Hand Crafted Memories

Today I found time to play in my craft room. Its weeks since I did anything mainly because I've been concentrating on the garden. Sadly this means something has to give, and for me it was housework and crafting. The weather is so miserable today I decided to tidy the craft room. Well you know that always ends up with me crafting and just making a bigger mess. While I was moving things around I came across a half finished book I started to make with the 12 days of Christmas in it. So I finished it off, now Ive got the crafting bug back and the rest of the weekend I will not be answering the phone or going out of the house I declare this a weekend of crafting.

Here is the first stage of the book. Shimelle wasn't wrong when she said it would take a while, what did make it easier was using my xcut glass cutting mat. All the edges came off perfectly and I didn't have to sand them to make them neater. I still need to find the photos to go into it but I'm sure once I've filled in my prompt sheet ideas will come. I've been choosing the units to go into my craft room, and great news the ones I want are half price at B&Q at them moment, hooray for B&Q sales. This is the one I want with a beech worktop. The sale is only on until 5 th February, so I will have to put them in the garage until I empty the room. I also need to let the electrician do his bit first, I want a whole bank of extra sockets putting along the wall. I hate using extension cables so thought I might as well get some extra power put into the room when it's empty. This is turning into a mammoth job but will be well worth it when I've finished

Go here to see a free mini workshop that I'm going to have a go at. I have loads of stash and when I decide to do something like this I usually go out and buy some more. So here is my challenge to myself, I can do this as long as I use only stuff in my stash. The chipboard album in the supplies I'm replacing with the elegant square in the buff one from Craftwork Cards . I've had it for a little while waiting for the right project. This is perfect and such a bargain at £1.95! So my album is going to be 8 x 8. My next job is to go through my huge stash of 12 x 12 paper to find the five sheets I need. How am I going to pick only 5? Like most crafters I buy gorgeous papers and save them for the right time, when do I know it's the right time? I now have that much if I made a page a day I would have to live until I'm 150 to get through it all. No more this has to end now. This project calls for 5 papers so I'm officially beginning my therapy to wean myself off saving...