Happiness and Freedom

I finished work on Friday. Yippee!! This means that I now have a week off before I start my new job at the Abbotsford Convent. I am so looking forward to it even though I am nervous too.

I have a little bit of work to do this week on a paid project that I am finishing up. Hopefully though there will be lots of time for crafting, blogging and catching up with myself. I have a couple of scarves I want to finish off for gifts in readiness for starting on my first large knitting project in a very long time.

How beautiful is it. My best friend bought the pattern from Woolly Thoughts on Etsy and we are both going to knit it. We have an outing planned on Friday to purchase wool and she even bought me some Lincraft vouchers for my birthday to put towards the wool.

Apart from those things I am going to do some reorganising of my craft room. It is a constant process of trying to maximise the space to accommodate the multitude of projects that I seem to have on the go and the assorted supplies I keep adding to the collection. I know that they will all come in handy at some point but I think I am rapidly reaching capacity. In fact, I may already be there.

My last desire for my week of freedom is to do some blogging. I feel like I haven't been visiting friends much at all lately and I want to catch up on everyone, and discover some new fav's. Maybe work out how to make a new banner for my blog and see what other tricks I can get up to. Here's to happiness and freedom wherever you can get them.

Crafty Goodness

These are my efforts for the weekend. Some Ipod cosies for my partner and a friend. I made up the pattern (if you can call it that) myself. Just measured up the Ipods and croched up a strip wide enough and long enough to be sewn into a double compartment for the Ipod and head phones. I very pleased with myself.


I am also pleased with myself about something else. I have decided not to go ahead with having a market stall in May.

I am enjoying my crafty journey so much at the moment. I feel really creative and inspired, and have a million ideas and projects that I want to try. One day I definitely want to make a career out of being a art/crafts woman and for the first time I see that it is possible.

However, having realised all this I also realise that I don't have to rush. And I have been rushing. Putting lots of pressure on myself to get it all moving straight away. Listening to well intentioned friends telling me I should be selling my stuff. The end result was that I didn't really want to do anything creative at all. It all felt like such a chore.

So, no more rushing. I am going to enjoy this time for me because it feels like such a gift to have the time and space to be crafty and creative. I know that the rest will happen exactly as it is meant to happen.