Who's at the door?I

It was Dot's birthday and what do you get for the girls who has everything????

A little hand decorated box........

....... full of bling!  Buttons to use for bracelet fasteners.

And a quick card!

It's Polly!  Sorry Polly you can't come in tonight I'm off to Dot's birthday meal!

Wildlife and Christmas Pressy

Here are a couple of photos of wildlife in my garden......

Black cat called Tia who lives at the end of the road - she must have been STARVING to come and eat the bird food!

Wren just outside the kitchen window....

......he's pecking at the insects in the moss that has fallen off the roof.

Christmas present that took a few weeks to arrive with Tom and Jerri - I made this little album to celebrate Jerri's first visit to Thornton in July.  I took this photo of the viaduct from my bedroom window - it looked spectacular with the sun shining through the arches.

First pair of pages

Second pair of pages

I added shrinky dink plastic gears from Tim Holtz to the page about the Industrial Museum.  You can see the tag which is in between the pages.

A heart shaped sticker from Accessorize on this page.

Some of the tags have writing on them and some I have left blank for Tom and Jerri to add their own part of the story.

I made the paper flowers and added glitter to the centre and petals.

A little dolls house paper plate and the cutlery is a paper punch.

The bus is from the same sticker set from Accessorize.

A purchased fabric flower.

The fabric flower was made from organza ribbon gathered with a button sewn on the front and a string of beads on the back.  I also added a shrinky dink gear and a die cut scroll, which I painted with blue glitter.  It was all glued on with diamond glaze.

1.1.11

Haven't blogged since last year!  Here is a little taste of something I haven't shown you yet - I made it for my son and daughter-in-law in America and it took AGES and AGES and AGES to arrive.  This was a little trial for the front page.  More photos to follow....... when I can find them.......

Too cold to bead?

It was far too cold and icy to go to Dot's beading class this evening, so I caught the bus straight home and decided to have a go at today's project on my own....
here are two variations of daisy chain that I tried......

 

Craft Stamper Trade It swap this month was an altered piece of chipboard no larger than 3 inches.  Here is the one I did - it is triple embossed with shrink plastic dangly bits - the stamp was a block with various kitcheny things on - a pile of teacups, a coffee pot, a toaster and a single tea cup.  The colour theme was lemon and lilac.

 

And here is the one that my mum made ...

It is that time of year again and I need to think of a new design for my fridge magnet calendars... these are the ones I made the last two years.....

recent creations

Dot has been teaching me jewellery making and I recently made this bracelet.  It uses lots and lots of jump rings, which need to be opened and have beads threaded on them, then closed again and added with other jump rings.  Not my favourite technique.

 

I made this scrapbook page to celebrate Jerri and Tom's recent marriage - here they are cutting the cake at Tom's Grandparents house.  Jerri, very kindly, brought me some fabulous scrapbook papers from America and I have used these.  I still have some words to put on it - I seem to have forgotten them!!!

February 2010

Sorry about the delay on February's page. I was away at the end of February and beginning of March and have been frantically busy since I got back..... so here it is.... I now have the next 7 days of March to do.

Today I went to the Antique Textile Fair in Manchester and will take some photos tomorrow of my purchases and put them on here.