Since the weekly craft seems to have turned into simply card-making, and since I’ve spent quite a lot of the last month making cards, I’ve decided to change this into a Card of the Week. There may still be the odd non-card craft project, but mostly it will be cards. Starting with this duck card.… Continue reading Card of the Week: The Birthday Duck
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This Week In Crafts: Clearly Besotted Snowdrops
It’s amazing what a difference the gradually lightening evenings makes on one’s mood. Especially when it becomes noticeably lighter, and I’m not having to draw the blinds at half four, but can leave it until I finish working. February is still very cold, and the weather isn’t usually anything to write home about, but the… Continue reading This Week In Crafts: Clearly Besotted Snowdrops
Ink Blended Backgrounds
Earlier this year, I tried ink-blending. I got myself the special blending tools for crafters – different varieties to see which was best for me – and failed to do very well. So I stopped. Turns out, I’m a bit heavy-handed with these things. But I kept finding tutorials and reading things, particularly about make-up… Continue reading Ink Blended Backgrounds
TWIC: Finishing the Christmas Ornaments
With Christmas plans developing apace, it’s been quite nice to sit in my corner and stitch some festive ornaments. I’ve completed Popcorn the Bear, and this robin, which goes with a holly one I did last month, and I decided to skip the French knots and get out the sparkly fake gemstones from my card-making… Continue reading TWIC: Finishing the Christmas Ornaments
TWIC: Christmas Ornaments
A few years ago, I inherited some cross-stitched Christmas tree ornaments from my grandmother. This year, I thought I’d add to the collection, given that one of the kits from last year that I never got around to making at the time was for a couple of ornaments. Make a change from card patches. I… Continue reading TWIC: Christmas Ornaments
The Crafter’s Calendar
Every year, I promise myself that I will, this year, manage to make all my Christmas cards well in advance, and not leave them until the last possible minute. Every year, I fail. And then cut the list of people who get a handmade card because I haven’t time to make them all. But this… Continue reading The Crafter’s Calendar
On Beginning Again
I’ve been blogging, on and off, for about six years now. The last few years have been more off than on. The result, I feel, of 50-hour working weeks. I think I had a month back in January where I didn’t have to work that much, but then it started up again. It only… Continue reading On Beginning Again
Fairy Cake Living 