https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/Recycling can be more than just sorting out plastic, paper, aluminum or glass. It can be really fun and inspiring. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/48903625 covering letters and artist samples later.... It's very time consuming but I suppose it's gotta be done. Promoting your work by sending out mailers. I mean it’s easy if you just send out your samples without finding out who you should be addressing it to but it’s not so personal. I think the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/488485Foward bend. Lunge. Downward facing dog. Plank pose. Recognise these moves? For all those not so familiar with yoga... these are the beginnings of Sun salutation. Yoga actually helps you to relax. In fact, relaxing is what I find extremely hard to do. I've been throwing myself into all my crafty...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/488046Finally, I made it back. After a 12 hour flight, 2 aeroplane dinners and 4 movies, I am now safe and sound at my parent's home in Tylers Green, Buckinghamshire, UK. I even brought back some of my rubber stamps that I made just before I left. I am hoping to do some printing experiments with them...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/487635Yesterday, I sent off a mystery parcel to a woman that I'd met over the internet. I uploaded my books onto Flickr a couple of weeks ago and she immediately took a liking to them. So she offered to swap fabrics and books that she had lying around her workshop with whatever I had. Naturally I was...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/487179Taking a break from my bookbinding, I went on a glass jewellery making course last night with a good friend. All you had to do was place bits of glass together to make pendants but you know it's pretty addictive once you start! Once you've got your pieces together, the instructor puts them inside...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/486495So here we go. Lots of scrap but decent scrap might I add and now – mini masterpieces! Well, there were a few mishaps – mainly with using the wrong type of adhesive, particularly when sticking fabric down. Some of it didn’t dry the way I wanted so you can still see the hard and shiny parts on one...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/485926It's amazing how much stuff you can accumulate in a short space of time. I mean in the 2 years that I have been in Hong Kong, I have been putting aside magazine clippings and pamphlets that I think look cool and someday I'm going to find a use for them! And yes I think I have finally found a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/craftstress_ideas/485783I've been getting really really into my crafts lately. I am not sure about you but I often get ideas which come to me during my sleep especially in around 6 to 7 o'clock in the morning. It's a kind of half asleep, yet half awake kinda state. But the harder I try to irradicate the idea from my...