My husband is an absolute superstar, he really is. I’m really enjoying this blog at this location although I still have a bit of work to do in terms of designing the template, reordering my categories & tags and so on. I have also been keeping an eye on the visitor stats for the blog using Google Analytics and have had a really nice trickle of visitors over the last few days. Please, say hello! Otherwise I don’t know what you like and/or don’t like!

Anyway. Over the last couple of days I’ve also been exploring other UK-based crafty forums and blogs which has been really exciting. Of the 93 blogs I subscribe to with bloglines 35 of them are UK based. Why do I find this so exciting? Simply because our counterparts in other countries have access to a wide range of materials that we just can’t get here, and I like to see what the UK crafters are able to do with what we have available.

On that note, I was extremely excited to read this blog entry by Manda at Tree Fall Design. She is going to be editing a brand spanking new sewing magazine being published for the first time in October called Sew Hip. If you’re not a regular reader of Manda’s blog, I urge you to go and look – she is enormously talented and her blog is just a thing of beauty.

I’ve also joined a couple of UK crafting forums – Crafteroo and Crafts Forum after being linked to the latter by Jen of Flurogoddess fame. All very exciting and hopefully places I can learn great things.

So, in other news I am leaving work at the end of October. I love my job but it has been a very different job than I really want so when I was told the funding had run out for my contract it was actually a relief rather than a shock. There is so much I’ve had to sacrifice doing in order to work and once Bob & I worked out we were making less than £30 a week by the time we paid childcare and travelling costs we decided it wasn’t worth me going back to work for the moment. I have applied for a part time evening job but we’ll see how that pans out too. This of course means I’m finally going to be able to return to the knitting group at Tchai Ovna with Purple Jen and Angela which I’ve sorely missed with being at work.

My last interesting piece of news is I’ve dyed my hair pink! With the help of my good friend Kat, I’ve gone ‘Flamingo pink’. It’s… different, to say the least! You can see it in the last entry, that pink-haired demented looking freak is me clutching my new niece. Haha.

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