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It was recently my birthday and Mr T did really well in that he got me a subscription to Makerly. A monthly craft subscription for people like me who just like to make stuff! Each month you get a kit which will hold everything you need for a craft project.
This month it was the turn of Moroccan style basket weaving or coil weaving. Here’s how I got on.
Did you know that less than 10% of children can name an English apple? Although there are thousands of apples home grown here in the UK, a recent study revealed just how few children can name a variety. I have to admit, if you ask my kids what kinds of apple there are, they would answer simply red or green. Let’s be fair though, they are 2 and 4.
In all seriousness though, this is why last year we started our own little vegetable patch for us to grow together at home. Something that we plan to repeat again this year. We want our kids to understand where their food comes from, and to get a step closer to nature. The kind of understanding that only comes first-hand by getting your hands dirty. This is why I loved the sound of the Sudocrem Get Out and Grow campaign.
I’m such a bad blogger, I have all these great ambitions of using social media and growing my following etc etc, but in reality, I don’t even get my phone out all weekend. You see, I’m torn about this. On the one hand I’d like to grow this little corner of the internet and to do that you need to engage, engage, engage. However, in practice I see something cute and the first thing I do is reach for my camera and not my phone. So, what I have is an amazing Flickr account with more than 50k pictures stored, but not a lot on social!
Do I want to change that? Well, I don’t know if I’m honest. I like that I don’t immediately reach for my phone but then it’s something I need to start doing – stories, sharing etc – if I want to grow this blog as a business……..kinda a damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation. Anyway, on to what we’ve gotten up to this week.
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Another month has flown by and before we know it, we’re already a third of the way through 2019. It’s going so quickly!! April hasn’t been bad when it comes to the number of books I managed to read: 3 novels and a short story. The good news too is that I’ve enjoyed every book I read last month.
Here’s what came down off the bookshelf last month:
I was gifted some stationery items as a thank you for participationing is this National Stationery Week campaign.
In a world that is becoming more and more technology driven, there is something a little bit special about putting pen to paper. I even keep a paper diary, much to the amusement of most people that know me. No matter how much I try though, I just cannot get on with a digital alternative.
Maybe it’s the childhood writer in me that still gets excited by a new pen. And even though I’m in my 30’s, I still try to keep the first page of a notebook neat and tidy. In fact, I may have been known to rip it out to start again if I make a mistake.
I love lists, pens and pencils, notebooks, post its, quirky paperclips and colourful books. I enjoy ticking things off a handwritten to do list and receiving happy post in the mail that isn’t a bill. That’s why I’m happy to be adding my little bit to National Stationery Week this year and saying that I too think that #WritingMatters.