Yurt update

Here's some impressions from last week's building, taken with my new camera.
Saturday and Sunday was freezing cold, but I spent them mostly inside because I had my exams then. It went quite well I think.
On Monday it got a bit warmer thankfully, but it was still not a great feeling to be out and without a place to warm up all day.
Well, at least we had some hot soup for lunch.





In other news, I lost one of my mittens (my favourite pair), because I slipped off with the drill and it caught in the fabric and ripped it to pieces.
We're working hard on the lightring now, the last piece... there's still a few additional things to be done, but this is the last big job.

365 things - week 2

Hello again, here's some more things I will give away this week:

A little elephant pouch
a pair of sunglasses
a little mouse
a baking tray
a pair of flip flops
a pair of boots
a bumbag
and a fan




















Some of these things like the shoes and the glasses are reeeally old and shabby and will go to the garbage straight away. For the other things I will try to find new homes, so if there's anything you like, it's waiting for you!

It feels so cool to get rid of things so steadily. Each week I think it will be hard to find seven things that I don't need or don't want anymore, and then my outbox fills up very quickly.

365 things!!!

Hello hello, sit down, I gotta tell you something!

(you can tell I'm excited by now)

(I have been waiting so long to tell you this)

I have a new project running.

I came up with the idea when we moved all the stuff from the WG to my flat and realised how MUCH we both possess - even though we don't have big shopping problems or huge flats.... it's just insane. And all that stuff really gets to me. So I tried to come up with an idea to motivate myself to get rid of stuff.
I might take a big step next time we move but that's not up yet and I wanted to start soon, so I made a contract with myself:

Starting from 1st of December, I will give away, recycle, sell or trash 365 items - one for each day (but not necessarily one per day - that would be stressful I think).

I started today with bringing out a big bag of clothes that I don't wear anymore. I gave them to Tali who had asked me to show it to her, but whatever she doesn't want goes to the charity.

I have some more things listed and that's where you come in: If you like any of these or know somebody who might like it, drop me a line here or on fb, and I will reserve it for you for a week.

So without further ado, here's the list:

1. ladybird wings
















2. ladybird hairbow

























3. dragon
















4. little wooden massage thingie
























5. butterfly wings















I realise the list is quite full with girlie items but I promise there will be other stuff too!

a quiet day of pottering

I felt horribly cranky and moody this morning, but I tried to be good and not nag on Trev who was sitting down sketching out a detailed plan of all the work for finishing the yurt and the supplies we still need to get.

The rest of the day was a bit better, but not over the top, and I have been lurking in my PJ's, crafting tiny things just to make me feel a bit better.




Maybe I could pimp these up with some shiny (actually, I think I should!) and use them on the christmas tree?

Well, I guess we won't really have a tree this year. Last year at the WG was my first 'kind-of-my-own' christmas tree, I never had space or money for one since I am not living with my parents anymore. And anyways, I think I would want one in a pot, what's the sense of throwing it away afterwards?

IF, If, if.... the yurt is finished before christmas......... no, I know by now that I should not set deadlines anymore and I am quite sure it will not happen.
But if....
...............then we could have a decorated tree outside and it would be so wonderful! Aaawgh, I want it to be finished!!!!

Excuse my outbreaks, but as it is nearing completion, in a way, and still not, I am feeling more and more discouraged...
But at least I am trying to get back into blog-routine again. It makes me sick to only post about the building, so I try to write about other things too. Not equally important, but I hope you like to read it anyways.

And here's some candlelight, because it is important on a pottery day.

Me likee

My most favourite panties !!ever!! Who could resist swimming ducks?
Go, run to the orange M to get your own.

























Trev is back from England and he brought a new family member. Meet Pinkerton, the little elephant:















Isn't he adorable? Him and Teddy are really good friends already.

















Coming up: Free stuff to give away. Stay tuned.
xxx

Early morning post

Well hello there... ugh, seems like it has been the better part of a month since I last posted.
It's not like there weren't any updates on the building - the only thing I seem to be able to write about at the moment - but somehow I felt like I had nothing to show.
And that is true - because there are no pictures. And why didn't I take any? I kind of forgot... you know, my (still quite shiny new) green camera parted into the nirvana a few weeks (a couple of months?) ago. I can still switch it on, the screen still works - it just won't take any pictures. It's not really worth mending it, as much as I hate that, but I don't have a warranty.
So I am without a camera. Well, there is Trev's old one, but to be honest, I really don't like using it because it does not do good shots. (I'm a point-and-shooter, the camera has to do the work, really)
So I keep procrastinating about pictures, or just plain forget to take the camera out.
And blogging without pictures is like a presentation without ppp...

Well, so be it. I am working on getting a new picture-making-gadget for Xmas the latest and I hope it will make me a happy girl again.
Atm though what will make me happy is a far simpler thing and that is friday night to come because that is when Trev returns from a one-week stay over in England and I miss him so much. We just kind of settled in here in my flat together, having all his stuff over and everything organised so that it feels like two people are living here, in contrast of a person being the permanent guest of the other... you know what I mean (don't you?).
Well, him being away also has good sides, I get to work on his Xmas surprises for example, I hang around the internet reading inspiring blogs (hence my effort here), and I am working on my English like crazy, because hell, I'm signed up for that Profisciency test in two weeks! I don't really know how December came close so fast, it must have put stilts on!

I had just settled with the idea of a dark and cozy November, but now I have to kickstart myself into Christmas mood!

Not that I need the energy for whipping out presents, apart from Trev's all of them are ready and wrapped since a week. I am an early bird this year. I just have so much fun making the presents and the cards and wrapping them nicely when I have no pressure.
But of course there is still the decorating, planning xmassy stuff for school and thinking about events like santa clause or christmas dinner.

Well, I would wish for it to be at the yurt - the finished one I mean - but since the weeks fly by so quickly I think it would take more than a lucky charm for us to be able to finish it in time... although I did finish almost all of the roofpoles AND the tarp last weekend.
So all left to construct is the lightring and 77 short poles, then we can start building... I've been thinking about this moment so often that now that it has come so close I don't feel anything about it anymore. I guess that really is a sign that we should finish that whole project soon. The sooner the better... *sigh*

OK, I admit, I got all emotional about not blogging, I felt bad, and I got babbling, but now Ill stop, and I'll give you a link to run to so you have something, if not any pictures:
Two cheese please is a really inspiring crafty blog of an australian girl, and if you lack ideas for xmas presents or decorations, this is the post for you: A selfmade stamps tutorial!

I givez u helpz...

... u givez me cheezburgerz?



It must be said: You are not really helpful, little cat. Rather the contrary...


But at least you're warm and furry.

New progress

We are really on the last stretch now.
We bought some truck tarp and started putting together our roof.


Started working on the roofpoles:




And on the lightring: The round window in the middle of the roof that will also hold the whole construction together.



It's about time we got somewhere. I have to add a layer of clothes every day we spend out there and soon I am gonna look like the Michelin man and who could build a yurt dressed like that? ;o)

Toasty warm!

Well, it didn't really heat up our open air workspace yesterday, but at least we had a possibility to warm up our fingers and butts from time to time. :o)

And or course we hope that it will keep our yurt toasty warm.

Our baby

spot the difference

So close!

We are so close now, our noses were itchy all weekend! :o)
The second trellis is halfway done:



And with the greatest help ever we started working on this:


It's the lightring, the key element of the yurt. It will sit at the top of the roof and serve as a window, whilst holding everything together at the same time.


Aaaand: On Monday we got sooo close to finishing the floor! Everything is set up and doublechecked now, and it really looks like it is working. We just couldn't put all the pieces together because it got too dark.


So now we are hoping for a few more dry days next weekend and then if the Gods allowe we'll have only parts to work on that are not so dependent on the weather. I also have holidays for two weeks from next week on, time to really work continuously again.
Sooo excited!!

Pics II: Other stuff

We are actually sometimes having fun on the site... ;o)



The glorious day when we finished the first trellis!

Pics I:The story of the floor

Pictures!!! :o)
Looking through them I realised how much work we've actually already done, and that feels pretty good.
So here are some photos of the first attempt to put up the floor, how we put bitumen paper on all the parts, and our new solution to make it easier. It's a ring that sits on top of the inner posts so it doesn't matter where those posts are positioned. It seems to work pretty well and we've got half of them done in half an afternoon already.