Afew pics from UK visit

Good Morning All

Here are afew pics from my visit to UK.

First stop was in North West.

4 generations - Mum, me, my son and my grandaughter

Noah and Aurora love playing in my sisters garden, bubbles and water balloons.

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Next stop was Leicester.

I went out for lunch with John Next Door, Mrs Duck (Ang) and one of their friends.

Now he is having a well earned break in Greece, he wasn't booked on Monarch, thank goodness!!!!

Then these are some miniature plants that a lady made for John and Ang.

I couldn't resist showing you these, they are amazing.

She makes all parts of them and the tiny flowers and leaves are paper.

Very intricate work.

Then last stop was Corby where I met up with a lovely lady from  my swap group on Facebook.

We met up for a cuppa and a swap.

Then finally, Hollie and Tess.

Hollie had a school assembly where they had to dress up as a favourite character and sing!!!

Then this little cutie has just started walking and learning to talk, so funny.

A most pleasurable trip and today I am taking some friends to Quesada to pick up a coach for their cruise.

Then John and I are going out for a walk.

THEN I can get in my craft room and play with all my new goodies!!!!!!

xxxxxx

Wendy L

New Beginnings for Allsorts

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Allsorts Challenge this week is 

New Beginnings hosted by Tracy.

I decided a new term at school was a New Beginning so I made Hollie a card to start the new term.

I was given these letters ages ago and the cute paper is from my sister Gill, also a crafter, but she did not want  a load of papers from magazines, so I took them off her hands.!!!!
I coloured the edges of the letters to make them stand out abit more.
Added orange organza ribbon with a heart charm.

Sponsor is Digistamp Boutique

Hollie loved it, along with a box of crafting goodies I sent to her.

Not long until I see them all and Arabella Louise.
Noah looks so pleased with his new sister, he is so good with Aurora and I,m sure he will be with this one too, a great big brother.

xxxxx
Wendy L

More Pics and Doily Dresses

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I made these three cards a while ago but the doily dress embellishments are something I can make while watching TV at night.

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More pics of my visit.

These are Noah and Aurora.
He has a fascination with my sisters compost bin, he always goes to look at the snails and slugs that gather there.

xxxxx
Wendy L

Mojo Gone

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Some of you may know that I have not been too good and the consequence is that my crafting mojo has up and gone.

When I dont want to craft I know things are bad.

I,m  still not feeling too good but trying to force myself to do some stuff.

I am only posting this to let you know why I have not been visiting your blogs as much as I normally do, I,m not enjoying blogging as I usually do so please forgive me.

I have a couple of orders to complete  so I will have to shift myself soon.

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Nothing crafty to show you but here is a couple of pics in the mean time.

Lorien took Hollie and Tess to the petting farm on Friday, Hollie looks so happy.

This is Noah, such a happy boy and so much fun.

xxxx

Wendy L

Grand Kids Shabby Chic Canvas

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We are away this morning for afew days to a place called Altea.
It's not very far, about 1 and 1/2 hours drive but the deal we got with the hotel was too good to miss.
So forgive me for not commenting for afew days.
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I have three pictures in my house that I inherited when I moved in with my John.

They are flowers painted on canvas and about 18" x 18".

They are nice but I  am abit fed up with them so I thought I would alter one and see how it turned out.

I painted the whole thing with white Oil paint, which took an age to dry, I have since bought some Acrylic paint which will dry alot quicker.

I wanted to keep the centre for photos of my Grand kids.

Then I went to town with embellishments !!!!

The great thing about this type of art is that you can use lots of bits that you would no longer use on cards or have had in  your stash for ages.

All the doilies are hand crochet by me.

If anyone would like afew please email me and I will send some.

Hand made flowers from scraps of material.

I added Texture Paste, Shells, Flowers, Lace, String

etc. etc. etc.

I put a sheet of acetate in the middle so that I could add a sheet with photos on and change it as and when I wanted.

I have left a space to add pics of Tess when I get some  printed when I go to UK in June.

Very Happy with how this turned out and I am eager to do another one.

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This now takes pride of place on my wall.

Did anyone catch John next Doors shows on Hochanda with him doing Mixed Media?

I caught up on them afew days ago and was very impressed.

Here is is link to one of the items he showed.

He really seemed to enjoy doing this type of art.

I saw the item showed on the link and it really is soooo shiny.

xxxx

Wendy L

Shabby Chic Frame

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My older followers will remember when John Next Door and I used to do challenges on Sundays, called Sunday Mojo.  We would take it in turns to give each other some stuff and we had to make something with them and I think this frame was one that John made, he left it with me when he went back to UK.

The link to what I did to my frame is  HERE.

Anyway, I found this one that John had made. When he packed up to return to UK he left few bits and bobs behind with me.  I found this and thought I would have a go at altering it.

Hope you dont mind John.!!!

He doesn't, as I checked with him.

So I stripped it of the pic, John had painted the frame in shabby pink and cream so that looked OK.

I just added some heat embossing of a glitter powder and then sprayed it with Mica powder in water then heat dried it.

I wanted to make it into something I could put pics of the kids in so I made an acetate pocket so that I can change the photo when I want to.

The pic I put in is one of Noah with Aurora which I thought suited the shabby look of this perfectly as it is half in shadow.

The doilies are ones I have crocheted myself.

Quite pleased with this but not as shabby chic as I would like.

This technique does not come naturally to me.

Please let me know what you think.

Ps. I had a fab time at Ally Pally, met some wonderful people and made some new friends.

I shall add some pics next week when I get home and can upload pics from my camera.

Having lots of baby and Hollie cuddles this week.

xxxx

Wendy L

Tiny Book Album

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When I was with John Next Door in December he gave me this tiny book, it is about 4" x 4"

I decorated the cover with Decoupage paper.

This is such pretty paper.

Then I wondered what to do with it on the insides.

GRAND CHILDREN !!!!!  Got to Be.

I put two pics of Hollie.

Then two of Noah.

Then two of Aurora (thats me too).

She was 1 year old yesterday too, how time flies.

And there are spaces for afew more (new baby due in April)

Hope you like it,  it now sits on the coffee table in my craft room.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Visit

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Here is Hollies Christmas card.

I think Hollie is going to be a little crafter too.

She made afew Christmas cards with me, and stupidly, I forgot to take any pics.

Anyway, lots of new craft goodies to play with so I will be in my craft room for the foreseeable future LOL !!!!!

What a wonderful visit I had with family and John Next Door.

I came home with lots of goodies too, probably too many but that's what crafters do, is it not!!!!

Everyone was full of cold so it was inevitable that I got a dose of it too.

I looked after Noah and Aurora for afew days.

They are two of the happiest children I know, so placid and smiley.

Then on Friday morning before I left we went to Hollies Nursery where she met Santa.

And this is cheeky little monkey on my knee.
She is so funny and such good fun to be with


Then on the Saturday before, I met up with John when he was demoing in the North West and travelled back down to Leicester with him.
We met up with Ang, Mrs Duck and had a good laugh and a good meal.
The next morning I was priviliged to enter Johns craft cave and help him with his demo preperation for his shows on Hochanda Monday and Tuesday.
We still have a good laugh and gossip, catching up on all the folks we both know over here.
I will meet up again with him in January on my next visit.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Parchment Semi Oval

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I hope you  have all had a good Easter and not eaten too many choccy eggs.  I have not had one, aren't I a good girl???

Welcome to my new followers too, I hope you have a good time visiting me.

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I have been doing abit of parchment again this last week and this is one of them.  I really like the way this one has turned out.  The pattern was for a full oval shape but I thought I would just do half of it and put this lovely handmade paper underneath.  I cut some flowers from odd bits of parchment paper with Cheery Lynn Roses dies - B154 and B 152.  The Chrysanthemum strip is Cheery Lynn B 311.

CHALLENGES
Suzy Bees Bloomin' Challenge - AG with twist of pastel
Crafty Catz - AG
Cheery Lynn Challenge 179 - Flowers

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Aurora Stephanie on the blanket I crocheted HERE

Noah getting acquainted with his sister.

Hollie on her Easter Egg Hunt yesterday.

Have a good Easter Monday.

xxxxx

Wendy L