This years Pumpkin's.....

Just a quick share of our pumpkin's for this year.... I was a little worried when my two wicked munchkins asked me yesterday to carve pumpkin's like last year.... but they haven't come out to bad if I do say so myself, with my hand op only two months ago.... I am paying for it a little today but the smiles were worth it.....

This Messy Playing Is Fun.....

I have been working on a Cj entry this morning for the 'Let's Get Messy Art Journal Cj', I don't really want to spoil things for who's Cj it is so I am only sharing another sneaky peek....

 

 

Sorry for only showing sneaky peeks I don't want to spoil the surprise for when it arrives home (because that's the exciting bit...)

Must tidy up now and put the kitchen back to it's normal self....

 

Thanks for popping by....

A Messy Sneaky Peek...

Well I am making some ground on my crafting projects now, feels like forever not being able to do the things I love to do.... and I have plenty to catch up with.... The list seems to be never ending but I am making a dent in it I just need to work out where to start lol....

 

 

'Messy Art Journal Cj', I am a few days over the posting but I am getting ther now, hopefully by the weekend I will be good to go and send my Art Journal off on a ickle trip ... I think it was a good job I had made the journal before I had surgery on my hand, but with not being able to play I have fallen behind a ickle... Yesterday I had fun and played (hubby did wonder a little as to why it was just sausage and mash for tea)... I found it so hard to start, the white page Gremlin got the better of me for a while but once the paint was on there you couldn't stop me... So here is a sneaky peek of my Art Journal as I don't want to spoil it to much for the girls in the Cj....

 

First Page

 

 

 Intro Page

 

                                                             My Page

 

I still have a ickle bit of tweeking and to add my journaling to my page and I am good to go....

 

 Part of my list of things to do...

 

Finish my Messy Art Journal Cj...

Finish my entries in two other Cj's...

Make some ATC's...

Make a Bookmark...

Get ready for Mojo III...

 

 

Good job I have a crop to go to on Saturday... Hopefully it will be a very productive day :D...Well I think I have waffle'd on enough, so will set to finding the words I need for my Art Journal page... Hope you all have a good day whatever you have planned to do...

 

 

Crafty Happenings....

 

I haven't been to a crop for a while, I think it was June when I went last, so I was looking forward to a little crafty play at the weekend just gone... My daughter came to help me but I think I spent more time helping her oh and some how she managed to spend my money too lol .... I did have a quick play in my art journal (and it was quick, you can tell), on this background, (the face was something I had drawn before my op) it's still a work in progress.... it's a layer down...

 

Something else I haven't done for a while is made some ATC's so I have joined an ATC swap on Uks, here is a sneeky peek at my ATC's, they are a little simple but with my hand not playing properly yet I am quite pleased with them.... The background is something new for me using a highlighter pen and Distress inks and then some stamp'd images... hope the girls will like them....

 

I was hoping to have a play in a Cj I'm working on today but have woke up with a very sore hand, pain relief required, think the weekend's crafty play and the few house chores I have done have taken toll on me.... It's just the background I need to work on, planned on doing some hand drawings/doodles but holding the pen is not good will see how I feel a little later... so want to get it finished as I'm the last person to do an entry and then it is home....

 

 

Lets get MESSY....

 

OMG I haven't blogg'd since June (I've not been a very good blogger of late SORRY!!!!)..... Life has been a little hectic, and I have just had surgery on my wrist just over two weeks ago now, still a little sore but getting there.....I have found it very hard to be the patient as I'm usually the one to be looking after everyone else.... So I'm just starting to do a few thing's, looking forward to crafting again (tomorrow at a crop)....

 

 

So Lets Get Messy!!!

 

Before my op I decided to join another Cj, this one is an Art journaling one... Something I haven't done as a Cj before but have dabbled and thought this might be quite fun... This is my Journal I made (before the op)...   

 

The Cover I have just left plain at the moment (not sure what to do with it to be honest).

I covered chip board with some leather and stitched the edges and used a Coptic stitch to bind my signatures.... Sorry I've loaded the photos back to front.... long time since I have done this :D

 

 

Paper Beads

I had a little spare time yesterday and wasn't really sure what I wanted to do... I have this mini album idea floating around in my head but not enough time for that, So I decided to try and make some paper beads to maybe use as charm's on my mini book.... so this is what I have after my little bit of crafty time... The mini is possibly going to be quite vintage so it will probably be just the brown beads I use, but it was fun to try other colours too....

These are quite fiddly for me and made my wrists quite sore but if I only do a few a time I'm sure I'll be fine lol.... (the things we put are selves through for the love of crafting :D)

Sally B and the Reds....

The Sally B, B17 Bomber and the Red Arrows... 

These are photos my brother took yesterday at Norwich Airport. Sally B and the Red Arrows had been staying here for a local air show this weekend.... I didn't get there in time so to see Sally B taking off , she left earlier than planned... :- ( But got to see the Reds though :- )....

 I managed to get this one...

But the best seat in the house was on top of my brothers van... (health and safety was taken into account, they were told to sit still lol lol)....