On the move

ladies and gentlemen I have opened a new blog, combining my crafting and the crafting of my friends in the Paper Dolls.  So please pop over to

www.beesfavouritethings.blogspot.com/

and catch up with the news.  Looking forward to seeing you there.

xx

Let the Games begin

Up bright and early this morning as the Olympic Torch was due to pass the top of our road at 8.15 a.m.  So pleased I bothered - the road was crowded and there was a great carnival atmosphere, people bringing round fresh croissants and hot drinks and then the magnificent torch.

bring on the games.

A touch of the deja vue

when I saw these photos today I had to look twice as it only seems a few months since Mya started nursery (she's now in 'big' school) and today our little Gracie started nursery.....she was so excited and raring to go - fingers crossed it lasts.

Gracie is 3 - well almost

it's Gracie's 3rd birthday on Tuesday but we had her family party today.  Being Pesach she couldn't have a shop birthday cake so it fell to me to make her pesadicher cakes.....

now I need to make another one at the end of the week for Perry's birthday and no he isn't getting a snow white cake.



A gift for Nes'i

I always make my grandchildren their own shawl and have been knitting away over the past few months making one for our miracle baby.  I chose a Victorian pattern called Tree of Life and it is made in 1ply wool (I must be mad).  It measures 60" square and I am rather pleased with it.

My not so 'little' girls

my babies are growing up, Mya is 5 now and Grace will be 3 next month, so glad we'll soon have another baby to love.  Meanwhile back to my big girls, they are such good company and I love having them here.  The latest photos.....

At last some cards....

,,,,my mojo has gone awol again but I have managed to make a few cards, mainly because some important birthdays are coming soon.  It took me twice as long as normal to make these but I got there in the end...

firstly a card I was asked to make for a 60th, the front part opens to reveal a photo of the recipient.

and then a very important card - for my youngest granddaughter's 3rd birthday next month, the stamp is called Grace so I had to use it for Gracie's card.....

then it is my younger son's birthday next month, he loves to cook and he enjoys a good wine so I thought this was a good combination....

now a card for my sister-in-laws birthday......

and this one was purely because I was on a roll......

and finally two get well cards - I seem to have had a run on them lately and was getting low on stock......

now to try and track down Mr Mojo.

not crafting news.....

....I have been crafting since my last post, but keep forgetting to dig the camera out and blog - note to self must try harder.

However for the past couple of months I have been sitting on some fantastic news and at last I can reveal all.  Perry and Sheryl are making us grandparents again in September.  This baby is truly a little miracle and we are all so excited.  We have been truly blessed, baruch Hashem.

xx

It's a blue day...

...for my Daisy and Tilda cards today, I even used some of my ribbon from Crafty Ribbons (on the thank you card) love ribbon with words on it.

Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses...

...and my Tilda and Daisy cards today are all in pinks.  I am so enjoying

these images and going back to my Promarkers and colouring.

When a Wreath is not a Wreath.....

it's a mobile....

I saw a photo of a wreath made with these paper hearts and have to say I was not impressed but I could see potential.  So I set to work and made 12 hearts (dead simple) and set them out on my desk in the shape of the wreath.

No!!!!!!!!!!!  it quite simply didn't work, too big and not terribly substantial.  So I took 4 hearts away - ah that's better but what do I do with the spare hearts - ping light bulb moment - make a second tier.  But then it's not a wreath - it's a...........

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mobile!!!!!

Well that sounded simple enough but the mechanics of joining the two tiers so that they hung straight was a bit thought provoking.  But after looking at it from all angles I worked it out and worked out how to hang it.  Now how to make it pretty and to get movement in it.  Firstly I printed off 4 of my Tilda stamp images and then I flipped the images and printed 4 to go on the backs.  Coloured and glittered them and fitted them to the centre of the mobile.  It still needed something else so I cut and glittered 8 little butterflies and fixed them to the mobile using thin strips of acetate so that they looked as if they were flying and voila.......one mobile.

It's there in black and white......

....last week I bought the Joanna Sheen Daisy and Friends cd and my friend Gloria sent me some more of her Tilda stamped images so it would be very rude not to play.  I printed off lots of the Daisy digi stamps and decided to go for colour groups.  Dusted off my ProMarkers and set to work on the first set of black and white .....

Mojo is back in town...

and I can't seem to stop crafting.  Have to make the most of it while he is around.



It's fun time..

... as I am way ahead of myself with stuff for my craft group it has been play time in my craft room this week and there should be a few posts over the next week or so.  Today there are these cute little lollipop covers that I made for the littlies.  These are so quick and easy to make and you can use up all those little scraps you had been saving.....

still crafting

I've been concentrating on getting some of the 2012 challenges prepared for my craft group this month and have managed to get up to and including July's under my belt - sorry no pictures for now as they are all strictly hush hush.  So haven't really managed much other crafting but did manage a couple of cards for my stock....

I simply had to have a play with this stamp as soon as it arrived.

I'll try to get the others photographed during the week.

Guess who is 5 tomorrow...

our big girl had a Tinkerbell party today for all her school friends.

Happy birthday for tomorrow Mya, we love you

xxx

New Year - New Beginnings

I think I'll actually get round to entering some challenges this year so the Crafty Ribbons Blog Challenge of 'New Beginnings' sounded like a good place to start.  The metal bar has been sitting in my stash for a while and obviously was meant for this card.  I've made a cross over card of a sort, instead of completely crossing over each other I laced the fronts together and then slipped two tags inside the pocket.  It was a fun card to make.

and I used something new that I received over the holidays - angel glitter. 

I also entered in the Krafty Kool Kats challenge at
 http://kraftykoolkat.blogspot.com/

LadyBugs Challenge at
http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

the Digi Doodle Shop at
http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/

Fab'n'Funky at
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/