Check-In Post April 24th 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: We all make mistakes - what's your most memorable crafting disaster?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[illariy]

Yesss, I love the first ST film! Aside from IV with the whales, the first film has one of my fave ST moments ever: the moment Spock first enters the bridge in that gorgeous black robe. Yummy. And Kirk's face! I really enjoyed the novelisation of it, too.

Sad to hear about your mother. I can fully understand you missing her after this time. I hope you have plenty of good memories that can give you strength while missing her.

[badly_knitted]

I've got the novelisation too!

We lived together my entire life, I was the one who never left the nest, so I wound up being her carer for the last few years. I still talk to her all the time, because this house is filled to the brim with memories of her, feels like she's still here, in spirit at least.

[illariy]

What a huge loss for you! So lovely that you were her carer for the last few years. And lovely that you still talk to her. I can only imagine the breadth of memories you have of her, still being in that same place.

I moved out 8 years before my mother died, for my studies at uni. We had a complicated relationship for sure - I have PTSD due to what she did to me but of course, I still love her. I am an only child and she was a single mother so as you can imagine, we were still close. I would've loved to keep her old flat the way it was as it was also the main flat I grew up in but it just wasn't possible and I had to clear everything out within about 3 months. That... wasn't fun.

So cool you have the novelisation as well! I no longer own the physical book, had to declutter it years ago due to space constraints. But I sure remember it very fondly and I think I still own the ebook version somewhere.

[badly_knitted]

It was. She wasn't perfect, but she was my mum and we were close, even if we had our fights.

It must have been tough for you, sometimes even the people we love can damage us. Sorry you had to give up the flat and clear everything out so fast. I'm still sorting stuff nine years on, although I've kind of stalled the last few years, since the pandemic hit.

I hope you do still have the ebook. Decluttering sucks.