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Nanowrimo

That's National Novel Writing Month. You have a month to write a 50,000 word novel. If you reach the 50,000 by the end of the month then you win! Well, there is no real prize. Just a finished novel. I put a little ticker thing on my site so you can see how I'm doing ------->

It's going ok so far, I'm already slightly ahead, which is good because I have quite a lot on this month. I've been writing every night from 11pm till midnight, which is my usual sewing time. But I'm signed up to do a bag swap (things are coming along quite slowly with that - I'm still waiting on some yummy fabric arriving from Japan) I've a few custom sewing jobs to do (but they're all quite simple) and I've got a couple of things to finish off. I just realised that my mums birthday is at the beginning of December and I wanted to make her a knitting bag. The pattern looks quite complicated, so I think I really need to start it before the end of the month. I need to think about getting some fabric for that. How am I going to fit all this in????

It's Free Film Education week here, so tomorrow we're going to see The Spiderwick Chronicles. On Thursday we're off to see Horton Hears a Who and on Friday we're going to see Charlotte's Web.

I'm also trying to keep up with the Flylady babysteps, but that'll be the first thing to go if I find I have too much to do!

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