More Christmas Cards for 2009

Here are two more Christmas Cards for this year.

Some more sugar

Another Christmas Medallion

Bingo Board

My mum and sister play bingo, the days of bingo have changed they have started having electronic books - can you believe it. I think they still have paper books too lol - anyway when I saw this board in the pound shop I thought "hmmmmm I could alter that" so I did. I got to play with Modge Podge of which I am now addicted LOL!

SU Workshop 7/11/09

2nd workshop some more Christmas cards to add to my small pile. Had a great time and made an easel card which I had been meaning to have a go at home, instead I had it all explained which was great. Here they are,

Football Rosette Birthday

Needed to make a card for my Nephew's birthday, he has now gone past the cute card stage. He likes football at the moment so I went with that theme.

I used 2 envelopes to make the card base and this then allows you to put money or gift vouchers inside. I used silver mirror board mounted onto black card but in the photo it looks blue - sorry about that.

Christmas 2009 cards

I have started making some Christmas cards and I have purchased some lovely stamps this year.

First off we have some sweet Christmas sugar.

Aren't they adorable!

I saw something similar to this on SCS and thought it was gorgeous so had to give it a go.

I love this SU stamp.

Sense of Time Birthday Card

I purchased a fab new Stampin Up set called A Sense of Time - here is a birthday card I created with this set - please excuse the very poor photography, but I was in a hurry and the lightening conditions were terrible.

Magnolia Happy Birthday

I was asked by someone to make a birthday card for their little girl who adores horses, this is what I came up with.

Updates - BE WARNED!

OK I have today decided to try and update my blog lol. Be prepared for a number of posts.
I have back dated some only to the beginning of October so it is not that far to look back lol.

Charlie's 14th

My eldest was 14 today - where do the years go! Here are a couple of cards I made for him, the small one you may have seen before, it was created a while ago and has been waiting to be used - today was the day.

Not Forgotten

I haven't forgotten the blog just really busy at the moment with the allotment, plus getting ready for birthdays and also buying Christmas presents. I like to get Christmas present buying over and done with before the mad rush.

I have a few cards to upload but they will have to wait for a quiter time I am afraid. I need to make a card for my eldest's 14th on the 3rd November so I had better get cracking with that.

I also have another Stampin Up workshop on the 7th November where we will be making some more Christmas cards which is good as it is two cards I don't have to think about lol.

Blog Candy - Pop over and see

Hi everyone,

Pop over to Marlene's blog here as she is giving away some awsome blog candy. I can only dream of winning the Sugar Nellie Christmas Cousins collection.

Good Luck everyone.

SU Workshop 10/10/09

I attended my first workshop with Alex today. I have to say we had a blast, it was good to get together with some new people and create using some gorgeous goodies from the new SU catalogue. You can imagine how big my wish list is LOL!

Here is what I created,

Yes I placed an order LOL keep an eye out for some new SU stamps.

Stampin Up local Demonstrator Found

Well you can imagine my joy when I found a Stampin Up demonstrator who is local to me. Alex Hau is based in Hornchurch you can check out her blog here, Alex also holds monthly workshops and craft evening sessions of which I attend both LOL!
Watch out for what I create at Alex's workshops - I can't wait.

Stampin Up Blog Candy

Can you believe it there is some Stampin Up Goodies to be won, go and check out Lousette's blog here, plus Suzanne's blog here.

No catty up on the site yet, the suspense is killing me.

Doodling 4 Workshop

I can't remember if I have mentioned this before but I have been doing workshops at Imagine That in Upminster now for a while, they have held doodling workshops which have been great. On Thursday 24th September I done my last doodling workshop number 4. It was mainly how to doodle writing, I have to say I was dreading the class but it was great fun - as always and it has given me a lot more confidence in my writing.

I have not completed my layout as yet, it is on my to do list. This is my first card which has a hand written title of mine, I am very pleased with how it turned out it being my first attempt.

Christmas Cards for 2009

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but my life just keeps getting in the way as usual.

I have made a start on some Christmas cards, I have no inspiration for these at the moment so I am finding it hard coming up with new designs for these cards.

Alfie's Sunflower

Alfie came home from year 1 with a sunflower plant that they had grown from seed, it was quite tall and skinny when it came home. I said we could plant it in the garden to see how it would grow, we didn't hold out much hope.

I am glad to say that this little plant thrived, here it is I got Alfie to stand it front of it so that you could see how tall it had grown.


Alfie was not very well at the weekend he has had a high temperature and sore throat, he had a couple of days at home and he went back to school today, but he still looks really washed out.

Jean's Birthday Card

Finally Jean received her card so I can now post pictures of it. Physically getting this card to Jean turned into a nightmare, but we got there in the end LOL!

Applying for Allotments

OK so this is harder than I thought. There are quite a few allotments nearby, but they all have huge waiting lists, it seems to be the in thing at the moment. I have visited a number of sites and even though I see overgrown and un-worked plots, they are apparently occupied and the site still has a huge waiting list. It seems to be like this all over Barking and Dagenham.

Growing Your Own

Ok another veggie installment - sorry if this gets boring!

Bed No1 Empty now as we dug up our new potatoes and they were lovely. I think I planted to many as we didn't get much for the amount of plants we had, so I don't think they had enough room to grow.


Bed No2 now holding courgettes


Bed No3 starting from the back we have dwarf French Beans, Pak Choi, Beetroot, Rocket, Spring onions and there was a row of radishes but they were pulled up last week.


Bed No4 Runner Beans, unfortunately these have been plagued with blackfly, but I got some advice and hopefully I can rescue them. As you can see they are just over 6foot high (that is the height of the fence).



Bed No4 Sweetcorn, I haven't been very successful with this, this year as I brought the plants rather than starting them from seed and I was too late to sow any seed.


Bed No4 Tomatoes, these seem to be doing fine and we have some flowers so hopefully should get some fruit of them.


Bed No5 holds only one cauliflower now as one died plus some herbs.


Lambs Lettuce


Carrots in a dustbin


Mint


Strawberries - I haven't actually had any strawberries as yet, not sure why!


More Strawberries and Courgettes


More updates to follow when it has all grown a bit more.

Allotments

OK both myself and Neill have decided to put our name down for an allotment. We have run out of room in the garden and we are also limited on what we can grow depending on the size of the veg/fruit.
I never considered an allotment before because of when I am down the caravan I didn't know who would look after it, but Neill has really taken to growing our own and suggested that we put our name down.

I will keep you informed of progress LOL.

Ruby Wedding Anniversary Card

Here is a card for a Ruby Wedding Anniversary.


A close up

Metal Work Card

Here is a card for my nephew's 19th birthday - I have used metal work, alcohol inks, sharpie and a glaze pen to do faux stitching.

a close up of the metal work

a close up of stitching

Tim-spiration Workshop at Imagine That in Upminster

I done a workshop at Imagine That called Tim-spiration. It is a wall hanging where we played with sticky backed metal and alcohol inks.
Here is the result

Top

Middle

Bottom

In a different light

Savannah

Savannah is a Bengal cat which we rescued a couple of months back. She has come such a long way it is quite amazing. She now goes out and loves it, I managed to get some photos of her today in the garden, here is one for now as I need to reformat the others.

Metal Work Plaque 2

Me and Jeannette enjoyed the previously mentioned workshop so much that we decided to try and recreate it, I think we done a pretty good job.

Metal Work Plaque

I attended a workshop at Imagine That in Upminster which was taught by Leandra from Paperartsy. I had never worked with the ten seconds studio metal before, when I saw the project we was going to do I panicked, but I was surprised how easy it was. It was a really fun day.

Grow your Own Veg

Well as some of you might remember I posted about this way back in March 08/03/09 when I went from herbs on the windowsill to raised vegetable beds in my garden.
Here is a little update on beds and what is growing.

Here you can see new potatoes in the first bed No.1, in No.2 is salad bowl lettuce, in the black bin is carrots and in the blue pots are strawberries.


The bed next to the salad i.e No.3 is empty, in No.4 we have runner beans, sweetcorn, Beef Tomatoes, Cherry tomatoes and normal tomatoes.


In bed No.5 we have cauliflowers and herbs, the blue pot at the very front is mint. You can also just see a grow bag on the floor which holds Lambs Lettuce.

Looks a bit different from when I started and I am quite happy with how things are growing at the moment. It is all trial and error really. I will keep posting as to how things are going.

Hand Made Twisted Macrame Choker Necklace & Bracelet

Here is my latest jewellery creation, I had the pattern for the bracelet but I thought it would be nice to have a choker necklace to go with it.

It is a purple twisted macrame choker necklace and bracelet which is for sale at £15.00.

The choker measures 17½ inches from opening to closure - the overall measurement including the tassle is 20½ inches.

The bracelet measures 8 inches from opening to closure - the overall measurement including the tassle is 9 inches.

Materials used is purple C-Lon cord with coordinating japanese seed beads plus a button for the closure.

I can post this anywhere in the UK for £1.00 it will arrive in a padded envelope with the items in a sealed cello bag inside.
If you are interested, you can contact me direct via my email at lwcreations1@googlemail.com


I have also set this up for sale over on Gumtree.com if you are interested here is the direct link - http://www.gumtree.com/london/39/36137039.html

From This to This

This morning I woke up and decided to go from this
Herbs on the Windowsill

to this
Raised Vegetable Beds

I have decided to grow my own - don't laugh!!!!!!!!!!! I am a have a go type, i.e. stick it in the ground and see what happens. In the past I have successfully grown sweetcorn and runner beans, not so successful was potatoes which I grew in a dustbin, but I didn't know I should have cut the bottom off so that they could root in the ground, so we had small potatoes. I thought I would try my hand at a lot of other stuff like, salad potatoes, tomatoes, cherry and normal, sweet peppers, beetroot, cylindra and boltardy, cucumber, radishes, spring onions, sweetcorn, runner beans, french beans, strawberries, ginger and garlic.

Wish me luck!

Elephant Necklace

I made a necklace which the main feature was a blown glass elephant for my mother-in-law for Christmas, I forgot to take a photo of that one. She liked it so much that she asked me to create the same but using an elephant charm that she had, as her niece loves elephants too.
Here it is

First Doodle Card

My first doodle card - I have to say I am quite pleased with the end result.


You will be seeing more doodling as I am doing a class on 21st March 2009 as I want to be able to master doodling properly and be completely happy with what I produce. Maybe even taking it to the digital stage - here's hoping!