So with no job to start planning for, for September I have been looking for ways to keep myself busy during the summer holidays. Before starting my PGCE I spent a lot of my free time scrapbooking and card making but had no time once I started my teaching degree. However I was thinking the other day about starting it up again to pass some of the time over the summer.
During a mooch on some of the image blogs I am following through google reader I found some really cool ideas for things which I could craft (the images on the right). There were several really cool things which I saw which involved photo frames and buttons. I was thinking about starting up my crafting again perhaps to make a bit of money through making cards and was thinking about the fact I could decorate photo frames too.
So I set about looking for picture frames. All the ones I seemed to come across were really expensive and if I wanted to make some money on them would have to charge more than I was thinking. So I went on to Ikeas website just for an idea. There I found the perfect picture frames which were £1.67 for 3 frames! However to my sadness you couldnt order them online :( We live right in between 2 Ikeas with the nearest 2 being around 40 miles away so thought I would have to keep looking. Today however we should have been going to the Monkey Forest at Trentham Gardens where my brother works but when we got there it started raining and we decided not to bother. Jokingly I said we could go to Ikea in the rain and before I knew it we were on our way to Ikea at Wednesbury :)
And I managed to get my frames :) they are perfect! I got 10 lots which means I have 30 frames :D I shall have some fun crafting on them :) I shall keep you updated with the designs as I do them!
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