IACW Reveal

If you managed to pop on over to IACW after seeing my peek a few days ago, all would have become clear :)

A while ago now I attended a 'me time' session at my local childrens centre and they showed us how to make handcream, great pressie ideas I thought, so I have a few batches made up and packaged ready to give out :)

Christmas Craft Raffle

Over on Quirky Crafts Forum I'm running a Christmas raffle which is open to people outside of the forum also.

I am constantly adding to the prize, and in total the raffle prize will be in excess of £100 in crafting goodies :)
The main prize is a cuttlebug die cutting machine, other prizes include a Zutter round-it-all with tote bag, denim mini book, smirk papers and much much more

Tickets can be purchased here for £2 each and you can purchase as many as you like. The winning ticket will be picked on December 14th so there will be plenty of time for me to post it out and for you to pop it under your christmas tree :)

Ticket will picked by traditional printing out names from paypal and a lucky dip by one of my boys :)
If you manage to spread the word by commenting here and leaving a link on your blog then on 10th December a name will be picked from this blog post (who has a link) and a secret santa gift will wing its way to you :)

A link will remain in my sidebar until the 10th December
Good Luck x

Friday Five - vintage

Sorry I forgot to schedule this! duh

Its my favourite Etsy five again :) and I've gone all funky vintage

er like wow - how fab are these

Gorgeous vintage ribbon

I love bags as it is but these train cases are fab

I have a big thing for coloured glass at the moment How funky is this vintage wallpaper

Thanks for popping by - do you like vintage too :)

IACW Peek

Hmmm I wonder what all this mixture can be about! You'll have to pop over here and find out :)

Bottle Tops

Do you like bottle tops for your crafting projects!I've added some yellow, red and blue ones to my Etsy Store here

SCD - Black and White

Finally I found a few mins of time to sit down and join in with Something Completely Different, the theme this week is inchies and black and white

You cant really tell but I used black stazon and went over the white with a sakura gel pen, I've used this to make an ATC which I'll show once I've photographed it :)

Thanks for giving me the inspiration I needed girls x

WOYWW

Well I dont know about yours but mine is crammed full! lol

I'm getting set for a few craft fairs coming up in November and December so I need to make sure I have a good stock load as I dont want to be doing everything last minute!

Currently stitching up a ton of pin cushions :)

Great fun

It was my second crop yesterday and it was fun :) I taught my first ever class and everyone enjoyed it and loved their end product.Cant wait for next month now as its our Christmas month! so we are having party food, card making classes and just fun fun fun with friends and our stash.
Thanks everyone for coming and all the photos and November crop details will be on the crop blog shortly :)

On another note, I was freeeeezing up the allotment this morning, but I'm happy now that my flower bulbs, garlic and red onions are now in for over the winter. I managed to get them all planted before the rain came. Just a few more bits to prepare for over winter then it will be general bits to do, as I'm moving my compost area so that needs sorting last.

Ever had trouble getting your children ready for school! Well Riley has got to the point now where he locks himself away in the dog cage!!!!!!! (strange I know) and hides all the time! So nursery told me to do it, so today was the morning that Riley attended nursery in nothing more than a tshirt and a nappy! (his clothes obviously packed in a bag) he didnt like that at all! so hopefully he has learnt from that.
On the other hand I felt awful and had to ring the nursery to check that he was okay, of which he was fine!
Boys eh...

*snapped this on my mobile - you have to dont you lol*

Quirky Crafts Prize Rak

Do you fancy winning some gorgeous Laura Ashley papers and vintage inspired ribbon set! then pop on over to Quirky Crafts and join in with us.If you dont celebrate Halloween thats fine, your design can be Autumn inspired too :)
You still have another week to join in with us :)

Yummmmmmy

Currently sitting on my draining board!
Lots of recipes found for pumpkin soup, biscuits, muffins, pie! lol

Friday Five

All pink and girlie this week, these are my Etsy finds :)

I adore this

erm like wowsers - can you imagine dancing in this beauty Oh my - if only I had a girlie puddy :)

Oh my goodness, how pretty is this ribbon How cute and adorable is she and she's a pattern :) Shame I cant crochet or knit that well :( Do you have any pink favourites :)

Willow Sketchie Challenge

This weeks sketch for Willow Sketchie was provided by Zoe and was a pleasure to use :)

Things are changing over on the challenge blog, sketches are still fortnightly but you are now able to create anything using the sketch, you dont just have to use Willows fantastic sketches.

I altered a mini canvas and made this for the boys for Halloween

First I painted with a blue acrylic paint, used doodlebug felt cardstock from Indigo Mill and watercoloured a cute little scary Tilda :) with handdrawn fangs lol, the lace looked a tad spiderwebby in my eyes and ric rac and thickers from stash

Willow Sketchie Peek

Heres a peek at my creation for Willow Sketchie challenges, a few changes to the blog so make sure you pop on over on Thursday for all the details

Vegetarian Dracula!

Jack and I sat and made his first vegetable creature for school last night and had a laugh to say the least, it started out as one thing and then became thisQuite a funny moment when he said with rolling eyes 'Its nothing to do with Twilight is it Mummy' ... I mean as if ...

My son knows me well ;)

Quirky Crafts Challenge

Over on Quirky Crafts Forum, its challenge 14 and we've got you thinking about Halloween or Autumn

Cant wait to see your take on it, here's mine

Materials used are doodlebug glitter cardstock from Indigo Mill, Magnolia halloween stamped images, bling bling :)

Pop on over and see the design team entries here, they really are fab :)

Bleurgh...

Luckily I've had some schedule posts uploaded showing off challenges and goodies from my store as I've being a tad ill.

I'd felt quite achy all last week but it really hit me on thursday, it hurt so much the aching that all I could do Friday was curl up on the sofa all day and try to recover slowly *Hmmm bit difficult considering I have a very active toddler in the house* but to be honest he was really well behaved so I did manage to rest.

I had so many plans for the weekend visiting friends that they really got put on the back burner :( which I was so upset about. I managed to make the short journey to Stephs on Sunday *as I had kits to pick up and sort out ready for my crop next weekend* so a few cuddles from there gorgeous new puppy certainly helped lighten the mood :)

I left my camera at home, and just chilled for the day.

Also I've taken a break from most of my computer commitments this week too and feel so much better for it, so now I know its good to turn this darn laptop off once in awhile in the evenings once all things are done and dusted, have an early night or enjoy my crafting for me :)

I can see my weeks being ran like that from now on :)

Lots of updates to come this week :) Hope you are all well my blogging friends x

All dotty!

Some gorgeous new hair slides that will be available very very soonSold out of the first lot I made all ready :)

Sparkly Bauble

Here is the full reveal of my project that I did for IACW, a pretty sequin baubleIt did take some time to make but will be worthwhile when the tree lights hit it and it sparkles :)
I love making my own tree decorations - do you?

Friday Five!

I've gone all green today and want to share some fab etsy finds

I am really loving the idea of these at the moment and they have soooo many to choose from on Etsy

Love this but out my price range for a pillow :(

On my wish list :) gorgeous Drool defo adding this to my wish list ;) I love this so much, makes me want to wrap up warm for winter already :)

Do you have some green favourites to share :)

IACW peek

Ooooh sparkly - pop over here and find out what its all about :)

Frame their artwork!

I've being wanting to do this for so long and finally got round to it last week.

I bought two cheap frames from ikea (I believe they were just over a £1 each)

I put two base coats of white metallic paint on first and left to dryWith a damp cloth I rubbed on some green paint and left to dry

Using my ole faithful tape writer I chose my wording and stuck to the bottom right corner of each frame

and thats it, perfect to frame the little ones artwork, an ever changing picture on our wall :)**sorry for the not so good photo, quite difficult to take a photo with no reflection! lol

Taking a Break!!

I'm taking a break from blogging for about a week, although I have noticed that there are scheduled posts so I suppose I wont really be missing!

I need to take some time out to put final touches on things ;) and mainly to put some family matters into perspective! Hopefully an appointment today will be the start of something happening - helpwise! if not then I'm lost - totally!!!

I'll leave you with an old but favourite photo of my boys :) but look out for those scheduled posts :)

Out & About

The out and about challenge is still going on over at Quirky Crafts, they are now fortnightly so still another week for you to come over and join us, a prize is always up for grabs xxx
The design team really are fantastic so please do pop over and check out their work

RD Reveal

Here's my card with the full reveal for Rosie Dees challenge last Sunday, using The Cutting Cafe Autumn download

I used an embellishment kit from Indigo Mill filled with doodlebug flocked and glittered cardstock, I used the large pumpkin as a template and made a layered effect using the kit

Its all happening!

I reckon a few more days and the basics of my new store will be up and running and ready for customers, I have monthly updates planned so dont feel too rushed to get everything on there!

Here's a peek at another new goodie on offer!

Pretty Pretty Pretty :)

Cats

They get everywhere dont they!Enough said :)

Come and meet

Steph from Indigo Mill

She agreed to do a fab feature on my forum and I love it.

Thank you so much Steph for taking time out of your day to let people know more about you and all your work at Indigo Mill

I shall bring you cupcakes when I next see you :) xxx

Willow Reveal

Here's my reveal of the peek I showed you yesterday

I got to use the cute image 'Keeping Warm' with the sketch provided by Sharon this week.

Materials used 'Keeping Warm' (available here), basic grey figgy pud christmas papers & rub ons, ribbons and brads from stash

Why dont you pop on over and join in with the challenges