Hi gang, hope you are all well. I had a cold a couple of weeks ago which led to the inevitable bronchitis but I am much better this week and got some of my oomph back! Laundry is a joy having taken delivery of a new washing machine that doesn't sound like a small jet plane revving for take off , having its bearings in place. It was ordered on Friday at 4.30pm and delivered at 9.15 Sunday morning, what service! Thanks everyne who shwed an interest in my cards , I am trying to keep up with the requests. I am in awe!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day Cards

This is the beautiful concertina book Jennie made for my birthday.

This afternoon's effort, a commission for a baby still cooking!

Camera Test

Although this post is just a test for the camera, this image is of notebook I made in a class by Louise Roache, she taught me ll I know about Copics and is a very clever lady!

I had a lovely birthday even though it had an unbelievably high number attached to it! Crafty Lou was demoing at  Sir Stampalot , when the list events showed this demo I couldn't believe my luck because Lou is one of my favourite designers and an inspiration to many I am sure. She is a lovely lady too of course, we all know that.

My daughter Jennie came with me, we share lots of similar interests and we had a few hours sharing our purchases. To my horror I find my C plate for my Cuttlebug may need relacing, none of my new dies worked yet last time I used it everything seemed fine. My gorgeous ( maybe a little biased here) granddaughters were being cared  for by their daddy  at home but we were both  missing them so after a while we all went to Jennie's and had a Chinese takeaway and birthday cake. My kind of day!

Jennie made me a beautiful concertina book for my birthday which she would not let me take to Sir Stampalot to show anyone so I am seriously considering showing it on here, afterall no-one will see it LOL ;-)

A little saunter into mixed media collage

Wedding Samplers

Jennie and John
















Kerry and Mark









Apologies for the photo quality but neither of these photos was taken for this blog!

Samplers

Another hobby of mine is cross stitch. For my eldest daughter's 16th birthday I made a small sampler about her interests to date, she loved it so I developed the idea further and have done a lot of them for friends and family special occassions. Sadly I don't have photographs of the first one or some of the others but here are a few. This first one is for Rachel obviously.








This is for Jennie who had just got her GCSE results, wish mine were as good!

This was for my Mum's 81st birthday I think. The flags spell out TOM, my Dad's name. He died in 1978 but was the love of her life.

These two cards are my next efforts. Both have a dusting of Prisma glitter which I don't seem to be without lately! I think the photographs are a bit better but I don't know how to improve them any nore. Any suggestions?