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Me too! I can't write very legibly but I love a good pen!I bloody love stationery
Me too! I can't write very legibly but I love a good pen!I bloody love stationery
I used to work in a stationers. I was the buyer. I was in stationery heaven. It wasnβt well paid, I have a completely different career now, but that was my most enjoyable job.Ok so call me a sad sack if you will, but the parcel I was waiting on today was a GIANT folder pencil case The postie knocked today btw just to prove me wrong I'm sure
I've just spent a possibly ridiculously enjoyable 30mins organising my pens, pencils and other arty supplies It juuuust closes!
Now I can have all my things on my knee easy to hand rather than needing a giant space to spread out on
Ah it's the simple things!
Ooh I hope you got to test lots of samples!I used to work in a stationers. I was the buyer. I was in stationery heaven. It wasnβt well paid, I have a completely different career now, but that was my most enjoyable job.
I used to have a large budget and I was in 7th heaven, getting in all these niche stationery makers. Buying beautiful paper, pens, cards, address books, desk accessories. It was a great job. I still love nice pens and notepads.Ooh I hope you got to test lots of samples!
When I worked in my first office I used to enjoy my trips to the local stationers we had an account with
Ooh did you get anything you particularly loved? I once bought some really cool bobble wool and me and my mum sat and ran up a quick blanket for my best friends birthday, she really loved it and the bobble wool was super quick to knit up withWhen I was feeling sorry for myself the other day I bought quite a bit of wool
I loom knitAre you a good knitter @Penguin86 ?
Baby hats about 5 a 100g ball. Maybe more.Lovely @Penguin86 I especially like the blue/green one!
How many baby hats do you usually get from a skien of wool do you reckon?
Do you crochet too?
You did something useful in lockdown then. I sat on my arse and drank a lot of wine!I picked up loom knitting in the first lockdown.
I tried normal knitting but i blame being left handed
I took it up as a distraction to my anxiety because I was in the vulnerable category and ended up paranoid. I was cut off from my niece and nephew for months because my housemates were my bubble.You did something useful in lockdown then. I sat on my arse and drank a lot of wine!
Bless you that must be hard Have you tried painting at all? Thinking because it's larger scale than drawing a picture with a pencil/pen and a bit more free form so wobbly hands might not be such a hurdle to create art?I used to be awesome at art but my hands wobble too much now.
I knitted some kittens to hang on my window handle but i took them down for Christmas and have no idea what i did with them
I need to try and get back to it. I have been doing a colouring book.Bless you that must be hard Have you tried painting at all? Thinking because it's larger scale than drawing a picture with a pencil/pen and a bit more free form so wobbly hands might not be such a hurdle to create art?
Because I'm still a beginner and learning/teaching myself as I go all the things I draw/colour in take a stupidly long time and if I'm freehand drawing I don't have the control to draw figures much bigger than 4-5inches high - super artiste I am not I quite enjoy my scribbling though and I think that's the main thing even if it doesn't always look all that great to anyone else
ETA: I've got my completed pictures on a wall and there's 9 total from 2 years worth of scribbling and they are all basically doodles
Aw knitted kittens! That's mega! Got pictures? I Hope you find them!
ETA: @Penguin86 remembering what you said about colouring out of the lines the other day, I came across an Aussie artist guy on Youtube who makes fun videos. He sometimes does art challenges where he has to use a colouring in book and make it look really awesome and he is like really well known for basically saying "duck staying in the lines!" And his stuff comes out looking really good and you'd never know he'd not coloured in between the lines at the end
ETA2: Arg! Forgot to put in his name It's Jazza sorry what a numpty I am!
Ahhh! They are adorable! Are they pipe cleaner ears or have you done teeny tiny i-chords? I think I need glassesI need to try and get back to it. I have been doing a colouring book.
Here they are
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Pipe cleaner ears. I have a huge drawer full of craft bitsAhhh! They are adorable! Are they pipe cleaner ears or have you done teeny tiny i-chords? I think I need glasses
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