Happy Blogday: A Year in the Life of the Shinybees Blog
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Blogs, Handmade items | Tags: blog, first birthday, round up, Shinybees, year of blogging 2 Comments »
Image Details: ‘Birthday Cake’ by Omer Wazir, via Flickr
The Shinybees blog is 1 year old today. It was on 13th February 2011 that I wrote my first proper blog post – ‘The First Rule of Knit Club‘. So, I have decided to do a little round up of posts for the last year for those of you who may have missed out on a bit of comedy genius. Or not, as the case may be. Anyway…
Not so Extreme Makeover: Man-Cave to Craft Haven
Posted: February 5, 2012 Filed under: Projects | Tags: craft room, hostile takeover, sewing, stash 4 Comments »
The Herdybank!
Over the last couple of weeks, I have dedicated some time to sorting out the study. By ‘sorting out’, I mean completely changing its designated role from ‘ramshackle study-cum-mancave’ to ‘lovely crafty room of awesomeness’. I was aided and abetted in this feat of engineering by my dear and long-suffering husband (LSH), who, as you have heard before, suffers from a not too mild case of OCD. I quickly realised that, if I left my crafty ‘guff’,as he calls it, (just wait until I get round to those hand knitted socks, he’ll be scoffing on the other side of his well-attired toes) lying around for long enough, then eventually my ‘change of use’ application would be approved for the study. Ahem, craft room. It only took 3 months of sewing machines on the dining table and various piles of patterns, books, fabric and notions being all over the living room for him to agree to my hostile takeover. That, plus the Babybee is now disturbingly mobile and in the habit of inserting anything she gets her grubby little toast hands on to into her cakehole, with little to no regard as to how life-limiting putting said object into her mouth will be.
