there are an awful lot of Tinkerbells around..

Mya will be 5 in January and wants a Tinkerbell themed party so I have been making her invitations this week.  Right now I am fed up with sTinkerbell as I call her, think she keeps flying across my line of vision.

Ok here are the invitations

and a single invitation where you can see Tinkerbell is actually flying free.  Of course the piece of cream paper at the bottom has just been placed there to block out the telelphone number.

and a close up on sTinkerbell, bless her.  Now just hope Mya approves and even bigger hope is that I have made enough.

A bit of this and a bit of that....

firstly a couple of cards that I made using acetate... I'm quite taken with the effect of these so you can expect more to be arriving this way soon...

then may I introduce the latest member of the crafting world...

little Grace with her first real creations, just love the intense concentration in the first picture - she was removing the backing from small squares of 3d foam, not easy for an adult but she is determined she will manage it and she did.

Then finally for now I decided to get a little bit inky and messy - not too much you understand as I dont like messy...

and I couldn't resist trying my latest Marianne die - an old model T Ford car...

Welcome home...

...to Gilad Shalit.  Your family, friends and Israel never gave up on getting you home safely and after more than 5 long years you are thankfully back where you belong.

Israel showed the world that the life of one young Israeli soldier is worth more than the lives of over a thousand Palestinian terrorists and have brought him home where now may he find peace and time to recover and recuperate.  You are an extremely brave young man and may your life now be filled with nothing but blessings.  Baruch Hashem.

nothing for a month then...

....2 posts in one day.  I have also been working on these recently.  I wanted to make card boxes for 3 of my friends as their Chanukah pressies, of course each box has to be full of cards and there are around 25 cards inside each box so you can understand that I have been a little busy lately.

Box #1

Box #2

and a change of colour for

box #3

Twins and their clothes...

....wow didn't realise I hadn't blogged for over a month - apologies.  The reason being I have been busy making presents for Chanukah.  I love to make most of my Chanukah presents and of course for the girls it had to be dolls and loads of clothes for the dolls. 

We started off with these cute Berenguer dolls - they are only 7 1/2" long.  The baskets will make ideal beds for the babies.

 I then knitted them a bunting each with cute little bonnets to keep their heads warm.

and for going out with their mummies they had to have these cute cotton dresses with pantaloons, hats and shoes

Of course they had to have something to sleep in so a sleeping bag each was next

For Sunday best cute little dresses with cloche hats and matching shrugs and of course little slippers

 for relaxed days they needed hoodies and leggins

and as the weather is turning colder I thought a nice warm winter's outfit to keep them snuggly warm.

now all I need to make is the bedding and a shawl each and they will be complete.  I'll blog those bits when they are finished.  Thats 2 presents down and another 10 to go - oh dear!!!

Our new Friday big girl....

....for the past 4 1/2 years Mya has always spent Fridays with us but now our Friday big girl has started school and Fridays have changed.  We've had Grace on Fridays for nearly 2 1/2 years too and now that big sis has gone to school she has become our Friday big girl.  Her normal request for her lunch is a boiled egg and a bagel, just like her big sister but yesterday she asked for and onion platzel and cheese just like poppa.  The platzel was nearly as big as her but she ploughed her way through it.

Crafty Ribbons Challenge

Over at Crafty Ribbons they have started a challenge blog and here is my card for challenge #1