Interestingly I have discovered my most productive Blog time is when I am sat in the car either outside Bluewater (giving too much away about where I live), the house, or the supermarket whilst Small has a nap! As annoying as it is to be sat in the car, napping has become so precious I refuse to move her now. Fortunately my trusty WordPress app allows me to draft up a post while the baby sleeps!
Today I am without a drink (doesn’t normally happen in my car as I typically have an array of half drunk water bottles scattered on the floor in the car) so desperately trying to resist the urge to drink out of her water cup 🤢. So manically typing in an attempt to distract myself from dry mouth!
I realised earlier this week that this weekend was the bank holiday! Although this is cause for celebration as we are having the babies “now we are 1” party (we had a “we’re nearly 1” party earlier in June), I also got hit with the onset of panic- August Bank Holiday is the last one before Christmas, and pre-Small heralded the start of the Christmas decoration production. Last year was very unsuccessful as you can probably imagine, but I promised myself this year would make up for it. I have big plans to accomplish.
Out is the world the crafting suppliers have already been releasing their kits and ideas, the Works has recently opened on our local high street (giving even more away about where I live) full of Christmas crafting trinkets, and it is only a matter of time before the supermarket aisles are brimming with Christmas goodies!
So this year I thought I would set myself an actual goal and monitor my productivity through social media, in an attempt to inspire others to get excited and craft their own Christmas fripperies! In my opinion (as a person who used to start cross stitching Christmas cards in January), it is never too early to get Christmas Crafting!
Here are my boxes of Christmas projects that are either unfinished or not yet started! The eagle eyed amongst you will probably spot rather a lot of Dandelion Design kits (I LOVE THEM!) which are in varying stages of being finished! But there are also fillable baubles, bunting flags (ready to be bound), stockings, stamps, card kits… it really is a seemingly bottomless pile of treasures!
Being realistic this is not all going to be completed this year so I am focusing my efforts on the following:
- Redwork hanging decorations
- Felt character wreath
- Bunting
- Fillable baubles
- Knitted BBles
As Hubby thinks we already have enough decorations (Scrooge), I am also looking this year to make some embroidered decorations to send instead of cards, as well as to sell for charity (more on that in a later blog). The hanging decorations and BBles are perfect portable crafts so great for in front of the TV in the evening (and I watch a lot of TV), long car journeys (when I’m not driving of course) and I might even give commuter crafting a go too!
There will obviously be fripperies for home too – there has to be, but for now the focus is on items for giving. It feels like such a long time since I embarked on a large scale, large volume project give I am really excited to get started!
