Change of plan - again!

As many of you may know I make and sell my handmade items to help raise funds for the various charities and organisations that I support.

As well as the items I have listed on my buteartism page on FB (and the few on Rainbows over Bute I also have some listed in my Folksy shop.

After much thought I have decided that I shall no longer be making and selling items in 2019. Apart from the fact that I am busy making the wrist warmers for the homeless, sales are very, very slow. Things are not helped by FB constantly messing with things and people not seeing posts. It just seems a futile thing to be putting my very limited energies into at the moment.

So, the Folksy store is closing at the end of November and any items listed on the FB page will stay up until Christmas and will then be donated to various places instead.

The page will stay running as I am hoping to continue running the selling events occasionally next year which will feature a variety of sellers if there is enough interest.

I have donated a fair bit of my stash of handmade items recently so don;t really have much left anyway and I just have the time or the inclination to make more if its just going to be sitting around here.

I am enjoying making the crochet wrist warmers and donating them to various homeless outreach centres around the UK. This to me feels a much more worthwhile cause and I am getting a lot more satisfaction in doing this.

My health is not getting any better so I need to focus on what I can do and what I enjoy doing.

I am not in the slightest bit optimistic that 2019 will be any better than 2018, or indeed any year since 2010 when I had my treatment but who knows!!
Until next time.
xx