I've been so busy reading other people's wonderfully funny and informative blogs since I started this blog of my own, I've neglected to blog myself since 2010 began! However, I am here now.

I baked a fair bit over Xmas and New Year cos I worked in a clinic setting rather than on a ward. The most popular, was a slice I found on a blog here that went 'like snow aff a dyke' as they'd say back home. I tried museli muffins too but not sure I'll make them again.

I don't know what I do, or maybe more accurately don't do, when it comes to making fudge or tablet but I just don't seem to have the knack. I made several batches from the same recipe and they all turned out different! It was eaten but I feel that was more because it's sugary sweet than for it being delicious. I think I'm gonna have to admit defeat with this particular kind of confectionery.

I dragged out my card making stash too over this last week. Sorted some stuff out into my recently purchased wheelie drawer unit and bought shit loads of new bits n bobs too *hangs head in shame* Really, I think Spotlight and Lincraft should come with a government warning for those of us too weak to resist the shiny, pretty things they sell. Given all the stuff I haven't used, I really shouldn't have bought more but hey it was soo pretty and I could see all the cards I could make and....I won't continue to embarass myself by trying to justify my expenditure!

I did have to buy some templates for my cuttlebug though or else my partner's lovely Xmas gift would have gone unused and that would be very rude ;-p I'm enjoying the technical edge the cuttlebug has given me instead of just matting and layering. I can emboss designs onto card to add interest or use templates to cut out shapes. I'm having fun playing with it.

I'm not the best card maker in the world and the finish tends to be a little messy sometimes (which bugs the Virgoan in me no end) but I do try. I need to keep going with it but could probably simplify my designs and use different papers. I'm not a girlie pink gal so tend not to use those colours. Expanding my repetoire but not my stash of supplies is the name of the game I think hehe!

The other project I must finish is a stitched gift I began around this time last year... I know it's pitiful isn't it?! I bought another one for someone else and that needs done pretty sharpish as a birthday present in the next couple of months.

Where am I going to find all the time? I could spend less time on the computer but then I'd miss reading the wonderful blogs I've been following and all the tips and recipes I've picked up. *sigh* Nevermind, I'll survive.