Becs A

I support the teachers, nurses, doctors, and all other workers striking today here in Aotearoa. You deserve fair pay & safe working conditions. Our awful government needs to get their priorities in order - less money for helicopters & roads, more money for education & health!
#Oct23Strike #nzpol

"I do not think it means what you think it means" 😉

well that's the price I pay for coming out of the shadows & actually participating in one of these things

Slaving over a hot stove is a lot more fun when you pop on Catatonia's International Velvet & holler along. "I put horse's heads in people's beds, 'cause I am the mob." (why yes, I did come of age in the 1990s, why do you ask?!?)

Enjoying some Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Aus) on this gloomy afternoon. The homophone round is still the funniest, most devious thing ever to come from Guy Montgomery's twisted mind. "I'd like to buy Bye Bye Bye by a bi" 🤣🤣🤣

YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Official Music Video)

@witchnwords.bsky.social
Hello 👋 You Tube served me up this video today that I thought would be relevant to your interests. It brought to mind your poem from this week. youtu.be/03iBgkXb1EE?...

So sorry for your loss💔 Wishing you peace at this difficult time.

YouTube video by PinkVEVO P!nk - Raise Your Glass (Official Video)

OK, thought about this one all day & finally found one that celebrates your call to be the most you that you can be...Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways 🥂
youtu.be/XjVNlG5cZyQ?...

How's my week going? Just ordered my inner child another Care Bear in an attempt to fight the winter blues.

Knowing what it's actually about doesn't make it any less evocative...not sure what that says about me.

Oh how quiet, quiet the world can be
When it's just you and little me
Everything is clear and everything is new
So you won't be leaving will you?

YouTube video by DidoVEVO Dido - Don't Leave Home

Tonight's soundtrack while cooking dinner was Dido's Life for Rent. I'd forgotten how much I love this album, and especially this track...
youtu.be/tLpsDamWdIM?...

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books
Terry Pratchett
L M Montgomery
Jane Austen
J D Robb
Michael Connelly
Ian Rankin
Harlan Coben
M W Craven
Kathy Reichs
Tess Gerritsen

anyone else totally bamboozled by going back to work on a Monday after a three day weekend? or just me & my tiny, broken brain??

thanks ☺️

a craft desk featuring a green cutting mat piled up with various tools & paper scraps

a wrinkly hand with a small strip of blue tape stuck to it

my craft desk now looks like a bomb site & I found a random piece of tape stuck to me when I came up for lunch. all signs of a great morning!

a hand-made Christmas card using some green wrapping paper cut with a zigzag edge, topped with a black die-cut sentiment embellished with tiny snowflake stickers

a hand-made Christmas card featuring a panel of green wrapping paper with a tree pattern, and a gold embossed sentiment

Caught up on the feed after a break when the muse struck! #MWSecretSantaAoNZ has been good for getting a head start on making this year's Christmas cards. I got inspired by the wrapping paper on my gift, and I used a few of my new stickers to embellish

3 blocks of Whittaker artisan chocolate, two pretty pens in shades of blue, and four packages of cute stickers featuring butterflies, toy sheep & wintery images.

a Christmas card with a silver foil sentiment saying "tis the funky season" and an image of a dog wearing Christmas tree glasses & a Santa headband

Thank-you Santa, such a lovely haul! Enough chocolate to fuel my crafting for a day or two 😉, cute pens & stickers, & a funky card. #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

Merry mid-winter secret Christmas to all who celebrate 🎄🎅 Enjoying the opening joy while waiting for my breakfast. I'll get to mine once I've been fed. #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

I have nothing else going on tomorrow so I'll be opening in the morning & lurking on the feed for all the fun! I did open the courier package when in need of some joy earlier this week. Very excited by all the little packages inside ☺️ #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

After a flurry of #MWSecretSantaAoNZ posts, I've gone a bit quiet on here. But I'm still here & getting excited for opening day. It won't be a midnight opening for me, this old lady can barely keep her eyes open past 9pm on a Friday night 😴

a small wallet made of pale blue fabric printed with kereru birds and ferns

My cute new wallet arrived today. Thanks to @thesewphist.bsky.social for upgrading my card storage with some of my fav chonky birbs 😍

Giftee has confirmed receipt, so I can stop worrying if they got it & go back to worrying if they'll like it. 2 weeks to go 😬 #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

Had enough of work today, just wanna curl up in a ball under my desk. Getting asked to deal with things way outside my area of expertise is making me anxious.

Not me stalking my giftee's feed, hoping they mention that a package has arrived 🤞 (and hoping they post pics cos I forgot to & my box was a work of art if I may say so myself) #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

Getting whiplash from some of music contrasts on Coast in the office this morning - from the lovely croon of Dido's Thank-You (which I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I quoted in a speech at my wedding in 2001 😊), to Def Leppard 's Pour Some Sugar on Me 😜

Esme might mark you down for the lack of bows 😂 but Patrick would definitely admire your impeccable stitching! I'm not qualified to judge (big GBSB fan, but I haven't used a sewing machine since high school) but it looks fabulous to me.

The Secret Santa Gods smiled on me - no queue at the PaperPlus NZ Post counter, handed over the parcel, waved my credit card, and presto, my gift is on its way #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

Having a delightful day in my craft-room wrapping & labeling & writing notes for my giftee #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

3 batches of afghans baked, 1 batch iced so far...gonna be up all night. My contribution to a 70th birthday lunch tomorrow. Gotta get it done tonight as our power is scheduled to be off from 9am tomorrow. So tired 😴

I'd love a card. I make & give a lot of cards & so rarely get them back.