Sneak peek, and a sneak peek...

Good morning!

I said I'd give you a sneak peek didn't i...

Sunday 9am-11am, Barbara will be doing some splendidly superb demo's with the new lovelies on Create and Craft.

I'm confident you will LOVE this months new Claritystamps, I just wish id been able to spend more time playing with them, but I've given myself tomorrow (yes a Saturday) off work, so if I get my jobs done I will continue to play....

But before then I need to test my new wetroom...

 

I think we'd all fit in there-but that's not an invite!

And of course I need to choose some new accessories, they must be classy though...

Which loo seat, I can't decide...

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

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Taking shape

Good morning!

I thought I'd show you how things are going at the unit.

So this is how it looked when I first viewed it....

It's a long slim shape, bit like myself really, quit laughin!

It measures 360 square feet, yes a bit like me, shut it!

Soo, I got my keys on Friday, and here's how it's looking now...

I've measured, re-measured, and double checked my re-measure to plan where everything is going.

I wasn't sure if there would be enough space to put the shelving units against that wall, so I did a role play experiment with our Steve..

We sat next to each other with a piece of wood ( pretending it was a table, as you do ) and I had to say "excuuuuuuuse me please, can I get past you" then Steve had to move his chair in a little bit so I could see if I could get past between his chair and the unit.....

Steve rolled his eyes at me a lot, but the experiment worked so the shelves are staying!

 

Up my end of the room, I have a little desk..

It doesn't look that big in the pic but it's over 100 inches long and about 70 inches deep, I wonder how long it will take me to cover the whole area!

Lots of work still to do but it's taking shape.

 

Come back tomorrow and I'll show you a card,ok?

 

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Melty Peek...

Hellllo! Well it's neither morning or afternoon...

I'm getting quite excited about the weekend, it's gonna be a cracker!

Saturday I will be among some great demonstrators at the Craft Range in Burnley.

Here's a little peek at one of my Meltpot samples

 

Here are all the details.

Then on Sunday I'm in Preston with Claritystampers Northwest, we have some more of my fave stamps to play with. No sneak peeks of that I'm afraid, I dont tend to show current workshop projects on bloggy.

I'm currently trying to sort a venue out to take Claritystamping to Shrewsbury, not as easy as you might imagine...so if you know anywhere please shout me.

Wirral venue? I was supposed be getting a phonecall with a price yesterday, so I'm gonna chase it again today.

Back to work I go, thanks for stopping by, have a good one.

 

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Lilac Saplings

Good Afternoon

Hope your Sunday is going well?

The sun is out here so I think I'm going to tackle a troublesome garden fence among other things, but before I get cracking...

Here is another Clarity sample from last weekend.

I used up a bit of Gelli background that I did through a square aperture, stamped the Saplings and Duck in Purple Twilight, then stamped the Duck again in Black and added accent to the Saplings with black pen.

Done!

Also got to show you this.. Amber appeared around the door with her 'breakfast'...

How's that for a first attempt!

I hope she doesn't want to play with her lunch though...Chicken in mushroom sauce,could get messy.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Lost and confused, even more than usual....

Mornin!

Well I was going to tell you allllllllll about my LITTLE journey down to Peterborough, but to honest I'm too cream crackered to go through it,

But, I have this to say to Mr Highway big shot I'm gonna shut the road off arse wipe maintenance man, YOU OWE ME 40 MILES AND OVER AN HOUR OF MY LIFE, give it back!

I feel a little better now......

No but really, I'm not good with diversion signs, and neither is my satnav, so put me and my satnav together with a road closure and its always gonna end badly!

Deep breathing......

Oh and the bloke in the petrol station who directed me straight back onto the M6...which part of "the road is closed, i need a different route" was unclear to you???

And then, yeah, how did I end up on the M1 going the opposite direction to where I'd come from???

It's no bloody wonder I've put 15,000 miles on that car in 11 months is it, half of that is drivin round the Asda carpark looking for the exit!!

I'm feeling calmer now, so I'm gonna give you a sneaky peek at one of my samples for today....not showing you my Demo's though.

I hope you will make my pain and woe worthwhile and tune in to watch, Create and Craft, 11am, otherwise it's all been for nothing!

 

One final thought.....

Lol!

Have a good one.

 

 

 

 

 

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Very little ink for a friend...

Good Morning!

After a couple of wet windy days the sun seems to be back here, hope it's nice for you too.

Today's card is a real quickie, Its for a friends birthday and I had hoped to do something really nice but time didn't permit sadly.

The paper is Tim Holtz resist pad and a couple of random oddments. The Penny Farthing is a Memory Box.

I punched some little flowers from book pages, scrumpled them up and used a Screw Top brad to secure them.

The only bit of ink is around the edges of the paper!

Thanks for stopping by.

 

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Crafty bit of Kraft..

Good morning!

I just realised I hadn't blogged since Saturday, bad blogger..

Here is another 'use it up' card, yes there is still some more to show you.

 

I had a ton of little accents from the Moroccan Spellbinders and I got bored using them whole, so I cut a couple down the centre longways to see what they looked like, they make a square frame, so that was my starting point.

The only bits not from the bag of stuff was, the card blank and a bit of black card to mat the music score onto.

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by.

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Next leg of the journey!

Evening!

So that's the opening day of the show done, and a lovely day it was!

Now I said I would share the 2nd leg of my journey with you didn't I...

So, I gets off the train at Wigan, gratefully leaving the loony on the train. Next I find the lady guard and ask her which platform I need for the Glasgow train, "this one,stay right here" she says, fantastic that means I don't have to drag my 2 heavy cases up and down stairs and stuff.

Seven minutes later my train pulls in, so I'm looking or the right carriage and the whistle blows! Oh blimey I better just get on and walk through the train then, so I drag the biggest case on and as I do that the other case with my handbag attached topples over toward the train and deposits half the contents of my handbag down onto the track!!!

So the guard comes running up to see, and it's decided that it's not safe to try and reach my stuff until the train has gone, so my big case comes back off the train and I wave it goodbye as it heads off ti Glasgow without me.

The guard gets a grabber and I am reunited with both my phones and my debit card, and the next train is 45 minutes later, so time for a coffee in the cafe...

Shame the cafe was on the opposite platform but never mind coz there is a lift! So I set off with both my cases, down one lift, walk along and back up the other lift to arrive at the cafe.

Now after the journey so far I didn't want to risk missing the next train, so I decided it best to grab the coffee to take away and go back to other platform so I'm ready for my train...problem was..I had 2 cases and 1 coffee but only 2 hands! Not to be put off by this slight inconvenience I balanced my coffee in 1 hand with a suitcase handle, and by the time I got back to the other platform I only spilled half of it up my sleeve,result!!

Final chapter after dinner I promise!

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What is it with trains.....

Good morning/afternoon/evening, whatever it is when I get this to go live!

I'm on my way to Glasgow by train,gives the car and my legs a rest..

Now, is it just me, or do you attract a nutter every time you get on a train???

Seriously, I have 4 trains in my journey and train number 2 hadn't even pulled out of Liverpool when my allocated plonked located and attached himself to me,accompanied by his little music thingy blasting out 'gangnam style'. Would it be rude to ask if his headphones are broken??

So, on verification that he is indeed my loony for today and not a regular passenger, i have issued the initial polite smile and 'don't bother me' expression on my face, I'm now talking to you instead and typing really slowly,and looking really really reeeeeeeeeally busy,not to be disturbed.

Right I best show you a card, I will load it slowwwwwwwly to use up another 90 seconds...

 

Oh blimey Picassa photo album isn't available without Internet access, so I will add the pic in a bit later.

The music has changed to Bob Marley now, a slight improvement admittedly...

Hurrah! There will soon be an end, he is going to Preston which means he won't be on the Glasgow train!

 

Am posting this quick before Internet abandons me again!

Will share next leg of journey with you later, it's, erm, comical.....

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Together for 37 years!

Yeah! That's how long I have been with my frog, how many years have you managed with yours?

Happy Valentines Day to ya!

 

This valentines day he is trying to woo me by showing me his cuddly side with little girl teddy, or is he trying to make me jealous?

Either way, get off my desk Kermit!

I'm afraid I am to valentines what Scrooge is to Christmas, so bah humbug..

Oh I suppose I better show a lovey Dovey card hadn't I...

 

There you go, it's another made from the bag of bits, I will make Kermit a nice one when it's our 40th year together...

 

Have a great day whether your loved up or not!

 

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Them bunny wabbits again!

Mornin!

Hope you are keeping well, I know some of you have snow again, please dont direct it towards the Northwest will you...

I have a few projects to show you but I thought I would how another sample from the last clarity shows

 

Oh look, it's another bunny card! Ok I may have gotten a little carried away with this set but to be fair there are 4 bunnies in the set, that would be our gang, Milly Posh Paws, Jakey, Samsung, and rest her sweet little soul, Saphire!

The sentiment I used was quite poignant, Posh Paws is my little friend especially when it's just us in the house and we curl up together, Jake and Sammy are best buddies who live together, and Saphire was happy to be everyones friend!

I just get the urge to put pics of the gang here now too....

 

Milly Posh Paws, lazy madam couldn't decide whether she was getting out of bed or not!

Jakey,the first 2 years of his life are a mystery but he is still wary of people..

Samsung, he isn't cute looking but he is a very protective friend to Jakey...

 

Last but not least, Saphire, through her short little life she had it all, good looks, brains and personality, and she will always be in our hearts!!!!!

Little tear in my eye now, lol..

Ok come back tomorrow to see a couple of the 'use it up' cards.

Have a good one!

 

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Reflections...

Good morning again, see, I am trying to get things regular again, I'm trying to photograph and then schedule things straight away, the only down side is this, yesterday I scheduled some posts to show magazine stuff, now it has to go live in March because that's when the mag is on the shelves,you still with me? So, if I'm writing blog posts for March how do I know what the weather is like or how busy I am or what I'm up to-it hasn't happened yet! See what I mean?

Anyway, this one is 2 days in advance so I can safely say I'm mad busy with prep for Saturdays class and another magazine deadline!

Enough waffle, here is the project...

 

This started as a reject from a class, a lady had started well and then it went downhill so I gave her a fresh mirror and threw this in the corner to sand down and use again.

I used some lovely Claritystamps and a Splodge Away mask.

I achieved the texture with some Ferro that Rae Dalal brought with her to play with one day, the lovely chalky paints were hers too.

I'm still not sure it's finished, maybe some lace or beads....

Thanks for stopping by!

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