Long time no blog

Been a while since my last post for some reason, think I just got out of the habit. So, to update whats been going on since April (wow, that long!)

Had a lovely visit from Mum for her birthday weekend in April, with much shopping, cake and local attraction visits.

Not much going on with my stationary shop at the moment. I do want to get this off the ground so I have another focus when kiddos arrive in the next couple of years, but it seems like a big long slog to get things going for it. I've printed a sample set based on our own wedding stationary, but not sure if I can use it after expensively buying our supplies from America. Will possibly use this to show what I can do rather than what you can buy (unless you want to pay the shipping fees). Will keep thinking about this one, so all is not lost!

Tag!

A daft one after the serious prev post, which I'm working on by the way.
I'm such a plonka sometimes, after reading the isisjem post with her questions & answers I posted my answers as a comment, twice, durr.

Blogger Tag Rules:
1. You must post the rules.
2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them on your post.
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them!

Pondering the future

I've been thinking a lot about the future, what I can do with my crafty and design passions, can i support myself, or at least boost my income now, or when we have children. Is there a market for whatever I can produce, make or even assist with etc and I'm still no further really!

I had a smallish wobble at work after having to update the staff profiles for our department on our website, we now have a graphic designer with 10+ years experience and no older than I am. Why did I choose a non-employable degree, was it simply to paint pretty pictures and have that piece of paper in the end or was I completely not thinking it through for 3 years, probably the latter, that and the fact that most career advisors I saw said that Fine Art was the most transferable of the art degrees, which obviously isn't true in the slightest! But you live and learn, and hindsight is a wonderful thing! So onward!

What can I do then?

Back for now

So it's been a bit of a while since I finished the runner in my last post, where did those months go?!
What's happened then?
The birthday girl loved her runner and accompanying cushion & suited her newly decorated spare room.

I started and finished mums Christmas lap quilt, pieced, backed before we left. I hand quilted it using an enlarged version of this great pantograph (link to follow) - hearts, flowers and trailing leaves, what more could you want?!

Glad for a few days before the big day, i was still hand-stitching the front of the binding and quilting until 2am christmas morning! But it was done!

She loved it, cried almost instantly and was snoozing underneath it within a few hours :)

 

And a cushion for luck

I finished the bed runner and thought it looked a bit strange on its own, so I whipped up a little cushion to go with it with the scraps and bits left over.