Check-In Post January 5th 2024

[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.


This Week's Question: Do you have any crafting resolutions for 2024?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[spiralicious]

I'm back home & no longer house sitting. The adjustment has been more awkward than expected.

Sort of stretching the limits of the term crafting here, but at work, I turned several boxes of new pieces of electronics into a functioning POS system and I created December's bookkeeping records. I don't know if I have mentioned it here, but both the cash register and the book keeping computer died the same week in mid-November. The computer was replaced pretty quickly, but I haven't been able to get into the banking records since, which makes it very difficult to keep the books up-to-date. I was finally deemed worthy of print outs from the bank today to fill in the missing bits and reconcile what I had. The replacement for the cash register only arrived on Wednesday and instead of the basic register that was asked for, something that belongs on the space station was ordered instead. But I think, I've got it to where the store manager can use it now.

In more traditional crafting, I gave the 2024 divider page in my bullet journal a decorative background; grey curved stripes done with a highlighter and I covered the pre-printed dating banner that's across the top of the page with some of the new washi tape I got from someone at holiday_wishes.

I also finally got back to knitting on the hat I've been working on. It didn't get worked on at all the weeks I was house-sitting. I was a little afraid I had forgotten how.

[yarnofariadne]

I'm always so worried about picking up a project after it's been sitting for a while - when I got back to the beach cover-up I was convinced I couldn't remember how to do a stitch at all 😂 Well done on all your hard work!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

That's a lot of things to sort out! I'd be lost with the tech (and the book keeping, tbh), so well done getting that all sorted and things operational.

Yay for journaling and hat creating!

[spiralicious]

It was, um, nightmarish, I'm not going to lie. Thanks!

Thanks!