This weekend...

... is going to be productive.  I can feel it. 

Last night I got my scrapping things out to start on a page, and ended up having a mass sort out and reorganisation.  Very therapeutic!  I think I am finally, finally, at the stage I've been trying to get to for over a year; the stash is small, and contains only things I actually want to use.  I've managed to get rid of all (well, most) of the papers I'm never going to use.  The embellishments that are ugly have gone.  The letter stickers that are beyond even the most eclectic of mixed titles are consigned to the classroom to be used by small people.  I even went through my box of paper scraps and chucked out anything that had been lurking in there for months and which was never, ever going to get used.  Look - all rubbish:

My resolution is to use what I love, while I still love it.  How many of us have bought papers that we love far too much to use, put them away, and get them out a few months later to discover that we can't remember why they were quite so special? 

I bought some papers (the first in a very long time this week) - and I'm determined to use them rather than save them.  It sounds easy, but the instinct to squirrel them away and save them for something special is strong!  I made a start last night on this:

That's the first thing I want to finish today.  Then I've got another page in my head that I want to scrap, and after that I want to do a little sewing.  I'm determined to spend no more than half a day on actual proper boring work this weekend, and the rest of the time I'm going to spend doing exactly what I love - pottering about with paper and fabric.  Bliss. 


Have a lovely weekend everyone x

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