The cover verges on steampunk (no idea why) and is very textured!
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Monday, 3 October 2011
ROCK IN PEACE RESURRECTED CIRCLE JOURNAL FINALLY LEAVES THE BUILDING...
So I finally got the circle journal completed yesterday, in all honesty I don't know why I left it until the last minute but I did, i made decent headway on Friday but then lulled myself into a false sense of security, busy Saturday morning, then a BBQ at my Mum's on Saturday night and a day out on Sunday meant for a very fraught and slightly stressful Sunday evening, but I rose to the challenge (as did said hubby) and I got there (just) with an early start Monday there was no chance of me managing a bit more today, it had to be done! Anyway it's finally on the way to Jasmine, so I thought I'd share the covers and my layout - I've gone for the theme of Linkin Park - I fancied a circle journal inspired by them, thought it would be a great piece of artwork to look through in years to come!
The cover verges on steampunk (no idea why) and is very textured!
The bank not so varied in colours but I still liked it!
Inside are pages that fold out, I used some of the song lyrics and a sheet of the oldest paper I think I have! It came from the 12 x 12 magazine back in its hey-day that had 'free' papers in the middle and I'll be honest I never thought I'd use it - ever!
then the inside page - inspired by one of my favourite tracks of there's complete with a Chester stencil! I used the inspiration from the album cover Hybrid Theory but couldn't bring myself to add butterfly wings to Chester LOL!
Finally the back of my entry has photos of the band on double mounted, I thoroughly enjoyed doing the layout and can't wait to start on this circle journal journey!
It's been a fraught start to the journal, but it was such good fun last night going to the wire, because I wasn't the only one! A bit of camaraderie in the team ranks was great and I'm really looking forward to getting to know everyone!
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The cover verges on steampunk (no idea why) and is very textured!
Thanks for stopping by!
Friday, 30 September 2011
ROCKING MY WORLD FRIDAY
Good Morning to my beautiful Rockettes and Rockers, how fair thee this fine morn'?
Tis Friday which means
Yes it's here again - I cannot believe how quickly these weeks are flying by, blink and you miss them and then it's time for the list of gratefuls once more. I enjoy Rocking Your World posts because they make me stop and think and I know for some of us (me included) some weeks are much harder to find those emotionally charged positives that make us smile and we all have to dig deep to find them. Now for some it's easy they simply write them down as they go, or even prepare a post as the week unfolds, unfortunately I'm not one of them, so mine come from the old grey matter chugging along!
First up on my list this week is the fun birthday party said 11 year old had last weekend, a party at Lock N Load - a laser quest place with a difference, they all thoroughly enjoyed the party as did the adults who joined in my hubby Craig thoroughly enjoyed being on said 11 year olds team and being quite stealth at the game, my brother John, my sister Melanie, my niece Nirvana and my brother's girlfriend Fi together with all said 11 year olds friends from school. I got stopped by one of the lads at school yesterday who told me I really should have joined in - maybe I should?
Anyway it went down a storm and I think they are all now totally addicted to this! So much so we've had nerf wars in the house all week and with my brother John providing a pressie to said 11 year old that consists of a nerf water pistol I can see where the Christmas list will be going!
Sorry sorry - I know some of you are hiding from that C word but it is less than a hundred days people - come on get with the programme!
Rugby - if only that it's providing some crafting evenings (although not many as I'm still suffering with this stupid hacking cough which is driving me insane). Rugby on catch up is apparently even better as he managed 3 matches in one evening using the 3 button to skip forward ten minutes to see if the score had changed on matches he wanted to watch but didn't need to see beginning to end!
A day off, sshhhh yes I'm having a day off don't tell anyone or they might try and steal it off me, I'm planning on trying to get into the Doctors this morning to cough at him til he helps - now theres exciting - bet your days off aren't as exciting as mine!
Celebrating with little bro last night his birfenday - we took gifts over to him - Manga Shakespeare book - Hamlet and tickets to see Hamlet at Magna with a day pass for Magna thrown in for good measure (this is on top of his main present when I provided much needed cash for Sonisphere earlier in the year). It's always fabulous to catch up but birthdays are extra special - I have to say that his main gift from Fi was out of this world - honestly totally and utterly gorgeous, I'll have to see if I can get a photo, John's favourite film is the Fountain and Fi created a tree of life in a bowl, all lit up - honestly blew us all away - she is one talented lady who has a second interview today for a job - can you keep your fingers and toes crossed because she really really wants and deserves this!
My house plant - yes my house plant is Rocking my World - why - well because I normally kill them - not intentionally I might add it just happens gradually over time and then they have to go in the green wheelie bin that takes them to plant heaven or a compost heap whichever is the closer, anyway my Mum for Mother's Day bought me (yes I know that's the wrong way round but she can't buy for her Mum any more so she wanted to celebrate motherhood generally) a potted plant with flowers - I think it's an Azalea - anyway the flowers came and went and I kept doing what that little label thing said which was soak in a load of water every few days - well guess what it's flowering again - I mean I've followed these sort of instructions before but they've never led to a total revival of the plant back into a flowering state - I'm so chuffed and when I got up this morning the flowers had started to open - it's so sweet - so I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing in the hope that it will keep going a little longer!
Making a start on my 'alterables' box, I'm sure I'm not the only one that ventures in second hand charity shops and declares - I could use that to make something to only proceed home and put it in a box somewhere with every intention of doing something with it, only to find two years later it's still sat there. Well last Saturday I decided that this had to stop and the two boxes of alterables had to become one box, so I set too with great enthusiam changing a red painted 'book box' that my hubby had made ages ago and then I'd promptly made a book to go inside it that was way too big! I've started doing something with a board book I'd started painting - although this one is stop starting more often than I'd care to mention and the third item is a shadow box which has gone from a rather unpleasant yellowy pine to a black frame - problem is I've still no idea what to do with it - but the old grey matter is working on this at the moment!
Now I know I should be grateful for the weather but it is a little too balmy for me - don't get me wrong I'm loving the blue sky days where I get to appreciate and enjoy the autumn colour I'm just none too certain about the 26 degree bit!
Right peeps I think that's my list exhausted, so now it's your turn to think about those moments this week that made you happy and smile, go on share them with us - you know you want to! I'll put Mr Linky at the bottom of the post I'll chuck a bit of crafting first, this first one is a photo of Cliffords Tower in York that we visited, so strange to find this in the middle of York if I'm honest, but we enjoyed the look around and the views from the top even though they made my legs wobble - I just don't do heights!
And this one from the Science Show at York Railway Museum, in which said 11 year old took part in the experiments hence the title and the main demonstrator saw fit to fire a barbie doll out of an air cannon - now if you ask me this is all barbie is good for! This actually turned out to be a strange layout because I could get it to pull together despite the fact it all 'matched and toned with ease - then I did the hand stitching aroudn the whole lot and I was happy - Crazy isn't it that the simplest of things can create such a difference!
Now here's Mr Linky for you don't forget to leave a comment too it's always lovely to see whose been by even if you don't join in - plus it stops me getting lonely - I kid you not!
Tis Friday which means
First up on my list this week is the fun birthday party said 11 year old had last weekend, a party at Lock N Load - a laser quest place with a difference, they all thoroughly enjoyed the party as did the adults who joined in my hubby Craig thoroughly enjoyed being on said 11 year olds team and being quite stealth at the game, my brother John, my sister Melanie, my niece Nirvana and my brother's girlfriend Fi together with all said 11 year olds friends from school. I got stopped by one of the lads at school yesterday who told me I really should have joined in - maybe I should?
Anyway it went down a storm and I think they are all now totally addicted to this! So much so we've had nerf wars in the house all week and with my brother John providing a pressie to said 11 year old that consists of a nerf water pistol I can see where the Christmas list will be going!
Sorry sorry - I know some of you are hiding from that C word but it is less than a hundred days people - come on get with the programme!
Rugby - if only that it's providing some crafting evenings (although not many as I'm still suffering with this stupid hacking cough which is driving me insane). Rugby on catch up is apparently even better as he managed 3 matches in one evening using the 3 button to skip forward ten minutes to see if the score had changed on matches he wanted to watch but didn't need to see beginning to end!
A day off, sshhhh yes I'm having a day off don't tell anyone or they might try and steal it off me, I'm planning on trying to get into the Doctors this morning to cough at him til he helps - now theres exciting - bet your days off aren't as exciting as mine!
Celebrating with little bro last night his birfenday - we took gifts over to him - Manga Shakespeare book - Hamlet and tickets to see Hamlet at Magna with a day pass for Magna thrown in for good measure (this is on top of his main present when I provided much needed cash for Sonisphere earlier in the year). It's always fabulous to catch up but birthdays are extra special - I have to say that his main gift from Fi was out of this world - honestly totally and utterly gorgeous, I'll have to see if I can get a photo, John's favourite film is the Fountain and Fi created a tree of life in a bowl, all lit up - honestly blew us all away - she is one talented lady who has a second interview today for a job - can you keep your fingers and toes crossed because she really really wants and deserves this!
My house plant - yes my house plant is Rocking my World - why - well because I normally kill them - not intentionally I might add it just happens gradually over time and then they have to go in the green wheelie bin that takes them to plant heaven or a compost heap whichever is the closer, anyway my Mum for Mother's Day bought me (yes I know that's the wrong way round but she can't buy for her Mum any more so she wanted to celebrate motherhood generally) a potted plant with flowers - I think it's an Azalea - anyway the flowers came and went and I kept doing what that little label thing said which was soak in a load of water every few days - well guess what it's flowering again - I mean I've followed these sort of instructions before but they've never led to a total revival of the plant back into a flowering state - I'm so chuffed and when I got up this morning the flowers had started to open - it's so sweet - so I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing in the hope that it will keep going a little longer!
Making a start on my 'alterables' box, I'm sure I'm not the only one that ventures in second hand charity shops and declares - I could use that to make something to only proceed home and put it in a box somewhere with every intention of doing something with it, only to find two years later it's still sat there. Well last Saturday I decided that this had to stop and the two boxes of alterables had to become one box, so I set too with great enthusiam changing a red painted 'book box' that my hubby had made ages ago and then I'd promptly made a book to go inside it that was way too big! I've started doing something with a board book I'd started painting - although this one is stop starting more often than I'd care to mention and the third item is a shadow box which has gone from a rather unpleasant yellowy pine to a black frame - problem is I've still no idea what to do with it - but the old grey matter is working on this at the moment!
Now I know I should be grateful for the weather but it is a little too balmy for me - don't get me wrong I'm loving the blue sky days where I get to appreciate and enjoy the autumn colour I'm just none too certain about the 26 degree bit!
Right peeps I think that's my list exhausted, so now it's your turn to think about those moments this week that made you happy and smile, go on share them with us - you know you want to! I'll put Mr Linky at the bottom of the post I'll chuck a bit of crafting first, this first one is a photo of Cliffords Tower in York that we visited, so strange to find this in the middle of York if I'm honest, but we enjoyed the look around and the views from the top even though they made my legs wobble - I just don't do heights!
Friday, 23 September 2011
ROCKING MY WORLD FRIDAY AND A HUGE THANK YOU CARMEN!!!!
Well good morning Rockettes (and Rockers) how do I find you this fair morning? Have you a long list of amazing things you've done this week or are you rummaging through your brain to find some true positives? Well let's see how my week has rolled
Saturday was fun (well 99% fun) because we went for a wander around the cow's Christmas dinner (also known as the Maize Maze), we were fearful that we wouldn't get the opportunity to go this year as they only have torchlit evenings in September on Saturday nights and we were running out of Saturdays, we've been previously in the summer but always find lots of wasps and on hot days it really does get extremely warm in the Maize, anyway last weekend we ventured and had great fun wandering around this years maize which was a windmill. The only downside to the evening was that I got stung by a wasp - yes I know we went at night to ensure we didn't meet these little critters, I can't remember being stung although apparently I was as a child, it wasn't a pleasant experience and thankfully my sister had some long nails and was able to remove the sting, the wasp didn't survive the experience and I didn't have a major reaction just a nagging ache in my back for a couple of hours, it hasn't created a phobia (I don't think) and can honestly say although unpleasant the pain wasn't excessive just uncomfortable.
Anyway after that we continued around the maze and then wandered out for a warm drink and a burger sat on some bales of hay whilst the kids careered around a circuit on pedal powered go karts in the pitch black! Due to the sting we gathered a bottle (or two) of wine on the way back purely for medicinal purposes obviously!
Another grateful has to be Takeshi's Castle (bit like a Japanese version of It's a Knockout for those of you are uninitiated), we caught an episode the other night where the contestants were all dressed up in some crazy outfits, from giant lobsters to totem poles - now this is not my usual type of humour but said 11 year old was quite positively squirming with laughter on the sofa whilst watching it, you know the one where you are laughing so much you have no alternative but to move around and eventually know you are going to get stitch, well his laughter had me grinning from ear to ear throughout the programme - it makes my heart sing!
Dear Hubby for going and getting me cough medicine at some unearthly hour (actually it was about 8pm but it meant he had to head to the health centre rather than a local pharmacy) the other night and brought me back something which seemed to contain a lot of alcohol and tasted nice, didn't particularly stop the cough LOL - thank you sweetie, still coughing an awful lot this morning, I've found that have a constant sweet like lockets in my mouth prevents me coughing but doesn't do an awful lot for my weight watching!
Last nights visit to the potential secondary school for said 11 year old was good as well, the school has and hasn't changed since I was there, it's relatively small for a secondary (much to the annoyance of the local council) because it's a Catholic school with just under 700 pupils but in all honesty I think that's just the right size, the school specialises in arts now and you can tell because the visual displays around school are simply breathtaking!
And my final Rocking moment has to be picking up a parcel from Royal Mail yesterday and finding this little beauty inside! Carmen it's absolutely gorgeous thank you so much!
You really can't appreciate how rich the colours are (my photo doesn't do it justice) and the textures, I took another photo at an angle so you can see some of the rich metallics
It is simply stunning and will take pride on my craft shelves when I tidy them this weekend!
So there you go, my list for this week, how was yours - if it doesn't feel 'that great' have another think, maybe a phone call or online message made you smile, perhaps you've seen someone this week that's made you happy, maybe a small gesture? Have a good think and rummage around and I'm sure you'll find something, then you can join in and let us know so we can come and visit and annoy you I'll put Mr Linky at the bottom of the post but don't forget to comment as well so I can find you in the future should I need to.
Little bit of crafting for you lovely people, a layout from our day out at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, walking amongst the Sculptures, simply amazing! I quite liked the subtle look of this layout and you'll notice strangely enough no stitching (not sure how this one fell through the gap on that front).
Right Mr Linky for you now hope you have a beautiful day and an amazing and blessed weekend
Anyway after that we continued around the maze and then wandered out for a warm drink and a burger sat on some bales of hay whilst the kids careered around a circuit on pedal powered go karts in the pitch black! Due to the sting we gathered a bottle (or two) of wine on the way back purely for medicinal purposes obviously!
Another grateful has to be Takeshi's Castle (bit like a Japanese version of It's a Knockout for those of you are uninitiated), we caught an episode the other night where the contestants were all dressed up in some crazy outfits, from giant lobsters to totem poles - now this is not my usual type of humour but said 11 year old was quite positively squirming with laughter on the sofa whilst watching it, you know the one where you are laughing so much you have no alternative but to move around and eventually know you are going to get stitch, well his laughter had me grinning from ear to ear throughout the programme - it makes my heart sing!
Dear Hubby for going and getting me cough medicine at some unearthly hour (actually it was about 8pm but it meant he had to head to the health centre rather than a local pharmacy) the other night and brought me back something which seemed to contain a lot of alcohol and tasted nice, didn't particularly stop the cough LOL - thank you sweetie, still coughing an awful lot this morning, I've found that have a constant sweet like lockets in my mouth prevents me coughing but doesn't do an awful lot for my weight watching!
Last nights visit to the potential secondary school for said 11 year old was good as well, the school has and hasn't changed since I was there, it's relatively small for a secondary (much to the annoyance of the local council) because it's a Catholic school with just under 700 pupils but in all honesty I think that's just the right size, the school specialises in arts now and you can tell because the visual displays around school are simply breathtaking!
And my final Rocking moment has to be picking up a parcel from Royal Mail yesterday and finding this little beauty inside! Carmen it's absolutely gorgeous thank you so much!
You really can't appreciate how rich the colours are (my photo doesn't do it justice) and the textures, I took another photo at an angle so you can see some of the rich metallics
So there you go, my list for this week, how was yours - if it doesn't feel 'that great' have another think, maybe a phone call or online message made you smile, perhaps you've seen someone this week that's made you happy, maybe a small gesture? Have a good think and rummage around and I'm sure you'll find something, then you can join in and let us know so we can come and visit and annoy you I'll put Mr Linky at the bottom of the post but don't forget to comment as well so I can find you in the future should I need to.
Little bit of crafting for you lovely people, a layout from our day out at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, walking amongst the Sculptures, simply amazing! I quite liked the subtle look of this layout and you'll notice strangely enough no stitching (not sure how this one fell through the gap on that front).
Thursday, 22 September 2011
A-Z OF ME
Got this from Carmen and Susie
A. - Age 39 and not looking forward to 40
B - Bed Size - Double Gothic bed - wedding present from the manufacturer
C - Chore that you hate - Ironing this has to be ironing (I don't like getting the washing dried in the winter months either)
D - Animals - None at the moment had far too many when I was little
E - Essential Start to Day - Has to be tea - at least two cups before I can function
F - Favourite Colour - black, black and a bit more black
G - Gold or Silver - I wear both but probably more gold than silver
H - Height - 5 foot 6 inches - reached the dizzying heights of 5 foot 7 inches when I was younger apparently
I - Instruments - none did attempt to learn the Melodica when I was younger
J - Job Title - Finance Manager, Mum, Wife, Homemaker, Taxi driver, Cook, and names my hubby calls me that I can't repeat on here LMAO!
K - Kids - 1 boy aged 11 and going to see his potential secondary school this evening gulp!
L - Live - Born and bred Yorkshire lass
M - Must Haves - Kisses and hugs, stash, music and time to spend with my family
N - Nicknames - my Dad hated my name being shortened but after he passed away some people called me Ginnie which is sometimes shortened again to Gin, other half called me Gina when we first started going out but I grew tired of that. I used to decide on whether new work colleagues would know me as Ginnie or Virginia on the first day of work depending on my mood, I now go by my official title because it can't get misunderstood on the phone whereas Ginnie is often mistaken for Jenny!
O - Overnight stays in hospital - to have said 11 year old and to stay with said 11 year old when he was less than a year old due to a severe asthma attack which meant he needed an overnight nebulizer
P - Pet Peeves - Inconsiderate drivers who think I'm psychic pretentious children whose parents think they are angelic but when left to their own devices are merely materialistic bullies!
Q - Quote from a Move - Eat your cereal with a fork do your homework in the dark - Pump up the Volume
R - Rhubarb or custsard - both preferably separated by a crumble topping!
S - Save or spend - it should be save save, save but it's usually spend spend spend
T - Tea or coffee - depends on the time of day
U - Under - yes I remembered to put some on what a strange questions
V - Vegetables you hate - parsnips disguised as roast potatoes, carrots unless they are in a cake format, brussel sprouts unless they are the lesser vegetable in bubble and squeak
W - What makes you run late - I don't try to run late because some in the family do as a matter of course which drives me insane!
X - X Rays you've had - loads and loads, used to dislocate my shoulder frequently in PE and presume when I fell off the washing machine at less than 2 and cracked my head open that they potentially did one then!
Y - Yummy Food you Make - Low Fat Christmas pudding fed with lashings of alcohol before Christmas
Z - Zoo animal - not a lover of zoos generally but appreciate the need for them, provided they are light and airy I can just about cope so my preference is meerkats like Susie!
Ooh that was fun!
A. - Age 39 and not looking forward to 40
B - Bed Size - Double Gothic bed - wedding present from the manufacturer
C - Chore that you hate - Ironing this has to be ironing (I don't like getting the washing dried in the winter months either)
D - Animals - None at the moment had far too many when I was little
E - Essential Start to Day - Has to be tea - at least two cups before I can function
F - Favourite Colour - black, black and a bit more black
G - Gold or Silver - I wear both but probably more gold than silver
H - Height - 5 foot 6 inches - reached the dizzying heights of 5 foot 7 inches when I was younger apparently
I - Instruments - none did attempt to learn the Melodica when I was younger
J - Job Title - Finance Manager, Mum, Wife, Homemaker, Taxi driver, Cook, and names my hubby calls me that I can't repeat on here LMAO!
K - Kids - 1 boy aged 11 and going to see his potential secondary school this evening gulp!
L - Live - Born and bred Yorkshire lass
M - Must Haves - Kisses and hugs, stash, music and time to spend with my family
N - Nicknames - my Dad hated my name being shortened but after he passed away some people called me Ginnie which is sometimes shortened again to Gin, other half called me Gina when we first started going out but I grew tired of that. I used to decide on whether new work colleagues would know me as Ginnie or Virginia on the first day of work depending on my mood, I now go by my official title because it can't get misunderstood on the phone whereas Ginnie is often mistaken for Jenny!
O - Overnight stays in hospital - to have said 11 year old and to stay with said 11 year old when he was less than a year old due to a severe asthma attack which meant he needed an overnight nebulizer
P - Pet Peeves - Inconsiderate drivers who think I'm psychic pretentious children whose parents think they are angelic but when left to their own devices are merely materialistic bullies!
Q - Quote from a Move - Eat your cereal with a fork do your homework in the dark - Pump up the Volume
R - Rhubarb or custsard - both preferably separated by a crumble topping!
S - Save or spend - it should be save save, save but it's usually spend spend spend
T - Tea or coffee - depends on the time of day
U - Under - yes I remembered to put some on what a strange questions
V - Vegetables you hate - parsnips disguised as roast potatoes, carrots unless they are in a cake format, brussel sprouts unless they are the lesser vegetable in bubble and squeak
W - What makes you run late - I don't try to run late because some in the family do as a matter of course which drives me insane!
X - X Rays you've had - loads and loads, used to dislocate my shoulder frequently in PE and presume when I fell off the washing machine at less than 2 and cracked my head open that they potentially did one then!
Y - Yummy Food you Make - Low Fat Christmas pudding fed with lashings of alcohol before Christmas
Z - Zoo animal - not a lover of zoos generally but appreciate the need for them, provided they are light and airy I can just about cope so my preference is meerkats like Susie!
Ooh that was fun!
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
ROCK IN PEACE CJ - MY CONTRIBUTIONS!
Evening all just about to commence the Rock in Peace Resurrected Circle Journal on UK Scrappers - haven't made the book yet but plan on doing so shortly!
Thought I'd share the layouts that I did on the first one, I've shared the completed book that came back to me with everyone's gorgeous work in it, so thought I'd share what I did for others, don't think I managed to photograph them all but a good few of them - before you ask there group wasn't huge, it's just that I did extras for Carmen's CJ because hers had gone missing in the initial post out (long story) and also when I got Marie's journal I was the last one but it wasn't full and being a true Virgoan I have to do things like finishing things - so Marie got an extra dose of my creativity in her journal (I hope she didn't mind)
They are in no particular order
Mmm wonder what layouts I'll be doing for the next CJ!!!!!
Thought I'd share the layouts that I did on the first one, I've shared the completed book that came back to me with everyone's gorgeous work in it, so thought I'd share what I did for others, don't think I managed to photograph them all but a good few of them - before you ask there group wasn't huge, it's just that I did extras for Carmen's CJ because hers had gone missing in the initial post out (long story) and also when I got Marie's journal I was the last one but it wasn't full and being a true Virgoan I have to do things like finishing things - so Marie got an extra dose of my creativity in her journal (I hope she didn't mind)
They are in no particular order
MORNING ALL - HOW YOU DOING
Wow Wednesday already and its 8.25am which means this is going to be the fastest blog post in history. Just wanted to say hello and say I'm still here (wherever that is) still rambling on my weight loss blog (about the lack of weight loss LMAO) and not getting a lot of crafting done at the mo, some laid out on my table, just not managing it quite as much as I'd like. Thoroughly enjoyed making the Zombie, just not had chance to supersize him or make another one yet - but I will - picked some more felt up so will be planning on my Zombie Feltie delights when I get chance, on with a book for a friend but haven't got far enough with that, still working on it!
Anyway just thought I'd stop and say hi - how are you - big waves to Susie - I know Wednesdays are a hard day for you - so just to let you know thinking of you hope today is OK.
Waves to Carmen wherever she is at the moment (think today is BT day - I would not like to be that engineer I tell you)
Waves to Joanna - how was the weekend - did you have fun?
Waves to Toni and her beautiful card making
Waves to Kat - for her gorgeous layouts
Waves to Anne - thank you for your gorgeous comments on my Zombie he was much fun to make
Waves to Sandra - because I MISS YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Waves to Dyan - because your awesome - made hubby watch the 10pm showing on QVC for the hour - it was my birthday treat - he thought I was mad, Melanie watched some of it but had to turn over because she kept thinking she really needed to buy it - all of it LOL!
Waves to Melanie - now she's a fresher - how's the weight watching going?
Waves to Fi - because I can!
Waves to Gill from the Craft Box - miss you - hope all is well!
Waves to Leslie and Anne-Marie - miss you two - did you have a good time with the caravans this year!
Waves to Jude - miss you muchly missus get that blog updated!
Waves to anyone else who happens along here - just for the fun of it!
Now crafting this is a double page layout I did documenting the gorgeous West Door (think it was West) of York Minster, with the gorgeous carvings depicting biblical scenes - totally awesome, my favourite (the largest on the page) is the hand of God - simply beautiful. Used papers from the brilliant paper packs bought recently apologies for the peripherals around the edge of the layout didn't get chance to photo shop!
If you happen by don't forget to say hi - hope Wednesday is happy and positive and utterly gorgeous for you all!
Anyway just thought I'd stop and say hi - how are you - big waves to Susie - I know Wednesdays are a hard day for you - so just to let you know thinking of you hope today is OK.
Waves to Carmen wherever she is at the moment (think today is BT day - I would not like to be that engineer I tell you)
Waves to Joanna - how was the weekend - did you have fun?
Waves to Toni and her beautiful card making
Waves to Kat - for her gorgeous layouts
Waves to Anne - thank you for your gorgeous comments on my Zombie he was much fun to make
Waves to Sandra - because I MISS YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Waves to Dyan - because your awesome - made hubby watch the 10pm showing on QVC for the hour - it was my birthday treat - he thought I was mad, Melanie watched some of it but had to turn over because she kept thinking she really needed to buy it - all of it LOL!
Waves to Melanie - now she's a fresher - how's the weight watching going?
Waves to Fi - because I can!
Waves to Gill from the Craft Box - miss you - hope all is well!
Waves to Leslie and Anne-Marie - miss you two - did you have a good time with the caravans this year!
Waves to Jude - miss you muchly missus get that blog updated!
Waves to anyone else who happens along here - just for the fun of it!
Now crafting this is a double page layout I did documenting the gorgeous West Door (think it was West) of York Minster, with the gorgeous carvings depicting biblical scenes - totally awesome, my favourite (the largest on the page) is the hand of God - simply beautiful. Used papers from the brilliant paper packs bought recently apologies for the peripherals around the edge of the layout didn't get chance to photo shop!
Saturday, 17 September 2011
ZOMBIE FELTIE BUT WHAT'S HIS NAME?
Good morning to you all and how do I find you this morning? Saturday already and we've had to drop one of the cars off for MOT this morning so an early start for us, DH got Rugby on and said 11 year old is playing Harry Potter on the Wii we've got a hundred and one things that we need to do and haven't got off the starting blocks yet. Hey ho, anyway last night was spent making my first Zombie Feltie from my new book.
Now the book is fabulous, the instructions clear but the Felties are supposed to be tiny and I mean tiny and well I don't do small I like to supersize everything - can't help it, plus struggling with my shoulder, elbow and hands at the minute so needed something a bit bigger to work on that I wouldn't get irritated at when making.
So what do you think? He was great fun to make, the original version of this requires bugle beads and other beading and although it's created a 3 dimension to the Zombie I'm not sure if I couldn't have achieved a similar look with embroidery thread? Still think he should be bigger - might make a supersized Zombie!
Now question is what name to give him? Any ideas anyone?
Now the book is fabulous, the instructions clear but the Felties are supposed to be tiny and I mean tiny and well I don't do small I like to supersize everything - can't help it, plus struggling with my shoulder, elbow and hands at the minute so needed something a bit bigger to work on that I wouldn't get irritated at when making.
So what do you think? He was great fun to make, the original version of this requires bugle beads and other beading and although it's created a 3 dimension to the Zombie I'm not sure if I couldn't have achieved a similar look with embroidery thread? Still think he should be bigger - might make a supersized Zombie!
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