Check-In Post June 9th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, 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.


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

[m_findlow]

Sorry I've been absent so long. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just... real life and plenty of it. I was reading all the posts for a while but sadly have fallen terribly behind. Hope you have all been having good craft days.
Not much crafting happening here but I got some new papers for my birthday which I picked out on my one trip out into the world (felt so alien going to a shop but my paper trimmer needed new blades so it was deemed essential). They're all Australian birds and flora papers, but done in blues and blacks and pinks and reds. Just the three cards made from them so far. I bought a few other bits and bobs at the local $2 shop before we went back into lockdown as well - glittery hearts, some matching ribbon for my new papers and more stick on jewels. No plans for them yet but each time I go in there, they have new things and never the things from before so I've learnt to buy them when I see them.

[badly_knitted]

*waves* Glad you've managed to find a moment in the middle of all the busy real life stuff to drop by.

Your new papers and other things sound brilliant! I'm sure you'll find uses for them when you have time for more crafting. Definitely a good idea to get things when you see them. Stock runs out so fast, if you don't grab things you lose out.

Hope real life settles down for you soon and you get time to relax.

[m_findlow]

Me too. I'll try and post a few of them so you can see what the papers look like. Nice contemporary colours.

[badly_knitted]

I'll look forward to seeing them if you find the time for pictures.

[wiseheart]

Oh, man do I know the feeling! Not being able to do any online shopping, due to in-born stupidity, I always buy random stuff whenever I get near a craft shop (=read: once in two or three months). But the things always come in handy, even if I don't expect them to do so. ;)

[m_findlow]

Absolutely, you just never know when something you bought a million years ago is just perfect for what you need.
I have a habit of buying things and pulling them apart to use them a different way as well, for example I bought a sheet of sticky back disco ball glass that is one solid sheet, but if I run my craft knife between all the cuts in the glass, I now have a million little glass mirror squares to stick on cards in chequer patterns or little rows of diamonds. Those have already been used on quite a few cards for some added bling. That reminds me to go and raid mum's huge box of buttons. I haven't used buttons on cards before but the idea excites me.

[badly_knitted]

Crafters are improvisers and innovators; we find uses for all kinds of things, and new ways of using them.