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Personal Ciriculum

I want to start myself on a personal ciriculm to continue to grow and develop. To do this l would ordinarily buy myself new notepads- one for each topic. One of the areas that I would like to focus on is low buy living, so instead of buying new notepads I thought I might use a blog as a running notepad instead. The topics that I plan to explore are: personal wellbeing- winter wellbeing, rest,…

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Balancing crafting with DIY and the heat

Hello Folks, Im in a grump as I wrote this whole blog post and the website has helpfully deleted it all whilst I made a cuppa  send the love 😦 At least I have a cuppa to perk me up 😀 This blog update covers 2 weeks as I have been working extra shifts, I have also finally had a weekend to finish my DIY shelves that I started in Febuary. I have been roped into helping my brother with a day of DIY…

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Sick Days, Slow Stitches & Small Wins: A Crafty Crawl into August

This week we left July behind and moved into August, where has the year gone so far?! In similar fashion, where has the last week gone?! I feel as though I have barely had any time to craft this week. I was off Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday this week, but I was very behind on housework, food shopping and batch cooking so that is where most of my energy went. Unfortunately I have also been…

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Yarn Challenges: Overcoming Crafting Setbacks

I feel like I haven’t had so much making time this week, and thus not made as much progress.  I finally had my yarn delivery and boy was that a mistake… I thought I had ordered some 4ply yarns for socks, but what I received was polyester cones with yarn so fine it is ideal for micro crochet. And, a lot of it! After removing the weight of the cones, I was left with 1229.66g of fine yarn… This…

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Weekend Craft Update: FOs and New Projects

Again, I am working all weekend so I am brining this blog update to you now. After finishing my last update I picked up my baby star blanket. I am happy to report that I finished it in that sitting. Unfortunately, I lost yarn chicken so I did have to break into a new ball of yarn for 2.5g :l Very annoying but we continue. I have yet to weave in the ends on this but I am now considering this…

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Week of 7th July Projects

I bring you my weekly update today before a weekend spent working. This week I have been very good and focused on my 2 priority projects- the baby star crochet blanket and my robin sock. The Baby Star Blanket At the end of last week I had reached 70cm out of my target of 90cm, when I lay this blanket on the ground, I realised I had been victim to the granny square twist. It was BADDDDD. My…

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Wk of 30/6/25 WIPs

As I have recently decided to trial selling on Folksy, I have been doing some research and concluded that for me to have the best chance of success I need to drive my own customers to my site. Check me out here 🙂 https://folksy.com/shops/jessmakeswithyarn As part of doing this I considered vlogging, but this hasn’t worked out for me in the past. The time and effort, as well as the self…

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Her Last Breath, Hilary Davidson

When I first qualified as a nurse back in 2020, I decided that I would get into the habit of reading during my nightshift breaks. I finished a book on a night shift and didn’t have another to start; after a quick scroll on amazon kindle I found this book which was available for free at the time. I promptly downloaded the book and started reading. I’m not really entirely sure why, but I stopped…

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One Night Wander in London

Day one At 10am we set off, shooting down the m40 I was sat in the back of the car, working some colourwork rows of my buckbeak pullover. I’m looking at all of my wips knowing that although I didn’t allow myself to bring everything I wanted, I have most defo brought too many WIPs. My fingers start to get sore from the tight needles and I’m a bit over counting 1 hour into the trip. I switch to…

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Still Me, Jojo Moyes

This book has spent a long time sitting on my book shelf just waiting to be read. There were many occasions where I wanted to pick it up however I could not remember the storline in book two beyond the first few chapters. I wanted to reread that book first which naturally meant I would have to reread me before you too. I feel that this was an enjoyable book to read and I love Louisas growth.…

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After You, Jojo Moyes

This book is all about grief and how Louisa Clark moves on after knowing Will Traynor. I read this book so so quick, in 4 days to be precise. I found my self feeling indecisive over whether to read some more or do something different almost all of the time. I read this book on holiday a few years ago and I couldn’t remember anything of what happened so it was like reading it for the first time…

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Me Before You, Jojo Moyes

I love this book, I have read it before and I will read it again. It is all about Louisa who gets a new job looking after Will Traynor and how she tries to make him want to live. There is a love triangle and an ethical conflict running throughout the whole book. You can tell that Moyes has done research into living as a quadriplegic to support her writing and this makes the book so much more…

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Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo

I had no real intention of reading this book after finishing the Six of Crows. However I had brought a duology version which put both books into one, it was annoying me that the book wasn’t fully finished so I decided to continue. It took me a while to write this book review because I wasn’t really sure what I thought of Crooked Kingdom. In my mind I was struggling to distinguish where Six of…

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The Six of Crows, Leah Bardugo

This book has an average rating of 4.5 on goodreads. My rating is 2/5. Why? Well let me explain. I went into this book quite enthusiastically, but now that I have finished it I am really struggling to write this review because I have no real strong feelings for this book. I struggled through this book so much that I stopped reading completely for a few weeks. I really like Bardugos ideas but I…

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C2c scarf

A few weeks ago I decided to make a start on organising my yarn stash. I want to be able to “shop in stash” when I make things for my Xmas stalls. This however means I need to organise my stash better so I can see what I have and how much it cost for pricing purposes. I spent the morning before my first night shift making a start on updating my ravelry and I came across some yarns that I thought…

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Climbing the o2

This weekend I climbed the o2. The o2 has 12 peaks for each month of the year, it is 52m high for each week of the year, and the diameter is 365m for each day of the year. We started at the base camp where we had to wait for our slot to begin. First we went through into a little room to watch a safety video before moving though to pick up our gear. The soles of our shoes were checked to ensure…

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Halter Top ANDREA

I have had this wip in mind for the last few months but no specific pattern. I was saving it for the warmer weather but I got bored of waiting so I decided to start. I love the pattern design and the instructions are clear and easy to understand. I do however have a slight issue with sizing and that is the lack of it. Beyond small medium and large there is no real sizing and there are no…

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