And Another Calendar

I have made this calendar from a CB download called Flowers, Snails and Fairy Tales. It's not your normal type of calendar but has a page for each month of the year for the keen gardener to record what is happening in the garden. It was very simple to make, just print off the pages, cut to size and bind with my trusty old Bind It All. I added a few ribbons and a wheelbarrow charm to the front cover.
The first page inside the calendar is a general note page, ideal for jotting down telephone numbers of your favourite garden centres etc.
Then comes the calendar page for each month - I only show January here, but they are all based on the same theme.
To just make it a little more interesting I added some gardening jobs to do for each month.
At the back is a pocket for you to store notes and I added some packets of seeds.

These little 'To Do' and 'To Buy' notelets are also in the back pocket. I am rather pleased with this novel little calendar and will be making a few more as gifts.

I'm back crafting again...

I've been happily playing with my new Joanna Sheen cds today (the Pamela West Collection). These are so different from Joanna's other cds and are proving great fun. Just the thing to break me into crafting again after the marathon of wedding stationery. I have several more pages printed off ready to make up tomorrow, but here are the ones I made today.

this one has a bookmark tucked into the vellum pocket at the side.

another one with a bookmark and below is a picture of the bookmark out of the pocket.

and yet another with a bookmark and below the bookmark out of the vellum pocket.

and yet another with a hidden bookmark.

The rest of my houses

I've made my final 6 houses for the swap I am in and here they are:;

The Playhouse

The Firehouse

Inside the firehouse.

The Doghouse

The Fashion House

The mouse house

The School house

Inside the schoolhouse

Paper Dolls Big Challenge

the Big Challenge on Paper Dolls for September/October has been set by WIlma and is 'make a calendar' I decided to make a flip calendar using my best friend - my Bind It All. I've only photographed the first few pages but I think you get the idea.

For my friend Ann

it was her birthday this week and her daughter's wedding last month. So I altered a board book into a little wedding album for her. I couldn't get hold of any photos to put in it but she can have the fun of doing that.


















some of the pages inside the book, ready for her favourite photos.

this was fun to do and best of all - Ann loved it.

Goodbye old friend.

My beautiful, loyal Norman who sadly left us today at the ripe old age of 16 years and 11 months.

a Coat Hanger by another Name

After making all the wedding stuff I decided I needed a little light relief before I got down to any serious crafting. I found this Bear Factory coat hanger lurking in the bottom of a wardrobe and decided it was just what I needed to hang some junk jewellery from - you know the sort of jewellery that gets thrown in a drawer and when you want a piece it takes two hours to untangle it all.

I covered it with some pretty white and grey paper to start with, punched the holes with my trustworthy crop-o-dile, disguised the bear's head with a few die cuts - can't believe I used hearts again. Some ribbons and satin embellishments made the base and then all I had to do was add a lt of crystals for some bling.

Now all I have to do is bang a nail inside one of the wardrobe doors and voila, all done and no more muddled jewellery. Might have to go and nose through Mya's wardrobe and see if she has any more hangers.