The last few days...

Sunday I caught up on some washing, and made a batch of soap.  I tried a new combination of essential oils, and a couple of new moulds, a mango soap in some gorgeous rose moulds, and a mango and chocolate soap in my new log mould.  We went to the beach in the afternoon, took Max over for a paddle, and then went and had a bbq for dinner.  We are trying to get Max used to socialising with other dogs a bit more, he is really friendly towards other dogs once he has a sniff, but he always runs up to them like he wants to eat them with his hair on his back up, so he looks very intimidating, but it is all such a big act, and he just wants to play, so I may look at taking him to training next year to socialise him more with other dogs as well....The bbq was nice, but very cold and windy, so next time, will definitely take warmer clothes, as we were freezing, and all of us girls had towels wrapped around our legs to keep warm. Yesterday I had sewing class in the morning, working on the textured table runner, and today I was working on the xmas tree skirt I started last week, attaching the gold bias stained glass strips. That is about 1/2 done, so still a little way to go to finish it off.  My new sewing machine arrived in store today, so I will pick it up some time over the next week, when I have time to sit down and open it up and have a good play with it. Tomorrow and Thursday I will be at home, tomorrow will be spent in the office catching up on paperwork, and Thursday catching up and getting ready to head away for the weekend.  Next week I have a fairly free calender, so I am hoping to just spend a few days sorting stuff out at home, I may even set up a workroom area in the shed so I can setup my craft things..not sure though as it can get quite dusty out there...I really long to have a craft area back...I am hoping to convert the lockup area in the garage to my craft room and floristry area, a place where I can meet with clients as well, maybe next year....anyway, enough waffling for today...