First of all, I admit I am typing this on Tuesday evening (whilst watching Tim Holtz on YouTube). I have a medical appointment (to see if they can start to diagnose my foot pain) tomorrow morning at 9 am, and then I have errands to do, and our latest house renovation project to visit (kitchen design to work on). It may well be late in the day before I get a chance to sit down, so thought it better to get it typed and scheduled.
Secondly, I am taking a break from social media. I need more time to look after myself, the house, business stuff, family moving to the nearby town and, of course, crafting! I am missing a lot of the Facebook groups I was active in, and my beloved Instagram - but I know I need to try to go 'cold turkey'! Pinterest and YouTube are still in my life, plus blogs/some forums, so I am still around 'online'.
I missed last week, as the weather forecast changed and our family, who were in Pembrokeshire for the week, asked if they could spend Wednesday with us, instead of Thursday. I hadn't seen my 2 granddaughters for over 18 months, so of course we immediately changed our plans. Here they are on one of our nearby beaches.
I have made a lot of progress with my craft room makeover, but it isn't finished. Been busy with family, the house renovation and then we found fleas on Milky the Cat. I have been hoovering every day, plus she has a spot-on flea treatment and twice daily combing. There hasn't been any spare energy for my craft room! The good news is that all my hard work means I haven't found any fleas on her today, and the house is very clean.
The bulk of the Ikea Kallax cubes are in place, and I put together the specialist MDF storage for the top row. I will do a separate blog post detailing it all. There is also another single row of 4 cubes on top of the right hand side now, and I have pegboard doors for those, so I can display photos etc. Not sure if I will have it all done by next week, as we are away for a long weekend (trip to Oxfordshire to see my mum and also go to an EV, electric vehicle, event at the Motor Museum at Gaydon).
I have also had various crafty deliveries recently, including needle felting and sewing goodies, the new Distress Ink colour, the latest Crafters Companion Year of Craft set, and more! I promise to show it all off soon.
I have been to some craft workshops, and again will do a blog post showing what we made (using heat embossing, stencils ...).
I intend to get round as many blogs as possible on Wednesday, but who knows what the day will throw at me.
Ali x
