lovebirds dancin' a jig! (some new designs!)

Here's a couple of new card designs I've been tinkering with! This was commissioned for a friends wedding anniversary. When you wiggle the card about their legs move and they kinda look like they're doing a jig! Sadly, this amused me for some time!

and a card for my neighbour who I will miss massively...I'm so gutted they are gone :(
I handstamped the card with "Home Tweet Home" cos I love a corny pun!   

and this one for my blokes father's birthday. I drew little musical notes all around him.

I will be attempting to work on these designs in photoshop and get some prints done once I'm happy with the designs. Hopefully they will print out well, I'm still unsure of how the colour backgrounds will work, maybe I need to stick with plain to start with. Any tips from you arty folk would be much appreciated!

Well, take care my lovelies and I hope the weather has been as lovely with you as it was with us today!!

 xxx

New craft room space!!

At last!!! I can actually get in the room and get sewing without having to faff about for hours first. It's all coming together now. I've got a desk and some rather gorgeous drawers which are now filled to the brim with fabric...lovely lovely fabric!!!

 Notice how I've carefully not shown the left side of the room...ahem...its still a work in progress!

 and the beautiful drawers...

and I have christened my new space by making some super last minute pressies for my mama's birthday.

A new bright little fella to keep the blackbird company. I love these little birds and I'm starting to get the hang of making them, although its still pretty time consuming and fiddley, they are well worth the effort. They are from the book The Artful Bird by Abby Glassenberg who writes the inspiring blog While She Naps.

I also made a few new cards using my new shape cutter tool toy by Fiskars and a butterflies stencil template.

  and I gave me ma a bunch of flowers picked from the garden and hedgerows around the house.

 Well folks, good day to you and hoping you have a fabulous and foxy week! xx

family

a family portrait I made for my Bro for Xmas..I'm the pink one!!

I've been away from blogland for some time again..I'm amazed I ever found the time to write posts several times a week! Life seems to have upped the pace and Ive spent  a lot of time in the hospital with my fabulous 89yr old nan. My Mothers day involved finding my nan collapsed on the floor of her bungalow in a very sorry state. I am so thankful that I happened to be going to see her that day, as I usually only visit once a week with my little terror boy on a Tuesday. Also, my folks were on holiday and had been away a week and still had another week to go. You never can tell where the twists and turns of lfe will lead you..I really hadn't imagined my Mothers day spent in Casualty until 1 in the morning! But thankfully, nan is doing really well and is due to return home tomorrow.

Although it's been a stressful and tiring couple of weeks, I have spent hours and hours chatting with my nan and I now know a whole lot more about my heritage...so many stories of my family and of life in the wartime. I've really enjoyed that part of it, sometimes it takes a big shake up of things to show you how important family are.

There have also been babies born, the lovely Chloe had her babe at home (I'll leave her to tell the details!!). it seems quite profound that I should see a baby, just a few minutes old on Saturday and then my dear old Nan at deaths door on Sunday. Ah well, the wheel keeps turning...I enjoy the ride but I'm pretty tired right now...and on that note I say farewell for now! 

Hope all you fellow bloggers are well and happy...hooray for family and hooray for friends!...life just wouldn't be the same without you crazy bunch 

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Whoaaaah slow down there...how could it be that my last post was nearly a month ago..? There's been tantrums galore and mummy meltdowns aplenty and even a little crafting going on...but no progress, as yet, in the craft crap room!

Exterminate..we have come to destroy your brain...and sanity!

Just thought I'd treat you to a delightful sneak look at my amazing organized simplicity (NOT!!!!) in action...this is taken from where I sit. Its the carboot loot pile which I am casually adding things to as and when I unearth them. Oh, and the boxes of beer are not a sign of my decent in alcolohism..I just work in an off licence and need lots of boxes...honest!! In 2 weeks time (when I try to flog it all at a carboot)this will be gone and I begin to eek out a creative space, but until then...the stash grows!

oh the shame :(

On a lighter note..Ive managed to make a few little things, on my ironing board, as it is the only worktop in the room at the moment. This was for a friends little boy. They are fiddley to make but worth the effort I reckon.

another sketchy card!

Fortunately there's been some fab sunny Spring days lately and the kids have been playing outside a lot. We bought some massive chalks and the kids have now covered pretty much every surface in the garden, including the table and chairs, the walls, the fence, the shed.....

 So nice to have 5 minutes peace though...a rare thing these days!

Well chickadees, got to go and sew now, got an idea involving a very small canvas...an owl, a hare, a fox and a little bird! Watch this space...

Hope you are enjoying Spring or Autumn, depending on which side fo the globe you're at!? 

Peace, love and all that hippy stuff to ya xxxxx