HOT HOT HOT

I know we all want a lovely summer and not wanting to moan but i feel ill from this heat!!, it doesn't agree with me at all!

there is so much i want to do but don't have the energy lol

i want to work some more on this.....

but who wants to sit with a blanket on their knee in this weather !

so i have been doing more of this.......

First page from the millions ( exaggeration lol)of wonderful photos taken at Niall and Daisy's wedding

a clean page, although it was a bit cleaner but it didn't feel right so i had to add a spritz so these came into play again.

some fantastic wooden circles that i covered in paper and inked, wooden words that i painted, hand made flowers that have been inked and some die cut leaf stems also with a dash of ink, a die cut butterfly that i have glossy accented

and of course the beautiful Mia.

    

Not just Jake page

Im not very good at boys pages sometimes, its funny how sometimes they just flow and other times I struggle, I don't normally struggle with girls and floral pages I do love to add flowers and flourishes to a page but boys without flowers can be difficult lol

mixing up the alphabets, great when you have been using them and not all letters are available, they look great and paint of course, love to play with paint.

and arrows are always a good choice on a boys page.

 

 

 

Wedding Business

I haven't been able to think of much apart from wedding things for the last week or so.

on Friday the 13th of July my son Niall married his girlfriend and mother to his son Daisy,

 

 

they had been planning this for two years they wanted to have a do it yourself wedding, with a tipi , china cups and saucers, a photo booth, chill out tents, lots of games for the kids, all home made with lots of wooden things, everything home made by Niall or Daisy, the bar, the signs, the afternoon tea crates, as much as could be made was made,

 a million miles of bunting well that might be an exaggeration but it felt like it lol)

I was on food duty and after things went a little wrong the day before with the fridge people letting us down, a bit of stress but it all came together in the end.

 

it was amazing, they both worked so hard and it paid off, late into the evening I could hear a drunken voice yelling this is the best wedding I have ever been to and with the added fun of the farmer taking people for rides on his quad late into the night and performing donuts in the middle of the site, it was so funny and just added to the memory of such a fantastic day.

 

 

 



Quiltastic

I recently took part in a mini quilt exchange, you were assigned a partner who you would be making for and then someone would be making for you although you didn't know who that was.......I love these exchanges!

you had plenty of time to stalk.....think...prepare....and them make your mini quilt, or in my case plenty of time to stalk....think....decide....stalk some more.......change my mind....stalk some more....decide....oh no wait change again....then finally make!!

any way in the end I made this rather cute (even if I do say so myself) doggy quilt, my partner has two dogs, I love the result, (didn't want to give it away lol)

as my friends will know I love to free motion quilt and this was the perfect opportunity to do some FMQ ing.....pebble quilting, very enjoyable, I had given myself a couple of evenings to complete the quilting part but ended up doing it in one hit as I was enjoying myself so much lol

and with the added detail of the button eyes and nose I think they are rather cute.

I hope my partner enjoys my efforts.

 

In return I received this fabulous quilt....oh my look at the colours, just my colours and just look at the most amazing quilting, I might be able to do that one day lol

 

 

 

isn't it just fab, it is going to hang in my sewing room.

 thank you Wendy, I just love it.

 

 

Outdoor Boy

Yay my first page of my other new grandson Loki, he will be two in September, how bad is it that this is the first page with him on, never mind i will soon catch up I'm sure lol

"Outdoor Boy"

he really is he loves being outside, you have to battle to get him back inside.

I cant tell you what papers they are, it was some random pad I found while hovering the photo over pages to find the right combination, I then found an autumn sticker sheet for the embellishments .

 

 

 

got a little bit messy on this one using the Heidi swap colour shine spritzers, I bought these just before I locked everything away, never even made it out of the packets until today, oh my did I have fun with these, they are gorgeous giving a pearlescent shine to them, absolutely lush,

I NEED MORE

 lol

 

can you see that pearlescent result, I LOVE IT

 

 

I think they are going to appear quite often for the foreseeable lol

 

 

 

Crazy Girl

Todays offering which I actually finished yesterday but the light had gone so couldn't take any photos

"Love this Crazy Girl"

using the Hello Summer range, I saw this strip design somewhere and thought it would be perfect, i'm not so good with these sort of deign papers, never really know what to do with them in large pieces but loved the colours, but in small pieces like this, perfect to match the busyness of Mia's blouse, really enjoyed this and adding some flowers, I am rather a flower fan, love messing with flowers and greenery!

 

I'm quite a 3D person too, I cant scrap flat, I like to have some depth to my pages, quite a clean page for me too just a bit of ink on the flowers and paint on the lettering.

 

 

 

 

Scrap Happy.

I completed my first page after my looong break but I wasn't completely happy with it, it's ok but not giving me the happy glow, probably as it's a winter, not much colour picture and I had trouble with picking the paper colours, bringing in the blue and yellow in desperation lol

But I am very happy to have started again, I'm sure I will be back in the flow very soon, in fact there is another page I will post separately about that one.

 See not much colour to work with, maybe wrong pictures to be starting with.

Happy to be scrapping so it will do fine.

Im back and im doing stuff !!

After a couple years away, due to many reasons and none in particular I haven't been crafting very much apart from a lot of crochet, I lost my mum on Christmas eve 2016 and soon after gained all her craft stash, this depressed me greatly, not only losing mum but gaining masses and masses of stuff !

 after firstly starting to sort it, it soon became too much and I stored it all away in my craft cabin and locked the door on it all not going in for about 18 months, the longer it went on the more depressed about it I got, no scrapping and no sewing.
I recently went for hypnotherapy to help with my weight loss and during this session it came to light how much this was upsetting me....you have to sort it out she told me....so I have, and to be honest it didn't take long at all really, some of it has joined my stash some has been moved to storage to be sorted at a later date, lots has been given away to my grandkids school and lots has been sold.
as a result, I HAVE MY CABIN BACK, MY HAPPY PLACE and I couldn't be more pleased.

I have started sewing again, brought on by joining a mini quilt exchange......

 



I have this week starting scrapping again.....

 

after all I do have two new grandsons to scrap and along with the older two, so now four grand kids, just think of all those photos I need to scrap and all those quilts I need to make.

I now have a garden that I am filling with flowers and an allotment full of fruit and veg, and now I have my blog back to write it all down....oh that's along with my happy planner and my new toy, a hp sprocket....love gadgets lol

 

 

I feel so much happier just writing this all down, the cloud is lifting,

hello crafty world

IM BACK!!

I'm Back

Trying to sort this blog out , after trying elsewhere, why is it so difficult to find a simple place to blog, they always make it s difficult and confusing....anyway let's see what I can work out.........watch this space.

New blog...

I have been having problems with blogger for sometime now, due to changes in settings I think so I have decided to start a new blog so I have moved, I would love for you to come and move over with me
Here is the link


https://lornasimons.wordpress.com

Things.......

 ok I need some help here, is there another blog host that is easier to upload photos than here, not sure if things have changed, I used to have my photos all ready uploaded when I logged on I just clicked from my phone and there they all were.....not any more now I have to upload them which takes ages, it can take about half an hour just to do a post, I love blogging but cant find the time to sit for half an hour just for one blog post....there has got to be a quicker way than this.....come on folks tell me where I should be.

 

and in the mean time.........me and the littlies, Saturday tea time we all went for a carvery, it was lovely to relax with the littlies playing.

 

May bank holiday weekend Polly came to play and we had 3 fantastic days sewing and creating, we got the Disney embroidery machine working and made some bags and purses sporting Eeyore, can you guess which colour is mine and which is polly's??

 since Polly went home BOOHOO I have managed to find a little play time to make these two beauties, I still need to make 3 more, they are for gift bags for an event later in the year, need to fill them with goodies but not sure what to put in them.

A Month......

Since I last blogged, how bad am I ?

I don't know where the time has gone since Easter I seam to have lost it, I started by going down to Brighton for a couple of days working came back for 24 hours then went off for a mini break to Bude, Cornwall, then came back from there and the next morning went to Cambridge to stay with my friend Polly to help sort her craft Cabin out, that needed a good sort out and organising,

 I lost track of the days, I was made very welcome at Polly's it was sort of work but we had a great time and even managed two half days of sewing ,

and then it begins again with another trip to Brighton on Thursday

 

Coastline at Bude, I just love it

 

 then I got my toes in the sand, just have to do that at least once a year.

So then to the sewing....Polly and I are embarking on a challenge, we are both making a dear Jane quilt, it has 226 blocks in total (mine is with a white background instead of a black in the picture)

we have a system for choosing which blocks we are making, with Polly picking the letters and me picking the numbers, this will stop us doing the easiest ones first and leaving the hard ones to the end, here are some of the blocks completed, watch this space for more progress.....but don't hold your breath we may be some time lol