Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee? [Where Have You Been Since I Saw Thee?]

Not on Ilkley Moor baht 'at [Ilkley Moor without a hat] I can tell you - far too chilly for that! No, since I last posted back in 2023, I have been rediscovering a love of card making and I finally decided to join Stampin' Up! as a Demonstrator and have a new brand for this adventure - Ruth Gets Crafty (I love owls!).

I've joined my friend Kylie's team the Cuppa Crafters and am really enjoying all that it entails. I'm part of a team of other local crafty people, I get a discount on some quality craft supplies, and I've even started to run some classes myself which is a scary and thrilling experience all at the same time. Not only that, but I had someone join my team, Ruth's Crafty Rebels, which is really exciting, as I love the idea of creating that crafty community that we all need.

I have a regular weekly email newsletter, which I've been enjoying writing, and I'm regularly posting on my Instagram, Ruth Gets Crafty (that's my new name), but I really really missed having a blog. 

I spent a great deal of time agonising over setting up a website - I bought a domain which I never used of course - and having a blog that way, but the cost in terms of time and learning were too much for me. I thought I might set up another blog like this one, but I never got round to it. I realised that I  already had a blog and one that had been sharing my crafty journey since I started it almost 12 years ago.

When I first set up this blog it was suggested to me that the name would be come obsolete after some time. True, my girls no longer nap, they just don't get up in the morning, but I felt I wanted to keep that connection going and not lose that link from when I first started crafting back when my 12 year old was 6 months old.

So, after 18 months of faffing, I'm doing what I always should have done. Start writing again on this blog!

I'll be sharing craft projects, mostly Stampin' Up! because after all, it's business, but I will throw in other things I'm doing because I can't just have one focus, no, I need all the hobbies, and I'm still loving sewing in various different forms.

I hope some of you out there are still crafting - I definitely know some of you are! - and that you'll join in the further adventures of Crafting While the Baby Naps, also now known as Ruth Gets Crafty.

If you'd like to join the newsletter where I share weekly what classes there are coming up, and other jolly tidbits of Stampin' Up! fun, I would love to have you!