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bright-eyes

3 years ago

This coming Monday will be Max's anniversary of bringing him home from the rescue we got him from.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

And that is October's issue of Cross Stitcher ordered. (Always my fave edition of the mag - for some reason, the best designs seem to always be saved up for the October edition. Of course, other folks will like different things from me, and that's fine, but there always seems to be more designs I like in this edition than in all the others. I might not get it again until the New Year though. From November onwards,

bright-eyes 3 years ago

it's usually full of Christmas designs until the edition that comes out in January, and there is only so much festive stuff I can take. I also have lots of mags from 10 years ago that had lots of Christmas designs in them so I don't really want any more, unless there is a design that really catches my eye, which sometimes (but rarely) happens.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

I do get the feeling that some dresses I ordered from a certain catalogue company will either end up not being delivered, or will turn up just before Christmas.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Damn, damn, damn.... I placed an order at Hobby Craft today and meant to order some gesso, and some double-sided tape (the double-sided tape I need for filling my scrapbook with loose art pages...) Guess who forgot to add them to the order? Ermmm? Silly, since I've been wanting the double sided tape for ages and ages, and wanted to order it...

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

I recently found an old sketch book that I've barely drawn in... Don't know why l left it untouched, so I've spent the last few days filling it up. Let's see if I can get it filled by Christmas!

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

I've just come across one of the most bizarre comments I have ever seen regarding a company - the company allegedly gives bad service to customers of a certain political persuasion. As you are ordering online, how the heck is the company supposed to know what your political beliefs are just by your name, etc... Very weird...

bright-eyes 3 years ago

And I am also sure that their employees have better things to do than look you up on social media to see what your beliefs are. (And it's kind of strange, too, since, as it's a US cross stitch supplier, I always get the impression from the designs that you commonly come across that most people who cross stitch in the US have a Conservative persuasion since there are a lot of patriotic,

bright-eyes 3 years ago

religious and hunting themes in the designs. It's a strange viewpoint to have.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

People are just twits. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58518892 ... Max is one of those 'teenage' puppies, and of a breed that is allegedly one of the most difficult, being a Border Collie. We have no problems with him. When we first adopted him last year, the previous owners had piled on a load of 'issues' that he was supposed to have had that could have resulted in him getting put down if the wrong rescue had taken

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

taken him on. Mostly, he was just bored and scared because he'd been locked up on his own for hours on end, and sometimes behaved like he'd been mistreated. I just hope none of these folks have kids, or need to care for a chronically ill/elderly relative because if they can't cope with a puppy, they wouldn't be able to cope with that. Most of these 'issues' that dogs have are dogs just being dogs and the problem is

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

their owners.

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koshka 3 years ago

I'm convinced most people are incapable of empathy. Most symptoms of autism that autistic children and adults are punished for are also obvious signs of being mistreated. People expect everyone to be perfect and then brutally kick their maladies under the rug if they aren't.

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

If not lacking in empathy, I think people can certainly disregard the feelings and welfare of other people (and animals) when it suits them to do so.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

I always find October's issue of Cross Stitcher to be the best one in the year. Can't wait to order it next week...

bright-eyes

3 years ago

I get tired of people complaining about Amazon making affordable things. This time, it is art supplies. Whatever you think of Amazon, I've found the company to be very useful to me. I wouldn't have access to most of the books that I read if I didn't buy them from there. Most high street shops don't stock a good range/say you can't get it if you try to order it/over stock on 'popular bestsellers' and nothing else.

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

If Amazon have their own brand of art supplies that help people out who are short on money, can't get to the shops because of the pandemic, etc, then is there any need to complain? They are just very good at providing a service so people can get hold of items which would be hard to come by otherwise. For over a year now, I have been confined to my small village and none of the shops stock a good range of art supplies

bright-eyes 3 years ago

and stationary, at least not that which would be helpful to an artist. The company is a life line for people who are vulnerable.

koshka 3 years ago

I detest Amazon for how they exploit their workers and small businesses, but I admit they're a life-saver for a lot of things, namely books like you said. It seems like physical stores only stock "safe" mainstream books, not the things I actually like to read. That and as a male that wears a lot of pink, Amazon is pretty much the only place I can find clothing I actually like.

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

It's been years since I found a decent bookshop. The good independent ones have either closed, or are too far away. As for high street chains, the only /real/ bookshop that I've been in has been Blackwells in Oxford. The local library I find has pretty much either dumbed down its collection, has damaged books in it (seriously, I stopped checking books out because people had torn pages out of them so you couldn't read

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

them properly) or they don't have what I want. Wasn't always that way but the last time I looked in the zoology section, the books there should have been in the children's section, not the adults!

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

Next week will be the week that I will be getting a new computer...

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

Just came across a youtuber complaining about people mocking and making fun of her, but her entire channel seems to be her creating videos mocking other people. Ermmm.... Perhaps you reap what you sow?

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arremeer 3 years ago

Who

koshka 3 years ago

Crybullies, I think the term is.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Spent the morning sorting out a bookcase, some side tables and cleaning a craft drawer tower that I plan to upcycle for my paints, etc, in preparation for my new (and hopefully, more organised) workspace. The tower is an ugly black colour which might have been to my liking when I was 14, but which now I find depressing. (I do like gothic things, by the way, but I hate the black and grey workshop look, especially

bright-eyes 3 years ago

when I have to stare it at when I'm not working.) But the tower is a lucky find.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

One problem which I am struggling with at the moment is motivating myself to cook properly. This is in due partly to my diabetes - you get to the point where you feel like you shouldn't be eating anything at all because where-ever you look, there is some 'research' that tells you whatever food item you eat is bad. The other issue is that from 2018 - 2020 we lost a dog each year around the same same time (Jaffa and

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

Colin at the beginning of the month, practically on the same day a year apart) and Misty in the middle of the month a year after losing Colin. I'm trying to reset it so that I feel better about things, but it's frustrating.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

On Max's walk today, we saw a couple of squirrels, four crows and three magpies.

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bright-eyes dollzmaniabackup

3 years ago

Josie's Dolls is an old one. It was around when I first started making fan sites in 2003!

bright-eyes

3 years ago

'I was going to go to Lidl tomorrow' he says. The last time, he came back with a load of stuff I couldn't eat and it resulted in a hypo...

bright-eyes

3 years ago

That dog is the best 'doctor' I've had.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

Took Max on a longer than usual walk today and visited some places I've not been for ages. My stamina has improved a lot in the past year or so. A couple of years ago, I took Misty to the same place, intending on walking the same distance I did today and couldn't do it due to pain in my lower back. To folks who struggle with illnesses like arthritis and high blood pressure, things can improve, if you don't try to do

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

too much, too quickly. This is the result of taking Max out for a walk (some short, some longer) almost every day for about a year.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

Dug out some art I did a few years ago so I can scan it when we get the new computer. I forgot how vibrant most of them are.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Starting next week, I'll finally be able to do more around the flat. As it's not very big, it's a bit crowded when we are both here when it comes to doing housework and you need to move stuff around to clean stuff. (Yay!)

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