Summer has come in earnest

[wiseheart]

I've got up to 24 degrees in the morning. By the time Mum and I made our morning excursion (she admiring the toddlers on the playground, me hopping over to Lidl), it was 28 degrees - at half past ten in the morning, mind you! Currently, it's 31 degrees. We are sitting in the flat with blinds down and all windows firmly closed to keep the heat out. Ah, well, at least I didn't have to cook today!

Crafting-wise I've made one side of the little cardboard baskets. It was harder than I imagined. Part of the problem was that I can't for my life, cut things (even paper) in a straight line, so the individual strangs didn't fit as they should have. Another part of the problem was probably the wet glue that I used. I do own a hot glue gun, but... well, let's just say that the piping bag isn't the only thing I'm fairly hopeless with.

I'll try a different kind of wet glue tomorrow... and when that doesn't work, either, I'll switch to the glue stick - and to double-sided tape if nothing else helps. Those all have their own nasty tricks, so this promises to be a really interesting project (in the Chinese curse sense of "interesting"), and the four sides of the poor basket will probably turn out all different. But we all learn through pain, right? *g*

Lidl is having Greek days right now, so I've bought some frozen spinach and feta satchets, which we'll bake up in the oven as soon as temperatures go down a little. I've also bought halva with pistachios in it. I hope it will be better than the supposedly pistachio-flavoured ice-cream I bought on Friday and that tastes very artificially, almost like perfume. Grrrr. We had to pour eggnog over it, which is a waste of good alcohol, but what else could we have done?

Oh, and before I forget: congratulations, adafrog, to the 20th birthday of your journal! It seems we've all been on LJ for a considerable time. :)

Comments

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

At eight in the evening it´s 15 degrees outside. Summer did visit for one day only.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds very unpleasant. Poor you!

[meathiel]

Well, if your weather follows ours, it will cool down by Wednesday at the latest.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I wish the weather would make up its bloody mind! I hate hot weather, I really do, but this up and down every other day is really hard, too.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

so this promises to be a really interesting project (in the Chinese curse sense of "interesting"),
lol Good luck.

That sucks about the ice cream. Hope this one is better.

thanks!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid luck will be really necessary for this project.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Ooh, halva and spinach with feta! Yum!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You love them, too? *g*

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Do you feel confident enough to use a knife to cut your card? I craft knife and a metal ruler works a treat.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Tried that; didn't work. The dratted ruler always slid away and I ended up with terribly shapeless results.