The weekend thus far

It’s been a relatively relaxing one so far. Yesterday I made corn fritters which came out quite nice. You can pick up the recipe for them here, at my Taste Magazine blog.

Mom and I went to the shops in the morning. We bought wool, and a few other bits and pieces. I’m starting the diet of doom again because I’ve picked up 4 kilos and I’m starting to feel it in my clothes. I still have those 15 kilos to lose, so I guess now is as good a time as any to get rid of them.

I haven’t really made any further progress on my online shop, because I need to meet with Pat first to discuss the product catalogue, and how it will all work. Once I’ve got a better understanding of that, I’ll continue with the design. In the meantime I’m making pieces of jewellery and pricing them.

In other arts and crafts news, I’m working on the mosaic snail, who thanks to Jay, I’m calling Juju. He’s coming along nicely, but I’m going to need to get another pack of the one set of tiles. I can see that I’m going to run out.

I also started my 44 Liqueur yesterday. I think it’s going to be fantastic when it’s done, but we shall wait and see. Getting the coffee beans into the orange is more difficult than it looks! But it was quite quick to put together once I got into the swing of it. I’m going to make some surprise muffins today for lunch, I think.

I have so much work to do, at work that I may go in a little later to try and get through some of my admin. Big things are happening at work that I can’t talk about at this point, but they’re all good.

Anyways, that’s me for now. Have a great Sunday and a great week!

Furbie was having a snooze on the carpet

Wow

This has been one hell of a week. You know your home life is stressful when you’re wishing it were Monday instead of Friday. That said, I am truly exhausted. My everything is aching from my ears to my toes.

I managed to semi-graze my knee this morning, but it still hurts like hell, when I went falling down the driveway. I was simply wearing the wrong shoes at the wrong time, and put my foot in the wrong place. As a result my knee is stiff, bruised and all-round sore.

On the upside, I do have a snail to mosaic this weekend. I’m calling him Juju, thanks to Jay’s suggestion. I’ll post some pics of the in-progress and the finished result. I just need to remember to get some bonding agent for the grout.

I’m also going back on my diet from Tuesday. I’ve put on 4kg’s and I’m not happy. Look, I still have another 15 (now 19) to lose, so now is a good time to get back on it. I’m not looking forward to the revolting medicine, but I am looking forward to losing the weight. Hopefully by this time next year I will be at my goal weight. I also need to get into a gym. I need to find a woman’s gym that caters for my insane schedule. I don’t like gyms where there are men around.

Ok, my emails have been sent, so I’m heading home. Enjoy the weekend!

Ballito Prawn and Jazz Festival

Saturday turned out to be a little different to what I had originally planned, but I can’t complain. I did get to Ceramic Craft Studio to pick up the ceramic snails that Katia and I want to mosaic, but I didn’t get to the I Heart Market.

These are some of the tiles I'm going to mosaic him with.

At the festival I bought a heart blank to mosaic, to see how it's going to come out.

Mom, grandpa and I took a drive out to Ballito for the Prawn and Jazz Festival, which was held at Collisheen Estate.

It was great, there was so much to look at including guys flying through the air on dirt bikes, a big flea market, arts, crafts, food galore, a farmers market, a 4x4 track, rock climbing walls and even a funfair. We had lunch at the SPAR tent and although the queue was a mile long, it went by quickly. All of us had the prawn and chicken bunny chow. They were nice, but could have done with a few more prawns. I bought a few small things, and found a few more things that I would have like to have bought, but didn’t. I bought a heart made out of wood (pic below) because I think I’d like to make these and sell them in my (soon to be) online shop. Let me know what you think and if you think that it’s a good idea that I include them. We were blessed to have perfect Durban winter weather, sunshine and no rain. I didn’t need a jersey at all, but I certainly do need to get myself a pair of sunglasses. My Oakleys are so old that they’ve actually perished, poor things.

These boys (the one was only 17!) were literally FLYING through the air!

We bought two mixed mushroom kebabs. I think I'm going to use the shrooms to make a mushroom risotto tomorrow.

Pics of the heart that I want to attempt to make and sell. What do you think? This cost me R80, and I know that it didn't cost that much to make.

 

After the festival we popped to the Lifestyle Centre in Ballito. It’s such a nice centre, but we didn’t stay long because we’d been walking for hours around the festival and were tired. I even started dozing off in the car on the way home! We left the house this morning at around 10ish, but only got home just before 5pm! So it’s been a long day, but a good one.

I was using mom’s point-and-shoot so I couldn’t zoom in as far as I would have liked with the bike pics.

Saturday Plans!

Ok, Saturday plans are sorted.
I'm going to head to the I Heart Market in the morning (Durban North) to look at the drawings that I saw there last month. I really want one of those.

Then after that (or maybe before, depends on what mom wants to do), we are going to head to the Ceramic Craft Studio (in Malvern - completely the opposite direction to Durban North) to pick up ceramic snails for myself and Katia to mosaic. I don't know what colours she is going to do hers, but mine is going to be a mixture of warm oranges and reds.

Mother’s Day 2010

I made mom a mosaic “mug” which is meant to be used as a vase or a paintbrush holder, or for whatever she feels like sticking in it. It came out quite nice, but jeepers, what a mission to get everything stuck down without it running all over the place. Her mug came complete with shortbread biscuits and chocolates.