This last month has had a lot of time thinking about and planning for Christmas. Here, with the updated Advent calendar and considering back-up plans in case of sudden restrictions (especially now with the Omicron variant), and in the Office with Christmas lunches and all the other festivities of the season. In some ways, I’m… Continue reading Notes From My Office: November 2021
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Places and other observations.
Advent Calendar Wild Cards
Last year, it occurred to me that my Advent calendar doesn’t take into account that, sometimes, Advent begins in November, like it did then. I used mini stockings as make-shift counters, but they didn’t quite fit with the rest of the calendar. And they weighed the ribbon down, since I filled them with Lindt truffles.… Continue reading Advent Calendar Wild Cards
The Crafter’s Life: November 2021
With just under two months to go before Christmas, now is the time most card-makers will begin to panic about Christmas cards. Unless they’re the extra organised sorts of people who have already made all their festive cards. Some crafters might be thinking about making gifts, although those take longer so should have been started… Continue reading The Crafter’s Life: November 2021
(Brief) Notes From My (New) Office
It’s been a little while since my office wasn’t being pulled apart or rebuilt, but I am now fully settled in my new office. I’ve even managed to roughly organise all my crafting supplies so I’m not surrounded by boxes of stuff without homes. I have a better view from this office: it looks out… Continue reading (Brief) Notes From My (New) Office
The New Craft Room
One of the more annoying aspects of the move was that I’d almost got my craft room just right. And then I had to pack it up and move it 200 miles, to a new room. And the smaller Kallax was requisitioned to make a divider to separate the new reading nook from the rest… Continue reading The New Craft Room
Crafting After Summer
It’s been a couple of months since I last did any real crafting. I’ve made the odd card, and obviously I’ve continued to collect various supplies. But I’ve not really made anything. Largely, this is because of having to move. Now, though, I’m in the process of rebuilding my craft room and finding the projects… Continue reading Crafting After Summer
Notes From My Office: July 2021
My office is full of boxes and my craft supplies beginning to be packed away. Or set in the trolley as a Capsule Craft Room. To be honest, the thought of all the packing is rather exhausting. It has begun though only in a desultory sort of way. Doesn’t help that temperatures over the last… Continue reading Notes From My Office: July 2021
The Last Week of (This) Lockdown
Unless something drastic changes over the next seven days, my Return to the Office begins in earnest next week. As such, I’ve been trying to get back into the habit of at least drafting as many posts as possible well in advance. Like this one, which I drafted at the beginning of June, and which… Continue reading The Last Week of (This) Lockdown
Notes From My Office: June 2021
It’s been a very quiet month for work. My office has spent far more time as a craft room than as an office. I’m not complaining. I’ve enjoyed spending more time with the inks and stamps than with the computer. I’ve even made over half of the birthday cards I’ll need for the next six… Continue reading Notes From My Office: June 2021
Home or Office: Restrict or Relax?
I first drafted this a few weeks back, at the beginning of the month. I’ve since rewritten. You see, we were preparing to return in earnest to the office. Couple of days this week, a few more next, then full time on-site at the start of July. That isn’t now happening, for various reasons, for… Continue reading Home or Office: Restrict or Relax?
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