Another Sunny Day

Morning Everyone

Am up early today as it is coffee stop in the village and I also needed to take a pair of trousers up for a friend and will give them back to her this morning.

I have made another card am on a roll lol, again for the Fair in the Square on the 2nd May but really need to get some bath bombs made and some more foaming sugar scrubs now that my delivery from the Soap Kitchen has arrived.

Went over to Sarah's place last night as Alan helped her load her old settee's so that she could take them to the tip, her new suite is so comfortable could have fell asleep in the chair, the Chippy near Sarah's is I think the best in Plymouth so we had fish and chips for tea which made a change as we don't have a chippy near us.

Don't forget that I am having a Crafty Give Away on my post below this so do add your name if you fancy a go.

Well without further ado here is the card I made yesterday

Will catch up with everybody later today but for now I must go and get a shower and dressed before 10am but porridge first me thinks.

Love to all

Alison 

Goodies Give away

Afternoon All

Sunny day here on Dartmoor so am enjoying the sunshine long may it last.  I have found out how to do the link up to give my goodies away, this includes storage for 12 x 12 papers, We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch, Stamps and some embroidery cotton and punches for sewing on cards

So why not add yourself to the list below, you never know the Giveaway could be yours.

Alison

Give Away

An InLinkz Link-up

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