Encompassing Designs
  • Home
  • Shop
    • Kits
    • Patterns >
      • Christine Little >
        • Signature Designs
        • New Designs
        • Seasonal Designs
      • Deborah Sweet
      • Susan Leslie
      • Patricia Perry
      • William Morris
    • Supplies >
      • Backings
      • Frames
      • Hooks
      • Books
      • Extra
    • Wool >
      • Abrashed
      • Custom Dyeing
      • Dyed Bundles
      • Dyed Curly Mohair
      • Dyed Spots
      • Dyed Values
      • Dyed Yarn
      • Jacquard Dice Dyes
      • Natural & Colours
      • Plaids & Textures
      • Dye Books & Swatches
  • Ordering
  • Blog
  • Workshops
  • Our Story
  • Contact Us

A fly in the ointment!

2/10/2013

1 Comment

 
I don’t usually blog on Sunday but couldn’t resist an audience to complain to.  Overt your eyes, I’d hate to ruin anyone else’s day with my whining, I just need to get it off my chest.  
 
Sure I was a smart little Brownie, I bragged about being prepared with firewood and provisions but I forgot one little thing…well, more like one big thing, maybe the most important thing of all. Cream!!!!!!  I forgot to buy cream!!!!!   Beautiful 18%, smooth as silk cream.  I can’t have coffee without it!!!  And I’m trapped like a rat on a raft, there’s no hopping in the car to rescue my caffeine addicted body!  This is where I would like to scream and swear for about fifteen minutes and not use the same word twice, but I wouldn’t want to scare the pups!!!  

Anyway, I tried to improvise.  I used a bit of vanilla ice-cream but that left a rather sickenly, odd taste in my mouth and did little to inspire a second sip.  Yuck!   I’m no coffee connoisseur but bastardizing the perfect, dark nectar with an infusion of vanilla bean and a heady amount of sugar would put me off coffee for good.  
  
So I’m cranky and irritated.  I just burned a bit of energy washing dishes and cleaning up the kitchen and I look outside and the ‘F’ word comes to mind as I look at the snow that rebelled from last night’s removal.  Every path is now back to before I started shovelling.  Like in the movie Ground Hog Day it seems I woke to the same scene as yesterday.   So much for a wonderful forced holiday.  My home is my castle my eye, I’m going to have to break out of this blasted prison and find cream or be an impossible person for the rest of the day.  Even if the cream wasn’t needed for today, there’s always tomorrow morning to worry about, when I usually have my one cuppa to jump start the day.  Sigh…… the best laid plans can be fouled by an idiot!

I remember distinctly looking at the cream in the grocery store wondering if I needed any and then remembered buying a litre the day before. And I did, but that was for the shop, too many fridges to stock without enough grey cells to distinguish between the two. I’m trying very hard to be civil but I’m pissed at my stupidity and a few well-placed swear words would do the world of could to make me feel better.  I know I have to keep it clean so here goes…..fiddlesticks, poo, sugar, crapola, dang nab it, jeepers creepers, cheese and rice, upsy daisy, fuddy duds, turd, drats, frack, fudge, beep, darnit, holy buckets, flippin, gosh darn, jumpin gerble, jumpin jehosafats, freakin, doggonit, and of course #$&@!&#^*$!
1 Comment
charlene billard
2/11/2013 01:06:14 am

I LOVED this Blog ... you made me smile ... and I hope you found some coffee cream ... ALSO .. I love the fine-weave burlap you sent me .. so thanks for that!
Charlene in Cow Bay NS

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Christine Little has been ranked #5​ out of the 60 top rug hooking bloggers by Rug Hooking Magazine!

    Picture
    Picture
    Max Anderson, Australia, recipient of my Nova Scotia Treasures rug.  An award of excellence for promoting Canada through his writing.  
    Picture
    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    July 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    July 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012

    Picture
    Picture
    Gift Certificates are available for that special rug hooker in your life!  Any denomination, no expiry date! 

    Picture

    Categories
    (Click on the categories for past blogs)

    All
    Announcements
    Beginner Class
    Christmas
    Colour Planning
    Contests
    Copyright
    Coupon
    Customer Rugs
    Cutter Servicing
    Dyeing
    Equipment
    Featured Hooker
    Giveaway Draw
    Guest Blogger
    Guest Blogger
    Health & Fitness
    Home & Heart
    Hooked Rugs
    Hooking Groups
    Hook In Talk
    Initially Yours
    Jibber Jabber
    Just A Bit Of Fun!
    Life's Experiences
    Life's Experiences
    New Design
    New Ideas
    Pattern Of The Week
    Patterns Hooked
    Pets
    Rants
    Recipes
    Rememberingfbe7326ff7
    Rug Schools
    Show & Tell
    Show-tell
    The Rant
    Tips Technique
    Tips Techniquef0cd117ab4
    Visitors
    Workshops

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture





















    Picture
    We have a pot to "Fiz" in!

Shop Hours:
Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
Saturdays 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
We are closed during ice and snow storms
​so please call ahead.  If school is cancelled we probably are as well.  

Toll Free: 1-855-624-0370
Local: 1-902-624-0370​
encompassingdesigns@gmail.com

498 Main Street
P.O. Box 437
Mahone Bay, N.S.
Canada B0J 2E0

​Follow us and keep up to date
on our specials, new products
​and events!
Picture
Picture
Picture


Home
Shop
Ordering
Blog
Our Story
Workshops

Contact Us




​​​© Copyright 2023 Encompassing Designs. Website by SKYSAIL