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Date: 17 May 2004 00:31:16
Although i love doing different things and going different places i am at heart a bit of a homebody. My friends call me a bit of a monica (think Tv prog friends) I like to be organised with stuff and i drive people mad at work as im always tidying up stuff, including stuff they havnt finished using. I love the idea of being able to arty stuff and craft stuff really well. Most things i can do, it may not be very good but i will always give it a go. Years ago i used to make loads of clothes, this included a pair of patchwork trousers for a friend of mine. I even tie dyed the material and hand sewed the patches individually. I did have a sewing machine at one point but it didnt have any instructions so i never got the hang of it. So i used to hand sew everything.
On wednesday after work i travelled up to JTs and on the thursday i was going into work with him. I spent the morning filling out an application form for a job and i also got him to finally tidy up his office. The actual reason i was meant to be there was to help him sew some velcro on large pieces of material that needed hanging in his church. It was going to be my second attempt at using a sewing machine. I was a bit nervous but as he knows how to use one, i thought it would be easy to pick up. Argghhhh how wrong i was. The cotton kept breaking and the stitching looked awful on the first one. We figured out after ringing his mom that we were using the wrong thread and then JT changed the tension setting. It then worked a bit better, but by 6pm i had only completed 2 out of the 4 pieces of material, so i had to leave it. I was gutted that i wasnt a natural at it, and ive had to admit im not the domestic goddess that i strive to be.
I think i will just have to stick at being Miss organised rather than miss Crafty ;-)
holly xxx