Mumma is a Craft Nut

Mumma is a craft nut

She runs an online store

Once she made some crayons

Ten thousand dinosaur


Mumma is a craft nut

She decides to make a hat

From old mans pants she’d bought

That smell like Aunt Sue’s cat


Mumma is a craft nut

She’s happy then a frown

We celebrate. An order’s come!

A crazy man from town.


Mumma is a craft nut

Another order through!

4,000 felted birdies sold…

Deliver tomorrow by two


Mumma is a craft nut

She sometimes yells “ENOUGH”!

I’m never doing that again

Or buying all that stuff

I don’t make any money

It costs me more to send

This is a crazy way to live

I’m going round the bend


BUT Mumma is a craft nut

Back on her online store,

“Oprah’s favourite thing” she sighs

Dad’s walking out the door.

Red House

Don't Wait

A picture in a gallery

The end of 2013 for me was hard and I started 2014 with the mantra - I just don't want to feel like that again. I wiped my slate clean - nothing I planned seemed to be going anywhere and I was miserable - a lot of the time. So I decided to listen, listen to what was around me, what was I noticing and take action where necessary and be still where necessary. The first thing I found was stillness.

January can be a better month for me because my hubby is more available and with the extra hands around the house I can escape to little corners of rooms a lot easier without little hands banging on doors or just randomly shouting "MUM" as soon as my arse hits a chair in another room. This stillness and tiny bits of running away gave me some time to sit and write at the lap top. Write, write, write - a whole load of nonsense and whining and dreaming and self berating is sitting in files on my laptop. Rather embarrassing were anyone to find them - but necessary to just start to get it out of my ruminating mind, into the world and FINISHED! Once I had done the stillness for a while I started to notice very strange things.

When I say notice they have to come up significantly I would say at least 3 times if not 4 or 5. They have to seem a bit like a fly that you keep trying to swot away, but there it is buzzing in your brain. Now these are the GOOD ideas usually - that you have ignored no doubt, or I know I was for YEARS and YEARS, but now you are on this noticing lark and you said you would act - so go on, take the plunge and act. Yes mind that is interesting, it probably won't work, who knows where it will lead, there are lots of people far more qualified, prettier and skinnier than you who could do it. Yes it would take time, energy, who knows how it will go, where you will get the necessary funds, time or childcare. Let your brain go on and on with all the rubbish it likes to do when it feels under threat - but you know what - do it anyway. I saw a running course poster - I kept seeing it - I hate running - I joined the course - I ran - I still hated running - but I ran.

Then I saw a pitch course - how to send pitch ideas to magazines - this course was AMAZING - this course made me think I could write - this course led me to believe I could apply for a job with the local paper - this letter to the local paper accepted me to write their style living feature - this job has been the first job in my entire career that I have LOVED! The stillness led me to write some little rhyming pieces, these rhyming pieces made me think up little sketch / stitch pieces, I started to make pictures with words.

I saw an application for a local show - I told myself I was going to put a piece in that show. How I FOUGHT this one to the bitter end - nearly finished and I wasn't going to drop it off - but remember what you said at the beginning of the year - you HAVE TO ACT - it was shown, it was bought it is now in a local gallery for a show this month.

Then guess what. Oh no! The end of 2014 for me was hard and I started 2015 with the mantra - I just don't want to feel like that again. I wiped my slate clean - nothing I planned seemed to be going anywhere and I was miserable - a lot of the time. Yep there it was again - all that good - all that meaning I had created and yet by the end of the year I was drained and sad and so, so tired. BUT, now I know - December is not my month, now I know this is a kind of natural state for me at the end of the year - but this time I know I can change that! This year I don't need to wipe my slate so clean - I know what I need to pick myself up - I need stillness and I need to start noticing and I can't wait to see what I start to uncomfortably say yes to - because it is going to be one of those GOOD ideas I do so like to fight. Wishing you all a still and aware 2015.

Happy Home

Rules for 2015