Inky fingers......

 Its not unusual to see me with inky fingers,happens quite often and people always say to me i can see what colours you have been playing with lol, but i have been doing it well and truly over the last few days, unfortunate i have to go see the surgeon this afternoon with inky fingers lol....never mind!!

 i was just playing with my distress inks and a bit of mount board and my usual Flowers and leaves and made this little wall hanging, loved the sentiment, some stamps were added to the mix and a clay butterfly...oh yes Cara where are my silicon moulds???

 Very happy with that but thought i would like to go a bit bigger, so i did.........

 More ink, more stamps, some water, more flowers , more leaves lol and some lace thrown in for good measure, i had great fun, and just love it.

 

after trying unsuccessfully to get rid of all the ink i have moved onto my next project, 

no ink involved just lots of cutting out !!!

Beads and boxes

An evening of beading, (while Stephen was at work) produced this, i just loved the beads when i saw them and had to have them, it was so simple to do and very quick, getting quite a collection of beads and projects to do mmmmmm what to do next, the thing is do i do paper, fabric or beads, that's always the problem with me, so much to do i cant decide!!

 So here are the fabric bits i have produced, just love these boxes, could be a sewing box, jewellery box, whatever you want box

 loved them so much i have made 3 so far and plan to make more lol, 

now then what am i gong to play with next??

Some more......

 Just a couple of cards that i missed off from yesterdays post

then i have something of the fabric variety to show you

 back later with the next project

So I'm feeling better......

That means a bit of crafting has been sneaking back into my life lol

well it has to come back in some time doesnt it, plus the sun is shining and that always makes me feel so much better, as long as there is a chair to hand for me to park my bum ( with cara's voice in the back groud-- "i hope your sitting down") i am feeling good and happy and nearly pain free!!

so here are some cards i have made, the decoupage was done when i really couldnt move an awful lot, so with tray and feet up in front of the telly i did the decoupage then later sat at my craft table i made them into cards, in fact the pink set i did the decoupage in bed one morning lol

 

of course some of my hand made flowers had to sneak into the proceedings didnt they!!

 

 i have a few more bits to show you when i take some more pics

Latest Page........

Finished Before the deed was done!!

using my melt pot ....of course, had the Lush papers for a while and didnt know quite what to do with them but this is what i came up with,  hand made flowers dunked in UTEE, a gorgeous pic of Cara and Jamie at christmas.

"Young Love"

My Melt pot.....

So before i went back into hospital i was given some gorgeous flowers but by the time i came home again they had died, still in the vase mind you (luckily) because in the bunch were 3 roses, they had died along with the rest but still gorgeous so i decided to see what would happen if i put them through the melt pot and UTEE'd them.......well look at the result, preserved forever!!

and still gorgeous

I'm Back........With Some Beading.

In one piece too, well actually not as i have quite a few pieces missing but i am feeling a whole lot more human again, still in quite a bit of pain but getting there, it wasnt as straight forward as it should have been although i was warned about that, not knowing what they would fine until they got in there, you really dont need any more detail than that....promise....great for the students aparently, at least i was good for something lol

so i am now on forced sit on your bum time, very difficult for me to do, for those that know me can tell you, and i have all your voices ringing in my ears, and i have been promise i have and i can prove it.....

this is the class i missed (and was gutted about) while i was in hospital, but they brought me the kit into the hospital, although i could'nt concerntrate on anything and only started it on sunday evening, but was hooked and it is finished, love love love it

so what can i do next sitting on my bum????

Apron at last !!

So eventualy i did take those pics of my apron a week or more ago and i was going to show you them a little while ago but i have been laying around doing nothing much, in short i have just spent a week in a hospital bed, 

i am home now and am waiting to go back into hospital for a hysterectomy(sp) you may remember me having my gal bladder out last year, well that wasnt the problem at all, and after me keep going back and going back saying nope that wasnt it, last wednesday morning i ended going into hospital in the back of an ambulance in the worst pain i have ever felt in my life, after a week of tests and scans it turns out i have been  growing a cyst  the size of a baby (or thats what they think it is at the minute), won't go into any more detail than that, 

my ears have been burning today as the docs with the powers that be have been talking about me and i have to go back in on monday to get the results of said meeting, and hopefuly a date for them to sort me out, so my promise to myself to keep my blog more upto date went straight out of the window, so i will be disappearing again

anyway back to the apron, cant think what to say about it now, a double sided apron, patchwork oneside and applique the other, very happy with the result and expertly modelled by linda!!

Craft Room

i am always struggling for space to craft, i have the spare bedroom, for my scrapping althought i share it with a grandlittly, not easy in the single spare room, i have the dining room with my sewing and boxes of fabric and i still end up crafting in the kitchen lol but yesterday we had to change things around upstairs taking the toddler bed out of my craft room and replacing it with mias cot, jakey is going to sleep on the futon in our bedroom until i can finish my plans for my crafting space which will eventualy move downstairs leaving the littlies to have the spare room to themselves!!...........but before i can do that i need to remodel the hall at the bottom of the stairs, quite a big space and at the minute full of wood-n-stitches stock boxes but once i have taken the door off the under stairs cupboard most of those can live under there leaving me with quite a big space to turn into a craft area, we dont use the front door much any way only opening it to the post man on occasion!! so one thing at a time, the spare bedroom, wish i had taken a before photo but it is at least in some sort of order.....for now until phase two gets into action lol

 not a huge space but it will do for now and after decluttering a bit i can actualy work in there, normaly i have a pile of stuff on jakeys bed and when he wants to sleep in it i have to pile it on the desk, not ideal lol

Oh Boy is it Windy....

Beautiful and sunny but boy is it windy out there, cant have it all i surpose, i did get my washing dry in record time though , with me watching it out the window and pegging it back on everything a peg pinged off lol dont think i have many pegs left!!

anyway i am waffling, i have been fabric shopping this morning and i bought these bright and beautifuls among quite a bit more!

and this for a dress i have in mind, havnt made any clothing in a long time but i am going to give it a go......when i get the time, mmmm hope its my colour, i love it just hope it looks good in a dress!! what do you think??

WOOHOO its here....

My melt pot that is, 

was so waiting for this to arrive so i could play, LOVE LOVE LOVE it,  just need the time to have a good session with it, had a little play last night, and after a couple of dodgy efforts i did eventually get the hang of it and am very happy with my first item, just a little flower arrangement but i love it.

so it can change a flimzy squashable bit of paper....... 

 into a solid shiny gorgeous piece...there is so much more to do with it but for now thats a good start,

 so this is my first finished piece, just a little  flower arrangement

 i am going to sooo enjoy playing and learning all about this piece of loveliness....

Gold Fingers

Still haven't taken a picture of the apron, i really must do that!! 

So i have been playing with gold ink spray last night and wood and paper, gorgeous inky fingers now and this is what i came up with...........well three of them and more to come.

 the picture is not the best in the 5am light lol

 oh and look, after the gorgeous (well gorgeous from what we have been getting lately) weekend there is life out there, my rhubarb is waking up!!

Where is the Spring??

This is my usual week off work and i am normaly out side doing something  with shoes or sandels on rather than socks and boots, its not right , its not right i tell you, whoever has the spring locked up under the stairs please let it out, we REALY need it now,

 the sun is trying to shine but i've just been out to do the chucks and got blown all down the garden with a face full of corn....not nice, the chucks keep going inside to get away from the wind, 

come on spring PWEEAASE!!!

so cause i cant get outside i have been made to play on my machine,

 the cushions from my last post done, 

a reversible apron done, 

some bunting done, 

a book cover done, 

and like i said before i forgot to take a pic of the apron, and the bunting and its not here for me to take any now!, 

i did manage some pics of my notebook cover though........

non crafty today i have cleaned the bathroom, hoovered all through up and down, tidied the hall (and thats a big job with a mountain of boxes i can tell you) cleaned the kitchen, have a lasagna in the oven, surely i can get back to some craft now!?

 mmmmm what to do first.......