Check-In Post - April 17th 2025

[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 change crafts with the season or stick to the same crafts year round?


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

[badly_knitted]

Very busy and mildly eventful day. I did a bit more digging on the patch destined to become a flower bed, widening it in a couple of places. Unearthed a huge beetle larva, probably a cockchafer. I know they eat tree roots, but I put it back in the ground anyway, under a shrub. Maybe there are others down there, but I like beetles.


My friend cut the lawn for me, I can't get the lawnmower out of the shed. I untangled the cable for him, and as I pulled on one bit, the piece that plugs into the mower flew up and hit me right on the nose, which set us both off laughing. Anyway, the lawn got mown, I swept the path, because there were grass clippings all over it, so that's nice and tidy now, then I went back to the patio bit and continued clearing the mound of soil and roots at one side. Cleared another square foot, and filled a bucket with soil. I'm getting there slowly. It would go faster if there weren't so many thick ivy roots in it, some of them are more than an inch in diameter, so I have to use my loppers on them.


No crafting, unsurprisingly, but I was given 8 more sets of cutting dies for my Cuttlebug as an Easter gift, very excited to trey them out when I have time.

[wiseheart]

The Germans have a saying that I couldn't translate into English for my life: "Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude" - meaning that being happy in advance for something is even better than being happy for the actual thing when it happens. :)

[badly_knitted]

I googled it and came up with "Anticipation is the greatest joy", a very apt phrase =D

[wiseheart]

Oh, great, I'll have to remember that!

[badly_knitted]

It's surprisingly easy to translate things into English online. I found myself trying it a while back when someone was commenting on a post in... Spanish, I think. I copied and pasted the comments into my web browser, and got something I could understand, which meant I could reply. In English of course.

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh, those cutting does sound like an awesome gift! Very kind of your friend to mow the lawn for you. Hope your nose is all right!

[badly_knitted]

They really are, and they're not single dies, they're sets, so I have lots to play with =D

My nose seems undamaged, and it still works, judging by this morning's sneezing fit, lol!