Bank holiday weekends are good opportunities to hide in the craft room and have a play. Last weekend, while going through mini cross stitch kits, I split them into Done and Not Yet Done. They fill a box. I hadn’t realised I had quite so many as I do. I wonder if I’ll ever get… Continue reading This Week In Crafts: Organising Threads
The Craft Room
I’ve been reorganising my office this month. Before A few weeks back, M said he didn’t think the fairy lights in his corner really gave him enough light, and was there anything I needed from IKEA if he went for a new floor lamp. The one that used to live there had been requisitioned for… Continue reading The Craft Room
Recently Read: Returning to Corfu
At the beginning of this year, I made the decision that I would read my way through the TBR pile, adding new titles only to the List. This would be The Year. Obviously, I failed with the only adding to the list aspect when I bought Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, and this last month saw… Continue reading Recently Read: Returning to Corfu
Nature Notes: April 2021
One of the good things to come out of this pandemic has been having the time to enjoy our balcony. We’ve always had a few large plant pots – they were here when we moved in – with our cherry tree and a Pink Flamingo Salix, but over the last year, M has added to… Continue reading Nature Notes: April 2021
Stitch By Stitch: Beginning the Border
The New World I haven’t stitched much this month. Mostly, I’ve been staring at the pattern trying to decide where to start with the background, and then, whether to include the outer border as I go or leave it to the end. It’s just as well I felt that I needed to have made some… Continue reading Stitch By Stitch: Beginning the Border
Notes From My Office: April 2021
Sometimes, I build up a backlog of Archers Omnibuses (Omnibii?), and then I settle into my office (in its guise as my craft room) and spend an afternoon catching up while I craft. It’s easier, I find, than remembering to retune the radio from 3 to 4 every evening at 7pm (or tuning in on… Continue reading Notes From My Office: April 2021
This Week in Crafts: Early Christmas Designs
Having decided to make Christmas cards, I actually find the whole idea a bit exhausting. And, because of the sunshine and light evenings, I’m not feeling festive or inclined for snow. It’s being trickier than I thought it would be to make Christmas cards so far in advance. On the other hand, I have spent… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Early Christmas Designs
Fat Quarter Sewing: The Yellow Tablecloth
I almost didn’t make a tablecloth this month. The eventual fat quarters I ordered a set of yellow fat quarters, hoping they’d arrive in time for an Easter tablecloth (but they didn’t), only for some of them to be orange. Not just dark yellow, but definitely orange. And, naturally, all a different size to the… Continue reading Fat Quarter Sewing: The Yellow Tablecloth
On Writer’s Block and Inspiration
For the first time since I restarted my blogging in Summer 2019, with all my Good Intentions for planning posts well in advance, I failed for today. Naturally, therefore, I shall take my inspiration from this, and write on Writer’s Block, that common or garden excuse for not writing. I use a bullet journal, of… Continue reading On Writer’s Block and Inspiration
This Week in Crafts: Seahorses
It’s been quite grey and dreary for the last few weeks, after the early promise of spring sunshine. Very disappointing. But never mind: dreary outside weather means more time trying to lift spirits by playing with all the colours and glitter of my craft room, for the last cards of the Birthday Season. I’m still… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Seahorses
