Well, the craft night last night was great, in my opinion! I was actually able to finish some stuff, in between dealing with my kids, etc (not that I did too much of that, in the evening, anyway, when there were a fair few other people for them to bounce off! And most importantly, a Pippa to play with!). Not only that, I got to hang out with people I really like! Can't get much better than that!Here's what was on the go:
- Anna was embellishing two tops for some lucky new babies...
- Jennie was knitting a sleeve for her DH...
- Nat was knitting a baby hat with bargain yarn!
And I dragged out the scrapbook and finished four pages - whoo hoo!
Here's the saga of the scrapbook. We were in Canada a year and a half ago, for five months, visiting my DH's family. I decided that, for Christmas, I would make his parents a scrapbook of our time in Canada, an ABC of our experience, in fact. I'd never done any scrapbooking before. And given I was putting all this effort into pulling together layouts and Photoshopping photos, well, I thought I'd make one for us as well (two relatively identical scrapbooks).
Anyway, I left it a bit late, so the last week or two, I was up til 5am way too often in an effort to finish the gift in time, and being an ABC, I couldn't leave out any pages! I got about half? of ours done, and then I had to leave it, otherwise I was going to kill myself with fatigue. So yeah, it has remained unfinished til now, til I dragged it out last night and saw the light at the end of the tunnel. What an ace feeling - gotta love finishing off old projects!
Now for some reason, I neglected to take a photo of the beautiful red shawl my Mum was knitting - not quite sure how that happened, sorry Mum! And I didn't even think of snapping a shot of Samara's gorgeous array of tags earlier in the day... bummer... But anyway, you get the gist. It was just a really pleasant vibe, mellow music, conversation punctuated by periods of industrious silence, and a virtuous sense of accomplishment (for me anyway!!)....
Anna finished these two tops - top job mate!
And here we are at the tail end of the night - Mum, Jasper, Anna, Jennie, Natalie and Sally.
3 comments:
Great idea !
Good too, that everyone gets to work on their own things.
Bec if you do a lot of scrap booking I can send you some scraps of japanese paper and vintage wallpaper - I have heaps and would prefer someone to use it - just email me your address. Jo.
it's great to be able to get together with others and craft. looks like a wonderful night.
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