I'm back!

I'm sorry everyone... it's been a very hard year. I don't want to go into too much detail but it hasn't been the best couple of months. I was working in a childcare as a kindergarten teacher but I found that working with children that young wasn't what I was planning to do. So now I'm looking for work again. Though that said I'm not sure what I'm looking for I don't know whether I want to be a full time teacher anymore but I need something to keep going. I found that I was that stressed about work that I couldn't even stitch much. Which is really weird for my life I love crafts so much but I just couldn't do any because I couldn't settle. Since then though I do have some photo updates.

Since then I have worked on Masquerade Pale Dawn

I am so happy :D its wonderful I love how it's turning out.

I have also managed to get my sewing machine out and I had to have some fun and put my name on my bag for the symphonic orchestra I joined 3 months ago because I needed some music to enjoy playing.

If anyone is around Brisbane look up the Moreton Bay Symphonic Orchestra you will really enjoy the music we've got a pastoral concert coming up which will be exciting.

I'm enjoying the music and the stitching and all I really need now is a job so that I can earn some money to keep buying stuff.

Happy Stitching everyone and I promise it won't be that long between visits anymore!
Caitlin

Picture Update

ohk here are some photos finally :)

I've been working on this one a little bit. I love the simplicity of the colour choices. I don't have to keep changing colours that often.

the second one is a tea cosy it looks awesome. I will eventually get it finished.

I don't have much time to myself. But I'm really happy in my new job and learning how to work with a younger group of kids than I am used to. I never thought I'd find myself in a kindergarten.

Enjoy the photos I will hopefully be able to show some significant progress sometime soon... it's slowly settling into a pattern.

Caitlin

I'm still here :D

Well this is just a quick post as I fly through. I am still here and around. I finally have internet again. Since I moved out into my own little unit.

It's nice and quiet but I'm enjoying living by myself for a while.

Work is good it's crazy busy and never stops but it is fun.

I will post some photos of the stuff I've done I have been stitching just not much. Time is a luxury at the moment.

Thank you for stitcking around.
Caitlin

Health and Life

I wanted to update everyone on my health issues and some other issues I'm going through.

I have finally got my health going on the right track. I do have adrenal issues and my cortisol levels are too high in the morning so I am now on Melatonin in the evening to counteract that and help me sleep better when I should be. I have only been on it a couple of weeks but the difference is amazing! I am not collapsing at 11am because I have run out of any energy because I walked around the block. It was pretty bad.

Which brings me to some bad news... My partner and I are splitting up. We have been together for 6 years and engaged for 2.5. I'm not entirely sure what happened myself but he had begun to disengage. I don't know when exactly but I know I was getting sick of being treated like a second class person. As much as I love him I can't keep going around in emotional circles so he called it off. I'm not dealing that well with it. It came as a bit of a surprise, I thought we were working through everything and coming out the other side.

On a good note though I finally have full time work. I have a job as a Kindy Teacher at a local Child Care Centre. It's wonderful. I love the work, it's interesting and challenging and different. Though I'm emotionally and Physically exhausted all the time now. Everything came to a head between Phill and me 2 days before I started my new job and that was less than 2 weeks ago....

So between everything at the moment I am getting a little stitching done and I will have to show you photos when I get some energy ....

Caitlin

Cadbury Factory

We're back safe and sound. I will have to post a number of updates over the next week or so... it will take a while.

When we arrived in Dunedin on Thursday my only requirement was that we went to the Cadbury factory for a tour. Thankfully it was all booked before we went so it was pretty much guaranteed.

Here is a photo of the purple silo at the back of the Cadbury factory. We got to go inside the silo during the tour.

a random door that we walked past :D

A display of different kinds of chocolates. The Yowies in the middle were very popular when I was a kid. There were toys inside the chocolate. We had a number of them.

All dressed up to go inside. We had to wear hair covers for health and safety.

Unfortunately I can't show you anything else from inside the factory itself as we couldn't take cameras. Or anything else metal. It was great, this factory produces the base agent for all Cadbury chocolate called crumb. They also produce Jaffas, Pebbles, Roses chocolates and marshmallow products. Also all the Easter Eggs for New Zealand. So lots of yummy smells and stuff.

Outside we did get to sit in some old delivery trucks. So cool all purple :D

We did get a bag of chocolate to take away with us which is yummy and surprisingly I haven't eaten any of it yet. I'm being very good and I ate too many other bad things on the trip.

More photos to come later I have some gorgeous scenery photos. It was freezing  (for me anyway) I had 5 layers on anytime I went outside.

Enjoy,
Caitlin