When the going gets tough...

...get crafting.

Don't you just feel better when you've allowed yourself time out to do a spot of what you love best?

I used this lovely sketch from Sketchy Colours - thank you.

The image is from Mo.  More sewing quilting images please.

Let's see how we do over at these...

Metal embellishments at Just Inspirational (metal brads)
Tic Tac Toe at ABC Challenges (birthday, dry embossing and 2 embellishments)
Brads at Delicious Doodles
Stitching at Totally Papercrafts (in my case...fake!)
Stitching at The Paper Shelter (and again...fake for me)
Anything goes at Crafts 4 Eternity

Thanks for downing your crafting tools to take a look.

Nautical but nice...

Summer's departing quicker than I had hoped.  My jobs outside need some more dry weather please.  Every rain cloud has a silver lining, and that means I get guilt free crafting sessions instead.

Thanks to Sweet Sketch Wednesday for the sketch.  I've been a bit naughty and played with it slightly.

So, this is off in to Sweet Sketch Wednesday's challenge as well as the following:

Colours of summer at Stampin' for the Weekend
Got the blues at Sweet Stampin'
Anything goes at Papertake Weekly
Anything goes at Paper Crafting Journey