Check-In Post February 7th 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]

I did no crafting today, because I spent all day recovering from yesterday (Monday). Even my Instagram post today wasn't an already finished crafting project, but a picture of my cat I had been saving for Saturday.

But, I did craft yesterday (Monday) and didn't check in then, so I'm going to talk about that.

Monday was my weekly crafting/check in with my friend. The crafting part went well. She has this stockpile of paper craft project subscription boxes that we've been trying to work through and we did two of them. The subscription boxes are actually quite nice. They give you literally everything you need to complete the project, including ink and adhesive, almost everything is precut or at least perforated, and the there are usually extras of the small fiddly bits and the stamp sets are a full themed set, not just what you need for the project. They are also reasonably priced, but the parent company that owns them is an MLM so, I am always on the fence about promoting the boxes.

Anyway, the first box was from February 2019 and the project was a set of spring cards themed after photos of succulents. There were three designs and enough supplies for three cards of each design. We both made one of each and put the leftovers in her supply closet. Two of the cards were a bit more fiddly than I like trying to walk her through, but we got there in the end. She had fun and marveled at how she would have never made something like that on her own. (The color scheme was very much not to her taste, but when they were done, she liked it and thought they went well together.)

The second box was from January 2019. It was a set of Valentine pillow boxes for candy or small toys for kids. There were two designs and it made something like 24 over all. We both made one of each design. Though this was simpler, she had a harder time with it. She couldn't wrap her head around that we were making boxes not cards. And though folding each box was 3 steps, that part took close to 15 minutes because she refused to believe what I was telling and showing her. Also, at some point in the past, she had opened the box and taken all the embellishments, the ink pad, and most the adhesives out, so there was some improvising during decorating. She liked her finished boxes, but asked me to make the rest of the kit disappear.

The hard part of the visit was I am probably the only person she really talks to all week, which I am used to and generally okay with, but she had a lot of random takes I was not expecting this week and wasn't totally sure how to handle. Ranging from politics, the British royal family, the events she saw in a animal documentary, things she read on the internet so they must be true, to me trying to explain to her that google search and Facebook are infact two different things (she still doesn't believe me). I think she might be on speaking terms with her housekeeper again though.

Sorry this is so long.

[yarnofariadne]

The project boxes sound really fun! I'm sorry the visit was a bit hard to handle.

[spiralicious]

Thanks

[badly_knitted]

The craft projects sound like they were good ones, and you got a few supplies that you can now use however you want.

Explaining things to the elderly can be very difficult, I remember that only too well from caring for my mum the last few years of her life. Kudos for managing to stay patient through it all. It does sound exhausting though.

[spiralicious]

Thanks