Odd night

I had a very odd nights sleep last night, usually I go out for the count even though I don't sleep for long. But last night I kept waking up all the time, very odd ...why can't I just be normal and sleep for 7hrs lol !!

I was very dissapointed that yesterday wasn't as sunny as it was supposed to be :o( so I had to come inside and do the first coat of varnish in the house. Today I'll do the 2nd coat and that'll be the boot finished ( photo's tomorrow hopefully ) and I can move on to another project. I have to be very strict with myself and not start a new project until the first one is finished otherwise I get side tracked and nothing ever gets finished lol.

I think the painful shoulder has pretty much gone, what a relief that is. It lingered on way too long for my liking. Maybe old age is just catching up on me and I don't just bounce back from things like I used too lol :o(

I found a very interesting stained glass and mosaic forum yesterday, which I've joined. It's American based as most of these sites are, but always interesting to browse. It can be very frustrating to see how well the US caters for glass based crafts. I've noticed before how many great things are available over there, that aren't here. When the GBP was strong it was no problem and I could get things imported, but now it just works out way too expensive sadly.

My daughter Jenny arrived back from Manchester late last nite with her friend Charley. They seem to have had a great time .... but were very tired, so I expect I'll hear more from them today about their adventures, before Charley goes back to her home town of Bristol.

The sun is shinning this morning, I hope it stays out so I can go and sit in the garden when it warms up a bit :o)

What a difference a day makes

Yesterday was a gorgeous day, a small taste of the summer months to come I hope. I spent all day in my little garden with my dog. I grouted the 2nd boot, and it dried enough for me to clean off the surplus grout, and then later I cleaned it off properly. In between times I read a book and sunbathed...heaven. It's amazing how much happier just one day of sunshine can make you feel, well it did me :o)

This morning I did the first coat of varnish on the boot, and am full of idea's for future projects. After having a good few weeks of being totally uninspired, this comes as a great relief and I am looking forward to start producing some more works of art.

I also put a new antivirus detector on my pc, along with a decent spyware one and a defragmenter which is supposed to do a much better job than the windows one. I've run all 3 this morning, and so far my pc hasn't frozen today. The antivirus prog is brilliant, and didn't slow down my pc hardly at all, unlike avast and avg which I've used previously. Thanks to Alan in Bangor for sending the links to those.