Wednesday again!

No snow piccies this week. We did have snow again today, but it didnt settle thank goodness.

This week I have actually managed to do some scrapping for me. It seems ages since I did, though I'm sure it isnt really. Anyway I was at the Craft Obsessions crop on Saturday and did the first LO which was from a sketch which was handed out at the crop and formed a little competition (which I didnt win). The photo is my sister and her two youngest, the paper is Bo Bunny I think.

The 2nd LO was one I wanted to do for a while. Its a record of things I'm currently interested in and what I hope will happen this year, all cunningly hidden so you cant read them (cos some are a little personal). To read them you pull either end of the slidy thing so they appear in the window.

The little piccies down the LHS kind of illustrate some of the things, and the other bits are K&CO stickers and alphabet, and some flowers I've had for ages. The paper is Bo Bunny Flutter Butter stuck on some Bazzill.

But this is my desk tonight. The LOs are on it still, while I decide if I want to add anything else (or more likely cos I havent an album to put them in just now), and there's a little blue and white baby card there for a chap at work who became a Daddy again at the weekend.

The big black plate-like thing on top of the printer, is a hat my friend made me. Every February three of us girls go to a costume ball, and every year she spends ages making all our outfits and as milinery is her thing, she always works a hat into it. This years is black cinamay and silk and I have it early as I have to decorate it. I'll show you more when I've done it.

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I forgot it was Wednesday!

It must be the snow and the disturbed working days/hours we've had since we went back last week, but I dont know what day of the week it is and I only just realised its Wednesday! How mad is that?!

So this is my desk this evening. The usual mess of copic pens. Some new goodies from Kraft Krazy in Tidworth - yummy little Papermania buttons and some Kanban stamps which I am playing with for a class.

Also, here is this weeks snow piccie. It looks very pretty at work as you can see, I should have taken another today cos it looks even prettier now as more fell last night, this one was taken on Monday (I think) after last weeks snowy deluge. Getting to work has never been so exciting!

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12 Daves of Christmas

I just wanted to show you this card, cos I like it so much, before Christmas is too far behind us, and I'll have forgotten about it by the end of the year! Forgive the rubbish photo it was taken on my mobile.

It started off last Christmas, I saw something someone had done with 12 pictures of famous Dave's and the title the 12 Daves of Christmas. Well my brother is called David and I thought it would make a fun card. It may have been a card originally I can't remember. So I hunted on the internet and found 12 tiny piccies of famous Daves that he would have heard of and made a card with them all on.

A year later, and he asked me to make one for his girlfriend with 12 pix of him instead. Remembering how tiny and fiddly the one I made him was, I made it 12x12. The numbers were cut on my cricut, from red card and then highlighted with stickles. The title is inside the card also cut with the cricut, and I drew mistletoe on the front using green and crystal stickles.

Now I need to come up with a new version of the 12 Daves of Christmas for this year!


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Happy New Year

I know it was a few days ago now, but its the first opportunity I've had to update my blog.

Thanks to a snowdy day here, I am working from home. I tried really hard to get to work, in fact I made it all the way there, but the roads on camp were so bad, and the snow was getting worse, and no one else had made it in, so I came home again. The roads going home were much worse and just treacherous in places so I am glad I didnt leave it it any later as it hasn't stopped snowing since.

It seems quite decadent to be sitting cosily on the settee, updating files with a tin of biccies by my side and the tv on in the background (which is what I was doing before I came upstairs to the pc).

2 piccies to day, to celebrate my first blog of the NY. One above is a WOYWW - and as well as the usual mess you can see some lovely flowers I got from Wild Orchid Crafts, my diary from last year with this years crops, classes etc written in and some brand new not on the internet yet digistamps-to-be that I am playing with.

The one below is the view from the office window, looking across the shed roof to the back garden.

I hope wherever you are that you are warm and cosy and hiding from the snow if you have it.

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What a load of Bo&&*cks!

Well the manic-ness that was Scraplady is over - but only until next year I hasten to add, work is finished (gotta love the military for having long hols) and I am now on my Christmas leave yippee!

Of course this just means now I have time to get together stuff for the Craft Obsessions crop tomorrow, make a card for my brother to give his girlfriend and all the last minuteness that this time of year inspires so that we have the perfect if disfunctional family Christmas.

This week I have been honoured to be immortalised over on Julia Dunnits blog and so as requested, here are a glimpse of my bo&&*cks, a little rearranged to avoid offending the sensitive.

Sadly since this photo was taken, the B has dropped off and gotten lost. so I now only have ollocks, which isnt really quite the same!

If I don't come back before next weekend, have a great Christmas everyone and a scrappy New Year.
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WOYWW - Just a ribbon or two!

Last weekend I went to the NEC and had a fab time, this weeks WOYWW shows the tanlge of ribbons I bought while I was there. I went hoping to get some Christmassy coloured ribbons since a couple of the cards I've conjured up for the 2SL card Marathon need them, but I seemed to find a lot of others jumping into my bag.

If you squint really hard, the out of focus (hey its meant to be, its called depth of field) in the foreground is one of the cards for the marathon. Its coppery and lovely and I might have to make a few for myself.

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WOYWW

Well it was on the table while I took these photos honest! Now its perched on the little shelf over my desk, probably plotting when it will jump off and crown me :-)

All fired up from our Magnetic Year in a Day class over on 2SL I was a little down that I wouldnt get to use said calendar till next year, so I came up with this advent version I can use in December.

The green trees are brads (hiding the magnets) everything else was cut on my trusty Cricut (which after last week I am amazed is still working) the papers are My Minds Eye.

O and the little bag on the side holds the other number trees.

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