Making up for lost time

I do have a small excuse for not blogging. I updated to an Ipad nearly 2 years ago from a PC and the biggest drawback is that I can't seem to post photos etc from my iPad directly onto this blog. At first I thought it was just me, learning all the differences that go with change. However, after much searching through Google and asking others, I have discovered that Blogger and iPad just do not talk to each other.

I have to go back to my old computer. I am looking into options especially as I can no longer do market stalls due to health reasons.

Most of the creations happen when we are travelling around Australia in our Robbiebago Motorhome. This will be only the 2nd winter we have stayed home in 8 years. This time due to hubby needing a 2 month stint as outpatient in rehab for his lung disease and possibly entering in a medical trial which we hope to know if he 'qualifies' within 2 weeks. (The 1st was for my cancer treatment.)

I have been slowly but consistently making various crafts mostly sock dolls & sock monkeys.

Hopefully I can keep this blog going but either way, I will keep you informed as I get things together.
Keep safe & warm through this winter, where ever you are. Actually I would love to know where everyone lives, so please leave a comment and let me get to know you a little.

The missing sock dilemma

How come so many socks  get separated from their twin?

With 6 people in the family, I don't actually ensure that they go in the washing machine as a pair, but I have to assume that  the kids and the hubby take both their socks off at the same time AND you'd assume that 90% of the time they would chuck them in the dirty clothes bin together. So why then do so many come out alone?

If this doesn't happen to you, then maybe you should tell me what it is that I am doing wrong so often.With 6 members to my family, you can imagine how many "lost" socks there were. Every now and then I would spend some time seeing if its lost mate was waiting for him, which it rarely ever was.

There was a stage when the fashions encouraged the kids to wear mis-matched socks much to my horror (My OCD tendencies flare up at such blatant odd pairings).

So just how long does one wait for the partner to roll up? A few days, a week, a month?

I have only been making sock dolls for the last couple of years so now when I look back... I can see so many missed opportunities where I could have at least turned them into something cute rather than using them for dust rags.  Now I can just save the extra one for my wonderful sock creations. Of course I hang onto the extra one for a few months just in case that missing sock will turn up one day. Well... that depends on how good looking the sock is. I might think it would make this fantastic sock monkey.