I know things have been a little (okay, a lot) craft light around here lately. I’ve no real excuse – well none that I’d expect anyone to accept anyways.

But this week, I actually did something. It was small and quick, but it was a craft project all the same.

The book for bookclub this month was Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl and so we assigned everyone a character to lightly consider their motiviations, or point of view

Cardstock and waterpaper squares…

Quickly blended some watered down acrylic paint to semi-match the cardstock…

attached the watercolour paper to the cardstock and – ta dah!

The new year meant a new journal for me, partly because I like the idea of starting the new year with a new book, but mostly because my old one (despite only being 3/4 full) was practically bursting.

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And my new journal!

I always like to make sure my next journal is markedly different from the one preceding it.

Well this one is different – and I’ll be lucky if it does me out the month, but still, I like a little change :)

I’ve been working on multiple craft projects lately – crocheted lapghans, a set of cupcakes, the Hogwarts scarf, and two patchwork cot blankets – and so, while there’s been some crafting, there hasn’t really been a lot of finishing.

So we’ll just have to settle for some craft-lite.

Finished mini-project #1: A set of matching ‘Fairy Wish’ necklaces for Hannah and myself.

Just some pink and green foiled beads stringed and knotted onto some cord.

I got the tiny glass bottles off a gift tag in the remnants bin in Lincraft. They were so tiny and so cute – they just needed to be made into something cute and girly: so Fairy Wish necklaces they became.

And mini-project #2: a day planner to last me the rest of the year. I needed one now and couldn’t put it off until the new year; just one more sign that I’m now a grown up, and I’ve got to tell you, I don’t like it.