Friday Night.....Saturday morning

Well how exciting are we, me and Nicky stayed in and played Settlers of Catan tonight (needed three players so Teela the dog had to join in, she lost!!), over cups of tea and cookies!!! It was good though. Just nipped on here and found Dan's blog, its great - go take a look
http://dan99.blogspot.com

Gotta go, White Strips are on Jools
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Blogging

I've been spending some time checking out the fantastic blogs that are out there, for general crafting, not just ATC's - the inspirational idea's you can get are amazing. I also want to recommend Somerset Studio's Artful Blogging magazine - this features some amazing blogs for you to have a look at, arty and cool.

In the meantime I have of course been doing some work, I finished a charm kit for Saturdays QVC show, and today I'm working on some kits from Design Objectives - so plenty to keep me out of trouble. I have also done some club trades, and have updated my Flickr accout with a few more club member ATC's, have a nosey and see if yours is there!

Just a quickie (again)

I have been faffing about for ages trying to get recent photo's on Flickr, so it's now really late and I'm a little to sleepy to babble (hooray). Spent ages just trying to find my "very important pad" (why do I never just put it back in the same place - oh no, has to be somewhere new and incredibly stupid every time - is this just general dizziness or a part of my brain that loves to search for things so makes me hide things and thereby setting up the next game!!!). This is the little red book that I write everyone's details in when I take photographs, I use the term everyone loosely, as that wobbly part of my brain interferes here as well and there will be a lovely card with no idea as to who the artist was.

I have loaded quite a few new photo's along with some work I did for the lovely people at All About Crafts at Stitches (hello to Gill, Andrew and Tom). It was a great show, its great as you bump into so many of your crafty buddies, and lovely to work alongside Liz Welch (check out the link at the bottom of my page if you haven't been lucky enough to see her work - fantastic). Really there's no time for work with all the gossip you need to catch up on - but of course lots of work gets done as well. Great show, and met some really nice people (Alison if you are reading this that really means you!).

Anyway, as promised not to much waffle, I have lots to do tomorrow as I am prepping for QVC on Sunday and my head hasn't been working very well this week so need to get the creative energies flowing - I've already eaten my Easter Egg so looks like it back to the biscuits - thank goodness for chocy biscuits!

ttfn

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Just a Quick reminder........

I just wanted to pop on and remind members of my club that there is a section entitled "Thank you, no Thank You" specially for all of you who may wish to pop a thank you message when you have received another members ATC. Have a look on the old posting (think it was September, but I could be very wrong).

That was a quickie........I didn't waffle

hooray

About Time!!!

Thought it was indeed about time I caught up with my blog - as usual time flew along without me even noticing - whats that about? Is it an age thing, urgh..... Anyhow since I last posted we have had a Craft Day, which was great. It's funny as we hardly see any other crafters who are in the QVC building on craft days - I didn't get chance to see Rosemary at all, but did manage to say hello to Nigel her lovely husband. It was a mad un! (I don't mean Nigel was a mad un!!).

Anyhow, recovered from that one after a week and started the mad catch up for my ATC club. If I had a tail the end would be well and truely chewed, always chasing it. Oh, to be organised. I have managed to post out quite a few trades, and even sent some of my Christmas cards. Believe it or not I made quite a few Crimbo cards, and then put them in a very safe place - took me days to find them!! I will be sending out more, but moving away from the Christmas theme, as it is a little late I suppose.

I am really looking forward to February, I'm visiting Topaz to see Tim Holtz demonstrate. I love his work so it'll be a great day. I'm also going to be doing some book signing, so hopefully see some friendly faces again (for more details of Tim's demo and my book please have a look on the Topaz web site, see link at the bottom of this page).

Brilliant news, I have found a location for our first meet and greet. I need to go and have a look and see if it will be suitable, but fingers crossed it sounds perfect. It is in Greenwich, which is a fantastic place to visit, so it can be a full day out. I will keep everyone informed, and hopefully will be able to get this off the ground soon.

If you have had a look at my Flickr account have you seen the groups on there for ATC's? There are loads, and alot of people who do one-to-one trades. I have not had time to do any trades, but love looking at all the work - some fantastic idea's, go and have a nosey.

Finally for now I have made some Oriental ATC's using products from a kit you can purchase from Topaz, all ATC members will receive a free sheet of stickers when you order the kit - remember to quote your full name (as you are registered in the ATC Club) and membership number when ordering. Please contact Topaz for the details of the kit, and how long the offer will run for. Have a look on the Flickr account to see the rest of the cards I have made (the two above are part of this collection).

I hope everyone is well. If you have found any good Crafty blogs out there share them with me and any readers.

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QVC kits

These are just a few images from kits I have been working on recently for QVC (there are a few more on the flickr). I loved the Bo Bunny papers, they are the Tuscany and Paris range and are stunning. I wanted to pop a couple of pieces from the recent Oriental TSV as well, as I was liked the Geisha peel-off, and loved doing the Oriental collage canvas, it really made a change to do something other than cards. I hope you like them.

Hello..

Its been quite a while since I updated my blog, so here I am. We've managed to get through Christmas, it was a sad time for us I'm afraid. When I was pregnant I dreamt of the magic of Christmas returning with the arrival of my little boy (it fades a little when its just a group of adults sat round). For me Christmas is about family, as a child I loved our visits to my two sets of Grandparents, it was so exciting - parties, food and pressies. Auntie Jean wanting us all to be quiet so she could watch Dallas and Dynasty, the giant cracker Grandad used to get for us, John getting drunk, Grandad Pujol arriving really early Christmas morning just to watch me and Marianne open our pressies. It was great. I wanted Jacob to experience the joy as I had, and for us to delight in his wonder at it all. I miss him every day, but this really set off that horrid ache inside. I know alot of my readers will be able to relate with this for the loss of a loved one is always emphasised at Christmas, my heart goes out to you.

Thankfully we did it, another hurdle, and now we are in the process of picking ourselves up again and "getting on". With this in mind my poor ATC club has suffered, and I'm afraid I didn't have the urge to make Christmas cards, its now catch up time again. I am making and posting my cards (more New Year cards than Christmas), and I am in the process of trying to get all the outstanding new packs out for my ATC club. Sorry for the delay.

I would like to thank everyone who sent cards and good wishes to me. It made me giggle, as cards irritate Nicky (imagine that, with my job - that's probably why, I've driven him mad with my crafting necessities taking over the house), and I received loads this year. Poor lad. Anyway they were great, and beautiful work so thank you so much. I am going to get cards sent out to anyone I had an address for - okay it may be June when you receive you Crimbo card but I will do it!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and 2008 brings everyone joy, love and peace.