Crafting in the countryside
How random is this…a new place to teach, a totally new format, a new group of crafty girls set to arrive, and what I am worried about? Traffic.
One of the joys of living on the outskirts of London is going pretty much anywhere will likely involve the M25. It’s a ring road, but on a freakishly massive scale. As far as ring roads are concerned, I have but three that I driven enough to tell stories about: the M25, at the extreme of oh my goodness, I am moving an inch an hour but it is illegal to phone anyone and tell them I will be late madness, Interstate 435 that encircles the sprawling metropolis that is Kansas City (as the nice, happy medium) and at the other extreme, Iceland’s Route 1, which is 840 miles around, but pretty much all the accidents are caused by unfortunate combinations of tourists, rental cars and sheep.
But the funny thing about the M25 is as soon as you start to swear about it, there’s no traffic. So I can never totally write her off. Plus, I am useless on countrylanes. Give me big roads. With road signs. And petrol stations are also nice. But last Thursday, it took me about two and a half hours to get home from Creative Pastimes, so yesterday I left very early, thinking it would be worse during morning rush hour.
There were like three other cars on the entire road. At 8:20am. It was uncanny.
And I was there so early that I walked around the countryside, taking pictures of flowers, accidentally scaring a heron and talking to baby ducks. As you do.
And then, when it was a reasonable o’clock in the morning, we had a journaling workshop. With a sparkly layout class in the morning. Then lovely coffee shop lunch with paninis and much discussion of weddings past, present and future, then an afternoon session with a minibook and oreo cupcakes. Plus some shopping! So cool to meet new faces.
There are a few kits at the shop if you fancied one but couldn’t make the day. If you contact them, you can order one for £9.50 and they should be able to post it to you. £9.50 does not include the shipping but does include all the supplies (3 sheets of cardstock, 6 patterned papers, 1 envelope and velvet ribbon) and all the instructions from me, via email. There are only a few, so get in touch quickly if you want one.
My next workshop at Creative Pastimes is Friday, August 24th. It’s all about embellishment, and we’ll be working with ribbon in the morning and chipboard in the afternoon. It would be fabulous to see you there for a girly day out!
Thanks again to all involved yesterday.
xlovesx
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