Big plans!

Hello lovely people,

That's the first few days of my career break gone but I don't think it has really sunk in yet!

I thought I would do a post on some of my plans for the year and share some photos of my crafting space before it gets a major overhaul.

WARNING: no cards to see here!

What I plan on doing with my year off;

1)  Undertaking the Independent Prescribing course at Bath Uni, which will take about 1 day per week for the next 7 months and then I will be a pharmacist prescriber :-)

2)  Planning our 8(ish) week jaunt to America in May/June 2016 - road trip!

3)  HUGE blitz and de-clutter of all the cupboards in the house - yes, I love to organise!

4)  Tidying and slight redesign of garden

5)  Redesign and update of both our en-suite and bathroom

6)  Making cards for charity using all the free gifts from magazines that I have accumulated

7)  Completing my Kit & Clowder colouring classes

8)  Doing lots of baking :-)

and of course...

9) Major re-organisation of my crafting space - yay!


What I have accomplished so far;

1) Started designing my planner, which is going to be A5 sized and probably housed in a Filofax.  I will be sharing my custom printable pages when I am done so if you like planners and organisation, watch this space!

2)  Ordered a new printer because the old one died on the first day of my career break, so I can't print any of my planner pages or any digi images :-(  I have ordered a Canon Pixma so can't wait for it to arrive!

3)  Moved some old bookcases out of my craft room (big thanks to Dr. Hubby for helping me with that!) to make space for new units from Ikea, which hopefully we can get soon.  The new units will be white to match my current desk and shelves.  The room is getting a new coat of paint too...want to guess the colour?!

Ok, so here's my little crafting corner, which consists of a 2m long desk supported on 2 incredibly useful drawer units, and some shelves - all from Ikea.

The desk tidy is a recycled wine box from Baxter and Snow, which I fell in love with and just *had* to have, but it has proved extremely useful for all my regularly used items.

 The shelves in the corner can't have anything too heavy on them but are great for bits and bobs.  I have had the 9-drawer unit on the desk for a while and just got the 30-drawer unit a couple of weeks ago; my flowers look so pretty in there!

Yep, that's my complete collection of beloved Copics right there where I can get at them!

The teeny crochet owl was from my sister-in-law and I will be amazed if anyone recognises the prawn plushie, which was a present from my husband!

To the right of my desk is a bookcase, which was full of crafting supplies but has now been moved into another room.

The little metal bucket on my desk is my bin...yes, there is a much bigger bin at the back of the room too!

The box under the desk is my Christmas craft supplies, ready for me to sort through and plan my designs for this year.

If you spotted the random squares of paint on the walls, that was me testing colours but I don't think any of them are quite right so the search continues for the right shade of pink!

I hope my super long post wasn't too boring but I am so excited to share all my plans with you, and I will keep you all updated on my progress over the next year.

I hope you have all had wonderful weekends and I'll be back with a card in the next couple of days!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,