Trivia day

Hello! I'm putting this out there now, I'm absolutely pants when it comes to trivia and general knowledge so don't have anything to comment on this holiday with!

I've spent most of the day on Etsy shopping for new patterns so I have plenty of new products to tell you about hopefully in the upcoming days! :-)

I've literally just had my crochet stuff returned to me so haven't had a chance to make anything but I'm going to make up for it now and get some hats done! Hopefully my blog will get more interesting from now on! Jxx

Festival of sleep day

Hey guys! So today was the festival of sleep day, apparently its a day of cat naps and sleep etc... Other holidays today are 'Fruitcake toss day' and 'Humiliation day'. My original plan was to opt with the fruitcake thing but we didn't have one this year so I was going to tidy up my craft room. I didn't actually wake up until 3pm though so opted for the sleep holiday and spent the rest of the day chilling out on the sofa and looking up new patterns I can buy for upcoming projects!

My crochet tool box is currently sat at a friends house so I haven't managed to make anything to show off today. I should be getting it back tomorrow though so until then here's a photo of my cat (I was getting bored of just posting text only pages). Until tomorrow, Jxx

Run it up the flagpole and see if anyne salutes day

Hello there! Apologies for the late post again, I managed to completely 180 my sleeping pattern over Christmas and New Year so my days are still a bit muddled! I shall be working to correct this ASAP!

According to holiday insights today is a day for being creative and testing new ideas. I haven't really managed anything creative but I have been working on a new idea over the last few days which I'll be talking over with a friend next week at our weekly 'get crafty and sort our businesses out' coffee meeting. Until then I shall leave you with a sneak peak idea that I'm considering.

A lot of people question why I don't make fairies when my business name is 'White Fairy'. With this in mind I tracked down an adorable Tinkabell pattern from rabbizdesign on Etsy and a few other fairy patterns. My main thought is to colour co-ordinate a range of fairy products and release a new one for each season. For example, bring out a pale blue range of fairies for the next few months then on the spring equinox release everything in yellow or green for Spring. That's a very poor explanation and hopefully I'll be able to update it and add a preview photo once I'm feeling more human! Until then, hope you're well, Jxx

Happy New Year!

Happy new year to old friends and new! I cannot believe it's been over a year since my last post, I had really high hopes and great intentions for the year but 2013 seemed to carry an unlucky curse. The deaths of family and friends caused my depression to creep back up and at one point I was back seeing a counselor. We finally managed to move house during the summer but shortly after I ended up in hospital with breathing issues. After months of tests and quite a cocktail of medications I was diagnosed with asthma. Its been quite a roller-coaster trying to manage it alongside my anxiety but it's definitely a relief to know what's wrong with me. Safe to say that while all this was going on my business took quite a knock. I managed to do enough to keep it going but there's still a long way to go to get to where I want to be!

I decided that 2014 is going to be a year of positivity and greatness! With that in mind I've spent the last few days planning out new products and trying to put together a brief plan around the major seasons. While doing research into national holidays I came across a fantastic website, holiday insights, which is full of random holidays. My plan for the year is to use this website to try and make my blog posts slightly more interesting and hopefully by this time next year I'll be in the habit of blogging and won't have to rely on it so much!

Traditionally the new year is meant to bring in resolutions but no-one ever sticks to them! I have two aims for the year, lose 5 1/2 stone and open my own retail unit. If I stay positive both of these are achievable but we'll see how it goes! Fingers crossed! Jxx