Just keep going

I think this has become my motto for January this year

I'm still here, I've just got over the post Christmas cold, the girls are well and truly back at school and already looking forward to February half term. 

I've have finished the blanket that I started to crochet when the boiler was broke and well ahead of schedule, the original completion date was end of February. I haven't taken any photos of it yet I want to do it outside, but the light and weather isn't very good at the moment, it is really wet and dark here this morning.

And now this is my next my project some knitting, I really want to do some sewing but there is too much junk in the dinning room at the moment. All the yarn I'm using is from my stash it's a mix of Rowan and DMC yarn for this project I've given myself the completion date of of mid March, I've already frogged it once so what you see in the photo will not be the actual finished project, but we will see, oh and it is a shawl/scarf that I'm knitting if you are wondering. 

More about it next time x

Where do I begin?

Yep that is the question! 

Normality is slowly returning to the house, my girls went back to school yesterday, in a way the whole house feels calmer.

I spent most of the day picking up the sea of Lego off the floor, every time I moved something  I kept finding more.

I started to tidy my craft table as well, what helped with the process was actually doing all the repair jobs which have hanging around on there since before Christmas.  My table is not perfectly tidy yet, but I'm starting to find space where I could actually do some work.

Also I've decided to keep a project (journal/log) book of all my craft projects, up to now there is only one project in, which is my current crochet project I daren't put any of my hibernating UFO's in yet, as think I would need another book!

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Waiting to for normality to return

Yes it's that time of the year again! Christmas has been and gone in a blink of an eye and now new year has arrived. The whole house is mess (as usual), it currently feels slightly worse than normal. Not only is my craft table mess, but what is annoying me more is that I can't actually get to my craft table without nearly breaking my neck in the process, because of all the Lego, boxes and other miscellaneous bits of junk that seems to be living around there at the moment.

Chrismas was quiet as usual, the only thing that happened that was out of the ordinary was the boiler breaking down on Christmas day, which was a bit of a pain having no heat or hot water for a few days until it was repaired. I got so cold at one point that I started to crochet another blanket, just to keep my mind off the fact that it was cold and I could snuggle up under it as it gets bigger,  well the boiler has been fixed and the blanket isn't big enough to snuggle up under yet, but I am using up some yarn which has been sitting in my stash for over four years! 

So this is my first project of the year, I have decided that I am going to do more finishing and less abandoning of projects and also I'm going to not buy any yarn and fabric until I've made a serious big dent on my stash. But when I start a new project or get one out of hibernation I'm going to set myself deadline to finish the said project, so for the current blanket project the deadline is the end of February which I think is a realistic deadline than saying next weekend.

And Happy New Year to anyone who might read this blog x