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Ida my love, you can come round and clean my house any time. Don't care if your car breaks down again, I'll drive you home.



Ironically, we actually do need a new cleaner at work. The one we had resigned before Christmas, so I was there last weekend cleaning the toilets myself. It's a glamorous life!



Can I reinforce the thing I said on the show about allowing yourself to waste two pieces. For those who didn't see the show, what I said was that we are all guilty of buying lots of yummy crafting stash, then not daring to use it because it's too precious. It's a common problem.



What I suggest is with something like Stampbord, take two pieces out of the bag as soon as you get it (or as soon as you can) and allow yourself to play with it. Think of these two pieces as being destined for the bin - you are deliberately going to waste them and not care if the results are not perfect. They are your test pieces, you're allowed to make mistakes and completely ruin it.



Once you're in that mindset that it doesn't matter what happens, you tend to relax and if you do it as soon as you can, rather than putting it off til you have some special crafting time, then you will remember what the demonstrator was doing with it. If you buy stuff at shows, try to play with it as soon as you can because that's when you're full of excitement. If you leave it a while, then you have to remember what to do with it or you feel guilty that you haven't used it.



So (maybe this should be another thread), what do you have in your stash that you could do that with?