Life has been unpredictable and very busy since my return from a crazy fortnight holiday on 20th April. My attention is mostly away from the computer at the moment, but I just wanted to record my 17 for 2017 progress for March and April before May skids by.
A few targets for 2017 have been ticked off:
17 – walks longer than an hour
SIX
One in March : Badbury Rings
3 in January, 2 in February
16 – handmade greetings cards.
SIXTEEN – DONE!
You can see the Never-ending cards here.
15 – beachy things (split into 3 x 5s – 5 pieces of beach related art, 5 beach cleans on new beaches, 5 beach clean sculptures, assemblages or mandalas)
14 – items for my Etsy shop
FIVE
1 in Feb, 3 in March,
Three wigs that were in the WIP box were completed and put in my Etsy Shop in March
as well as 1 new pattern in April
I’m particularly excited about this one as I have been developing the pattern on and off for so long. I have loved making this jacket for Little Miss M and as presents for babies, but getting the pattern ready for general use is a whole other business. Gosh it takes such a lot of concentration!
13 – drawers, cupboards, shelves or boxes sorted out.
SEVEN
One in January and a shelf in February.
I cleared a Drawer in March, which led to clearing out the whole chest of drawers, 5 drawers in all. What a stash of yarn and abandoned UFOs I found
The UFOs have been unpicked and all yarn rolled and stashed in better order. I found things from over 10 years ago – so many projects abandoned for one reason or another – still, the yarn lives on to see another day. Chaotic life events have often interrupted the creative flow – it’s been an ongoing life-long theme. I’m sure I’m not alone.
12 – WIPs finished
SIX in March: see #14 above
and I managed to finish three blankets
3 blankets, first the Mexican Wave. I hope to give details of this one when life calms down a bit.
Then
a ‘Blanket for a Mermaid’, which I started for my niece (S) when I went to Japan
Again, details to follow.
and
the Dorset Hedgerow Blanket for my other niece (L)
Go the my PAGE of Throws to see some more photos and some links to POSTs about them
11 – paintings/ art works
10 – house and garden tasks
9 – textile books worked on.
8 – hand written letters to grandchildren
7 – find 7 interesting objects
6 – items made for Pippin or improvements to Pippin.
5 – random acts of kindness
FIVE – done!
The Hedgerow Blanket, for my niece and the Mexican Wave blanket which was a present for my daughter’s best friend were both Random Acts of Crafty Kindness.
Whilst in the Caribbean I was crocheting seahorses in all sorts of odd places. I had some wonderful encounters with both children and adults taking an interest in the craft and the seahorse – I gave away 5 all together. I’m hoping to write a bit more about these encounters, but the way things are at the moment, that might be a long time coming.
4 – new National Trust properties visited
TWO visited in April.
A 3.5 hour drive to ad from Gatwick Airport took me past two National Trust properties. They provided a welcome stop each way.
and Petworth House
3 – make three up-cycled items of clothing
2 – meet two fellow bloggers
1 – car boot sale
0 – Buy zero new clothes
ZERO – even though I was tempted to buy new shorts to go on holiday – I resisted – well done me!
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Still much to do!
A list of others I know to be taking the challenge:
Mrs Snail, Nanacathy, Gillyflower, Murtagh’s Meadow., Ouch My Back hurts, Ruth’s Arc, Cherie Langlois, Erin’s Big World, Country Ways and Cottage Days, Mrs. Craft
I have no idea why the post has gone all thin and down the middle – I’m having trouble with WordPress at the moment. Click on any photo to see it larger.
It’s progressing well, Sandra, and there should be another one completed soon… 😉
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Whay! Hay!!!!!! 😉 😀
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That’s really good progress! I’m impressed 🙂
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Thank you.
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Looks like you are well on track to achieve your goals this year, Daffy, even though you have so much going on at the moment! 🙂
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Thanks for your support Eddie. xx
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I’d like to go all thin down the middle. One of my 17 for 2017s, actually, that I’m making zero progress with.
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Ha!Ha!Ha! Chuckle chuckle! 😀
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You are making good progress. I really should blog how I am getting on. Love that new jacket pattern.
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Thank you Ruth. So glad you like the jacket, it took such a long time to create. I look forward to hearing how you are getting on.
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Oh those blankets are just lovely and your photos from your days out – gorgeous Gardens!
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Thank you PFG. I always love the age and beauty of National Trust gardens.
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Yes they are really magical places. I do miss weekend National Trust trips living here. I must seek some places out on our trip back home this summer…
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If you ever get to Dorset, Kingston Lacy is fabulous for children with masses of really good outdoor play areas.
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Thank you for that tip:-)
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Great progress..some day soon I must review my own!
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No rush!
Thanks for your support – it is surprisingly motivating having lovely comments of encouragement.
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WordPress are always tinkering! The other day the little bell that gives access to comments etc. was playing up and now I find that when I have read all the comments the little orange spot stays there even if there are no more to be read! annoying.
Can’t see which theme you have (I am sure it used to say at one time!) but you do have three columns, maybe you need to set it to full width or something.
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Yes, you are right about the tinkering – it’s so annoying. I’ve never even noticed the bell before you mentioned it. My theme is Coraline. I’ve had the three columns since I changed to the theme and it has been ok. I will go in and edit by deleting and starting again when I have time. I can’t access my Stats page at the moment which is frustrating. Hopefully they wil stop tinkering soon!!! Thanks for giving it some thought Jane.
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WordPress has ‘retired’ Coraline so it might be safer to change to a current one. If you can find one you like as much that is!
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Crikey! Thanks for letting me know! You are a STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤
That might be why I'm having all sorts of problems. You'd think they would let me know wouldn't you!
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I’ve noticed before they don’t support their themes for ever. I once really fancied a theme but they said it was an old one or something to make you hesitate to use it.
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Getting obsessed now but must think about bed. This is their updated Coraline apparently – https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/colinear/
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Yes – sleep – thank you SoooooooOOOOOooooooo much – will look into it more tomorrow. Nite nite ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz …………
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I have found that the pages show fine on my iPad and I went to the previous post and looked at the formatting – all I did was delete the first line of formatting and it mostly went back to the right shape. I feel ridiculously excited about solving it!
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Yay!
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Well done you for reclaiming that 5-drawer chest and all its contents! ! ! As well as completing 3 blankets – double phew! Do hope all soon calms in your lovely & creative life. xx
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Thanks Del, so lovely to have your support. Another week or two and all should be back to normal, whatever that is!!
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I’m loving reading about your progress… keep it up!
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Yay! Thanks! It is fun seeing how we are all getting on isn’t it.
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Sometimes life is just like this. Well done on your achievements. Petworth House was one of our favourite places when we lived in Sussex.
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Yes, you are so right! Thank you for your support.
Petworth House blew me away – I only had an hour there but could have spent the day – what an amazing place!
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The photos of Hinton Ampner are great! You’re doing so well on your 17 goals–impressive! I hope your life calms down soon–and that all is well, just busy . . .
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Thank you for your encouragement and kind thoughts Kerry.
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