UP DAY AND DOWN DAYS.....

Like most of us I have up days and down days, unfortunately I have had a few down days all together in one go so not been blogging recently....

Just to add to my dark days Lady C in a temper said to me today "you are not my Mum anyway Mum"
usually my face shows how upset this makes me but today it kind of made me chuckle, she was trying to hurt me with her words but still called me Mum at the end!

The good news is that I am now back on track and have been crafting to pick myself up and get me motivated again.
I have been using some of the new fabby stampin up mini supplies, so much amazing stuff! here a a few pics...







I love to make good memories for my girls and think of my lovely Dad for inspiration, he always made things special, never let us know when there were problems (I'm not good at that) he was am amazing man...so taking a leaf out of his book I organised a full day of partying for the Royal Wedding , here are a few pics



this was lunch a nice British tea party with Pims on the lawn! later we had a BBQ with venison and steak and lots of scrummy salads, a lovely day I hope they will remember.....

Canvas and Stitch Class Now June

3 projects and here are 2 of the projects sneek peaks...

Nice crafty day for all!
We have a list of people so far, why not join us?

here is the link to the sneaks!

http://www.limegreenbogiegirl.blogspot.com/

I Love the new Sizzix Build a Flower Die...

The New min is full of fab new Sizzix dies, I love them for my card making and any other papercrafts but did you know they can also cut fabric and felt? I LOVE LOVE LOVE fabric and sewing so I HAD to make something with the new build a flower die.

This is a sneak peak of a class project I have designed for a workshop I may be doing with my friend Kirsty Wiseman, she is planning a few events and this is to be 'EVENT 2'
http://limegreenbogiegirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/two-events-pick-date.html

Here is a sneak peak...

And another....

if you are interested please leave a message or e-mail me. xx

BLOG HOP FOR THE NEW MINI!!

This is my first blog hop!!!
Not really sure what I am doing.... Amanada is after me!!!!
http://thecraftspa.blogspot.com


The new Mini catalogue has come out today, e-mail me if you would like a copy at cheshire.designhouse@virgin.net

I made this mini box for a recent crafty get together, I LOVE the new Sizzix 'Build a flower' from Stampin up, it makes great flowers a also a great tag.



I loved making this card so decided to a card based on the same design.
Here is a little cose up.


And another one..

And the finished card...


Give me a call if you would like to book a workshop to make these projects or any other projects.

Lovin this mini!!

BEST SEWING GADGET!

I love fabric, I love the look of it, the smell of it , I love to create things out of it......some may say I am obsessed and they would be right!
One of my favourite designers is Heather Bailey and I am blessed to be included in one of her blog hops this month!!
We are sharing our favourite usedful tools.
If you go to her site
http://heatherbailey.typepad.com
I cant seem to link it for some reason so google it...

Click on :
March of the Tools

There is a list of who has been playing this month!

This one of my millions of tools.....
Is it a telephone?
No!! I attach it by suction to my rulers, set squares etc there is nothing worse the trying to pick up your rulers from a flat table (ruins the nails....)

Just wanted to share...

Lady C my youngest , if you read my blog you will know the ups and down we have.....

This morning in the car she had a big smile on her face, I said "why are you so happy today?"
She replied
"I am always happy now I have a mummy like you..."

How amazing is that!!
Just wanted to share.

Craft Fair

I have been so busy over the last few weeks sewing ready for a craft fair last Saturday, I was asked to have stand in a barn, I expected lots of hay and a nice fresh country smell....lush...to my surprise it had a swimming pool on the ground floor (and a very posh one too..) and upstairs a massive room with toilets and chandeliers!!

I took lady 'K' who's is my best helper, we carried everything up the winding stairs, here is a pic of the table.

and a close up...

what do you think of my little tooth fairy pillows? they have a little embroidered linen pocket so you can leave your tooth in the pocket and if you are good they should be a coin left by the tooth fairy!! OK for £5.50!

Kat is obsessed with chocolate, maybe because here early years consisted of chocolate chocolate and not much else but that's another story... can you imagine her face when this arrived? she was in a trance.....truthfully....I have never seen her like that! a lot of my profit went on this..






What I love about craft fairs is all the other stallholders, hearing their stories, their successes(and failures), I always come away motivated and with few new craft friends. Beverley lives locally and had the most amazing personalised children swear, we found it hard to stop nattering the whole time, she has 2 donkeys,chickens and (in her words) an untidy crafters house! She has invited me and the girls to visit in the holidays, I cant wait!

A good day was had by all.