Blocked

You might have noticed that it's been a bit quiet round here lately.

I have - very frustratingly - been suffering from a patch of blogger's block. Ugh.

With any kind of creative block (the writing kind or the crafting kind) I've found the best thing to do is to give myself time. Time to rest and relax, to soak up some non-work-related inspiration and give my ideas a chance to quietly simmer at the back of my brain until they're ready to bubble over from my, er, brain pot? (that metaphor went a bit weird, didn't it?)

Hopefully I will be back to my usual irregular-but-frequent blogging "schedule" soon. Please bear with me!

Behind the scenes I've been working towards a few deadlines, doing lots of stitching for a secret project (which is going to be a gift so I can't blog about it yet) and taking regular "cuddle breaks" when this small furry dictator demands them:

I have a stack of magazines and a blanket stationed ready for when the "GIVE ME CUDDLES NOOOOOOW!" yowling begins - something to read, and something to stop my knees getting spiked by our kitty's very sharp claws / stop my clothes from getting covered in fur! (Pictured: Work/Life 3, the UPPERCASE directory of illustration)

With Wimbledon in full swing, we've been watching lots of tennis :)

I've also been adding some more "destash" craft supplies to my Etsy shop as I continue to clear out my studio...

 

 

 

 ... click here to visit my shop & see what's currently available.

P.S. I'm trying out a slightly different blog layout with bigger photos - what do you think?

Creative Block

Things have been pretty quiet round here this month.

This is mostly due to me suffering a major episode of creative block and not feeling in the mood to do much crafting at all. I've been knitting the squares for my sky blanket but that's about it, so there just hasn't been much to mention.

As I've had some family stuff going on, and we've had some lovely summery "laze about eating icecream" weather I've sort of rolled with it, and just let myself take a bit of time off in the hope that I'd wake up one morning refreshed and unblocked and excited to make stuff again. This strategy hasn't been the huge success I'd hoped it'd be, but it's definitely been good to take a bit of time off and the itch to start sewing is starting to come back again slowly (it just feels weird having not sewn anything for so long!).

With a bit of luck you'll hopefully start seeing some actual crafting popping up on my blog in June. Fingers crossed! If you've got any tips for beating creative block, please do share them in the comments, they'll be much appreciated :)

In other news... it's the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next week so here in England we're being bombarded with stuff covered in Union Jacks and other Jubilee-themed imagery and we get to celebrate with a four day weekend. It's pretty hard to escape the Union Jack at the moment, it's everywhere! Check out the Union Jack -filled guide to our local carnival , featuring a ton of red white and blue & what may well be the world's worst, most illegible font:

I am genuinely amazed that anyone thought that font would be a good idea!

Anyway... being self employed, I don't get any extra time off work this weekend, but the Bank Holidays do mean that the Post Office will be closed on Monday & Tuesday so any orders in my shop will take a bit longer than usual to be sent out. Normal service will resume on Wednesday.