MacMillan Coffee and Wine evening

Well, it's that time of the year again. We did really well last year on the fund raising event, so we have a target to beat.

The evening is booked for the 28th September (unfortunately I can't make the actually coffee morning), but we will have cake, refreshments, there will be a little cardmaking class, craft items to buy, handmade goods to buy. There will also be a crafty raffle as well.

If you are a crafter and would love to come and sell your wares then please drop me a line - all we are asking for is a donation of your proceeds to go to MacMillan. If you do other things, maybe a makeup artist, or you do nail art or manicures then we would love to have you as well - again all we will ask is for a donation to the charity.

The details of the event are:

28th September

Starts at 7pm

Thanington Resourse Centre
Thanington Road
Canterbury,
Kent
CT1 3XE

Please spread the word, I want as many people to come along as possible!

Craft Club dates

I've booked the next batch of dates for the craft club, lets hope we manage not to have any interruptions!!

The dates booked are:

6th September
18th October
29th November

Now, the next one, on the 6th I am putting down a challenge! Any crafters coming along I want you to work on things for the MacMillan evening (more work than a challenge!). Now, this can be stuff to sell to raise money, tags for the buns, things to decorate the tables, the world is your oyster - put your thinking caps on!

Of course we will have the normal stamp swap, idea's from crafters, tea and buiscuits. I want to try and make some cards up to sell for the MacMillan event, so no chatting!! (Only joking).

Hope to see you there.........now another post........

Martha Stewart punches

Well, we had a blinder of a show when we had the Martha Stewart punches on - so what's the hype about. Well, they are lovely. Good quality, and great designs. I took them home to have a little play, and just wanted to share this with you.

From the Martha Stewart book I got the idea of using the punches to decorate a wrapped present, which looked lovely. For the show I did it really plain - the word of course is sophisticated! However, to play I grunged it up!

Now to make a perfect matching ribbon, so both sides co-ordinate, you need to fold the paper or card in half, and feed this into your punch, holding the punch upside down so you can see the crease mark in the card, put this centrally in the punch:



Punch along the line, as usual, then turn the card over, fold in half again then line up the crease line to the centre of the punch again. Because you have worked out the centre of the card you can achieve a beautiful ribbon effect:



Try this with all the punches, and remember you can do any length - on my play I used good old brown paper - cut quite long to wrap around the present, and of course you can still match up the pattern by just folding a piece of paper and making sure the punch lines up at both sides.



I used my new ribbon to decorate my parcel, which I stamped, inked, added tags and string and also added an image from a magazine (it's such a cool mag that I picked up, mainly for the images actually it's called Pigeons and Peacocks). The paper ribbon has been inked before sticking to the parcel. I cut one piece of the flower which I folded in half which really adds dimension. Finished with ribbons and more string, and some gel pen detail, this makes an unusual but different wrapping.

Craft Club

The next club is going ahead (hooray). It's this Monday as planned (well, I have tried to ring to confirm, but no reply, so I presume alls well). We will meet at Jubilee Hall at 7.30. I haven't been able to prep any demonstrations as such, so it will be a normal club night. If you haven't attended a normal evening, then the theory is we come along, if you have things you want to share, stuff you don't know how to use, things you have bought and can't get inspired by, or just cool stuff you've made to show the group - then bring them along. Hopefully we will be able to share ideas, maybe do some crafting and have a great chat. It's the same price (£3), and this goes towards the rent of the room, refreshments and hopefully, when we have enough funds in the pot, we will be able to get a demonstrator in - or all go to a crafty show with the proceeds!! wow.

Anyway, I do hope to see some friendly faces, and will hopefully be able to bring along my friend Jenny who is also a crafty type and will be getting stuck in.

See you on Monday.
xxx

Travels

Well, I need to prep for my Martha Stewart show tomoz, so not going to waffle to much, but just wanted to say how very marvelous me and my sisters adventure to Benicassim was. We did the festival and I still managed to read to books (oh yes, how rock and roll eh - obviously much to sober!). It was fab, a beach holiday, sea and the Prodigy. Tremendous. I have yet to develope my photo's, but will hopefully do that within the next few years to share.......

This and that.........

Okay, don't know why i've decided to type tonight - been to the allotment with my trimmery thing and can hardly move my arms! I'm so unfit. Hey, abit more trimming and I'll be sorted though eh - and the weeds on my allotment will keep me busy for an age.

Anyhow, lifes good. Had such a lovely weekend with the Crafty Notions crew, friendly and wonderful as ever (if your reading this though Peggy, I missed you and hope to catch up soon xxx). Sarah has created some new amazing paints, and sprays and embossing powders, so I was in mucky inky heaven. Still got ink down my nails now (I've washed, honest). Better scrub em for tomoz. As usual forgot to take loads of photos, rubbish......got a few when i'd finished prepping though.

What else, well had a tremendous evening on Monday, went to see them Crooked Vultures, just amazing - in fact altogether brill evening. That's all I'll say about that for now.

And now, to add to the fun I'm packed and ready for my hols! wow. We don't go till Sunday, but working Thurs Friday, up North Friday evening then travelling Sunday. I'm sooo excited. Me and my sis, beach, tent, festival. Happy scorchiooo days.

Righto, enough of my over excited babble, need to rest my arms in a warm bath then get an early night ready for my 3.30am set off (urgh).


Settled into the office block, into my new craft room, mess ensures without delay.





Our very own "magic hands" Dee, crafting in the warehouse - watch out for her doing workshops with me.






Just a few samples using the brill twiddly bitz, paints and embossing powders. The shine on them is beautiful, and the colours are georgeous to experiment with. The paints dry on most serfaces when heat set, so they are great for a wide variety of applications.




This was the warehouse, can you believe that all this space was an annex to our living room. I think Dylan really puts the enomity of it into perspective.

Demo weekend at Crafty Notions

I was meant to pop this on my blog at the beginnng of the week, but I've been really busy and shattered this week. Anyhow, just prepping ready for my weekend demo at Crafty Notions. Really looking forward to seeing Sarah David Peggy and the team, it's so friendly - and man do they have alot of stuff! Come and visit if you can. I'll charge up the phone and get some photo's xx