Category: Uncategorized

  • Pride and Prejudice Pt2

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    Well it’s been a stressful weekend with awful events happening affecting people close to me and although I am not directly involved or affected it has been very distressing and makes me feel so helpless and annoyed with myself for complaining about my own issues which seem quite trivial in comparison.  It also makes me…

  • Pride and Prejudice Part 1

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    No, I am not on a trip to the library, but as usual trying to juggle everyday life and illness. The book title kept popping into my head, I think because of the daily internal arguments over what I should be doing, could be doing, can do, can’t do and what is best for me…

  • Facebook withdrawal!

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    Well I am on day 7 without Facebook as my my Give It Uptober.  I don’t miss it except for something to keep me occupied as I have a tendency to overdo it if not distracted by Facebook as I need to be doing something.  It is a bit weird not knowing what people are doing…

  • Give It Uptober

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    October is the month where people give things up for charity.  I think it started with people going sober for a month or giving up luxuries and donating the money saved during the month to charity.  The idea has been adopted by some ME charities including Let’s Do it for ME and Invest in ME who state “Simple version…

  • August Makes

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    Not much crafting gets done in August being in the school holidays and holiday time.  Here are the things I did manage! Card made for my Sister in law and brother in law for their 5th anniversary, this card was scanned rather than photographed and doesn’t show it at best.  Card blank from Dee Craft, printed…

  • ME is real and it’s bad

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    I have seen a few things this week trying to get across the impact of ME and how it affects us Firstly an article from Health Rising, “The authors looked at median and mean quality of life scores. The median scores are a more accurate measurement of a community because they’re not skewed by people with…

  • Thank you ME

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    Before I begin I want to say sorry to the many of you for which this would have been impossible and I hope I haven’t caused any upset, I know I often get upset when I read about what others are able to do and know that I couldn’t even consider doing. This is unusual…

  • Take care of the pennies…..

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    And the pounds will take care of themselves.  There is some truth in this as we seem to fritter away fairly small amounts of money without realising how much they add up and then when we need something more substantial we can’t afford it, yet we have loads of small useless possessions and no idea…

  • July makes

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    Pattern from Stitching cards Made with buttons and mounted in Ikea box frame Pattern from Ann’s Paperart Pattern from Embroidery on Paper for every occassion Joke De Vette.  I printed the pattern slightly larger to make it less fiddly to prick and stitch.  Paw prints embossing folder from Darice. Pattern from Prick ‘n Stitch, with flower sequins and yellow seed beads.…

  • Steps…..

    —

    by

    Jane Shaw
    in

    Today was Emily’s school year 6 leavers service in church.  Only 3 years and it will be her turn!  Time moves on so fast and I feel like I have been left behind as I am so stuck with this stupid illness.  I try to move on and be happy and take pleasure from things,…