Crafting through the pain

Last night and today has been painful. Fibro and backpain joined by earache all down the right side of my face. At points i have been close to tears, and with a dark and very wet day outside it's not been much fun. Picked up a couple of crafting mags when we went out briefly and i've also done some more stitching on my bears. As you can see they are really starting to look cute and i'm certainly enjoying seeing the changes each day. Done a little more back stitch as well, to draw out the details. Really pleased so far.

Talking cross stitching, i picked up the latest World of Cross Stitching, and the designs, well i don't know which i'd like to do first, The retro glow-in-dark space landscape is just amazing, but the Forever Friends Bears are adorable too, and the Art Deco lady, is a challenge that maybe i might just have a go at.I could go on, i really could, but i won't.


Crafting post arrived today too, in the form of the Christmas Wrinkles DVD by La Pashe. I had ordered it from Printable Heaven and wow, what a bargain, was £14-99, down to £5 and it has so many backgrounds and toppers and general fun stuff, well Christmas cards this year may well be a lot of fun to do. I'm totally thrilled and some of the pictures certainly raised a smile. My other crafty post was some charms i had ordered from TheCraftyCave. Christmas charms are on sale, and with 40% off, it was too good a bargain to miss, and now i'm pretty much sorted for Christmas crafting 2015 when it arrives, unless of course i find some other bits here and there.

As you can tell i'm into more than one craft thing, from cross stitching, to jewellery making, to papercraft/cardmaking and the odd brief attempted at knitting (garter stitch mostly) and sometimes using my sewing machine. All of them help me when my pain is bad, or when my mental health takes a turn for the worse. Even if i can't do craft, i can read about it, and some days that is pretty much it. Hope you find a craft that makes you relax, or get through tough times. I'm off stitching again. Happy Crafting!

Links :- http://www.cross-stitching.com/
         
             http://www.printableheaven.com/

             http://www.thecraftycave.co.uk/