So what have I been doing?
Well, I’ve made another Miranda bag - here’s a sneak peek. (dontcha hate that you never see those stray threads until photography? Arrgh!)
Got to post two on Monday, and I was hoping to get a third done but - it’s too HOT.
And today was the first race of the V8 Supercars season - wooohooooo! Because it’s a 500km total race, the second 250kms will be run tomorrow. Can’t wait!
Tuesday I overdid things and it’s taken me until Saturday arvo to really get back on top 
Was going to go to the movies (and possibly see the delicious Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd) but all three of us were way too tired - so we had tea and chatter at Vicki’s instead. Chriss and Vicki are both newish Toowoomba quilters, and lots of fun. But coming on top of spending 10- 3ish at Quilters, I probably should have slept in between, not gone racing round on errands…
Wednesday I went to the doctors - still haven’t gone and got the bloodwork done, oops - and I’m coming round to the idea of at least finding out more about this new medically managed weight loss program. Problem could be the $$- it’s not cheap.
Today is the hottest day of Summer so far (35 inside the house - although the Bureau claim 31. Nope! Yesterday wasn’t far behind at 34/ 30…)
We have Western facing windows in the bedroom, bathroom and sewing room- which means on hot days, those rooms get hotter and hotter - it’s just not bearable to go into them from about 11am until around 9pm. I’m hoping we’ll be able to get some sort of blinds/awnings to help with that….
It’s finally cooled down enough to go to the sewing room - I’m off to cut some sheet acrylic.
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Caity
Would it help to put tinfoil [ aluminum foil] on your windows - completely covered. We sometimes think when we see windows covered like that, that perhaps the house is a grow-op house, but I have a friend who covers her child’s bedroom windows in order to stop the heat from the sun from making the dust in the room move. The little girl is very allergic to dust+.
Could you make a window cover from the silver stuff used for ironing board covers? Up here in the frozen north, we can get darkening fabric that is used between the window and curtains that also helps to keep out the cold. It is a white plastic fabric, easily worked with.
Susan -
Susan, I reckon I’m desperate enough to try anything - and considering The Horribles next door are being particularly nasty right now, foil doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all!
I think I’ll go to the curtain shop downtown tomorrow and check out their prices on sun block material… how hard can it be? (famous last words!)
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