Oh No Not More Stamps

Hi all

Had a knit and natter group today and as I did not follow the pattern correctly and as it is a pair of socks will have to undo the whole lot, practice makes perfect so they say.

I have been putting all my unmounted stamps onto the Ezee Mount from Joanna Sheen and cutting it out is making my hands rather sore and so I now have another load of stamps to sort and am finding quite a few doubles.

I still need to learn how to do the link so that people can add their names to the bottom of the post for my giveaway so will have to play with my blog for a while.

I had to go to our nearest Pets at Home this morning which is around 15 miles from where we live as our Darling Bella broke her lead yesterday which is now the 5th one to be replaced so on average we are going through one a year.

After I told her off this is what she did 

Hid her head under her blanket 

I have made another two cards today and I hope you like them, will catch up with everybody's blog later on as I really do need to get these stamps sorted am fed up of sorting them now just want to play with all the goodies I have found when sorting out.

Well I'm off just now speak soon.

Alison x

Afternoon Everybody

Have had a busy morning, went into Cornwall to Kernow Mill and bought myself a lovely new handbag and a pair of shoes, then came home and have cut material out for some makes which I will show when finished these are for the Cornwood Fair in the Square which is on the 2nd May.

I have nearly finished sorting my stamps out and for someone who thought she did not have many has over 200.  I am waiting for some more storage boxes from Ikea and then we are completely finished the craft room and then will be buying a shed for the garden for my wheelchair and Alan's tools

I then made a couple of cards which are below and am going to comment before getting dinner ready, so not as photo heavy like yesterday lol x

These cards are made using the Rachelle Anne Miller CD and I have just matted and layered them to give them some substance added a bit of bling and butterfly they made fairly quick cards 

Am signing off just now and will be popping along to your wonderful blogs soon.

Love Alison xx

Craft Room Finished Give Away - Very Picture Heavy

Evening all

Lovely and sunny here today although a bit chilly.  I have had a lovely day Sarah came over for a visit and we watched a film together as Alan is on back shift so some nice girly time.

Does anyone know how I add a link so that people can leave their names at the bottom of my previous post so that they able to enter my candy giveaway  HELP  please.

Before I show you my new improved craft room I thought I would share my two makes with you

OK so here is the craft room starting with the :-

Outside of door these are my embroidery threads and below this is an ikea spice rack to store bits and bobs

Inside of door holding my hougie board and others

The next photo is the bottom shelf behind the door which also holds my Scan n Cut

The next photo is the shelf above which goes along straight to the desk and has my Clever Cuts Die Drawers on it these are magnetic sheets A4 and hold a lot of dies but I still need more storage for them.

Carrying on with the same shelf my pencils

Same shelf still 

Again my 12 x 12 paper/card storage from clever cuts

Third Shelf behind door 

This stores all my spray glues, stamps and card/paper

Forth Shelf behind door

This shelf stores magazines, computer papers, 8 x 8 papers etc 

Corner behind door

Middle of shelf

Corner near window

then moving along to the desk I have a shelf with all my DVD's on it for easy access

Then in the corner I have books and diary etc 

and a storage unit which holds glues, pens, scissors and tools etc etc 

then above this I have a small corner shelf and two other shelves which go the whole length of the wall

Again making use of an Ikea spice rack

Now for the last part under the desk storage

Ikea Alex set of Drawers 

Storage that I bought at Exeter many years ago 

Printer Trolley which is on casters for pulling out when needed

drawer under main desk that houses the computer

Well that's about it if you managed to check all the photo's out you are a hero.

Am off to get my dinner and will be back later to check your lovely blogs out.

Alison xx

Celebration Give Away

Evening all

Hope you are all keeping well.  I have had a busy day today, went to Modbury to our local fabric shop to buy some backing and wadding for a quilt I am making and have decided to do this by hand rather than using the machine and quilting as I go as it is a double bed size it is going to take me ages.

I have also been sitting in my little craft area today still loads of stamps to sort out where they all came from I do not know, think they have been doing the naughty in the drawer and multiplying lol x

I have made a card today using the Crafter's Companion Paintbox CD as I wanted some girly cards for the Fair in the Square which is held in the village every two years and this year I have a table booked so need to get some cards made as Sarah usually takes them into work with her to sell.

I will be having a give away when my craft room is completed which should be around Friday next week (22 April) so please do leave a link and I will do the random org, it is for some 12 x 12 storage boxes, a few stamps and a We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board plus some Sew Easy threads and hole punches for sewing not sure what they are called.  Pictures below

Anyway without further ado here is my card

That's it from me today will post some other makes tomorrow hopefully.

Love to all

Alison xx

What a busy week

Evening Everybody

Have you enjoyed the last couple of days with the glorious sunshine, it is now raining and a bit windy here on Dartmoor.

Earlier this month Sarah and I went for a day trip to Ikea in Bristol which is about 2 hours from where we live as I was looking for some storage for my craft room which we decided needed a make over as I could not find anything.  We ordered the Alex set of drawers and bought some boxes and some magazine files to hold papers.  I then went on line to Clever Cuts and bought some 12 x 12 paper storage shelves and also some die storage boxes.  We also bought a printer table for under the desk on casters so I can pull it out when needed for photocopying etc.

So Friday last week I emptied my craft room which took all day and then Alan and I then went to B&Q on Saturday and bought some Conti Board, some brackets.  Alan then proceeded to put more shelves in for me.  We finally finished all except one shelf which will be going in this weekend hopefully and then came the part where I sorted everything out, lots went to the charity shops, gave some away to friends and I am much tidier and seem to have more room (which means of course more goodies).

Yesterday was our granddaughter Jessica's Birthday can't believe she is 20 seems like only yesterday she was born.   As she is in to clothes and bags made this card from the Fabulous Fashion CD by Katysue designs I just love this CD as it has some amazing stuff on it.

I hope you like it.  

I will be posting photo's of the newly improved craft room as soon as the last shelf is up but what really scares me is the fact that I thought I had hardly any stamps but when emptying the room out I found two A4 storage cases full of stamps most of which have never been used I then opened a box and found a load more I now have a drawer full of wooden stamps and two boxes full of stamps but they are now in order and easy to find as I stamped them onto a 6 x 6 card and put in a cello bag and then popped into a box does that make sense (I would be dangerous if I had a brain cell that worked)

I can't finish the stamps off as I need some Ezee Mount for the unmounted stamps so when they are done we will be all organised for at least a week lol.

Well I am signing off for the night now and will be casting my eye over your lovely blogs tomorrow when I have a spare hour.

Love to all 

Sweet dreams

Alison 

Am Very Late with my challenge

Hi Everybody this should have been posted yesterday but I was unable to get to my craft room due to the fact that we are having a good sort out and putting in extra storage shelves and drawers so after today will have to use either my laptop or my tablet for posting.

Anyway we have another challenge over at Our Crafty Corner and the theme is anything, so why not pop along and take a look at the DT examples and then enter for yourself you never know you might win a prize from our lovely sponsors which are:

Bloobel Stamps

and 

Lacy Sunshine

My card is from an image by Lacy Sunshine, I do hope you like it

Backing papers from stash

Image - Lacy Sunshine

Coloured in using the Spectrum Noir Water Pencils 

Flowers etc from Ribbon Girl

Will post photo's of my craft room when finished think it's going to take a while but it will be so much better and I will be able to find things (hopefully) I emptied out a drawer in my storage under the desk and found a whole load of stamps which I had forgotten I had so am now sorting these out and putting them in some sort of order and putting them on the shelf so I don't have to bend down.

Sarah and I travelled to Bristol to Ikea on last Saturday about a two hour trip and we bought some of their Alex Drawers which are shallow and I will be able to keep lots of goodies in them and will be able to get rid of the hodge podge of drawers already under the table.  

Am off now to sort out a box  under the table which has not seen the light of day since I put it under there about 4 years ago lol   I will then be along to look at all your lovely creations.

Bye for now

Alison 

Another Lovely Day

Afternoon/Evening all

Have had a lovely day today, I met up with our eldest granddaughter Nicole and my new great granddaughter Darcy and went out for lunch it was lovely, had a good old chat.  Afterwards we popped in to where our daughter Sarah works to show off Darcy and to pass some mail to Sarah that had come to us by mistake.  I then came home to where the post had been delivered and my new Joanna Sheen House Mouse, decoupage CD had arrived so had to have a play.

Alan will be home shortly so this is going to be a quick post and I will pop by to see your lovely creations after dinner is over with tonight.

So without further ado here is the card I made this afternoon do hope you like it.

Sorry about the photo not very good I know but the battery is running low and I need to charge it and the light was shining on my scan n cut.

Well am off to start dinner for Alan and will pop back a bit later to do some commenting.

Love to All

Alison