Apps

I wonder if I can get this blogger app to work if I get photos from flicker instead of skydrive ? Lets find out .
hmm it appears the answer is no

This is what I have last created. A very fast evening's work but none-the-less filled with personal satisfaction.

I like teapots, and I like tea cosies. So there.

Phones and phones and...

I'm playing with a new blogger app on my phone. With any luck it turns out to be something I can use lots, so I will actually blog more. Or, again. Who knows!

Sew jo mo jo

I think its come back. Not really sure how well tho. I made a dress last week that ended up more of a tunic. Luckily it was a practise run anyway. And this evening I finished another dress, but I can't decide if it makes me look like a granny or not. No photos until I have decided! I've bought fabric for a few other dresses but really don't know which style to sew them. Must think more.

Plain Dress part One

So I've been thinking lately. Yes, it's rare. Feel free to insert a laugh track here, it may even be appropriate.

I've been thinking about plain dress.  Not A plain dress, but Plain Dress. Kinda like what the Amish people get around in.

At the outset, I should point out that I am not in any way religious in a strict sense, and definitely not in any Christian, Judeo-christian, biblical sense at all.

But there is something in me that is drawn towards the simplicity and honesty of a plain, simple daily outfit, a long skirt, a basic shirt, and even the head covering.

I have been wearing large wide fabric headbands to work every day for a while. They serve a dual purpose - stops the headset I have to wear pulling at my hair and getting tangled, and keeps my hair out of my face.  But I feel naked now, if I go out of the house without one. This is a little weird.

I am not a fashionable dresser at all. And I have always loved long skirts, especially in summer. But this is different to that. It's a whole different yearning, almost.

I want to live a simple, uncluttered, old-fashioned life. Yet there are so many things preventing me from doing so. First and foremost, having to work in a complicated, structured, technologically advanced (or limited, depending on your viewpoint!) corporate consumerist business, to pay my mortgage, to feed my children. Having to drive there, having to don the 'corporate' gear, the 'business attire', the outlook to fit and be part of the 'team'.

I am studying in order to get out of that world. I will be demoted, when I leave. I will have a social standing reduction, so to speak. I am studying to learn the skills of a lower-paid, less-valued role. But it's a role where I can do good. (I may be deluding myself. There may be LOADS of red-tape bureaucratic shite that makes it just as bad as where I am now, but paid worse... I won't know until I get there). It's a role that will always be needed, and needed by INDIVIDUALS, actual people, not voices on phones, not companies. People.


When I get there, I will wear a uniform. It won't be a long skirt, but maybe the simplicity of a uniform at work will meet the need I am feeling now?

In the meantime, if you see a slightly crazy-looking hippy lady with a floral head covering and a long skirt walking around, say hi. It's probably me.

Wowsers, there's a surprise!

So I think I have commented before about how surprisingly different my two younger lads are. One is very much into solo imaginative indoor play, and reading quietly. The other plays better as a follower inside, and loves kicking around a ball and riding on anything with wheels. Hence you will understand my surprise when the ball-loving fellow advised me yesterday that he was glad his impending birthday is on a Thursday, because on Tuesdays and Thursdays he is allowed in the library at lunch time, where he likes to play chess or read with his friends. Chess set for birthday present, I'm thinking. Now I'm goiing to have to try and remember the rules myself!

And not blog here?

Well, it might have something to do with this seriously irritating blog app on my phone, that consistantly eats posts instead of posting them. Or it could be the lateness of the hour. It could be a combination. Anyway, I've been blogging elsewhere rather than here. Sorry all. Will try and update here more often.