1st Workshop in Ages

On Thursday I went to my first workshop in ages with Clair  in Saltdean and what a lovely card it was too. 

The beautiful image is from a serviette. attached to a piece of card with Mod Podge - never used that before but have now ordered some :-) . This is one card that I will be making again.

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Play in the Park

 Today has been another lovely day - is Summer here? Shush!!

 Today was Wednesday so that meant 'Leon day'. We went and picked him up from school and he came home, played with Grandad, had some tea and then just before we took him home we took him to the park. I'm not sure who had more fun, Leon or Grandad. :-)

The cards I have to share with you today were the non-Christmas cards made up at AM. They are from some Hunkydory kits that I took with me to make calendars but decided to make them into cards instead.

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Minions!!

Today has been a relaxing day and even got time to spend in my craft room this afternoon. I managed to sort out my cards for this month that I needed, most from my stash of cards but I did have to make 3 new cards which I will show you hopefully tomorrow when I have photo graphed them.

I did go to an osteopath this morning as I have been having trouble sitting for long periods. I thought originally that it was my coccyx but having had that checked out by the doctor, they said that it was all fine. As it hasn't been getting any better I decided I needed to go see the osteopath even though it's expensive. She told me that my left side is dominant and the muscles in my bum are so tight that they are pulling my coccyx to the left! (I wished all my muscles in my bum were tight :-) ). I have exercises to do and I have to try and sit on both bum cheeks instead of 1. I have another couple of appointments so hopefully she can sort it out.

That's enough of my ailments.. I do have a card to share with you. Long story short, last year when I went on my crafty week we all went out to dinner and we had a few glasses of wine and had to wait for a long time for our food so to pass the time (and to shut me and my mate up cause we were a little bit merry :-) ) they gave us some colouring to do - you know the colouring sheets that they have to keep kids quiet in restaurants. Well this year, Kim bought Pam and myself a little Minion colouring book with its own wax crayons. I had to make a card for one of my great nephews and decided to use one of the images from the book which I coloured using pencils. Matted and layered the image on black card and yellow and blue gingham backing card. The greeting is from Craftwork Cards.I thought it turned out quite well. 

I also have the last of my Christmas cards that I made up at AM this year. These ones are made from a topper sheet from Kanban. The card on the left is an easel card.

This card was made from an image I stamped and coloured ages ago. I took a folder up to AM with me full of Christmas stuff that hadn't seen the light of day for a couple of years and this was in it. Not too sure about this one!!

This card was one of Greta's projects that she brought with her. The Christmas Tree is made form strong straws. A great idea. 

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Back to Normal....

After a lovely week away and a good weekend, I was brought back to earth with a bump today with housework and ironing. Still no time today in my craft room.

I did make a lovely dinner though, a slimming world recipe and it was lovely.

Here's a picture of warm alfresco lemon chicken with slimming world chips

I do have some more cards to show you from my crafty week away. 

The first set is from the Little Claire Irresistible Images - Christmas Silhouette Images. Make really quick and easy cards 

These ones are used from Little Claire's outline stickers - in other words peel offs :-). I know that a lot of people don't like using these but I don't think you can tell the difference from these then the stamps unless you look closely :-) 

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Quick Catch up

Well today hubby and I have been to a 4th July BBQ at some friends. Turned out to be a lovely day and ate too much :-) - photo's to follow.

Last week hubby and I had a week away down in Devon. Haven't been down there in a few years and it was lovely to visit it again. The weather was mostly kind to us. We even went for a train journey down to Cornwall for the day, Penzance. First time I have ever been to Cornwall and hopefully not the last. 

Here are a few pictures from our trip. 

We stayed at Dawlish Warren and every evening we went for a walk along the seafront to Dawlish and back again. 

Before our walk up to HayTor

Gaz at the top. I am not too good with heights so I only climbed so far. 

Hound Tor which we climbed

I also have some more cards made during my crafty week away. This time using a Party Paws papercraft set and inserts.

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Crafty Week 2015

As you are aware I have just returned from my annual crafty trip with friends to Appleby Magna. This was our 8th year!! We were a little light on numbers this year due to several reasons but fun was still had.

I will get round to sorting some pictures out but in the meantime here is a scrap page from the pictures last year.

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Wellington at Christmas

Like most of the country, we have been having rain showers today - torrential rain showers with thunderstorms rumbling in the distance. Been another busy day too but I did get to see my grand-kids today so I am happy. 

I have some more cards to show you from my crafty week away. This time they are from the Wellington at Christmas ultimate kit. I just love this bear. :-) Added some ribbon, gems and matting. 

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