After a very busy few days (and lack of childcare today) I decided to book the day off work. Plenty to still do of course but I did promise myself that I would not stress so much about the doing of stuff today but enjoy the time with my boys and manage whatever I could in between. I've done a little blog hopping, collected plug-in radiators from Argos (our heating is up the blink again), topped up baking cupboard (thanks Mr Tesco) and plan on baking this afternoon once son #2 is collected from school. Whilst blog hopping I uncovered The Pink Whisk, by the lovely
Ruth Clemens, Baker Extraordinaire
Contestant on BBC2's The Great British Bake Off
I spent an hour or so this morning doing my LSNED pages for the last few days,
and also finishing off my project from last night which was a decorated wooden box to house all my Idealogy/7G and other metal scrappy bits. This was inspired by the decopatch stall at Ally Pally where I may have bought some more decopatch papers and a long tailed cat and papier mache chicken to alter as well. Thought I would replicate the technique with standard scrapping papers (mostly 7G papers used here with a smidge of Bo Bunny Mammarazzi thrown in, plus packaging from Idealogy and 7G.
One more step in the right direction of a tidy and organised craft space! One thing about tidying up is that you come across items you've had ages and generally think to yourself "Why did I buy this?" but occassionally something re-inspires you - like this 12x12 overlay I've had for some time which features a fabric month label too (also been in my scrapping stash forever) I get such pleasure from creating stuff using older products or scraps left over - just call me frugle!
