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I've not given up my new years resolutions, although I cant see me completing all of them successfully. However, due to only just barely scraping my 20% savings target, I felt the need to do a spending ban for june. To be fair, my most expensive spends over the last couple of months have been for the house, and to replace my broken phone, but theres still unnecessary spending (like craft mystery bags!) That i can do without for a month.

Anyways, onto the crafting. I've not really felt inclined this week, but i did make two necklaces, trying to use up my bead stash a little.



As you can see, I have a lot of green and white beads thanks to the grab bags beads direct used to do. They don't do them anymore. I miss that, but at least it means my stash isnt increasing exponentially. 

I've been back working on the stitch. 



I got four crafters companion mystery boxes this week. (Sorry no photos) I was a bit disappointed with some of them, but that's the luck of the draw. The mixed media one had some good stencils and grunge board pieces, but the sprays and paints were mainly for fabrics, which I dont really use. The warehouse clearance one was ok, not great. The spectrum noir one had a lot of different types of pens from their range, as well as some colouring pads, but I wish that i hadn't got the greys and neutrals. I prefer brighter colours! The christmas one was the best one, and there were some lovely dies there. All in all I would say they were worth the money, but I'm not sure I would do them again. 

Here are my random photos for this week. 


This kind of thing is going to be a regular occurrence now unfortunately 



My poor attempt to take photos of birds  


I tried to use my macro camera, so this is a solero.


The other day, I text my mum from work commenting about how weird the weather was. At home, the weather was glorious, where I was less than two miles away, nothing but fog. Weird. 


This is a spectrum noir dark pad. Supposed to be used with their pencils, but they didn't come in the mystery box (of course). I managed to find some derwent ones I bought from the works ages ago. They didn't work straightaway, but once I used stronger strokes it worked. 

Until next time
Ems


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