I have had a bit of a post-redecoration clearout. Here are a list of stamps I have for sale and piccies so you can see them. Prices include p&p. If you are interested in any please pm me via UKS I may not get emails from this blog.

Angel Anya (new, unused) - £5 SOLD

Unmounted Dragonfly (lightly stained) - £1.20 SOLD

Paw Prints (lightly used some staining)- £1.20

Party! (new unused)- £1.20

Party Hat and food (new unused) - £1.20

Flower Vase (lightly used some staining)- £1.50

Technique Tuesday Borderline - Notions (lightly used may be some staining) £4.50

SOLD

Blonde Moments Festive Fancies background stamps (used once some staining) - £6.00

From the top:
Art Warehouse: Harlequin Small (as new, unopened) - £10

Art Warehouse: Memories Interactive Circles Small (opened but unused) - £5 SOLD

Art Warehouse Memories strips (not actually sure thats what they are called. 2 stamps stained, 2 stamps unused) - £5 SOLD

Art Warehouse: Memories Interactive Circles Large (2 stamps used and stained, the rest unused) - £10 SOLD

Impression Obsession Wordplay - Squares (2 squares stained, the rest unused) - £5.00 SOLD

Dovercraft Smirk Series - Sweetheart (unused as new) - £2.50

Funstamps 'Nature's Paintbrush' (as new unused) - £4.50

Top Left - Studio G alphabet series 1 (unused as new) £2.00

Bottom Left - Inkadinkadoo 'Art Tiles' stamp (lightly used, lightly stained) £5.00 SOLD

Right - Inkadinkadoo 'Winged Post' collage stamp (lightly used, staining to the wood surround) £6.00

Happy Easter!

Hope you all have lots of lovely choccy (if thats your fave). I have had a couple of days off work, and had eldest Neice to stay.

Today was her last day and we spent the afternoon making Easter gift bags. Em made on each for her younger brother and sister and I made one for her. Then we put just a little few jelly sweets in and a chick or bunny pen (youngest Neice isnt allowed many sweets they make her crazy).

So late this afternoon, the rest of the tribe arrived for tea and dvd's and a nice family time for a few hours. Em went home with the rest of them, and peace and quiet (and tidyness) is now re-installed.

:-)

I'm sorry its been so long since I posted, I have been distracted by a yummy new crafty thing.

Last month, my friend Julia and I went to the craft show at Farnborough. One of the stalls were demoing copic markers and we both fell in love with them. Later on line I found Promarkers

which are very similar if not the same, brough a little starter pack for each of us, and I fell in love with them.

One month, 45 markers, a couple of stamps and some card later and I can say these are utterly fab.

So here are a few of my creations so far. These are 2 downloads from http://grab-a-doodle-do.blogspot.com/.

:-)

Happy Mothers' Day to all those Mummies out there.

Here are a few ideas for those of you who may be looking for last minute ideas.


1. Is a card I made for a commission, who specifically wanted a picture of lilac on it. I found this on a free image website, printed it out twice and layered it up with foam pads. The background and circular message was made on the PC in Word.

2. Was done using my Cricut with the Wild Card cartridge and Design Studio to weld the frame and Happy Mothers Day message together. Then I cut some flowers (cant remember which cart) and a butterfly and its shadow from the Home Accents cart. The flower and butterly both have a layered look and are 3D.

3. Was a rose from the same image website as before, done the same way with foam pads. The background and circular message are the same. The rose was stuck onto a piece of home made silk paper which I found in my stash.

4. Was just a simple little card. A circular message stuck onto a couple of girant purple Heidi Swapp flowers, little gem hearts are stuck in the corner, and the edge is punched before sticking onto the base card.

I see a repetitive theme here, think I may have a thing for purple?

and the answer is.... you get rid of a load of it and you put the rest in a cupboard!

Well the re-furb is done. The friends are wonderful and I owe them biggest big time ever.

This I am ashamed to say is the scraphovel before the refit. As you can see it was rightly called the hovel. There was barely room to swing a cat, let alone have me and three kids in there scrapping (which happens when the nephew and neices come over).

Mon to Wed. - P and K cleared my room while I was at work.
Thursday - Lil' brov and I brought the flooring and paint stuff and generally took advantage of his staff discount at the DIY store. Then K and I painted.
Friday - P laid the laminate flooring.
Saturday - day off I was at the theatre (which I'll tell you about later)
Sunday - Lil' bruv and I went to Ikea to buy desks, got home and found we had the wrong legs!
Monday - Go to Ikea with K and get the legs changed, buy another unit and a couple of funky things to go on the walls. Put the legs on the desks and get PC up and working again. Yay!
Tuesday - K comes round to help build units, but does most of it cos she is a hero, and I feel crappy.
Wednesday - Start putting stuff back into the former scraphovel, oh look I have a bedroom floor!
Thursday - Finish clearing bedroom, can't clear everything out of the landing cupboard as I seem to have less storage now. Get everything in and straight-ish
Friday - Yay get to play! Have lost my voice with the aforementioned crappyness.

There is still sorting to be done, but that can happen gradually when I feel like it. Everything is up and working again though. I love P & K and Lil' bruv.

Here is the end result. Isn't it lovely?

Now I can sit in my beautiful ex-scraphovel, and create some lovely things to show you all.

Maybe.

Well the crop came and went, and so did another one. I did make a couple of LOs but mostly made Mothers' Day cards. So where are the piccies I hear you cry? Well the camera has them but the camera and half my scraphovel is currently in bags and boxes around the house. My very dear bestest friend (give me 10/10 for grovelling) is coming to pack the rest up for me over the next couple of days.

Then.... insert drum roll.....

We are finally going to paint this baby, maybe re-cover the flooring (which it really needs) and get some new furniture. So hopefully by the time I get to blog again, I will be able to show you the before and after photos.

Trouble is, how do you get so much cr*p into such a small room (its only 2 x 3.5 meters) without it looking like it does now?!

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." ...Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple).

I thought that was an interesting quote, since that's kind of what we are all doing by writing and reading each others blogs, (well I know 4 of you read this one sometimes).

Anyway I digress, I am off to one of my monthly crops tomorrow. I really love the two crops I go to, it's a day out with friends and I get uninterrupted crafting time.

But...

The packing up and deciding what to take is terribly stressful. I can't take all my stash with me, so I need to decide what I am going to work on and take what I need (which inevitably never happens as friend K will witness).

So far I have nothing prepared and nothing packed up. I need to print photos, find papers and embellies, cut titles etc.

But...

I am sat here blogging and reading blogs, I've had a little nose on a ng I frequent, and I'm listening to music.

Why?????

Answers on a postcard please.

Ok I'm going to do it now, I promise :-)