Paws and Threads

Hello Peeps,

The Mother has been back from her hip operation for two weeks now. It was a bit rough for her the first few days home as she must have caught a bug or food didn't agree with her meds. But now she is as right as rain!

However, Silly Snowy decided that he wanted to sympathize with the Mother and so he got a sore foot on the day after her surgery. Miss H and the Boss had to scramble to find a vet open on Sunday. Snowy had to have antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds. As well as a cone of shame! But the cone was too small and he could still reach his foot to lick it. So, back to the vets for his check-up and a BIGGER cone!

BUT

He can STILL reach his foot.

GUILTY!!! 

Miss H took him back to the vet on Monday afternoon. The vet had previously said if the foot hadn't healed they would have to put him under sedation and cut it open. ARGH!

Miss H has put one of her new socks around his foot to stop him licking it, but it still looks really bad. She chose pink because he has been very naughty! And apparently Snowy is not getting the message with the cone of shame!!!

Then on the day we went back to the vet he smashed his cone from top to bottom!!! Naughty doggy!

Thankfully, the vet decided to try him on different meds which meant he no longer needs the cone. Phew! And he doesn't have to go under sedation. Double phew! Slowly, slowly his paw is getting better. But he is sulking because the vet said he isn't allowed to go for walks. 

Just before the July winter holidays, Miss H got an absolute bargain on threads wound onto bobbins and stored in two sets of 41 drawer storage boxes, cross stitching fabric, and some cross stitch patterns. So all through the two week holiday (it pretty much took the entire two weeks) Miss H wound threads from her and the Mother's supply onto bobbins before colour coding their bobbins and the ones they got in the bargain deal into the two boxes. 

Here they are all organised. She thought about doing them by number, but decided that colour ranges would be easier for her to use. 

Look at those beautiful colours - I can almost smell the lavender.

She really should of named this the chocolate range!!! YUMMY!

Just writing green and blue on the labels didn't truly define what these lovely colours were. Two of Miss H's favourite drawers!

I'm tickled pink by these drawers. 

Miss H thought these would be the hardest threads to match anything with - but just this week she found that they perfectly suited the material she is using for her freinds' Christmas presents. 

These are kept sepraterly in a thread box becasue they are all lights and Miss H wasn't sure how many little boxes she would fill with all the other thread when she filled this one. 

These are the threads still in the bottom long drawers as Miss H had had enough winding and sorting by then. 

I think of beautiful warm sunshine whenever I open these drawers. 

Ahhhhhh... It feels as if I am swimming in an ocean of blue. 

I can see that Miss H was definetly going colour blind after the rainbow of colours. She clearly can't tell that these threads are purple... or are they brown? 

And of course one must have a drawer for all the varigated threads.

Miss H loves that everything is now organised. When starting a stitching project she used to dive into the tangle of the Mother's threads and chosse some ones she liked and once she was finished would try to match some fabric. But now, she chooses her fabric first and opens the relevant drawers to easily find the matching threads.


Now I better go and help Miss H. She has already ruined one chocolate banana bread by forgetting half the ingredients and I don't want her to ruin her second attempt.

Love from

Baa. xxx