When The Craft Fog Hits...

Hi my friends, it's hard to believe the first week of January has gone already. I was so busy making stuff in the run-up to Christmas, that I'll be sharing with you soon, it took me a while to head back to the cubbyhole and when I did, I found myself in a complete craft fog. It's just typical and a problem that we all suffer from, lots of new products you are itching to play with but there isn't the tiniest hint of inspiration jumping into your crafty brain.
I've learned over the years not to beat myself up but to walk away and distract myself with my go-to cure, tidying, cleaning and organising. It was time to tackle a nightmare task that has been put on the back burner for months - clearing out what has become a holding area for unwanted clutter in the little room at the back of the garage, the place where empty boxes, the stuff that has already been de-cluttered from the cubbyhole and lots of spiders live, the place that looks like a hoarder's paradise, the place without a clear pathway through to the garage anymore. And I can't help but ask myself, why move unwanted clutter from one place and deposit it in another, making twice the work and who in their right mind would hold on to 3 Christmas Crackers from Christmas goodness knows when.

"That's not as bad as you are making out" I hear you say, but I was so traumatised by the sight that greeted me, I had to retreat back to the house for 2 cups of coffee before I could muster the courage to make a start and this was the halfway stage after 3 hours of deconstructing and flattening cardboard boxes, filling umpteen black bags and making 3 trips to the recycle centre. But finally, it's back to being a tidy storage space with lots of stuff set aside for Brodie's first fund-raising foray into the world of the car boot sale.

To kick off the fund-raising for 2020, I scored and folded a pile of card blanks, matching them up with envelopes and cello bags

re-used a pile of backgrounds from old A2 cards and trimmed them down to fit A6 cards, the most popular sized card in the UK.

Today I'm hoping to fire up Brodie's Machu Picchu World Challenge Fund Raising production line and get creating Valentine's Day and Easter cards.

Fingers crossed, the craft fog has cleared.

Toodle-oo for now

Hugs Kath xxx