Well, it's hard trying to set up a proper business with no money. To get money you've got to have visitors, to get visitors you've got to advertise and to advertise you've got to have money.... it's a vicious circle I tell you!

So I've decided that I'm going to keep xitch as the £1.00* cross stitching shop for the long term Hopefully, I'll at least sell enough patterns to cover my ad costs.

Well I'm officially a Graduate. I got my letter to confirm that I passed with a Lower Second BA(hons). I'm a little gutted that I was only a few marks from an Upper Second, but still.

It's really hard coming out of Uni and into the big wide world again. Debt seems to be everywhere about me atm. Student Loans, Credit Cards, Overdrafts, and everything else that could be.

I've found out you can apply for graduate loans, to help you sort out the little bits and pieces. Thing is, I've finally just sorted out my credit file - it's squeeky clean! and I have a goodish rating of 807 out of 1000. Before all this downturn I'd have been assured a current account with interest free overdraft and a graduate loan if I had been a graduate then; but now, even that rating and a clean credit report doesn't g'tee you anything.

Now they wonder why your report is so clean - they wanna see something on it! Ffs I hate finances.

Some wonderful works from the Artisans!