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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 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,816 Interest saved £5,28 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 41 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 9th August
Produce tracker: £272 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.6 -
Thats lovely kk, definitely folk art-y
Dxx22: 3🏅 4⭐ 23: 5🏅 6 ⭐ 24 1🏅 2⭐ 25 🏅 🥈 Never save something for a special occasion. Every day is a special occasion. The diff between what you were yesterday and what you will be tomorrow is what you do today Well organised clutter is still clutter - Joshua Becker If you aren't already using something 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!craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119 2025 = £25.96 spent, 128 made and 5 mended,
GC 2022 = £3154.96
2023 = £3334. 84
2024 = £.3221.81
2025 = £2254.03/£3300
Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £260.95/ £250 August £394. 70 /£650
Decluttering campaign. 2024= 80 // 52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐1 -
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 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,816 Interest saved £5,28 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 41 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 9th August
Produce tracker: £272 of £300 in 2025
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 ✅3 -
As at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,816 Interest saved £5,28 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 41 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 9th August
Produce tracker: £272 of £300 in 2025
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 ✅3
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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