The Fuck You sampler hasn't sold after all. The woman who bought it texted me to tell me all her bils had come in at once and she couldn't afford it. What's really sucky is that I probably could have sold it during the exhibition if she hadn't already said she'd buy it.
So, as the title may suggest, I have been participating in my college's end of year exhibition. This is not my last one of the course, since I'm a part-timer and have another year to go, I'm due to have another one to go
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My mum's borrowed a carpet cleaner, so since my bedroom carpet's going to be shampooed, I figured this would be an opportune time to shift all craft operations into the spare room
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After many, many years of umming, ah-ing, bimbling, slacking and being generally useless, I have finally decided what I want to do with this life of mine
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These two were things I designed when I got bored of the designs you could buy from the cross stitch magazines. They've been framed since and look a lot better - unfortunately I haven't taken photos of them in their frames.
My mother has just been singing at a festival. I knew the weather was terrible, it's been raining buckets all day. Then she comes back and tells me that last night the main stage was torn down, and a couple of cars flipped over, by a TORNADO. I mean, WHUT. This is the North of England. I thought the earthquake the other year was weird.
I have started my very first community. craftcollective is kind of like ljgenie or little_details for crafters, except that it's also for talking about your latest project and sourcing materials and organising material swaps and commissions, too. NO ADS, though. I'm tired of clicking on craft communities and seeing nothing but Etsy ads, which is why I made my own comm
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Over the years, I have taught myself a hell of a lot of craft techniques, out of books and off websites - beading, embroidery, clay modelling, all that kind of jazz
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