It might not look like much but this shoe box contains over 100 hours of work (with still another 100 hours of related beading & instruction writing left to do) and I'm relieved to have it done and ready to head off on its journey tomorrow.

This is always a nerve-wracking time as if it goes missing it all has to be done again and, as someone who never even wants to bead the second earring in a pair, that's a frightening thought!

it's especially worrying at this time as lots of my recent post has gone missing or been hugely delayed, and tracking or tracing seems to have no effect on improving the situation.

It's even more nerve-wracking when I have got it very wrong in the past and accidentally handed over work to someone collecting items to destroy... and crazily a few minutes ago Facebook reminded me that it was 5 years ago today that I got that work back.

You can check out the full story of those stressful few days here.