Hi all hope you are well,


while have been not blogging I have discovered Etsy it a bit like Ebay but better, you don't bid on things as its sort of an arty coop there are a lot of lovely things on there but also there is inspiration to be found for crafty projects, I have bought a few things from some of the shops which I will share in a few posts time


The photos I have put up today are of a paperbag book I made for this years Christmas photos. The bags were from IKEA and all the embellishments where made from Christmas cards also from IKEA.I did a lot of stamping on this book it was great to experiment with stamping on the patterned card and also I used a stamp I had bought and left in the cupboard for ages it was a sort of rotating date stamp thingy but with family orientated slogans on, not bad for a pound and just proof that sometimes impulse buys do pay off eventually.
The bags came in different sizes so I decided to use this to my advantage the big one making the wrap around cover and staggered the pages, the clasp was taken of an envelope template, and if you read yesterdays post you will see what I mean about little tags sticking out all over the place I am certainly getting my moneys worth out of those dies and out of that birdie stamp.
Novel tips time no1- instead of buying a stamping mat use the back of a mouse mat It worked great for me. no2- if you are not confident stamping stamp other card and cut it out then stick it on your project that way if you make a mistake you haven't ruined you work.(but you probably knew that already.)
I hope you like, take care all and thanks for looking.

Hi all, I hope you are well, Its been a while but I'm back blogging again, I sort of revamped the blog I hope you like it its not fancy but its nice.

A few things have been happening in my real life I will catch up on some in the next few posts. DH ended up back in hospital thanks to the marvelous cleaning regime in McDonald's, he now has his arm in a pot as he slipped on a wet floor and banged his already bad arm against a urinal, not good as we had to ferry a car load of kids back home from a cos play thing (I have a LO on it and will explain in a few posts time) before he could go to A and E.

Things for the future are DD laving High school and the prom and DS goes to the university for a summer school its a sleep over thing for a week, I wonder if DH and I can get DD to sleep over at someones house for a week now that wold be great, we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves.

This LO is one using an old photo of DD I just loved the papers i seem to be doing a thing with lots of little tags sticking out all over the place a lot I think I will have to make an effort to do something else or this will be a new rut for me to be stuck in.


These two are Christmas LO done for a challenge on Carolinez Craftz form, it was to do a Christmas LO without Christmas paper, the photos where not that great as I had only just got the camera and it was not set right so I made the photos small to hide the graininess. I am getting better with my now camera now I love it and to my surprise I use it on manual all the time and I'm getting half decent photos from it.

Hi all I am still here and I amstill scrapping,I am hoping to revamap this blog in the next fw days, I am waiting for either Sam to let me on the laptop withphoto shop on or DH to put photo shop in this one I am using now I have a bout two matbe thre LOs to show off, a paperbag book and some other bits and pices. Take care for now I hope to be back soon.

Hi all, I hope you are well

I had a busy day yesterday as DS had the prep work done for his braces, he has strait teeth already but one tooth has gone astray and is embedded in his pallet, to get at it to try to put it in its place they had to cut a hole in the roof of the mouth then take some bone away and then sew a bandage over to keep it from healing back up, the bandage should drop out in up to a fortnight then they can start work on next bit of the treatment. He did really well he was a bit ratty when he woke up (just like his dad is all the time) but he has been fine since the only thing is we have had to find him mushy foods to eat as it is a bit awkward to eat lumpy stuff.

I have a LO to put up, Yay, its nice to be scrapping again. After doing lots of LOs with only one photo I knew I had to do something different, I dug out some old rotadraw disks for the big dino and the little ones are stencils I have had kicking around for ages, I was gong to throw them away I'm glad I didn't now, I will have to use this as an example when DH wants me to down size my stash.

Take care and thanks for looking

Hi all I hope you are not suffering from hang overs today and again Happy new year.

As promised I have up loaded my latest LO, it is the first LO I have done for ages and it had to be saved twice the first time was when my cat gave me a birthday present of muddy foot prints on the photos and the second was when I doodled and then decided I didn't like the doodles, I don't have any photo editing software installed on the lap top I am using so I am unable to crop it, I at last have use of the faster laptop but it has tons of glitches on it that need ironing out as of yet I have been unable to load stuff on to my mp3 player, I was wondering if a sled hammer would help. I also cant find my trusty spellchecker so bear with me on the spelling front, I'll do my best

We have had a lazy holiday period and I am itching to get back in to some sort of routine, DH is still in a lot of pain from his op it doesn't help people backing cars into him while was on a walkway in a car park pushing him on to a toddler in a pushchair, then the following confrontation ending up in DH not getting hurt but the driver of the car getting splatted. It must be idiots that see a crutch and a sling and think it will be a walkover to pick on him but then the tables are turned, as it was in the first car park confrontation as some one in another car park before Christmas threatened to wrap the crutch around DH's neck, DH's reaction was to walk up to the guy and give him the crutch and say I would like to see you try and with that the other guy retired to his car put up all his windows and from the safety of his car made rude finger gestures and insults involving the words mad and the "c" word.

Well thats enough rambling for today. Take care all and thanks for looking.

I know it's late (12.49) and early in some places but happy new year I hope you all have a good one!

I have scraped so as soon as I get the hang of my new camera i will post up my efforts.

Bye for now take care all and stay safe

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and best wishes for the new year.

Things have been very hectic the last few weeks I have hardly any time to do anything crafty.

DH had his op on the 17th of December so he is still recovering form that, DD has had a non stop chest infection for over a month, DS is having and day surgery in the new year as part of his dental treatment and I am running around trying to get everything done and failing I have also invited my MIL and SIL for Christmas dinner as if I needed any more stress but at least we now have a fully functioning oven.

As soon as possible I will be scrapping again I have to I have just acquired lots of new stash some of it has to be wrapped up for Christmas. I also have a new sewing machine now so I have plans for that and I intend to sew next years Christmas presents plus I have a number of clothes to sew and adjust, DD gets hoodies but to get the right length in arms she has to buy the larger size so I have to take a few of those in and also as I have lost tons of weight I have a few things of my own to adjust.

Enough rabbiting on for now I have to get back to the grindstone,

Take care all and best wishes And I hope to be blogging again properly in the new year.