What’s been going on this past month?
Well, I’m planning on doing regular film reviews here on my personal blog. Me and Mat love films and with a collection of over 200 and growing and the fact that we are often visiting the cinema, it makes sense 
Over on Kucachoo Crafts I’ve posted a few articles about carving stamps from lino and 4 articles about creating backgrounds for ATC’s/artwork. I’m loving these posts and by the comments so are my readers 
I love reading about people who have tried out the techniques!
At home I’ve been learning how to crochet! I’ve only been doing it a few days now. I’ll post my attempts in photos soon lol! Pretty soon I’ll get a crochet tutorial over on Kucachoo featuring the best learning materials and some links to free patterns.
Over at Swap Addicts, we are in the process of our first poll for our first ever monthly swap within the group. Everyone there is amazing and a few months and 109 members later we have still not had one incident of negativity, which makes it such a fun place to be!
The ATC beginners flickr group is going strong with 52 members. We’re also planning our first monthly swap within the group too. This months theme is favourite words.
Also this week I was ecstatic to find that the admin of the Whole Lotta Swappa group on flickr had made me an admin too, along with the other moderators of the group. I love this group as we are all committed swappers and you know that you will not get burned in their swaps
And that’s about it. On a more personal note, me and Mat have been discussing the future now that Blake is 8 months and Milli will be off to nursery in September. We have agreed that I will remain at home with the kids until they are both at school full time. This is to provide for their needs in the mean time. They are both bright kids and I want them to find challenges in their daily lives, not something I expect them to find at nursery. Mat is happy for me to do this, which is great. He actually said he was proud of me wanting to make sure our kids needs are met at home, which helped a lot. I was concerned about that guilty feeling I would have for taking from the family financially and not giving back (guilt is a big problem in my life). To solve this we have agreed I will step up activity in my etsy shop Kucachoo Crafts (expect to see new additions soon to help me feel like I was providing too.
I’ve also been cutting back on my swapping. I was fed up with being burned in one way or another. What was once fun had become a drag. I had to cope with nasty messages, people trying to rush me in hosting, people not acknowledging receipt or rating and packages not making it to me…. From now on I only swap with trusted groups.
