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I’ve reopened my Etsy shop The Badge Cave!
I’ve got lots of 25mm pin badges available as well as customisable badges. I will make your your badge designs for you ❤️
I stopped my shop while I was doing my degree but I’m back and will be uploading new designs soon.
It’s been a while! It’s a great project for when we’re away in the caravan. It’s been 5 years since I started this project in lockdown and it’s still toddling along.
Like I’ve said before, I don’t mind how long it takes, it’s more about the process than the end result.
I’ve still got quite a few chunks of cut hexis ready to prep.
This is what I’ve sewn together so far…
I’m not sure if I want to continue this pattern or to make it more random and less calico plain hexis. Not sure yet… we’ll see!
When I get my physical copy of my new crafty journal, I’m looking forward to putting my EPP project into it! It’ll definitely help me come up with some more design and layout ideas for my EPP quilt ❤️🐝
I’ve designed a crafting journal and launched it today on Amazon KDP!
My Crafty Journal available now on Amazon!
My Crafty Journal: The best place to organise all your creative projects | Plan | Create | Reflect
Overview
A comprehensive journal for tracking and managing creative projects across various mediums
Journal Features
1. Ultimate To-Do List – Space to brain dump creative ideas
2. Craft 365 Tracker – Yearly creativity tracking
3. Project Planner
Sections for: Project details, Materials needed, Inspiration sketch, Notes
4. Project Reflection prompts for: Emotional assessment, Learning experiences, Future improvements
5. Additional Tracking Tools: Moodboard, Stash Tracker, Stash Wish List, WIP (Work in Progress) Log, Makes Gallery, Mind Map, Sketch Pages
6. Planning Sections: Future Log, Monthly Planner, Time-blocking
Key Points
A versatile creative journal designed to support artists and crafters in organising, tracking, and reflecting on their projects across multiple mediums.
My Crafty Journal: The best place to organise all your creative projects | Plan | Create | Reflect
Thank you 🙏
I’ve been using bullet journaling to organise my brain since around 2016, so nearly 10years now! But I’ve always loved having some sort of physical diary, planner or tracker so I can keep tabs on everything going on.
There’s something about the physical act of hand writing an event or appointment in a journal or diary that cements it into my brain and prevents it getting lost in all the other mental coming and going’s.
I’ve tried to use digital planners a few times and even made my own but I don’t get the same sense of “setting it“ into my brain.
This year I’ve been able to prioritise making again. Partly due to ill health meaning I’ve had to take some time off work, but also because I’ve been using it as a form of therapy and recovery.
Making things is a proven way to improve your mental health.
With all my new crafting, has come many ideas for new makes. So much so that my tiny little brain can’t keep track of them all. I started looking for ideas on tracking creative projects. Everything I saw online didn’t really cover what I wanted though.
So, I decided to make my own. Originally I thought maybe I could make a printable version and put it on Etsy etc but then I learnt about kindle direct publishing…
My Crafty Journal available now on Amazon!
My Crafty Journal: The best place to organise all your creative projects | Plan | Create | Reflect
…a sewing machine baby that is 🪡
OMG he’s so snazzy.
It’s so amazing. I’ve only had a little play so far, but very exciting potential. I just need to figure out how to get my designs onto it, not just the preloaded designs.
There’s a program called Inkscape with an embroidery design extension called stitchscape. It’s a free open source vector graphics design editor. I have experience using photoshop, coral painter and most recently, procreate but this has been a steep learning curve. Many tutorial videos will be watched!
First attempt not bad at all!
There will be more machine embroidery 🧵 exciting!
My little model wearing her cute red polka dot red dress I made and a crochet cardigan. She loved doing twirls and showing off in her little outfit.
I do have another blog post about the little red dress so I hope to post that soon!
I made some art on procreate based on a piece of machine embroidery I made many years ago. I’m not massively confident using procreate but here’s my attempt.
Ps I know it’s “make do and mend”, but I added the comma on purpose to reclaim the concept for modern times.
Music in video by my husband Rhodri – find a link to his band camp site here
My son wanted me to help him this evening to fix a drawing he’d done on a wood cookie at forest school. And of course my 2yo daughter wanted to try too…well since everyone was doing it I wanted to play too!
So we got out our acrylic paint markers we’ve used for painting on pebbles and did some awesome art on our wood cookies!
My son did his name and some cool designs in purple (his favourite colour), my daughter made an incredible, multicoloured surreal extravaganza. And I did some cherries 🍒 Ceirios is my daughters name, it’s Cymraeg 🏴 for Cherry.
At forest school they make awesome things from wood cookies, as well as name “badges/lanyards”. They’re awesome so I made one for Ceirios too.
We go to our AMAZING local forest school at Dare Valley community woodland, situated in the Dare Valley Country Park. A massive area of reclaimed land previously used for coal mining.
Can’t recommend enough!
Can’t believe I started my EPP quilt four years ago, right at the start of the first Covid lockdown down. seems like an actual lifetime ago!
Since then I’ve:
Little anniversaries make you reflect on what you’ve achieved (or not) in the time that’s past.
Wonder what we’ll be doing in four years time? 🤔
I wonder how far I’ll have got with my EPP! Will I ever finish it?!
Honestly, I don’t actually mind. I know this is a long term project, it doesn’t matter how long it takes. It’s more about the process than the finished product.
My son, XuliGruff (please like and subscribe on YouTube) helped me make a little short video about making an EPP Hexagon. He filmed and edited it ❤️
Rhymes and Reasons for Every Season
If I sits, I knits
The heart and science of birth
Maker of Things 
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