Blackbutterfly Handmade Cards & Crafts: No Promises.

About Blackbutterfly Cards

I started making cards for pleasure in 2007, and quickly found my home was becoming swamped by cards everywhere. I decided to put some of them up for sale on a webpage in an effort to recoup some of the costs of my hobby. I called the webpage Blackbutterfly Handcrafted Cards, and it can be found at http://www.blackbutterfly2007.co.uk/

I try to take my cards to a couple of table sales or craft fairs a year, but make my cards mainly for friends and family. I would love the website sales to take off, as I nowhere near cover the costs involved in this all absorbing hobby, but for me the main thing is the pleasure I have in making my cards.
Recently I have decided to expand my blog to cover my other interests too. It's a sort of substitute for going to work and chatting to people, as due to ill health I was unable to work, and since the beginning of 2014 I am officially a pensioner.
Although I'll still show my cards, I'll also be covering my other interests and how I attempt to make ends meet day by day.

In fact anything that crosses my mind will be on here, so be prepared for waffle and a wasted five minutes as you read. Make coffee and settle in, why don't you?

Sunday, March 17, 2019

No Promises.

Right..............so it's been just about 3 years since this blog was active.
My father died in December 2016 after being really ill for most of the preceeding year. I seemed to spend most of that year either in A&E with him, visiting him in Hospital or trying to arrange home care, particularly when the hospital sent him home by ambulance, late at night when he was unable to get out of a chair unaided. Even the ambulance driver said if we had called them out when he was in that state, they would immediately have taken him back into hospital.
By December of that year, when I eventually lost him, I was so ill and run down myself I was finished with everything except getting through the next day.
I have fought my way back to some kind of reasonable health, although nowhere near where I eventually hope to get. I am still on depression meds, but have been making some cards along the way. I promise NOTHING about how often I will be able to post, as I have learnt that putting myself under any sort of promise or pressure seems to result in instant "don't wanna do it" syndrome, and I crash.
I have another blog entitled "Point Nought One Acres" where I shall post this same message. Without putting any sort of requirement as to posting timetables, perhaps things will get a little better, we'll see.
Anyway, here goes with a few pictures....