Knitted squares

I have been struggling a little lately to keep up with the knitted squares that I started with Mum L on the girly day that we had together and that I told you about here.

I was made to feel a little bad at the weekend when we saw them as I was handed a bag full of squares - 11 in all!

I am really pleased with the way they look - the colours are really nice and look really good together as well.

I felt I needed to play catch up a little so I managed one more square last night bringing my total to 6 so not too far behind. They don't take too long to knit up so I'll get there soon.

I like the pattern that Mum L has knitted hers in. I know that we were going to go for a random pattern but that often ends up being more difficult than just creating a pattern and following that.

I think that we should go with this as the order of our squares and maybe just alternate between mine and hers. Perhaps something a little like this...

I think that this could work.

We'll see what they look like a bit more again when there are more squares to see it in full. I'm excited to see how it turns out.

I got my new BuJo

Hope you are all having a good week.

This post is a little bit overdue but I am still excited about the new journal that I got about 6 weeks ago.

I treated myself to the Leuchtturm 1917 which is one of the ones recommended by lots of other BuJo-ers and is a notebook with an index in the front and space to jot down all of the ideas afterwards.

I chose the dotted notebook as I felt that lines or squares could be too restrictive if I ever got into making my BuJo pretty but I knew that I would struggle writing without any direction so I couldn't cope with a blank notebook.

It's too pretty that I almost daren't start to write in it.

It has this little pouch in the back to add in anything that won't quite fit in the journal itself.

Being so brave as I am. I quickly came to decide that this was the easiest option for the first way to include the first thing in my new journal.

Only a couple of days earlier we had received this letter in the post...

Handwritten envelopes never come through our door so either someone has got my husbands birthday really badly wrong...or he's ordered something off the internet.

It was a lovely letter from the company that we are currently ordering our food boxes from. It has a photo of the guy who handwrite the letter inside as well holding our envelope before it went into the post.

Argh! The first mark in my new book - it had to be my name inside the front cover.

After this I bottled out again for a little while and started instead to stamp and colour onto some plain cream coloured paper that I could then decorate my pages with as I went along. Postponing the actual writing in the nice new book again I guess.

I started off by stamping a few little images that I thought I could use to decorate

 Coloured them in

 And eventually got up the courage to stick them into my book to form a part of my Key dates page for this year

Here is the page completed

I'm pretty pleased with the way that it turned out. Even though this was the first page that I did in my BuJo I think that this is still one of the best ones.

I'll update you again soon with some of the other things that I have been doing and with a few newer pages in my BuJo.