Check-In Post January 12th 2023

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[spiralicious]

Today was a rollercoaster!

Plans:
*Weekly food shopping, possibly battling the chaos of it both being discount day at the discount grocery and potential panic buying
*Knit
*Force myself not to nap

What actually happened:
*Research pens for bullet journaling
*Do challenge 6 of the Snowflake Challenge (the fandom scavenger hunt)
*Catch up on DW, mostly
*Finally go to the store, as it opens, somehow missing all the craziness and by pure dumb luck getting pulled into a different cashier line just before I was going to have to use the one that throws my food
*Find out my GREAT NEPHEW WAS BORN LAST NIGHT
*My dad then tacks on a request to do a bunch of paperwork for him by the end of the month in this announcement
*Assembled Stranger Things cat play structure for my wee demon
*End up on surprise mystery trip across the bridge where I end up with knitting needles, tiny octopi, assorted craft supplies, and 8 cans of cream of mushroom soup
*Try to catch up with a friend, but... Did not go well. Not bad, just not well
*Resist napping like a toddler
*End up napping anyway
*Wake up to leftovers plated up and ready for the microwave (never, ever happens)

Oh and 1 of the 2 phone cases showed up in the mail.

[badly_knitted]

That is an INSANE amount fitted into one day!

Congratulations on your great nephew! Awesome news!

I have to ask... tiny octopi? Are we talking real ones or something else? They sound adorable, I'm just j-hoping they're not meant to be eaten...

[spiralicious]

It was!

Thank you ^_^ As one of my friends put it, I have leveled up from auntie to great auntie

Hehe, nope, not to be eaten. A couple stores in town have brought back the little gumball machines and one dispenses tiny toy octopi I have been collecting. Like, they could be pencil toppers small. In another store, one dispenses tiny duck shapped erasers I've also been collecting.

[badly_knitted]

Those little octopi sound great! So do the duck erasers.

I had a stall a loooong time ago at a car boot sale, had a lot of stuffed animals I needed to part with and there was a kid who didn't have any money but wanted a toy for his little sister. He asked if I'd be willing to trade, so I said sure, what have you got? He got the soft toy and I got an adorably cute tiny pink rubber octopus. I've still got him, in a clear plastic case to keep the dust off him. I've always loved octopi and squids, but I'd never eat one.

[spiralicious]

Thanks :)


That is so sweet!

[badly_knitted]

I love my little Octopod *grins*

[spiralicious]

It sounds like a wonderful forever treasure :D

[badly_knitted]

I like silly little things, always have.

[spiralicious]

Same :D

[wiseheart]

Congratulations to the extension of the family!

[spiralicious]

Thank you!