It's all over / half way done

Well, last night I finally gave in and we watched the last few episodes of Awkward. It was a good ending and everything finished as it should have done really. There were no silly outrageous plot lines made up just to try to finish everything off. It was all tidied up very nicely but you were left guessing a little bit but also left to believe that the right thing would happen eventually and everyone would be happy.

There will be that gap in our lives now tonight - I'm not totally sure what is really going to fill it as we were so invested in those characters but I'm sure there will some new characters and therefore new people that we feel like we will get to know in whatever we decide to watch next.

So last night was a little bit emotional. I knew that I would be upset anyway just that it was over - I know I'm pathetic like that but there was also the soppy ending (or nearly soppy ending that turned out good anyway) that I wanted. To distract myself just a little bit, I picked up my crochet and at some points had to REALLY concentrate on what I was doing with it (not at all a distraction to stop me crying, honest!)

I have been wanting to catch up with this for a long time now and I wouldn't say that I am fully there but at least I am half way. I managed to catch up with the rows to the end of June and that means to the end of this piece at least. For those of you that haven't ready my blogs from the beginning, or at least for a fair while, the last few years I have been crocheting a row a day with the colour depending on the temperatures for the day. The post that I have linked to later on explains how I have worked out the temperatures but here also is a picture of the page in my BuJo that I record it all.

For 3 months, I use the high temperature of the day, 3 months the low temperature and the remaining 6 months I use an average to determine which colour to crochet my row. Once I have done my row for each day I then colour in the corresponding square in my book too to show that I have done it.

I think the crochet's looking pretty good so far this year. This shows up to the end of June.

The colours really have changed from the beginning of the year with the purples and blues to June being a lot of red (we had a really warm week) and orange.

Let's see how it compares to last year. Here is the same blog post basically but from last year which also explains the scale for the colours too if you're interested.

I guess I didn't finish the ends of the runner off in quite the same way last year - there is more of a white border this year but otherwise they are looking pretty similar. I guess we had slightly more really cold weather this year (less than 0) as there is a bit more purple in this years runner, although having said that last year it maintained the cold for longer periods when it did get down that low.

There seems to be a bit more green in the middle this year so perhaps it was slightly warmer around March/April time this year. The summer is looking pretty similar too really. Again maybe slightly warmer for longer this year as there is a bigger red block I think but only slightly.

I love the way that they turn out and both look very similar but also that little bit different too each time I make them.

Looking at these does remind me that I really need to get a move on with sewing last years crochet strips together into a cushion cover. I think I have managed to sew in all of the ends already which is an achievement in itself so now all I have to do is to sew the two strips together and then fold it into a cushion cover. I will make that my mission over the next few weeks so that I can show you a finished product and before I end up getting the 3 strips in a muddle. I only have photos to distinguish which is which so the muddling is a distinct possibility.

When I've made them up into cushion covers I think I should sew a year into them or something to show when they are from. Or maybe I should use funky buttons for the years. Ooh - I might need ideas for this one. If anyone has any suggestions then please let me know what I can use to differentiate.

Does anyone else do anything to distract themselves while they're watching TV? I know that I much prefer crafts that I can do on the sofa to ones that I have to go and hide away in another room to do, although I guess sometimes they do have their uses.

Awkward!

Following on from the TV shows and movies post from a couple of days ago, I decided to make this spread in my BuJo.

I added pictures from the series and filled the rest of the space with definitions too. As it's about teenage kids and at that, American teenage kids there are lots of abbreviations used to describe things that without this, I would be far too old and uncool to understand!

They didn't quite all fit onto the one double page spread so I added an extra piece of paper to increase the space for the remaining definitions.

And a second onto this for the final few.

I know I shouldn't be enjoying this show as much as I am but it is definitely a guilty pleasure at the minute.

We have now got to the final series of the show so there are only a few episodes left. I think that we are both dreading getting to the end.

I know that I am dreading it anyway, not only because I still want to know what's going to happen. I feel like I am invested in these characters now and I want to know what happens to them in the future. Do you ever get so into a TV show where you almost feel like you are living a life with them and you are a part of their group of friends? I don't want to just leave it with them going off to college and then not know what happens with the rest of their lives.

Also, when you get really invested in a program and you watch it so regularly, do you ever find that it leaves a hole in your life once that show has finished? I know that we end up feeling a little bit lost and not really sure what to do with ourselves for a while until we find something to fill that gap. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to overcome that gap?

Have a good weekend all.

Nothing better than a good movie night

We have a lot of catching up to do - again, I have left this for ages and haven't managed to write. I have a list so we are all good. I will get there eventually!

I'll start with a really really old update - we made these almost a year ago now when we had a clear out and wanted to make a bit of space around the house. We love our DVDs/Blu Rays and have quite a few.

In their boxes and subsequently in DVD racks in the living room then later taking up a whole book shelf in our spare room, it was just getting a bit silly with the amount of space they were taking up.

Our solution was to throw out the boxes and store all of the actual disks in a big disk box.

We do however loan out a lot of our disks and weren't sure how this was going to work without any boxes so we did keep a few and make them into these.

Welcome to Happy Henlow Crafts rental store!

Red boxes can be for DVDs as that is what we have the most of and yellow for Blu Ray.

We also kept a couple of double boxes for those movies that span more than one disk or for loaning out series'.

So this leads to a few questions that I have for you guys out there:
What is your favourite movie? You know the one that you turn to whenever you need a little comfort watching - the one that makes you laugh and cry and altogether somehow make you feel better about yourself. I have to answer with 2 different films for this question. It has to be Pretty Woman and Coyote Ugly. Both make me laugh and cry, sing and always come out of the other side feeling much better.
What was the last movie that you watched? Mine is Harry Potter - we are working through the full series again at the minute. We have watched the first 3 films so far and number 4 will hopefully be over the weekend.
What are you watching at the minute? Are you watching a series on TV or catchup. We're watching and American sitcom called Awkward. It's a bit of a guilty little secret. It shouldn't be good but I will have to admit, we are totally hooked!

Sometimes there is nothing better than curling up on the sofa with a good movie or TV show. Have a good week and enjoy the time that you have to chill out.