Today is Sunday and it is hella freezing. As such i intend to stay in as much as possible and make a lot of pots of tea.

I have just finished my application to take part in the Chorlton Arts Festival which i am both excited and nervous about. Wish me luck!

In addition to this, and as part of 2012's 'get stuff done and stop complaining about stupid things that dont matter' manifesto i am also actively looking for cafes and other lovely spaces in the local area that might display my work. That would be great.
If anyone knows anywhere in the Manchester area that might be able to help me out- please get in touch!

Hayley x

FINISHED

currently enjoying a gin and tonic whilst home alone. flats tidy. head feels clear.

and just a little something i started..

just a little something i just finished. up now at www.etsy.com/shop/bornrestless

Shadow Rabbit

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Hello!
Had a really nice few days off work pottering about the flat and zipping to Sheffield to see some animals and friends.
Everyone knows new year resolutions are totally stupid but i sort of quietly do them every year anyway. I broke this years already.
Trying to not love and not being an idiot is harder than i had anticipated.
Still sewing, still dreaming about the wrong kind of things and still eating too many biscuits. Hopefully the next post will be more positive and less cryptic!

Today

I finished a little sewing thing and saw some pasty shaped kitchen wear in a charity shop. I visited the old lady and ate alot of oranges in an attempt to combat this cold.

HIYA!

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Remembering September

When we arrived we took the Bart to the hostel- i remembered everything from the time before.

In SF we went to the Golden Gate Bridge, took a SIX hour walk along the coast to the park. we went to Haight Street and saw a groundhog. We ate at Wholefoods and got leered at by $5 man.

When we headed for Santa Cruz i was ready to go. We walked to Fishermans Wharf before catching two buses and a train. I ate a giant peach and drank a tonne of coffee.

The hostel at Santa Cruz was beautiful. We shared with a German guy- Sebastian, and then a girl from Portland who worked with disadvantaged teens. She was really inspiring and sweet.
We walked along the boardwalk, posed with guns and took photos in the amusement arcades. A fortune telling machine told me i need to learn to keep a secret (fair point).

We found some amazing shops and tried on medieval dresses in Moonzoom. We hung out in Hoffmans drinking coffee all day and ate burgers with tonnes of gherkins and mustard. For breakfast i had eggs with oranges.

Next we headed for Santa Barbara and the toilets with no doors. We lay on the beach and i read a book about a man who kidnapped a pregnant woman so he could photograph her (and her unborn child)at the point of death and so escape his own eventual death. He got caught.
Two men tried to chat us up in the lamest way and we were not impressed. We got sunburn real bad and missed home a bit.

When we travelled to L.A we watched the sea go by through the window and i ate a stale bagel with cream cheese.
Someone tried to kill us but Lara foiled their plan. We walked along Hollywood Blvd and felt bummed out about it all. We saw a two headed tortoise and saw pictures of car crash victims and the Manson murders. We had massive ice creams and i cut myself a fringe.
We flew to Austin. I remembered the last time i was going to Texas when i cried in the toilets and felt like everything was falling apart and i had nothing to go back to. I don't think i felt so bad this time. I always miss people in airports.
Mark met us with a big smile and a hug and we had the best time- drinking dirty lemonades, dirty dancing in gay bars and lounging around at Barton Springs.
When it was time to come home i felt kind of mixed up about it. I still feel a bit mixed up.

17th of December

Preparing things so i can keep making stuff over christmas- keeping busy for a big re-stock on Etsy next year!

Feeling inspired and reassured after reading THIS

Repeat after me- 'everything is going to be alright'

Rain

Finally got my old specs fixed so i can be all cat-eyed for christmas <3
In other vanity news i am thinking about a hair change- currently swooning over Claire Danes in My So Called Life. hmm.

xxx

New week new thing.

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Once i walked to uni convinced there was a wasp down my tights, and had to maintain some kind of believable calmness to my steps. Then, when i reached a toilet i had the doomy task of slowly and carefully pulling down my tights to release the nightmare- which turned out to be a sticker off my shoe.

weekend

Would be great if all weekends were 3 days long.

It went a bit like this- Derby, Hatch'd, wine, snooze, greasy spoon cafe, charity shopping, massive curry (regretted afterwards), wine and cake, snooze, beautiful train ride, Sheffield, a drive to Nine Ladies, dramatic landscapes, country pub, massive cuppa, telly-athon, sofa sleep, craft fair, coffee, busiest worst train ever back home.

Ready for more snoozing x

octopus sounds

'They make no sound that I know of except possible incidental sounds from strong jets of water passing in and out of the mantle (a muscular bag that stores the animal's gills and body organs). There are a couple of reports of these sounds being produced in squid, but again, they seem to be a byproduct of jetting.'

o ok