What Mrs. Lacer would like for Christmas

Ok this post is really for Mr. Lacer but if anyone reading this has a bookish, crafty, foodie gardener in their life and they don’t know what to get her, here’s some suggestions. I always think I’m incredibly easy to buy for, after all I have no trouble spending money on me if I have it! But is seems other people must think I am hard to buy for, so here’s the list;

The Realistic

* Anything from the etsy shops of The Black Apple (fantastic art work)Aunty Cookie (fantastic fabric) or Blockpartypress (fantastic jewellery).

* The following books -

 

 

Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale by Russell T. Davies and some lucky journalist – this book looks an absolute must read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venezia by Tessa Kiros – it really makes my Christmas when I have a sumptuous cookbook to flick through in a few snatched moments during the Christmas madness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aranzi Machine Gun vol 1 - I would like to start reading these considering I’m such a big fan of Aranzi Aronzo and I might as well start at volume 1.

 

 

 

* A voucher for a Rocket Herb Garden.

The Not Very Realistic

* Vouchers for a class from these people and the time to go and do it.

* Anything from Clothkits but I’d totally in awe if it was this.

 

Getting even more unrealistic

↓ this kit

Impossible

 

 

also from these people

 

 

 This party dress and the social life to go with it!

Blue

If my life were a cartoon I’d be literally coloured blue right now. I am in the midst of sorting out a group of medications for a condition(s) I have mentioned on here in the past and one of them is disagreeing with me vehemently right now. I will write about it properly when everything is sorted, I think one of the medications will work and I don’t want to ‘curse’ it by writing about it too optimistically before I’ve given it time. Anyway I’ve been to the docs today to get a repeat prescription of the successful medication and to discuss going off the one that’s been making me feel literally like the colour blue (amongst other things) and the doctor agreed with me, so I’ll be off the one that is disagreeing with me in just over a week. But meanwhile I’m trying very very hard not to comfort shop, you would not believe the price of the stunningly beautiful tapestry kit I’ve been drooling over and I don’t even do tapestry, yet. I think (if I can control myself, which I have to), this may be making it’s way to me instead at the end of the year as a self brought Christmas / birthday present or mmmm if I do really well at my book selling events coming up?

Whilst there I happened to have yet another coughing fit and (and I wasn’t there to see the doctor about my cough) the doctor goes “oh dear”, listens to my chest, agrees with my suscipion that it’s my asthma worsening (I reckon it’s due to my hayfever) and I’ve been prescribed the preventative inhaler, I should have sorted that out ages ago, maybe then I would have been able to have actually run the race I did yesterday.

Anyway I’m working in 10 minutes, groan, just what I need, although I did enjoy the spot of research I did earlier today for my tuition session tonight on the arguments for and against global warming, I think the for argument won but I tried to be balanced.

Edited to add – it’s now 8.10pm and my client hasn’t shown up yet which is strange (for him). Private tuition can be plagued by clients not turning up but this one is reliable and whilst I could do with not working tonight (a nice hot bath and a good book sounds really nice right now), I could also do with the £20!

Edited to add again – it’s now 8.20pm and still no client, I really don’t think he’s going to turn up but you just know if I go and grab that bath what will happen. So I’ve been playing with Paint, this is me as a (very bad) cartoon.

Mmmm ok, it doesn’t look like WordPress likes my Paint files, jpg may I point out (i.e I don’t think it should have a problem). You’ll have to trust me, it was a work of art (not). Oh I want a new scanner, then I would have drawn something by hand.

Anyway thank you dear anonymous (mostly) WordPress readers, writing this has actually cheered me up a bit. I still have stomach ache (another suspected side effect) which a bath would cure, but we know what will happen then, even though it’s now almost half way through the session that was booked. Oh well if I can’t have the bath, I can still have the book.

Yet more editing (8.35pm) – oh it did work ↓, see I told you it was art ;)