Flowers in the Garden

Iv'e not done much in crafting this month so I thought I would put some photos of flowers in the garden.

Yellow rose bush.

Light pink Hollyhock.

Peach Hollyhock.

White Holllyhock.

And lastly a deep pink Hollyhock. I think I shall be looking out for other colours of Hollyhocks to go into the garden. Have a blessed weekend.

Envelope Scrapbook

Well it's been awhile since I loaded up something on my blog, a whole month I think. This week I found this tutorial using 6 long envelopes, it called for 10" size but I could not find any here in the UK so I am using DL size, just a 1/4" too short. You can use coloured envelops, they have them at Paper Chase @ 50p each, I chose regular brown or you can use white.

This is going to be this month project at Brandon.

I have used K&Co double side paper, they look like old fashioned wall paper. Inside you have two pockets with tags inside, one of the pockets has a flap.

You get 12 pockets to use and decorate, a lot of room to put photos and journalling.

Two chipboard's are decorated for the cover tied up all together with ribbon. I will add the link to the tutorial later as I am on my laptop, I saved the link on the PC.

This looks like its going to be a birthday gift, hmmmmm come to think of it I will have to make another one for someone's birthday next month

Kath Kidston Bag and Cupcakes

In an older post I showed you my new book for sewing. The book came with a project, which is this bag that I have finished.

The bag is not as big as I expected, it's just enough to put your basics in or lunch. It will be awhile before I can do any more sewing as my machine has broken and I need a new one. I have found one I like but I think that will have to go on my Christmas wish list.

Yesterday I made cupcakes to take to church tonight, we have a guest speaker coming, Terry Law, he will be at our church tonight at 7pm if your interested in coming.

The cupcakes are Mint Chocolate Chip with mint flavour frosting and a few choc chips on top, I also coloured the frosting a light mint green. They taste great, made a few extra for the weekend.

A Card for Pastor

It was our Pastors 6oth Birthday last week, so I thought I would make a special card from our Care Group in church. I spent the day at my friend Suzie, here is her blog http://nothinsayslovin.blogspot.com/ we used some lovely stamps that she has and templates. I made a load of embellishments to take home, I figure the cowboy would be good for the card. The bottom picture is the inside.

Here is a close up of the front of the card, kinda of sunset look.

And here we have it, not to bad.

Spring in the Park

Here we are in Nowton Park, we had a lovely day with friends from church, some of us brought a picnic, and me being a Brit. brought flasks of water for tea and coffee. We played games and went for a walk. Need to plan another day like this again.

Nan's Visit

My husband and I had a nice visit with my Gran and my Mum, they loved their Mothers Day gifts. We surprised my Nan as she was not expecting us, she got caught fast asleep while knitting a baby coat and watching TV, Nan knits baby blankets and clothes to send off to Africa. Doing something with her hand keeps her mind working she is 91 years old and still sharp as ever. In this photo she is wearing the broach that I made for, I know she will keep it as I have noticed other things that I have made for her are around her flat.

I like this picture and made it black and white, just wish I was slimmer.

Mothers Day Gift

Well its Mothers Day tomorrow and we are off to Ipswich to visit my mum and grandmother, so these are the gifts that I have made for them.

This is a toilet roll scrap book which I have made into a card, I have tried to make it Victorian.

Tags go inside the loo tubes, I have put a poem on each side of the tag.

All the sides are embellished.

This is a fabric broach that I have made this morning for my nan, you can get the tutorial from here http://sewritzytitzy.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-annas-gardenfabric-flower-tutorial.html

It was easy, you just need scraps of fabric, strong thread, fabric glue, felt,button,sewing machine and matching thread and a broach pin.

Cath Kidston

I just want to share what I got in the post this morning. SEW by Cath Kidston, the book has over 40 projects with patterns, templates,instructions and a free gift. A shoulder bag kit, my friend Tracy has one and we going to sew our projects together at some point. The book is available at www.amazon.co. uk and cost £6.99, that is a bargain as it costs alot more in the shops.

I am looking forward to doing some of the projects for Christmas Gifts and for my self.

I have more projects on the go than I know what to do with. Some paper crafts, scrap-booking,cross stitch and quilting.

Craft Room

I was just blog hopping today and found this site,http://paisleypassions.blogspot.com/2011/03/craft-room.html

You should see her craft room. Apparently is was untidy so there are photos of that, then there are photos of the room all cleaned up, and ohhhhhhh and ahhhh, the room is a crafters delight.

My craft supplies are all over the place, it gets to be a pain to keep unpacking and putting away all the time. O well one day I hope to have a craft room.

Leaders Weekend Away

On the right hand of the photo is where our bedroom was, which a partly converted out building linked to the main house.

A lot of us had birthdays recently there was chocolate birthday cake for tea on Friday night.

Leaders Weekend Away

At the weekend my husband and I went away to a leaders retreat with out church. We stayed in a lovely place called the Mill House in Norfolk somewhere. We went Friday to Sunday morning,the picture below is our bedroom,There were lots of rooms in this place, which was great as there were 12 of us all together.

Below is some of the grounds with geese and swans.

Here is a few of the mill, it is not longer used, the owner is in his 80s and no longer able to do the up keep of the mill. The whiter part of the picture is a newer house where I believe the owner lives.

Another view of the mill.

This is the old house, it is long rather than wide. The owner was born in this house, inside there are photos of him as young lad, and other family members in the hay day of this mill.

Gifts for Christmas/ Market Bags

Remember my last post, the one with the Christmas Bag. Wellllllllllllll I have made 2 more. I had this floral fabric upstairs and I bought some lining fabric to match. This time I strengthened the bottom of the bag with some iron on facing.

The second bag I decided to make an embellishment, a yo yo ring from the lining fabric, and I covered an old button with the floral fabric.

Doing some sewing has got me looking for a new sewing machine as mine is old and cranky, a little like me at times. I have been looking for patterns for the next challenge. I have found some free ones on the web, just gotta pick one. See you later folks

New challenge out at Christmas Sewing, you can find the link on my side bar. I will looking in my books and magazine's for something to sew on a cushion. See you all later.

Market Bag

Here is a bag that I made today, it is part of a challenge that I found over at http://nothinsayslovin.blogspot.com/ . The challenge is to make something for Christmas, here is the link http://sewnwithgrace.blogspot.com/. The challenge is on the 3rd Monday of each month, I believe the next one is this Monday. There are no instructions on how to make the bag, you have to google market bag patterns.

So here is my first try. I had this Christmas fabric in my box of fabrics, and I just about had enough to make one. The instructions I found requires 1 yard of print and 1 yard of plain fabric, with that you can make 2 bags. I have some more fabric but just need to buy some liner to match.
This fabric was great as it did not have a right way design and it had a patchwork feel to it.
The bottom is not reinforced but the instructions said you could use interfacing to strengthen it.

As I was pleased of how the bag turned out I will have to make some more.

Chantelle

Joan's cousin

Joan

There was one from Angela, but for some reason the picture did not show up on my camera.

Next month Chantelle will be showing us how to do a scrapbook using toilet rolls tubes.

Notice Board

In our craft group we were taught by Joan to make this notice board. It was fairly easy, this would make a nice gift for someone. Mine did get to be someone's birthday gift.

Supplies used;

Hard board, pattern paper, card stock,cork tile, notepad, pen, sticky notes, drawing pins and a calender. We had our own choice of embellishments.

Eunice

Maria

Tracy

More pics to follow.

Cupcake

Well it was one of my sons birthday, so for a cake I got the giant cupcake from JML at Asda. I tried one of the recipes from the book, the cake itself was not great, so we only ate half of it. Well it was the first time I used it.

Inside you can mould it so that you can fill it with a filling. We chose chocolate.

Outside was sprinkled with sprinkles. As you can see the size of the standard cupcake case to the giant cake.

Diamond Folds Cards

I got the idea for these cards from one of the card makeing magazines. The two smaller ones are from the mag. and the larger one is an experiment that I did. I taght the girls at Crafty Women how to make these, the ladies did there own embellishment, they all looked good. February is a busy month for birthdays for me, there is also a baby on the way in church. I think I have another 2 or 3 cards to make, doing the male cards for me is difficult.

Tomorrow is crafting in Brandon, we shan't be doing any projects just our own thing. I hope to get some much needed scrapbook pages done.

Random pictures of December

Well unfortunately we did not get the camera out for Christmas, we were having such a good time that we forgot, so I have put a few up to view.

Here is a picture I took testing out my new camera, it was taken when we got the first freeze.

One of my sons wanted to get our dog Lily under the Christmas tree, wished we thought to dress her up in her Christmas outfit, will have to wait until next year.
My disaster wreath, it was meant to hang outside but fell and broke, so I brought it inside, then a maggot popped out so it went in the bin, next Christmas I hope to do a better job.

I like to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and thank you for following by blog.