The thing about life is that it isn’t all sunshine and daisies. Sometimes, it’s grey and miserable, and it’s difficult to find the motivation or do more than just go through the motions. Sometimes it’s because you’ve started a Project (personal or professional) which will take a while and you’re stuck in the middle and… Continue reading Just Keep Going
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This Week In Crafts: Organising Threads
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
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
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
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
Life in Lockdown: Relaxing Restrictions
Life is beginning to open up again. From today, non-essential shops and leisure activities can reopen. Hair dressers and zoos, pubs and clothes shops. The weather, too, after last week’s arctic blast, might start to cheer up again. There’s talk of the Return to the Office. It might even happen this time, since the Roadmap… Continue reading Life in Lockdown: Relaxing Restrictions
Beginning Christmas Cards
Now that Easter is out of the way, and with it my main birthday season, I’m turning my attention towards Christmas. I know. Early. We’ve barely got over the last one; we’ve only just started with the longer, warmer days; it’s the midsummer End of Lockdown parties first. But given that what I think of… Continue reading Beginning Christmas Cards
This Week in Crafts: Easter Cards
Last year, with lockdown still such a novelty, I decided the thing to do, to help keep people’s spirits up, was to make Easter cards. I found a Celtic cross die and had a play. I got as far as making one demonstration idea for my scrapbook. This year, my die, stamp and embossing-folder collection… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Easter Cards
Cooking with Mrs Crocombe: Saffron Buns
My favourite meal of the year is Good Friday Tea. Homemade, fresh from the oven, hot cross buns. Dripping with butter, or layered with homemade jam (usually damson). There is nothing tastier. I don’t often make hot cross buns because of M and not liking curranty things (also because they’re a once-a-year sort of thing… Continue reading Cooking with Mrs Crocombe: Saffron Buns
