Hi there
Thanks for popping in. It’s that time of year, when the days are getting longer, the sun is peeping out, leaves are starting to appear on the trees, the birds have taken up residence in the Yew trees outside our bedroom window – and are twittering up a veritable symphony every morning! The dawn chorus is quite something! There’s a particular stencil which always springs to mind, when I think of the birds in the trees in the garden. It’s this one. I love it. Our Woodland birds, by darling Annie. CLICK HERE to find.
Annie, sweet Annie. We’ve been putting together a collection of her artwork, and I want to showcase them on telly soon. Really lovely. She was such a clever girl.
So today – and I have to seize the moment when it comes upon me – I decided it was time to start DEEP Spring cleaning. This is when the German Hausfrau training kicks in. One room a day is about all I have steam or time for. So I started upstairs, with our bedroom. To say you could write ”PIG” in the dust is an understatement! Honestly, my German Mum (she who taught me everything I know when it comes to housekeeping) would shake her head in disbelief! Ah well. It is nice and clean now. Things is, housework’s such a thankless task, innit? Nice clean bedding and spit spot polished furniture. And within a day it’s started going downhill again! Mind you, there’s nothing like clean bedding, is there.
But I’m a working girl, so I have to spread the love! We had a meeting at Clarity Towers yesterday, and concluded that the Clarity website also needs a Spring clean. But where to start?! We started with the landing page and more specifically, the SHAC section. It needed updating and a little bit of TLC. So we got our www.mop.com out, and had a good old sort out! Go and have a look.
Next room, the Gallery. In fact, we’ve closed it temporarily, so we can completely rethink it. That needs more than a refresh! But we’ll work it out. There’s just so much to do, and the only way is one day and one thing at a time. Quite honestly, it’s a full time job for at least 2 people! And it’s like the Fourth Road bridge: by the time you’ve painted it, you can go back and start painting again! It can be quite daunting when you start listing all that needs to be done – especially because I‘m not a frontend developer. Wish I were, but I ain’t. 
You cannot be all things, can you? Better to list all the things you CAN do, not the things you can’t. Better to list the things you HAVE achieved, not the things you haven’t.
And on that philosophical note, I shall go get on with the prep for Friday’s TV show. That I CAN do!
Oh! Before I forget. We’ve turned the Calligraphy girls into a Groovi plate too! And you’ll find them hanging out in that new SHAC room, HERE!
We’ll use the Groovi plate AND the stampset in the next FREE Craftalong, scheduled for Thursday 30th May FACEBOOK LIVE.
Love always
Barb x x x