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 I've not done much this week, so this will be a short one. I had actually started a project, but it went catastrophically wrong, so I had to chuck it. Sometimes you have to know when to give up on something, and not waste more time on it. You also need to learn that when something does fail, it doesn't mean that you are a failure. You can work hard on something, and it can still fail, sometimes due to pure luck. Its important to remember that. Its actually been a week of failure craft wise, as I actually ruined two moulds as well. Luckily, I bought them on sale so its not a massive loss. 


I have made a simple pair of earrings this week. They were gold coloured, but I have a perfect vintaj colour to make them more appropriately coloured to the statue of liberty. 



I've also done work on the stitch. I'm on the last page now, so should be finished by the end of January I think. 


I'm going to try and go back to some basics next week. Its been a while since I've done some simple stamping, so im gonna do some. 

Until next time
Ems 



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