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A busy month!

 I did some badge in (badge admin) yesterday, which included ordering badges, and realised that I’ve actually done quite a lot since the start of the year. Last week we had a North Devon rebellion meet up. The previous month we had decided to work on the Film Critic badge together, and had each chosen some of the titles to watch. We met last week and discussed the films, and it was interesting that we had similar thoughts about the Charlie Chaplin film. Anyway - more of that in another blog post, where I write a review of each of the films. 

During the meet up last week I showed fellow rebels my collection - thus completing the My Collection badge.


This is my collection of Lego minifigures. I have been buying the little packets of minifigures on and off for 7 or 8 years. To start with I bought them as a reward for a lad we looked after - as an incentive to do the jobs that needed doing…like putting on deodorant, brushing teeth, doing washing, tidying a bedroom. It didn’t work so well, and I ended up with a drawer of the packets - so I started my own collection. I really got into them with the different Harry Potter series - there was the Harry Potter series, and also a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series - resulting in two different Dumbledore characters and two different Harry Potters. I haven’t been avidly collecting all the figures so I don’t yet have a complete series, but I think that I will try to complete some series - especially as I have duplicates of some of the figures. Series 24 is the current series, and there are some series where I wasn’t so keen on some of the figures, so didn’t buy any. I’ve tried to keep the different series grouped together in the cabinet. At our meet up we talked about display cases you can get for the minifigures, which I might think about in future, although this would take up more space.

I also showed my fellow rebels some of the quilts I have made - which is My Passion. I sew almost every evening, and I certainly sew every week. Some weeks I manage to sew more than other weeks, getting into my sewing room to piece quilt tops, quilt them, put binding on them. I keep photos on my iPad in a particular folder to make it easy to find them - and we talked about Project Linus. I explained what Project Linus is, how it got its name, what we do and where the quilts go. I explained about jelly rolls and how they are useful - and I showed how they can be used to create a variety of different blocks. I also explained about charm packs and layer cakes - what they are and how they can be useful too.

This is a quilt I have made to help me reach my fundraising target for the London Landmarks Half Marathon - which is at the end of this week! I’m running for Addison’s Disease Self Help Group; I was on their reserve list for a place, and had an email at the end of January, so I’ve been training to try and get ready for it! Everyone who sponsors me will go into the draw to win this quilt!


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