Child of the 80s, teenager of the 90s/00s and now growing old disgracefully; it seems fitting to start with one of my favourite songs. I guess it is true, every new beginning does come from something else ending. The trouble is, I’m fantastic at buying, prepping to begin and actually starting and not so much to the ending. My growing back catalogue of games and my crafting back catalogue of patterns and ‘stuff’ is testament to that. When I finish, I try to finish good! I mean have you even actually finished if you don’t get the platinum, the achievement or max points? For the crafters out there, is it really a finished cross stitch if you haven’t backstitched that mofo?!

My main issue is I have two time consuming, life absorbing hobbies. Work, life and health all compete for precious time and lead to me not “living my best life” as Big Daddy Sitch would say.

This is my possibly futile attempt at taking ownership of my life and hobbies. I’m already risking failure at the first hurdle as this new tablet doesn’t understand my hands yet (it’s either that or the accent I’m typing with). It’s going to have to get put down soon before it ends up out of the window. Never fear though, there’s always my trusty phone who knows I never mean ‘duck’.

I’m well aware that gamers out there probably won’t enjoy my crafty stitchy shit and the stitchers probably won’t dig the gaming. Anyone out there who enjoys the crossover of the two realms and doesn’t mind a bit of sarcasm and swearing we’re going to get along very well. I’ll try to keep things separate but the boundaries may blur occasionally and ‘life’ will definitely seep in there.

Let the games begin! And the crafts…. must leave time for the crafts…