Crafting 365 - day twenty-one - lots of felt lovelies to finish

I have been talking a lot about being over-run by half-finished projects and I thought my kitchen table today demonstrates pretty well what I mean...
Slightly blurry photo there but you get the idea!

Clockwise from top left:
A box lid with in-use cottons, my big box of felt (including the 21 sheets I bought yesterday having gone down the market to buy 2 sheets of the pink stuff), to do lists, packing tape (sending out swap parcels today), tiny offcuts of felt (I'm keeping a lot of these for a project), a bag of little plastic bags (swiped from work where they were just going to go in the bin), my workbox full of projects, box lid containing ornaments that need photographing and felt for butterfly-backs, a finished order of biscuits and pants badges (finished last night), a tray of in-progress party biscuits and pants badges, butterflies and moustaches cut out and ready to sew, and a big wooden box full of things I have started but not finished (I shall take a photo of the contents of that box one day!). And that's just the stuff which is out at the moment...

It all has to be packed away later as we're having people over, but I shall do a bit of sewing when I get back from the Post Office and I shall make up a neat tray of things to sew this evening. I am thinking more biscuits, more pants badges and making a start on those butterflies (at least getting all the small detail pieces sewn on so I can pack them away.

Oh, and these are the badges I just finished - sending them off in the post this afternoon...

Crafting 365 - day twenty - sewing as a form of tidying up

Sometimes it seems like my whole house is full of half-finished projects. I have boxes of the things as well as an elaborate system of trays and box-lids containing all the things I am "currently" working on. This evening I shall be trying to get lots of these half-finished things sewn together so I can pack away some of the trays (and the big pile of felt still sitting on our kitchen table from yesterday) and make the house feel a little tidier. I have a custom order of party rings and pants badges to finish as a priority tonight (bought the final missing supplies at the market today so I can finally get them made), and also lots of birds and butterflies and other felt pretties.

I shall likely be camped in front of some film or other. Here is what my "workstation" looks like at the minute: a sofa, a small table (inherited from my grandmother, actually) and a tray covered in felt! Biscuits now, other things later...

Oh, and my Crafting 365 group (set up yesterday) now has an awesome 142 members and lots of great photos already. I'm really excited that so many people have joined (lots of my lovely crafty Flickr contacts and many lovely Etsy people), I can't wait to see lots of peoples craft projects develop.

Crafting 365 - day nineteen - cutting out a lot of felt

As the title of this post suggests, I have been cutting out a lot of felt. I am taking a break from my scissors for a while to come and post this and then I shall probably return to snip snip snip my way into felt-based lunacy.

Here you can see what I am talking about:
In the box (if you look REALLY closely) you can espy some moustaches I finished late last night (and a couple more just in front of it, waiting to decorate moustache cards). Then there are lots of butterflies (to be brooches and also ornaments) and lots of circles destined to be biscuit badges, ornaments and cards. I shall be sewing lots of biscuits this evening and also some pants badges as I have a custom order that needs doing. So much sewing! Perfect occupation for me this evening as I've got a Sherlock Holmes dvd that I fancy curling up in front of...

Oh, and I have set up a group on Flickr called Crafting 365 to encourage people to join in with this project of mine. A bit of crafting a day does you the power of good, I promise you. I was so miserable last month when I managed to make nothing at all and now I have lots of lovely projects on the go and I am very very pleased. Whether I will stick it out for the full 365 is another matter! Please do join in the fun :)

Crafting 365 - day eighteen - stationery and rearranging my stash of supplies

Last night I got all those sheet music notecards wrapped up into nice bundles of 3 and 6 cards, and then got a bit carried away with the old cutting and sticking...

I now have a pile of finished map cards ready to photograph (top left in the photo) and some brown & blue recycled envelopes ready to use for my own post (recycled from envelopes in our recycling pile). I also found two gorgeous 1940s maps in a box, put away because although they are delicious to look at they were too delicate to use for envelopes. One small brainwave later, and the maps have been cut into pieces ready to adorn some notecards which I shall pair with handmade envelopes of brown paper (I do love brown paper, and it goes really well with the colours in both maps as well as adding an extra vintage feel to them).

Off to the Post Office soon, and to buy some more Prittstick so I can glue those 1940s map pieces together.... I'll also be doing a bit of tidying as I have been re-arranging some of my supplies, my packing materials and stationery and things like that. We have been moving lots of furniture around the house and re-organising an awful lot of our stuff, and this has freed up a small bookcase for me to use near my workspace (ie just off the kitchen). It will be great having even more things to hand instead of 90% of my stuff being tucked away in the spare room. I shall take a picture when it's all sorted out - only halfway there yet!