Friday 20th February - learning through Experience

 Over the past couple of months it's become  more and more obvious that I need to be more considered in how I expend my energy through the day. Otherwise 'getting things done' in the morning results in me turning into a flopped heap all afternoon!

As part of cutting myself some slack at the moment, I'm not moving heaven and earth to blog every day, which is why I'm missing a day from time to time.

One almost non-negotiable, however, is to try to achieve a figure of 2000 on my step counter, however I arrive at it - chopping veg, playing the piano, walking, or just marching on the spot.

My 'journey' from Nazareth to Jerusalem has moved along a couple of miles. The view isn't very spectacular, much as I expected as I appear to be travelling along a main road, with no view points or places of interest. I don't expect these hills have changed much in 2000 years,

but the other side of the road is certainly modern!

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About that learning from experience;

I've learned a useful lesson from getting the crazy stitch book.

 I already follow the blogs pintangle.com and stitching life.uk, and it seems to me that all I need to do is get a piece of fabric and some threads and a few bits and pieces from stash and make a start. 

Pintangle teaches all the stitches in the free weekly 'tast' - take a stitch Tuesday -  posts, and 'The Stitching Life' gives a framework for creating a piece of daily stitching.  

By buying a book or a kit I'm just being lazy and buying stuff I don't really need, and that ultimately is not what is good for me.

I think at some stage soon I'll assemble a few bits and pieces in my (yet to be created) 'analogue bag' of pick up and go crafts to do my own, as-and-when, rather than daily, sampler.

Right. Now to finish today's 2000 steps along my virtual journey and see where that takes me!