Handmade bears

For my last birthday (you know, the one we don't mention!) I had a wonderful gift sent by Nick, which I didn't share! Rude, I know. Here's Arthur:




Isn't he fab. He's even got a coin with my birthday year on! Wonderful, thank you so much Nick. However, you've started something! A can of worms has been opened. Poor Arthur can't be on his own. At the NEC this year I saw the most wonderful collection of handmade bears, they are fantastic, check em out:



They are on my must have list! Need to save up for these though!!
Xxx

Christmas cake recipe

Christmas Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

* 2 cups flour
* 115 grams of butter
* 1 cup of water
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1 cup of sugar
* 1 tsp salt
* 1 cup of brown sugar
* Lemon juice
* 4 large eggs
* Nuts
* 2 bottles wine
* 2 cups of dried fruit

Sample the wine to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the wine again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the wine is still OK. Try another cup... Just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit up off floor. Mix on the turner.. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the wine to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Check the wine. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Check the wine. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the wine. Wipe worktop with cat.

Go to Tecsos for cake!


- Leonie

A day of cleaning - great!

that's it, the Hoover silenced
The bissell tucked away
The steamer signs to sleep
Another thankless cleaning day
I feel I ought to weep

tomorrow, let's be frank
It'll all look much the same
For even though we feel we're winning
Cleaning, it's a losers game


- Leonie

Phew!

It's been such a good few days. Thank you to everyone who visited the stand, brilliant to meet so many lovely people. Our job is fantastic, but knowing you lot actually enjoy watching us makes it even better. Also thank you to everyone who brought us chocolate, cake, cards and of course my lovely little soft toy!! So cute. I'm now chilling out in my hotel room before tea with my slendertone belt on!! It's hilarious. Don't really care if it works or not, just feels funny!!!

I'm going to pop on some random photos, just because!!:

Me and Andrea, pulking a couple of the winners for our prize draw. Andrea literally folded over 900 raffle tickets so we could do it properly!!


The tickets were prepared



We attempted to enlist the dogs help. They were rubbish at picking winners



So we had to do it!






Winners have been notified, and we'll pop pics of the goodies! Another prize draw or maybe a competition this time - will be announced on the web site shortly :) xxx

Keep an eye on it
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Prize winners and the NEC

Check out my web site, prize winners have been pulled from the cup. I have photos which I'll share, but at the mo we are walking to the NEC. We've taken a few different routes, none of them right. Think we're on the right route now! However, if your going and we're not there, we're lost :) xx


- Leonie

Crafting evening

Well, just a quick post to say hello. Had a fun day bathing all 3 dogs as Dylan had found something gross in the garden to adorn himself with. They were all smelling lovely, and looking glossy, when dylan nips out to spice himself up with scent a la dead thing! Urgh. Dogs!! So now I still have a stinking dog, with hairy walls (how do they do that, hair everywhere!!).

Had a lovely crafty evening with dee and andrea. We ate, had a little wine and made atc's. It's been far too long since I did any - but as we are working on getting the club up and running again, thought I'd better get cracking. Okay, didn't churn out tonns....


...but it's a start! These will be going in the parcels of orders that are sent out (we always pop in a little card of some sort).

Anyhow, had a lovely evening. Whoops, just remembered forgot to give Andrea the box of new goodies for the website! That's includes stamps and spellbinders as well. Fool. We'll get them sorted and popped on.

If you don't get the newsletter for the web then you may not know we have now run out of stock on the brand new distress autumn colours. If they release any more for order I'll let everyone know, otherwise we now just have the winter tones in stock. Better make sure I get my pack of those (how did I not get any autumn ones!! Fool).

Righto, bed time. Sleep well one and all and a happy day tomoz xx

The final flag

The final flag, here we use colour tinted spackle with a stencil:



Again we started with a blank black flag, this time we used a glittery one though. We then used a plain cream card and colour tinted it with our Eco paints. We then used a stencil which we layed onto the cream card. Using spackle we added texture to our card. Before we did this we colour tinted the spackle. Spackle is a white paste, and you can colour it with paint, ink, re-inkers, mica powder etc. We took some of our eco paint and added it to our spackle. Mix it well and your paste will be the precise colour you need it. Using a spatula spread the spackle over the stencil. Take the stencil off gently and make sure you clean it with warm soapy water, along with the spatula so the spackle doesn't harden.


Allow the spackle to dry. It doesn't take long at all, especially when it isn't applied thickly.

Again, our papers are double sided, so we used the borders from one scrap to edge the top and bottom. We used a pair of those wonderful red shoes from another to add to the bottom and added glaze to make them shine:



As usual our frill was created using that fantastic spellbinders die.

To finish our final bunting flag we used one of the images from our 12x12 paper. This sheet is full of all these images, but a good variety so you have to pick the one you want. Simply cut it out and pop it on with glue gel.



And our wonderful dyed ribbon is again looped through with a nice crumpled ribbon to finish! And of course....the last bit has to be those black enamel accents (check those out on the web site:
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Another project awaits!....