Wednesday 29 July 2009

Bag O Buttons

I've listed some vintage button bags and tag sets in my Folksy Store today

Enjoy x

Hmmmm

You know when you feel like your doing TOO MUCH!!! but you just dont quite know where to cut back!
I am in desperate need to get the house to how I want it to be, and to be honest it is nearly there I suppose, but because all the crafty goodness hasnt being moved back into its new room its becoming a bit of a headache to say the least having it in every available space around the house! (wowsers that makes me sound like I have tons of stuff, believe me I dont! Well I dont think so anyways)
I think Tel working away isnt helping but work is work and you gotta take it at the moment :(



I went to the doctors today about my general health as my IBS over the past few months has being at its worse since I first got told I had it well over ten years ago :( so i've being mega suffering with that which has made me feel a tad low I suspect, but alas I have a wonderful doctor and I am going to the hospital first thing in the morning for many many blood tests and hopefully something will come back from that to show any other problems that are related with my IBS, until then I have to cut back on my wheat!!! eek ... how hard is that ...

He also understands that due to Rileys behaviour that must also be adding a huge amount of stress so he expressed that that is probably a main cause of suffering quite bad at the moment :(

Anyways enough doom and gloom, i'll end by adding a rather strange deja vu moment that happened today! After our car accident on Friday and not knowing if they will take our poor BMW to the scrap heaven we decided to just have a glance around car showrooms over the weekend to see what was out there in our price range (very low one too lol) and we saw a gorgeous Mercedes A Class which neither of us had never seen before! both quite liked it and low and behold the hire car arrived today - only the blooming Mercedes!!!! How strange is that!!!

Tuesday 28 July 2009

Presents

Dont you just love gifts, well I do as well of course and there even better when they are handcrafted and off your bestest buddy :)I got this gorgeous frame for my new craft room and I've already chosen where on the wall its going :) Thank you so much honey xxx

Rosie Dee's

The last challenge of July is over at Rosie Dee's so pop on over and see what we have in store for you :)
Here's my sneak
And talking of in store I have so much on the craft table right now, I really must get it all photographed and in my stores :)

Help!!

Ummm can anyone tell me how to make a 3 column blog!!! Cannot figure it out!! lol :) x

Sunday 26 July 2009

Its HERE

The NEW LOOK Easy Craft Projects website, blog and forum is hereIt's even MORE fun than before if thats even possible :)
There's more FREE projects, bigger design team, FREE classes, forum, blog, downloads and much much more
Pop on over to check it and let us know what you think :)

Featured

So pleased, I have certain sites that I check once the laptop is switched on and 'One pretty thing' is one of them, and today I'm featured in the Flickr roundup :) How exciting lol I love this site as I've said before, it gives you so much inspiration in all areas of crafting and links to you so many fantastic FREE crafting tutorials :)

oneprettything


Thank you One Pretty Thing :)

Saturday 25 July 2009

Testing Day

First I have to share my favourite photo of the moment with you :) Its blurred but I dont care, cause I think its just adorable. My beautiful old boy Louie (can you believe he is now 11 years old!!!) coming over to say hi :) Isnt he gorgeous, love it, love him sooo much.

Umm now on to the testing part of our day, we visited friends in Northampton yesterday and on the one way home going through a busy traffic light junction a Jaguar car decided to do a U turn right in front of us!!!
He was on yellow lines on the side of the road and we were virtually next to him as he swung out so quick we didnt get given a chance to stop!
So we ended up crashing right into him, and when your in a solid car like our BMW and we hit another solid car like the Jag at 30 miles an hour we came to an abrupt stop I can tell you :(
Luckily Tel myself and Riley are fine and not injured, although Tel's neck is hurting him today.
We hit the Jag that hard that it pushed his drivers door in so Tel had to prize it open to get the bloke out, and our car is mashed :( I love that blooming car.
So now we wait to see if the insurance company want to send our car to the scrapyard heaven or not :(

I'll keep you updated.

Thursday 23 July 2009

Willow Sketchie Challenge

Another wonderful sketch this time from Heidi over at Willow Sketchie Challenge and another fabulous download from Sharon.

I adore this download and I've now got my first card made for Christmas :)
Go check out the rest of the design team entries, they really are fabulous :)

Quite a 'busy' card for me but I do love the papers.
I used Pink Petticoat papers, button, brads and kraft card from stash

Tuesday 21 July 2009

Beauties

Thanks to the rain my day got totally rearranged from a morning up the allotment to ironing! ~humf~

We have a friend in to finish painting the two rooms for us as Tels work is not giving him time to chill out and do the diy :( so I will defo have two completed rooms decor wise by thursday. I've ordered some awesome wall art from Etsy and of course once that arrives I will show you :) hehehe very exciting...

Trying to add a shoutbox to my forum but its just not happening soooo annoying, so if anyone knows what to do please shout my way :(

I'll leave you with these beauties :) available in my Etsy Store here
Perfect for girls of all ages dont you think :)

Monday 20 July 2009

Radiators!

Yesterday was Day Two of the 7 week schools holiday and we had our first hospital visit! (I say that as I can see that Riley will have us in that waiting room a fair few times lol) Riley was playing on the sofa and then smacked his head off the radiator at the back! Why are radiators so blooming pointy at the top - ridiculous if you ask me.Bless him, he was a brave little boy though, as I've said before he doesnt really do 'comfort me if I fall over and hurt myself' so it was difficult to console him :( so very very brave.

Saturday 18 July 2009

Teachers Gifts

Well we got through the last day of school okay, really I should say I lol my emotions were fine until his wonderful teacher loved her pressie :)
I made her this canvas with a teacher quote
for the other teachers that assist in Jacks teaching I got him to draw a picture of each of them and I printed them out and made stationery for them(awful picture as it was late at night and wanted to get them wrapped up!)
and believe it or not I used Christmas wrapping paper to wrap everything lol but you couldnt tell it was, I bought it last year from habitat and its just gorgeous
and of course Jack wrote their gift tags out.
So thats it, schools out for summer as they say and I now have two boys to keep occupied, got a fair few ideas of what to do so hopefully we should be fine

I've got my crochet hook out again!! Note to self - I will complete a crochet project that is not baggy~!! lol

Willow Sketchie

I feel awful especially considering I've only just joined the team but with having the craft room redone all my crafty bits and bobs are all over the house - hence I was late with this challenge, I designed the sketch for the rest of the team and they did a fantastic job of interpreting it :)

Here's my take, I grabbed what I could reach

RD Reveal

Heres my Rosie Dee's Wedding creation in its full glory :)
I will admit I did have to cheat for this :( Due to having no craft items availble as decorating, I used one of my wedding stationery designs :)
Gorgeous cake handstamped image and watercolours layered on coloured cardstock.

Remember to pop by here tomorrow evening for the new challenge at 6pm

Thursday 16 July 2009

Tears!

My gorgeous little boy had his Year 2 leavers assembly today. As I was filming them singing I could feel the sting in my eyes and knew if I blinked that would be it, I had the biggest lump in my throat, turned to my left to see a fellow mum blooming crying and that was it! I was gone - Thanks Jill! :)

I am so proud of where my little man is right now, he still has low confidence issues but is sooo much better than when he first started at school.

Today he won a Special Achievement Award with his prize being a family ticket to the local kids play centre :) Thank you for that.

When he returns in September he will be Year 3 but the school will have taken on a new look as it becomes the New Academy!

Tomorrow is his last day at school so its teachers gifts all round, I'll show those tomorrow and I dare say thanks to Mrs Cadman his reception teacher who also made me cry today, that I will be shedding tears again tomorrow!
Jacks first day at Reception - I cried for 3 days!!!! nightmare I know, I was just so sad
First day in Year Two

OMG i'm filling up looking at these pictures, look how different my little man is :( Wheres the tissues...

Even through the hard days I have to say that considering I was never maternal at all! Being a MUM is the best feeling in the world, thank you Jack and Riley for that :)

Wednesday 15 July 2009

Muddy Boots

I've being updating my Muddy Boots blog with my home and allotment growing :) So if you GYO pop on over, any advice welcome:)

QC Reveal

Fe did a fantastic sketch which I really enjoyed working with
I altered a box which I hold all my seeds in and now its got a very pretty front rather than a boring brown box :)
I used Kirsty Wisman papers and butterflys, string and my tape writer
Remember these challenges are just for fun so can be played with at any time :)

Tuesday 14 July 2009

All About Me

My July tutorial for Easy Craft Projects is now showing.
I've made a mini book all about me, and showed you how I made my front page.
The inner pages are gorgeous Amy Butler papers, and as I fill the book up I dare say I'll be showing you my creations :)
Pop on over and see the tutorial and see what the rest of the Design Team have being up to.

Sunday 12 July 2009

QC Week 8

Another Sunday another challenge over at Quirky Crafts
To see the full Design Team reveal pop on over here and join in with us.

Button Tags

With no craft room or even area to play in, I'm getting massive withdrawel symptons from my hobby :( So yesterday I sorted through all my vintage buttons again put some into matching sets.
I then spent time stitching them all onto tags ready for my Etsy Store Quirky Pit Stop
Lots more to go but at least I felt crafty for a little while :)

Button tags are for sale here

I'm a Creative Girl

Wow I'm so happy, I've followed Its a Creative World for so long now, dipping in and out of challenges, I remember my first one was for Breast Awareness when I first started scrapping!
Back in June I applied to be on their Design Team not thinking I would get anywhere, but I got the best email the other day inviting me to join the team :) so so happy, I think my email back showed that lol
IACW have a post everyday full of inspiration and ranges from all crafts to gardening to cooking, you name it and they'll show it :)



So pleased to be part of the team :) I will have two posts a month starting from August, but please pop by daily for the teams posts and creativity :)

Saturday 11 July 2009

RD Reveal

Last week I made a layout for the challenge using the wonderful sketch from RosieI used the gorgeous papers from My Minds Eye little sprout range and scrapped Rileys first birthday cake which I made myself, a very chocolate filled choo choo train which we all enjoyed like alot :)

Friday 10 July 2009

FREE banners

Last night I couldnt sleep so decided to do a makeover of my ETSY banners, although I cannot for the life of me make them! I tried once and succeeded but it took me hours to do!!!!!! and that was just cropping a photo and resizing it!

Anyways - google is always my friend - and I came across Lampwork on the forum there are a ton of FREE banners for your stores, so I had a play and this is what I came up with
If you click on the banners it will take you to Etsy to see them in working order :)

Thursday 9 July 2009

Babies

We took a break from our dust filled house earlier and headed for Wicksteed Park for a long walk and lots of fresh air.
I was so pleased with how many gorgeous photos I took today (well gorgeous for me anyways)
There are so many babies up the park at the moment, gorgeous little ducklings running and falling around :)
But these are my all time fav, just beautiful
Whilst we sat and ate an icecream we were surrounded by ducks (!! what is it with me and ducks !! lol)Loving the ripple effect :)
Riley of course loved the climbing frames
Back Soon, thanks for stopping by

In Progress

Today is the Willow Sketchie Challenge and this week I designed the sketch for the Design Team pop on over here and you can see their amazing creations.Sadly you wont see mine because all the crafting things I need to create something super with the download are behind this!


Its all plasterboarded now so will update again soon :)
:)

Wednesday 8 July 2009

Dust!

I'm choking on brick and plaster dust here :( I was on a mad cleaning mission this morning but it was pointless downstairs so I attacked upstairs instead, so I am pleased to announce it is sparkling and lovely and clean and tidy, that is until the boys trash their rooms again!
Although I have given Jack my new pullout desk for his room (as its too large for my soon to be craft room) so I've explained that he's got a big boys room now and really needs to try to keep it as tidy as possible! *yeah like that will happen!* lol

Over on Easy Craft Projects the new Design Team have being announced and they are Katie Berberich and Norma Kennedy, if you pop on over here you can see their bio and snippets of their work, its awesome :)

Speaking of ECP the lovely Lisa has given me an award for my blog, this cheered me up and made my day :)

So hopefully by passing it on to these lovely ladies I'll make their day too :)

Rosie
Gez
Fe-Fe
Terrie
and Trak

Back soon x

Monday 6 July 2009

Supervision

Thats what I'm doing, yes, a supervisory role of the home improvements! ;)
We are making sure the new utility is finished first so then we can crack on with my new craft room *still so exciting* we went and got the colours today.

In the utility I am having a Duck Egg Blue feature wall with the remaining walls being white
It was going to be Lime Green but I just couldnt find the one I wanted in Wickes, I found the perfect one in Focus but I'll be darned if I'm paying that price for paint!!! lol

In the craft room I am having a Bambino feature wall with a slight hint of bambino mixed with white paint for the remaining walls
(I must admit the bambino looks better in the flesh than it does this picture)

Now I have to say that I'm not really a girlie girl but all the rooms in our house are either blue for the boys or neutral! So thats why I'm having pink, a girlie room for me, Tel was surprised but happy that I'm happy.

I think the utility should defo be finished by the end of the week but it will be another couple of weeks before the craft room is finished as a trip to Ikea is required for my new desk etc :) *still exciting - ooh I already said that - see super duper excited*

Will show progress photos soon :) (plaster board walls are a bit TOO boring to show) x

Sunday 5 July 2009

QC week 7

Heres a sneek of my design team challenge card for over on Quirky CraftsFe really had us thinking out of our box for this one :) Pop on over here to see the full reveal and join in with us

RD Challenge week 42

This week over at Rosie Dee's sees the new Design Team join us :) and they have super duper entries to inspire you.
A new month means a new theme and July is full of Occasions with this week being 'Birthdays'
and as usual the 1st Sunday of the month means a sketch :) which has being drawn up the lovely Rosie.
Pop on over to see all the new inspiration here

Saturday 4 July 2009

RD Reveal

Last Sunday our challenge over at Rosie Dees was black and white so here is my take on that, although I did not realise until I tore the paper :( that it was a coredinations blue inside lol but hey ho...We have the wonderful new Design Team with us as from this Sunday :) So please do pop by and make them all welcome

All cardstock is from my scrap box, ribbon from ebay moons ago, pin from ebay, heart image stamp free from a crafting magazine (which I then had to dispose of in the bin as 'Wicket' decided to give it a good ole chew!)

Friday 3 July 2009

Whoops

Its amazing what clearing out all your craft stash throws up! I made these for a friend moons ago as she has an online craft shop and then finally got a little store in her local town so I made these for her new 'shop'
Whoops obviously thought I'd posted them but hadnt! They are on there way now though

I cannot remember where I purchased the wooden letters at all! (hence it was defo moons ago) I used Basic Grey papers, cannot remember where the quotes came from! (how bad am I) and some buttons and ribbon from stash.

QC reveal

Here is the card I made for Quirky Crafts last weekend, the challenge was red and green

Make sure to pop by this Sunday to see Fe's challenge for us.

We're also going to be taking a break over the summer holidays but back with avengance come September, although I will add a few challenges to keep us going :)
We're all Mums at the end of the day and we're pretty busy over the holidays so rather than worry about getting the challenges posted we're taking a break, but not until the end of July, so plenty of time till then :)

Wednesday 1 July 2009

On Track

~ well sorta ~
  • I feel like I'm getting there today, for the first time in ages I felt like a domestic goddess lol I've baked lots, made scrummy lunch and dinner and I felt good doing it, Riley was screaming in the background for half of it mind you but where theres a yin theres a yang :
  • My allotment is coming together nicely, hard but nicely :)
  • My garden has potted plants and veggies :)
  • Our utility and craft room plans are underway for this week - exciting -
  • My online stores are slowly being built up with more fabby goodies
  • If my day tomorrow goes to plan, I'll be up to date with crafting and a trip to the garden centre always brings a smile to my face :)
  • Riley is still the same ! but after a visit to the doctors hopefully we may have some answers

Thats it really, dont forget to pop by my stores to look at some yummy goodness for sale here and here