Oh hello there blogosphere, it's been a while. I've missed you! I got really into blogging when I started my voyage of discovery into the world of volunteering. That journey ended last year after volunteering full-time for about 18 months when I got my dream job with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - actually I got several dream jobs! Firstly I got a part-time role as a project assistant on a community-led gardening project in York called Dig In (like us on Facebook?), then by some quirk of fate a part-time job in the Communications Team at YWT also came up which fit in perfectly with and complemented my Dig In role. Sadly my Comms role was only temporary but shortly after that finished I was lucky enough to get a role working on events and education at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve. I guess all that volunteering paid off!
I tried to continue blogging after I'd finished volunteering, but as my blog had a profound volunteering theme to it (Title: Yes, I work for Free - which I tried to alter slightly with some cleverly placed crossing out of words...), I found that my inspiration for writing has disappeared.
Yet still I wanted to keep writing, and I knew it was just a case of finding a subject. And here it is. Both my new roles involve lots of creative crafty aspects which I enjoy both researching and making - so my new blog was born to share with you the crafty activities I've invented (or more often, stolen from the internet and done less well...) for events at my Nature Reserve and Community Gardening jobs. I hope you might find some inspiration yourself.
When I first started taking steps towards a career in conservation, I didn't realise that it would mostly involve cutting up milk bottles and being silly to amuse kids, but you know what - I like it!
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