In my few crafting moments this week I haven’t actually made any cards. I’ve mostly just been playing with my new Cuttlebug, which arrived ahead of schedule, so my desk hadn’t been cleared yet. It still isn’t. Sort of. I did clear it, and then I messed it up again. My first attempt at embossing… Continue reading Card of the Week: Falling Leaves
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Notes From My Office: May 2022
Another month down, and one in which my crafting took a back seat. I suspect that may continue to be the case in May, although I have a new toy arriving soon which may prevent that. Having struggled for so long to get along with my Gemini, and because I don’t often need an A4… Continue reading Notes From My Office: May 2022
Nature Notes: April 2022
Spring is a time of notoriously changeable weather, and this April has been no different. It started warm and sunny, then dipped back to cold and hail, before recovering somewhat to end with sunshine. At least, it’s sunny as I write this. The patio doors are open and I’m listening to the birds singing. The… Continue reading Nature Notes: April 2022
Notes From My Office: April 2022
The clocks have gone forward, the sun is beginning to shine (last week’s flurry of snow an aberration), and the optimism of summer is making itself known. Soon, I hope, the daily overtime for the day-job will come to an end (it started before Christmas), and then perhaps I will have the energy to craft… Continue reading Notes From My Office: April 2022
Theme and Variation
It’s not news to say that I like making simple cards. I like a card I can make quickly, that I can make more than one of easily, and that is in a style that can be adapted without much thought to other circumstances. I do intend to learn some of the more complicated fancy-fold… Continue reading Theme and Variation
Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake
It feels a bit – odd; insensitive, maybe – to write about light-hearted, essentially fluffy things at the moment, with the news so full of the horrors of war and man’s inhumanity. It’s part of the reason why I’m late today, with my talk of easy, lazy chocolate fudge cake. But sometimes, when all is… Continue reading Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake
Notes From My Office: March 2022
Today is Shrove Tuesday. Otherwise known, in Britain, as Pancake Day, and in other countries or languages as some variation on Fat Tuesday. The day on which the eggs, milk and butter – all the rich foods – are used up before their banishment for the duration of Lent. Hence the pancakes in Britain. Traditionally,… Continue reading Notes From My Office: March 2022
Nature Notes: February 2022
Ah, it started so well, did February. There were days of sunshine and warming temperatures. The birds were out and about, the plants happy in their pots. And then last week, with Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin one after another, happened. It’s been wet and wild, grey and miserable, ever since. Because these haven’t been… Continue reading Nature Notes: February 2022
Delia’s Squidgy Chocolate Cake
I had meant to write about a printing-press cover I have plans for making today. But I’ve had those plans since the beginning of the year, and though I’ve measured the press and dug some fat quarters from my stash, I haven’t got any further with making it. Nor, it must be admitted, have I… Continue reading Delia’s Squidgy Chocolate Cake
Putting the Pieces Together
The trouble with some plans is that they aren’t individual, or a plan in isolation. They don’t just happen: there are several steps, or several strands, which have to happen. Big-picture, long-term plans. The sorts of plans which take time and patience, and careful chipping away. For the more impatient of us, these sorts of… Continue reading Putting the Pieces Together
Life Ever Crafting 