Handmade Christmas Decorations

Good morning

Christmas will be here before we know it, so time is precious and so is money! here are some decorations I made for the tree at the Craft Shop at Lady Green Garden Centre where I work, all made with paper. I have always enjoyed quilling so I had a go at using some Paper star paper from The Craft Shop online.

I think they have turned out ok.

Have a lovely Wednesday whatever you do.

Early Bird catches the worm

Morning all, up early looking forward to another day at work. Couple of things to sort out before I go - hence the early start, and still keeping to my promise to blog every day for seven days. Hope you all have a happy MmWwaA.

This is a frame I altered a couple of months ago for a lovely friend, the frame was from B&M discount stores and cost £3.99 I used some of my favorite Dylusions paints from a range designed exclusively for Art from the Heart by Dyan Reaveley to decorate it. I also used some of my favorite word stamps. I hope you like it.

Have a great Tuesday whatever you do

Monday madness

Hi all I still can not work out why blogger did not like my photo of my broaches, but that is sorted now.

Blogger has let me upload this lovely photo - YAY!!!! so hope I don't have any more problems as I have lots of things to show you this week.

This photo is of some swans at Martin Mere a couple of weeks ago. I love the gracefulness of Swans. It was a lovely Autumn afternoon spent with Anna & Robert my two lovely kids - they are both keen photographers with super cameras - I took this with my point and shoot cheep camera - and love the result. I hope you like them too.

Sunday Post (with photos sorry) all sorted

Almost did not make it to blog today. but hey ho I'm here and have some Knitting to show you. Hope you like these flower broaches they were fun to make, and a good way to use up odd bits of wool and buttons from my button box.

All sorted - don't ask me how - it just fixed itself - was thinking I was going a bit madder than I am - I tried all ways with the photo last night - so pleased the problem is now sorted.

7 days of blogging - I hope

I am going to try and blog each day now for the next 7 days.

FUN AT WORK TODAY

Amy Shaw, Lemon Drizzle cake & Reindeer

Where I work in The Craft Shop at Lady Green Garden Centre, it was very busy today. We were lucky to have Amy Shaw in the shop, she came to do a day of Demos; she is lovely. Amy did some gorgeous Christmas cards using Woodware stamps and the crafty edger punches.” Something I must put on my Christmas list.” Mmmmm - Note to self (Must start using some of my craft purchases in the New Year!!!!!) Lemon Drizzle cake was the cake of the day,

it seemed to go down well.

The main shop was very busy too with the Grotto opening – Santa arrived with real reindeer , they were sooo cute and soft. The queue to see Santa was 2 hours at one point so we had a lot of Mums popping into the shop! While Dads and Nans stood in the queue.

Looking forward to a quiet Sunday.

Good News

I will be back blogging very soon - watch this space - thank you for being patient with me

We will remember them

(photo taken on Holy Island June 2011)


"When we bow our heads in reflection, we remember those who fought for our freedom during the two World Wars, but we also mourn and honour those who have lost their lives in more recent conflicts."

October where did that 9 months go

Hello to my blogging friends - thanks for popping by. How did it get to October!!

It is a couple of weeks since I was at the Loving Ink retreat at The Beamsley Project, Bolton Abbey, Skipton, North Yorkshire, with all these lovely crafty ladies. It was a fantastic weekend run by Janet and Michelle. With lots of time to craft and share ideas, there was lovely food too thanks to Andy and Emma.

I got lots of lovely projects done.

As an Ice breaker Janet and Michelle gave us a Gate!!!! from Poundland to alter. You can see theirs on their blogs. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this and getting my crative juices going.

Welcome to my Steampunk Garden

Flower made with the Tattered Flower Tim Holtz Die

Manequin rubber stamp with some watch parts added.

Butterflies from steampunk Graphic 45 papers

Tim Holtz Trinket Pins and Graphic 45 papers from Art from the heart

I am pleased with this project I hope you like it.

Thanks for popping by, it is almost the 2nd or October!!!!! night night - or good morning.

WOYWW

Good Morning all, thanks for popping by today. Hope you are all well today, and you have not been blown away with all the winds we have been having this week. Last weekend was a very busy one. Friday, I travelled to Skipton to pick up my lovely friend Janet for a crafty weekend. We stopped off at Scotch corner for a rendezvous with two lovely friends. Singing to Shania Twain all the way. We were on our way to Washington Services to meet up with some lovely docrafts crafty friends for a pre weekend meal.

We have met for the last 4 years, at first we all met on the Docrafts ATC Forum but a lot of us now only make them to swap at meets, we have moved on to other crafts and a lot of us now Blog.
We met up on Saturday morning at a village hall from all over the country, some travelling many miles to be there some a few more than needed less said about that the better. We arrived just in time to sing Happy Birthday to Yvonne . There were demonstrations including, foiling, Ribbon and Paper flower making, colouring with pro markers, and distress ink techniques. Lots of chat, ((HUGS)) I think some people got some crafting done!!!!! I always love catching up with people and chatting. For most people the Lunch of the day was Fish and Chips from a local Shop (thanks to the organizers husband) Keith always does such a good job. Carole (the organizer) always does such an amazing job of making sure the day runs very smoothly. It was Carole and Keith's 45 Wedding Anniversary and it was lovely that a lady called Sue from the forum had done a collection for the happy couple, Sue had also organized other surprises, one being a mirror of tiles each made by the people at the meet. Carole has set a challenge for the last two years, this year was to decorate an Ikea mirror then they are swapped - see the one I made below. Very kindly Carole and Keith had invited the people staying over on the Saturday night to their house for a buffet and chat - Janet and I had a lovely time, then travelled back to our Travelodge.

Sunday, Janet and I travelled to Harrogate to the GNPS which was brilliant as usual and not too busy. We met up with Georgina and Joanne her daughter and lots of other crafty Scottish friends. I spent a little bit of money mmmmm!!!! We then went to Art From The Heart, This was the first time I had been to the shop - OH WOW!!!! I was like a kid in a sweet shop yum yum managed to do a workshop with Dyan Reaveley's paints and sprays, a lovely way to finish off my weekend.

Below is my first Christmas card I made last week along with some of my purchases from the weekend.

So, if you have not been to my blog before, Welcome. If you are wondering what WOYWW is. If you have not already been to this blog then pop over to Julia’s stamping ground and see what everyone is talking about, and visit some fantastic peoples work from all around the world.

Enjoy your Wednesday whatever you do - I'm off to Skipton for another crafty weekend on my first Loving Ink craft retreat.

MMMMMWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA to all those people I will be seeing this weekend.

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY ART FROM THE HEART

Welcome to a very exciting blog hop in Celebration of 10 years of

Art from the Heart!

Lots of exciting things happening at Art from the Heart next weekend where the big birthday bash is happening. Want to know more then do click here.

http://dyan-reaveley.blogspot.com/

So in Celebration we are having 5 birthday blog hops.
You should have reached my blog from here Julie

and are on the 7 Gypsies hop.

Here is my project

I have been in a Steampunk mood recently. So when I was asked would I like be part of the Birthday blog hop, I decided to go with the Steampunk theme. I have had this little divider tray for ages sitting on my desk waiting to be altered.

I am pleased with how my little tray turned out I hope you like it


I used these 7 Gypsies products to complete the project

In the left hand tray you will see an old watch face the time is set for 4.30 (4 1/2 hours) that is how long this project took me to complete.

I added some watch pieces to the DO NOT DISTURB tag.

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Before you move on - you will need to collect a letter from me which is O
This is part of an anagram of a 7 Gypsies product
Once you get back to Dys blog please email your answer to Ben

Deadline for answers to be emailed to Ben is 6pm Sunday 11th September

So after leaving me a comment you need to move on to Janet at http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/

LINK IS NOW WORKING SORRY FOR THE GLITCH!!!!!

Have fun hopping!

and thank you for joining in the Hop