The summer holiday feeling is strong this year, especially with all the dry, sunny weather. Lethargic sort of weather. Or maybe that’s just because the heat makes sleep harder. Just as well, really, that I have all that extra time off, from all the overtime in the first half of the year. Having made over… Continue reading Card of the Week: Summer Flowers
Card of the Week: Newborn Mouse Card
Sometimes, when you need to make a specific sort of card, you don’t actually have the most suitable stamps or sentiments to hand. There are two ways out of this sort of predicament: a trip to a craft shop (or online); or a bodge from the stamps in your stash. Despite the fairly large notice… Continue reading Card of the Week: Newborn Mouse Card
Notes From My Office: August 2022
The trouble with summer is that the long sunny sorts of days have a tendency to lend themselves to lazing, not to crafting. And this last month has been particularly warm and lethargic. I expect August will end up being a bit lethargic, too, though less warm. The start of the year was busy and… Continue reading Notes From My Office: August 2022
Nature Notes: July 2022
In the interests of learning the Art of Delegation in anticipation of less time later in the year, I'm handing at least some of the Nature Notes over to M to write, especially since he's the one who really knows what's going on in the garden. Over to M... Blueberries and Black Widows With the… Continue reading Nature Notes: July 2022
Card of the Week: The Skiing Snowman
In the midst of this week’s heatwave, in trying to find a way to cool down, I couldn’t resist the skiing snowman from the Creative Stamping 100 set from Crafter’s Companion. Also, the thought of snow helped. I didn’t use this stamp – or many from this quarter of the set – last year, partly… Continue reading Card of the Week: The Skiing Snowman
Stitch by Stitch: Sunshine on the Sea
About this time last year, and after making such good progress, I had to pack away my cross-stitch project because of a move. I’ve only just managed to get around to starting again. I did get it out of the box back in January or February, but the ability to concentrate just hasn’t been there,… Continue reading Stitch by Stitch: Sunshine on the Sea
Card of the Week: The Christmas Family
I had planned for a card using the circles cut from last week’s wreath (plus a couple of others), with a set of circular stamps from the Crafter’s Companion stamp set from Creative Stamping 100. But the Peace one didn’t stamp properly. Or rather, it did, but then the ink filled the word, so it… Continue reading Card of the Week: The Christmas Family
The Baby Sleeping Bag
A few weeks ago, a friend’s mother gave me a couple of well-stocked bags of yarn. I’ve had a pattern in mind for a while, but hadn’t the yarn for it, so it was relegated down the list of Project Priorities while I completed the Sunshine Shawl, and thence a baby blanket. But a set… Continue reading The Baby Sleeping Bag
Card of the Week: Christmas Wreath
I first started making cards during autumn, when all the festive sets were beginning to come out in the magazines. One of the first sets I picked up had a wreath embossing folder, stamps, and I think a build-yourself-a-robin die set. I can’t find that die-set though, so I might have imagined it. I didn’t… Continue reading Card of the Week: Christmas Wreath
Notes From My Office: July 2022
That’s half the year done, and considerably less time being spent in the Office now that I can reclaim all that overtime. Funny how all the long weekends fill themselves with other activities, now that I can actually have something approaching a social life. The Sunshine Shawl Of course, there has also been more time… Continue reading Notes From My Office: July 2022
Life Ever Crafting 