Such a long absense ...

Well, there has been so much going on in my home life just now, that my crafting has taken a very back seat.

I moved home 3 weeks ago into my little one bedroom flat, I needed to down size do to my relationship breaking down. It was a mutual decision & we remain good friends, he comes back now & again for his fix of my roast dinner :)

I needed to move because of the new 'spare bedroom tax' & also to move into a town, so that I has most things I need on my doorstep. I loved the location of my previous home, but being a non driver I was very isolated. So to remain independent I needed to move.

I love where I live now, the town is very small & it's somewhere that I have known all my life so familiar to me. I am slowly getting sorted & finally back to so crafting again. I completed my part in 2 circle journals [aka C J's] today, but I can't show them yet because it wouldn't be fair on the C J owners!

My journal in this round is called  'Patterns of Life' I found it a bit of a struggle o produce with limited craft supplies to hand [mine was packed away in boxes] but, I am quite happy with the finished journal, tomorrow it will be on it's way to the next player & I won't see it again for some weeks!

I chose to write a poem to put in my C J & here it is

Patterns are everywhere, just look & you'll see

The brocade on your curtains, stripes on a bee

Pyjama's in the morning, find paisley there

Foliage in the garden, the leather on your chair!

Even love has it's patterns, changing seasons too

Walk down the road a bit to look for what's new

Feather's on birds, falling leaves from the tree's

Postage stamps, butterflies, just look & you'll see!

Just open your eye's & take time, like me

Because sometimes we look , but don't really see

The swirls on your coffee cup, or lines on your ledger

Those patterns of life are there to give us all pleasure!

~ author - Jane Songhurst ~

Slowly, my craft supplies are coming out of their packing boxes & I will be back to crafting again, blogging what I make & blog hopping to find hidden treasures as well as revisiting my loyal followers & joining in with all the amazing challenges that are out there in blog land.

Talking of blogs, please head over to The Cupboard Trilogy there is still time to take part in this months prize challenge