Ponder: Inspired by Elderly Ladies!

Recently I had the pleasure of attending the Craft Expo with my mum!

We had such a packed full busy day, it went too quickly!

One of the first things i did was to make this little guy.

I saw so many things that I'm interested in trying my hand at, but sadly - I can't allocate any more house-space to art stuff. I have almost an entire cupboard full and that doesn't include all my sewing stuff!

Also, (very exciting) on that note - I just bought a new sewing machine. One of my very own. Brand new. And HALF PRICE! I saved $150 on it! Very happy with that. Now to find time to use it!

Back to the Craft Expo! I think that I may have been the youngest person there by choice. I saw some very bored looking 11 year old girls following their mum, kicking the floor and telling her that, quote: "We're bored, can we pleeeease go to Maccas now!? ...Muuuum! We've already looked at eighteeeen scrapbooking stores!!"

I am happy to report that I was very well behaved all day.

Not only did I refrain from buying everything that I wanted, I didn't ask for Maccas once!

Though, by the end of the day, I did agree with the kids' sentiments on the high number of scrapbooking stalls. It's obviously the 'in' thing.

I did get myself a beautiful purple dyed quartz pendant and some beautiful fat quarters for my upcoming softies!

There were loads of stalls selling and demonstrating as many things as you can think of...

They had "Discovery Desks" where you can just watch a quick demonstration on how to make something simple. They had "Make & Take" areas where you can book in and pay a small amount to have a go at making different items. On the list, among other things, were: Tunisian Crochet Scarf, Felt Brooches and a Timeless Turquoise Necklace. We didnt have time for any of these as we were shopping till we dropped.

I also decided that I needed to start something new. Meaning I needed to buy all of the appropriate materials and tools for it too. Hello Broke Street for the rest of the month. It'd better be worth it!

Now, unfortunately I have to keep my new 'thing' a secret for a little while - until my lovely friend receives a package from me. Which is part of a lovely email 'chain letter' that I have received. Obviously, like most people, I normally delete chain letter type emails because I don't believe that "if I don't forward it on to my 6 best gal pals that I'll have bad luck with men for the rest of my life..."

This email chain letter was of a different style though. It is a lovely idea but in theory it doesn't seem to work as well is it would in my happy little world. It's called Art Exchange.

Basically when you receive the email, it has 2 names and addresses on it. The person in the #2 spot is the person who sent it to you and the #1 spot is the person who sent it to them.

Your job is to send something arty/crafty/one-off to the person in the #1 spot then forward the email on to 6 of your friends who you think will participate, deleting the current #1 person, moving #2 into #1 and putting your name and address in the now vacant #2 spot (if that makes ANY sense at all).

I have made the main part of my gift but the bit that goes with it is made with my new toys hehe. I hope she loves both things. Now, friends - I would love to receive something more than a highlighter drawing. Which is all I have gotten so far. And although its a GREAT drawing, I would love some other stuff too - so, hint hint friends!

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