Zen and the meaning of holidays...

Well I finally got my act in gear, and started all the jobs on my 'holiday' list. I got the shed painted in a dry spell  between the soggy bits, relaid a garden path, went to the recycling centre, several times, with loads of  dross, dug the garden, cut the hedge and the grass. I even overcame my arachnophobia and tidied out the greenhouse. Chopped up sticks for the chiminea and planted some bushes in my newly dug border.

As for the inside jobs, well they got done too but only because we couldn't find the' Zen' for playing music as we wanted it to take on holiday with us, and in attempt to find it I turned all the cupboards inside out. Then I thought if I'm going to this bother I may as well have a clear out,  threw out the unwanted bits, tidied and put all the other stuff back -  job done!  No Zen though.

Despite vowing that I wouldn't get sucked into 'Olympic Mania', I did, but whilst watching the telly I managed to finish the last of the 10 scarves I knitted for a local charity shop.

I even managed to make a few cards, had an attempt at alcohol inking and made a gift box

an anniversary card for my sister-in-law and her husband

For a beautiful wee girl 

for  my teenage nephew

For a 40yr old who once starred in a school production of Grease 

What's inside?

All this and a surprise visit from my eldest daughter for the weekend. Not bad going.  Now I am ready for my actual holiday which starts tomorrow!! We are off to (hopefully) sunny Spain for two weeks. I am fair excited.   Two weeks of doing nothing...... gulp! What no crafting for two weeks? How will I cope?
Last year I think I may have been  the saddest person on the planet because I actually took my promarkers (or some of them) with me to Spain, and a batch of stamped images just in case I got bored. I worried for two weeks about my markers because it was so hot!  So this year I am taking stamped images and a small watercolour set, some brushes, some artists pencils.......... what's the baggage allowance again?

Hasta la vista baby!