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2025 - No Craft Spending - We WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!
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Not quite stash busting but … 😊
Went to a needle felting course today. It was really good. I’m absolutely shattered now as I never spend a whole day doing any kind of crafting so it was quite intense, but I learned a lot, enjoyed the company of the other people on the course and the tutor was great. 😊
It’s not finished but here is my piece:
(I’m calling it folk art! 😉😂)
The tutor had done a piece a bit like this, but I riffed on it a bit, changing the background and the colours of the flowers. For the first time ever of doing a course like this, I think I might actually continue with it outside the course as it is so easy and accessible to do 😊
KKAs at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.7 -
Thats lovely kk, definitely folk art-y
Dxx22: 3🏅 4⭐ 23: 5🏅 6 ⭐ 24 1🏅 2⭐ 25 🏅 🥈2⭐ 26 🥈 Never save something for a special occasion. Every day is a special occasion. The diff between what you were yesterday and what you'll be tomorrow is what you do today Well organised clutter is still clutter - Joshua Becker If youre not already using a thing you won't start using it more by shoving it in a cupboard- AJMoney The barrier standing between you & what youre truly capable of isnt lack of info, ideas or techniques. The secret is 'do it'3 -
So beautiful. It must have been dull on to get that much done in a day!
GC 2022 = £3154.96 , 2023 = £3334. 84 2024 = £.3221.81 , 2025 = £3974.24 . 2026 £899. 91/£3500, May £154.26 /£250
Decluttering campaign. 2026. 39 /74 storage places, book cases, drawers cupboards and sheds. Also tidying / clearing front and back gardens , giving bathroom and kitchen a bit of a spruce up. Me🏅⭐ ⭐DH🏅
Make £600 in 2026 = £412.59
NSD in May = 5/151 -
Thanks @daisy_1571, @Auti, @Soontobeoap 😊
It was a bit intense! I’d have liked to take a bit more time over it but I can rework some bits that aren’t quite right and finish it off now 😊
KKAs at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.2 -
Just completed this little cardigan for my first grandson who is due this week 💙
I hope there’s not a last minute change of name when he arrives 🙂
project 34/52 ✅5 -
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.2 -
After seeing my personalised cardigan, I was asked to do one for a family friend who has just had a baby 💙
project 35/52 ✅5
fingers crossed get next steps consult on Friday - 7 weeks since surgery so much for nhs timescales! But such is life - am now doing some cross stitch and will machine the backing to my owl cushion I cross stitched - I will finish wip stuff lol 
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