The best laid plans of mice and men................

Friday was supposed to be a finishing up day, and painting my daffodils for Marie Curie, following Matthew Palmer.   That did not work to plan at all.  

Thursday evening, I started to feel a bit off colour, with a bit of a temperature, and by Friday morning, everything ached.  So I decided to just watch and record both programmes with Matthew to follow when I felt better.  I have the kit so I can choose when to do it.  I did really enjoy watching the two celebrities creating their own paintings. 

I decided that when I have finished and mounted both designs, I will probably sell them and add what I get to the Marie Curie fund.  When my father was dying, we had huge support from our Macmillan nurse, who then brought in the Marie Curie nurses at the end.  They were brilliant and were such a support.  If anyone fancies doing these paintings, you can still get the £5 kit from Hochanda, with every penny going to Marie Curie.  Both programmes will be available to watch on https://www.hochanda.com/about/paint-the-daffodil-rewind

I also had the great shows from Leonie Pujol to watch and gather ideas from.  She was using the four new stencils she has designed for her first programmes for Clarity.  The Clarity Open Days in June should be very exciting with Leonie joining the brilliant Sam Crowe showing what they can do with the Gel Press, as well as all the other fantastic demonstrators.  Information for those will be on the Clarity website.

I did achieve some crafting which was to continue with the knitting of my gilet.  I bought the wool and pattern from the NEC a fair while ago.  It is lovely and soft and is knitting up well.  I am now halfway up the first of the fronts, having done the back.

I love the autumnal colours of this one but have a second batch of wool to do a second one.  I can't remember the colour as it is a long time since I saw it.

Tomorrow morning, hopefully, I am hoping to re-sort my boxes of stamps and stencils so that they are ready to put away logically in my craft room.  Then I need to find my storage for the PTCs (Parchment Trading Cards) so that I can keep the ones from Josie's swap together safely.  I also want to gather all my Fresh Cut Dies together in one place.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. 

P.S. I was so inspired by Leonie's creations yesterday, that I took a pair of scissors to an existing Clarity stencil, the leafy swirl, ready to have an inky play later today. 

Then I also found this second stencil which could work in a similar way, I hope.  Whether it works or not, it will still be fun to play and try.