This month I are mostly...

Crocheting!! 3 inch squares...I bought the yarn from clickoncrafts.co.uk. It is Sirdar Calico in the colours of Peachie (darker peach tone - 0710), Amber (lighter peach tone - 0714), Hopsack (a pale sage green - 0709), Banana (a soft natural yellow - 0733) and Cotton White (which is well...white - 0723) Hopsack and Peachie are two of the new colours and I think that Amber may have been discontinued which is a shame because its one of my favourite colours. I bought 3 balls of each colour (15 in total) and the plan is to keep it on our bed but it may end up being "borrowed" by one of my boys as they have both said they would like a blanket made... like the one their big sister has on her bed...

So far I've crocheted 38 squares & I've not even finished the first ball from each colour!!

 And this is the pattern I plan on using... sort of a steps design I guess

Simply A Moment....

He's back... No.1 son went away on Monday the 10th to camp at Morpha Bay... the school likes to take all year 6 students away for the week once all the SATs are done and its a time of relaxing and letting your hair down also some would say a rite of passage....

So in he came on the Friday the 14th and boy, in that week away he had changed! tales of travel sickness (only once, on the way there!) and the first two nights he was homesick (fortunately not literally this time! a night at beaver camp comes to mind!) but he's had a fabulous time and even got a tan!! allbeit only on his neck and arms...his ears are looking a bit tender because he forget to put suncream on them!

Then he got into school on Monday the 17th and his teacher that went to camp awarded him an achievement certificate for overcoming his fears and going on a zipwire!!! My boy who is a gentle soul! petrified of spiders & heights went abseiling and on a zipwire!!

So it was more than a moment really but a moment that had to be shared because it was a moment when a boy started the journey to becoming a man...


If you have a simple moment to share, Go to Alexa's blog here and leave a link

So, til next time

Lisa
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A card for a friend

Here's a card for my lovely friend Carin and her family... They have recently moved from Lancashire to the Dorset area. 

I hope she gets it before this post goes live on the 22nd!  Also I finally used a sizzix die that I've never used before!! I wonder how many of us have equipment that we have never used? I sold a lot of my yellow dies to some friends in March because they had never been used and I thought it was pointless to keep them when I have my cricut machine and spellies too...

Anyway, that's all for now folks

Lisa
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WOYWW.....

Too much! in fact so much.....

That I ended up crafting...... On our bed!!

And what did I make? Only a little card but it felt so good to play with paper again.... you never know what this may lead to! you will have to wait til noon for it to be revealed...

Anyway don't forget to visit Julia

Bye for and thanks for dropping by too

Lisa
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Since my last post I've managed to complete a couple of things and start some new things that got finished too...

 This necklace was made using replica Chinese coins and red glass beads with antique bronze findings and below it are matching earrings...

Below is the shades of purple quilt that was a wedding present for my sister and brother in law in October 2007!
Its finally finished (btw it measures 6ft by 6ft 6inches) and now they have it.

The next two pictures are the blanket
that I crocheted for my daughter, the uppermost one is the top of the blanket and the lower is the bottom half... I had intended to block it but it was nabbed and used straightaway!

 This is the canvas that I made using stamps from Paper Artsy and Visible Image with a selection of distress inks and stains...

















Now we are on to the jewellery that I made on Wednesday 24th March using a selection of glass and semi-precious beads... Black & Gold.... a mix of czech druks, golden opals & swarovski crystals are included.

Bracelet & Earrings are no longer available...Caribbean Blue... with clear & teal swarovski crystals used.

White Wedding...

And lastly here is a card that I made using some of the fabulous designs from Visible Image....
Grunge Check Background, Tyre Marks, Vintage Car, Happy Birthday from Set 7 of More Than Words and lastly inside is the phrase... No matter your age you'll always be a Classic



It's been a busy week here, So I think I'll be having a few days rest... But then Yesterday a fabulous new stamp arrived in the post! It's the adorable Clara from Visible Image! So I'll be playing with her and our fabulous friend Edgar over the weekend.....

Thanks for dropping by

Lisa
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Joining in with Alexa for Simply A Moment....Golden years

My darling girl is now a teenager and this photo is one of the last pics taken of her the night before... I wanted to take a pic of her still 12 and I clicked before she had a chance to turnaround... When I saw this image though it took me back to laying in a hospital bed with a bag of pink & white clothes all carefully folded waiting for her to be born....as 7.33am on April the 9th she came in to the world...all 9lbs 9oz of her! Seeing this tho made me realise my baby girl is no longer a baby... she has life waiting for her and all the joys of life and maybe just a little of heartache... for having learned that you don't get to my age without a bit of it but it's the heartache that makes all the rest of life sweeter... I love her to absolute pieces and love the way that whenever she puts her hair up you can see those strands of wayward hair that refuse to be included.... Well, that moment is now over a week old and she has laughed and cried a few times since then and one of these times was this moment, she is not really a cake lover but likes a brownie now and then so we got her a birthday brownie!
and cos you can't fit 13 candles on a brownie she was happy to have one and indulged her parents by letting us sing Happy Birthday to her too.... This image is rather grainy because it was taken from a film of us singing to her and the moment just before she blew out the candle...












That's a simple moment (or two) and if you want to join in here is the link that will take you back to Alexa and where she has shared a moment of hers too.

Bye for now

Lisa
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Visible Image Stamps

I've been collecting these fabulous designs for about 6 months now and they so lovely and cover some many occasions and the stamps are always crisp and I love getting an envelope that has some stamps in it too... The design team produce wonderful examples using the stamps too and yesterday I had the urge to craft with inks and card.... The first stamps I used are from the Immortal Love set... I love these two roses and I made a couple of masks with them and kept moving them around as I worked over the card the I stamped the verses, the first one is a really new design from Helen and Mark, who are the lovely couple behind the name of Visible Image and is called Hearts Entwined  and the second one is done using The One verse. I used distress inks for stamping the roses in Victorian Velvet and stamped the verse using an adirondack inkpad in Cranberry, to colour the ribbon I used the same distress ink too. I used Spellbinders labels 11 for the die-cut shape on the first card.  
Then on the second card I used adirondack in Eggplant to stamps the roses and the verse, I then inked over the card using Seedless Preserves distress ink and I decided to leave a large rose in the upper middle un-inked because I thought it would bring your attention to the roses so they wouldn't fade into the background and I also used the same ink to colour the ribbon on that card... I used a Perfect Medium clear inkpad and the Grunge Flourish stamp and cosmic shimmer mica powder to give it a gorgeous shimmery effect as you move the card around. and a Martha Stewart punch french scroll around the corner set for the second card.

Thanks for dropping by
Lisa
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Key Charms...............

After the last post about my daughters birthday and the bracelets I made for the girls who came, my friend Carin asked to see the key charms that I made for the boys... and here are some photos of it including some close-ups of the charms too

Bye for now
Lisa
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Baby's 13th birthday...

Last week was my daughters' birthday and it feels strange to say that she is now a teenager... we agreed to get her a mobile phone with a contract as that is what she wanted.... but my lovely friend Nikky, who along with another friend runs a mobile roller disco called Lets Sk8...(they visit different sports centres around the Bristol/North Somerset area) suggested having a surprise party for my daughter as she helps out every Saturday... So as she and her friends are a bit too old for party bags these days and my daughter is not a great cake lover but likes brownies so we got her a brownie and took along a tray bake and I made bracelets for all the girls and the boys that went got a steampunk themed key charm/fob... I won't be showing any pics of the roller disco as I know some of the mums would prefer not to have pics of their children shown but I have a few pics of the bracelets that I made for the girls who attended.  I even managed to get drops of paint on either end.... anyone remember the white roses being painted red? Also I had to use a swallow for the bird cos I couldn't get a dodo charm anywhere and instead of a caterpillar I got butterflies... and the middle charm altho not Alice in Wonderland related it was birthday party related... a roller boot!! I really enjoyed making these bracelets and I used split rings instead of ordinary jump rings so they would be a bit sturdier for the teenagers....

Bye for now
Lisa
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a card or two, some wedding stationery and a couple of other things too!

Lately I've been making more cards and also some jewellery too... I can't show all the jewellery just yet but I made a necklace for a friends little girl and some key charms for two friends who've just gone into business running a cake shop.
So from top to bottom then,
The first card I made was for my youngest son, the next for my friends V & S and also the key charms were for them too, then the necklace was for V's little girl, she is such a sweetie and loves to come round to see my daughter too even tho my girl is 8 years older, she loves to spend time colouring in pics with T helping....
Below that is a thank you card for T's friend and parents who took T to London with them over the long Easter weekend... lots of great pics taken and some fab food too by the sounds of it all....
Next is a birthday card for my lovely MiL.... she will be 70 but you'd be hard pushed to think she was more than 50.... she looks more like my husbands sister than his mum! That's obviously where the good genes come from cos altho A is 6 years older than me, he's been mistaken for my toy-boy!! Anyway, the next card
is also for her from our 3 children, they love their Grandparents so much, my parents are both no longer with us and I think that my dad's recent passing has made the children realise that no-one sadly lives for ever but we hope my husbands parents are around for a lot longer yet!
The last 5 pics are the wedding invites (day & night-time), rsvp cards and wedding favour boxes (72) that each had to have 5 almonds in so we wrapped them in turquoise blue tissue to complement the rsvp cards that went with every invitation. I've known the bride-to-be since she was two years old and now she will be nearly 26 when they get married! so much has changed in those 24 years....yet its hard to believe that much time has gone by....

And here is a snap shot of the bride to be...... She's a lovely young lady and I know she is a great daughter too and I'm sure she will make be a wonderful wife and one day a mother herself too!

So, I think that is all for now, until next week when my 3 children are back at school and I can get back to crafting and finish a patchwork quilt I started a few years back!

bye for now and hope you'll pop back soon

Lisa
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