This and That.....

 So yesterday was Scout Hut craft day and although a bit thin on the ground the sun was out and we had a lovely day and i actualy did something, i played with paper, stamps and ink and came up with this hanging christmas ornie, very pleased with the result....they want it as an october class project!!

 i have also been busy with classes for crafty daze there are lots more classes coming all the time and this is one for end august the photo cube pyramid, lots more class pics to follow when i remember to take pics lol

 like i said it was scout hut sunday and we got to go outside for a few minutes....look at that blue sky.

 and lastly a pic of one of the kittens now 5 weeks old....boy its a hard life being a kitten lol

thats it i'm off to my bed.

So whats been going on??

 Well we have been to Devon on holiday, dodged the rain, well in fact we were very lucky after it raining on and off on the saturday the sun came out on sunday and stayed with us until thursday when it rained all day until teatime when it stopped and didnt start again so i got my wish of time on the beach so that made me very happy....and jake too

 we came back to my Lola having produced 5 gorgeous little kitties, just knew she was going to do it while we were away but she coped brilliantly and is a wonderful mum, i don't have a pic on here yet but i will do very soon

the rest has really been getting back into work which is very busy as always, working on some sewing orders i needed to get done, sorting out generally, with lots more of that to be done lol trying to get a bit of paper crafting in but not really succeeding very much (more on that to follow very soon.)

  but we did get time to take the littlies strawberry picking on sunday, and what must you do when you go strawberry picking...........eat them of course

You-nique Class page

We, being Mum, Amee, Cara and myself went off to Crafty Daze last night for the You-nique class, we really enjoyed it and came out with a gorgeous page each

realy enjoyed myself as did the rest lol, thanks Claire and everyone else, a very enjoyable evening.

More paper play

We had the scout hut get together yesterday which is always a fun day, we were a bit quieter yesterday with a few of the noisy ones away lol but had a great day and i got lots done, 

after playing with lots of yummy tilda papers and ink covering lots of wooden hearts i then went on to doing a LO i wanted to do for a class, 

i had done my version with my papers, i then needed to do it with the class papers, i like to do it this way so i get to keep one for me and to leave one in the shop album

 this is my early august class page "Forever Love" (my copy) the shop version is already hanging in the gallery in the shop

 and this is the late August class page (i have 2 in august) "Little Beauty" top one is shop copy and bottom one is my copy, changed round because of the photo's

Thank you ladies

At Crafty Daze for making me feel so welcome, i missed some of the regular friday girls who were on holidays but we all had a lovely day and all pages turned out lovely, well done girls you did great, see you soon x

Scrap class....

Tomorrow is my scrap class at Crafty Daze (melton mowbray)

"Live life to the full"

Friday 8th June 10.30am - 3.30pm £10

Tuesday 26th June 7pm - 10.30pm £10

 next month we have the "Smile" page

Friday 13th July 10.30am - 3.30pm £10

Tuesday 17th July 7pm - 10.30pm £10

 

i have 2 pages in August  pictures to follow , if you visit the shop you can see page 1, 

page 2 to follow soon

Busy Jubilee weekend

Phew and breath... WOW what a weekend, it was fantastic, 

did you celebrate?

just before christmas i saw a notice in the local parish mag calling for help in organising the jubilee weekend, we, DH and myself went off to the first meeting and came out on the commitee, after monthly meetings and lots of planning it all came together on sunday and monday, 

Sunday --we had a street party(well village hall party because of the rain) including a flag made of cakes , jubilee hat competition, pot luck/bring and share lunch which was amazing, packed together tightly in the village hall we all had a fantastic afternoon.

Monday --was change of venue, down to the cricket ground,(and the weather changed too and was fantastic to us all day) with more cake than anyone could ever need, tea and coffee and juice for the kids on the go all afternoon, while rounders and a "its a knock out" kept everyone entertained all afternoon, we then went onto a BBQ, bring and cook your own food which worked perfectly, we were then entertained by the fantastic Govannen, that had us all up and dancing into the darkness until we lit the Beacon.

a fantastic weekend although absolutley shattered on tuesday, good job we had that day to recover.

So what do you think

I have been playing and came up with these cake stands, 

what do you think?

Scrapbook class.....

I will be teaching 2 scrapbook classes in june at Crafty Daze, Melton Mowbray, 

"Live life to the full"

day class on friday 8th june, 10am till 3.30pm(class full)

evening class tuesday 26th june, 7pm till 10.30pm (places available)

£10 for the class

 to book either call the shop 01664 500804 

or leave me a message and i will do it for you

Two different colourways to chose from

the scrapbook bit........

 A couple of pages i did recently, the first was just me messing trying to get myself going again and into the swing of scrapping , i have been looking around and there is so much new stash out there, my purse has had a bit of a battering but i am enjoying it

 the second is a page i did at a workshop, the pic of jake opens to reveal a couple of smaller pics but the inside needs a little bit of something else......

 

lots of ideas going on in my head but what happenes ....the printer runs out of ink mid print, typical, anyway i have a couple of pics to play with so watch this space.......

Recent cards......

 OK so i wont bore you will a million and one cards i have been making, bit of a exaggeration there but you get what i mean so here are just a few, firstly a butterfly card i did a few weeks ago, love the colours, it looks so much better INL

and a gorgeous mermaid card i did today at Honeypot crafts in Nottingham

 and the inside

 and a couple more cards i did a few weeks ago also at honeypot crafts

New sewing pattern design

so i am back with all the pics i have been meaning to take of recent finishes, i will spread them over a few posts, break them up into cards, scrapping and fabric lol,

firstly the wallhanging which will probably be a workshop at the October scout hut weekend, pattern available for sale if anyone would like it just get in touch

 

and the matching note book cover that i made from the leftovers, well there are enough left overs to make several note book covers lol, may  also be done as a workshop

I am here, realy i am!!

Where does the time go, i have been back at work a month now and am back into the full swing of things and the full hours....i am exhausted!!

i have been busy with other things too besides work, 

i have been sewing, i have been card making, and i have been scrapping, i just need to get my A**e into gear and get my camera out and take some pics, and for the sun to come out and make me feel a whole lot better , its a bank holiday weekend and on saturday i spent the day in bed feeling realy poo, now i am just so full of cold my nose hurts with blowing it so much...oh woe is me!!

so watch this space and i will be back soon with something more interesting than my waffle.

Scrapbooking......

More pics, of my recent finishes,

 this is the page we did at the workshop recently, my first 12x12 of Mia and she is 8 months old, how bad is that? the original clas was done in much more pastel colours but i'm not realy a pastel person so we chose some stronger coloured papers ad they sorted the rest to match for us, very happy with the result.

and here is the mini book i started when Mia was born, finished at last!

i have a million and one pics of Jake and mia so hopefuly i shall get a few more bits done now my mojo has returned.

Its back!!!

my paper craft mojo that is!

i used to do a lot of paper craft, with cards many many moons ago and then scrap booking, but in recent years it has all gone on the back burner for my fabric, i used to be able to alternate it quite well, but not recently and i missed it greatly but with me being off work these passed few weeks it suddenly made a return WOOHOO and after starting a mini book when Mia was born last august and me only getting 2 pages in, i have at last finished the mini book and made a ton of cards, (here are a few of them, don't want to bore you with pics of the many lol) 

i also went off to do a scrapbook workshop with my daughter and my mum, we had a lovely evening and came back with a gorgeous page on Mia, (pics to follow tomorrow)we are going to make it a regular event and have booked in for the next one, Jake is the subject next time.

 on my mojo returning and my search for all my STASH, what happens to it all? where are all my punches, a box full, no clue to their whereabouts and lots of other stash items too......no where to be seen.....oh well stash shopping it is then......i am so pleased that my mojo has returned after a few years ab-sense.....

now lets see if i can balance it with my fabric, 

i really don't want to go back to work on Thursday, 

I WANT TO BE A LADY OF LEASURE!!!

come on lottery win i need you!

 

watch this space i have many pics to take tomorrow when jake has gone home and i have time to play.