Wednesday already

Woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow. I needed to wander outside with a kettle of hot water in order to defrost the bird bath, and was glad I'd closed up the cold frame last night, and bought the potted fig trees indoors again.

I sorted through a big pile of completed and uncompleted cushion covers, quilts and assorted 'makes' that was piled up next to the sofa. I've a load of things to list on Etsy, and spent some time photographing them, trying to present them in the best possible light. It's so difficult to know how to price handmade items. You want to charge a reasonable amount to cover your material costs and reflect the amount of hours you've put in. But you have to balance that by anticipating how much a customer would be willing to part with to buy your work. I think a lot of it is guesswork in the beginning.

The blue cushion cover in the centre of this photo is one I'm listing at Shoprubykittyruby on Etsy.

This pink hexagon cushion cover will be listed too. Let's hope they find their way to a new home soon.

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Taking a blog break ...

Hello! And goodbye, at least for now. The blog's on hold for a little while as I'm easing myself into 2026 gradually. I'm still stitching and reading and enjoying life with Badger the cat. Even though he treats my sofa like a giant scratching post!

Badger!

Here's Badger, looking like the little cutie-pie he is. He's settled in so well, is absurdly affectionate and eats anything and everything I put in his food bowl. The only fault I can find is that he likes to sharpen his claws on the side of my sofa. This is despite having two scratching posts, one of which is part of a cat tower that's taller than I am! I may have to try trimming his claws, but I don't know how Badger will react to that. Anyway, expect to see more photos of him, so sorry in advance for any of you who aren't feline fans. Apart from gazing in admiration at the cat I've continued to experiment with embroidery. I really can't decide whether this mainly pink piece of stitching is something I like or just a dog's dinner of a mess. This is another embroidery I've been stitching. Frankly, at the moment it looks like it should be lobbed straight into the bin. I'd painted with a mix of watercolour pa...

Final post for 2025 (I think. I mean, unless anything amazingly wonderful happens that I can't keep to myself any longer ...)

The days are marching by at record speed, and I've finally - possibly - bought all the presents I need to buy and written all the Christmas cards I need to send. I decided not to put up a full-sized tree this year as I'm convinced Badger the cat would simply view it as a climbing frame, and I'd find it toppled on a daily basis. Instead, there's a small green tree, and a simple white twiggy one that has lots of vintage baubles dangling from it. To be honest, I prefer the twiggy one, so the green tree might be permanently retired from now on. I've not gone crazy with the decorations, but there are various strings of fairy lights that look so pretty when they're lit. I have - between internet shopping and baking mince pies - made a little fishy pin cushion, decorated with seed stitches, French knots, chain stitch and stem stitch. I'm on the look-out for grey tweedy material to make another fish as I think that'd look better than plain ...

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