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May quietness

What a  lovely time of year. Happy times. Autumnal. Winter is coming!!!!! Yuss! So wonderful, and the nights are starting to cool. 

Now, I have been a bit MIA a bit of late, including some ill-health which is a pain in this antipodean arse/ass, but it is what it is.


I mentioned on Facebook a while ago that I had discovered Junk Journaling and I am fascinated by it. So intrigued by it. I've been watching videos of these crafty creatives (Thrifty Day and Rebecca Hoot mainly) and they are all so different in what they do. I love what they do because as someone who hyperventilates when I watch a house-themed TV show and there is nothing in the house of any interest or personality, not books or rugs or ornaments or stuff, it is all pristine and so tidy - truly, I feel I am in a prison when I see these places - well, junk journaling really appeals.  I've been trying out a few things and I might even show pictures! It seems to me a nice creative thing to do to accommodate the writing, and if I played it right, I could do my hours of writing and then play with the journaling.

As for the writing update..... the fourth Dating Daisy book is with the editor and I am nearly finished a  book in the Clearlake series. So that will be two new books out this year! Fabulous.



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