At one Sunday automobile boot sale a couple of weeks in the past I got here residence with nothing besides this bundle of pretty playing cards to make use of for birthdays/Christmas, they’re largely hares or owls and had been 50p every.
Discovering these gave me a nudge to type out my card making stuff – I actually wanted to have a form out and filter out as when the en-suite is rebuilt within the bed room my craft cabinets and containers must be moved out and after the work is finished there will not be as a lot room for them as beforehand.
This 12 months I believe I’ve solely put collectively a few playing cards from die-cut toppers and may’t actually rise up any enthusiasm for card making anymore.
So I had a giant filter out – materials I used to be retaining “simply in case I ever purchased one other stitching machine” was decreased to a smaller field; a big field of ribbons and bows was whittled right down to only a small bag that went in with the fabric; one other massive field of random bits for adorning playing cards went out; a lot of papers had been put right into a field able to go to grandchildren for crafting and all that meant I went from 2 units of cabinets filled with stuff down to 1 and a number of other empty storage containers to place within the storage/promote or give away together with the spare shelf unit.
I’ve stored the cross sew charts, a couple of small kits, aida, threads and card blanks and the peel-off labels, as a result of maybe someday sooner or later I will be glad of doing X sew once more. Additionally hanging onto a folder of die lower sheets which can be simple to make use of for playing cards. I’ve stored a field of form cutters and serrated scissors which hopefully shall be handed onto the grandchildren when they’re older. However every little thing else is within the automobile prepared for a charity store.
How did you get on throughout the first of the Purple Sizzling Days? (We had been solely within the Amber warning space right here however lots heat sufficient) It might have been nicer right here with out the workman subsequent door – carrying on with laying their patio along with his radio going all day. I had all jobs executed by 10am and settled down with the World Athletics Championships on TV, a lot of glasses of water, a Sudoku e book, one other of my library books and the beginning of turning an previous watercolour e book right into a scrapbook to maintain all one of the best bits from the previous scrapbooks that I discovered within the boot sale final 12 months and so as to add a few of my very own previous postcards and scraps.
Again Tomorrow
Sue
