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This year I promised myself faithfully that I would participate in the 'Month in numbers' challenge over on Julie's blog. So far I'm doing well... 1 = The number of train journeys undertaken this year. I used to travel by train a lot but since having my own car train travel has become somewhat of a novelty. 2 = The number of new years eves I celebrated in one night. The friends we were with had

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Amongst my many shelves of UFO's there are also many un-started objects too. One of the many is a fabric flamingo pattern by Melly and Me. At last she has made it out of the dark and into the light, about three times larger than I was expecting! Her body, legs and wings are made from a cotton Ikea pillowcase and the pantaloons from a bit of *best* quilting fabric. Her finished length is

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Whilst undertaking the great craft room sort out of 2012 I unearthed many unfinished objects [surprise, surprise] and have been attempting to finish them off. One such project was the UK Stampers challenge set in 2009. This challenge was to create a series of tags representing the alphabet with a different prompt word each time. I had completed *most* of them if you don't count the 8 that were

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Over on there is a new monthly challenge. This month the challenge was to "Use metal, material from old clothes, tissue and stamps to create a wall hanging. As it is January and it's a long time until payday you can't buy anything new - existing stash only." This appealed to my thrifty nature and also the fact that my 'bit box' was in desperate need of an overhaul. So, throwing my self

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Hello! Welcome back, you need to read quietly as I'm tentatively introducing a new friend to you and he may frighten easily. Welcome to... Mr. Word Bird. Each month on roughly the third Monday Mr. Word Bird shall be fluttering by offering a new word of inspiration to this blog and to any of you who wish to join in. This months word is 'Hello'. Appropriate as it is the first time he has

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Well I managed it. I have completed the first challenge that I said I was going to undertake during 2012. Over on the Gothic Arches blog there is a two-weekly prompt which you have to interpret in your own creative way, the only stipulation being that it must be in the shape of a Gothic arch. The first 2012 prompt was 'New beginnings' and here is my entry... Gothic Arch challenge - New

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Happy new year blog readers, I apologise that we have reached the 11th of January and I have not posted. But, really, were you expecting me sooner considering my previous post was in July last year!ooops. Must do better.Anyway welcome back, as this is the first post of 2012 I thought it would be appropriate to tie up projects from 2011 first. If you remember over on UK Stampers I was taking part

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I say! Has it really been that long. Forgive my inescapable ability to blog with any kind of regularity and take comfort in the fact that I bring you not one but two beach based projects to continue the summer holiday feeling.The first is a new garden fetish [*ahem* not the 'behind closed doors' kind of fetish]. The kind that is made up of numerous pieces of flotsam and jetsam acquired on one of

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As it has been a while since I blogged [again] I just thought I'd drop by and offer you some visual sustenance.My boyfriend has been away for a whole two and a half weeks and is due home today so in preparation for his return I thought I would try my hand at some crafty cake decorating instead. It becomes rather difficult working with icing when you have hands which are as hot as mine. I did

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I haven't had much time lately to sit down and devote myself to anything on a major scale. I have, however, created quite a few cards for various occasions over the past months... [This first one was created for a friend at work using vintage imagery which I blogged about here.] [This was the card given to Mother on Sunday which consists of lots of hand cut paper flowers and plenty of colouring

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What on earth happened to March?! I am going to blame its disappearing'ness' on the fact that the clocks went forward and instead of loosing an hour I lost an entire month.Without further ado here is my month in numbers, short as it may be... 0 = The amount of blog posts that I have achieved since my last month in numbers post. A big fat slapped wrist and detention for me. 6.5 = The number of

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It appears that somebody has stolen yet another month. I know February is only 28 days long but March already? Really? Despite the apparent sneaky month thievery it would appear that quite a few events worthy of note have taken place this month... [Graffiti quote on the outside of the wall protecting the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona] As this rather fabulous graffiti quote suggests the

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It appears that somehow I have confused my little brain and fallen behind a week with my UK Stampers Art Journal.  I thought this week was week 7 [the results of which you can see here] however it's not! This week is week 8, so with due diligence here and just on time is my week 8 entry... [week 8: Favourite books]The background of the page is photograph of one of my favourite Agatha Christie

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Due to my somewhat goldfish brain that has appeared as of late I'm having to do a double post to catch up with my Emily Falconbridge 'Deck of you' challenge.Please don't give me detention for being late: here are weeks 6 and 7... [Week 6 prompt: Love][Click the link to go through to the original post]  [Reverse side of the card] I used papers from my bit box, Love Elise Stickers and an

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Sorry for the mini sabbatical folks, I have been out of the country and unable to craft for a while but now I'm back and gluing and sticking with a vengeance. This weeks challenge over on UK Stampers was to journal about your favourite colour.  I may be known for my love of pink but it's not exclusively my favourite colour so when I sat down to create this page I turned to my trusty bit box

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Sorry I'm late this week folks, I don't seem to have had two minutes to sit down, let alone get anything made or blogged. But better late than never; Week 6 of the UK Stampers Art Journal challenge: [Week 6: Friends. Lyrics by Baz Luhrmann] This weeks challenge was to create a page about friends, use a stencil and use a memorable friend story.I have a bit of an obsession with the Baz Luhrmann

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This weeks prompt:Use some ephemera from your week. [Week 5: Use some ephemera from your week] As some of you may know [and those of you who have read the journalling on the reverse of the card will have no doubt picked up that] I have a slight addiction to TK Maxx.It is a happy place for me to while away the hours perusing the whoopsed section. It's like a jumble sale but with easy parking and

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Back over on UK Stampers another week has rolled by [I'm not entirely sure how] and that can mean only one thing. Time for another Art Journal entry.This weeks prompt was 'perfect day' and the page had to include: 1. What is / would be your perfect day? 2. Include a picture on your page.3. Use some stamping on your page. [week 5: Perfect Day. Photo courtesy of Julie Kirk] The kraft card

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I have been meaning to steal, copy, get inspired by and write my own interpretation of this wonderful idea for quite sometime.It appeared, however, that January snuck up on me and ended rather more abruptly than I was anticipating.Still better late than never... My January 2011 in numbers: 1 year = The length of time I have been living in my own house as of the 8th of January 2011. 2 = The

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Week 4 of the Art Journal challenge run by Efemera on UK Stampers was to journal about: Sweets. 1. List 5 sweets you remember from your childhood.(Did you call them sweets?.. candies? or something else?)2. Where did you buy them and what did they cost?3. Include some kind of sweetie wrappers on your page. [UK Stampers Art Journal challenge: Week 4: Sweets]. My main sweet purchasing memory was

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Over the past two weeks, on a Friday morning, I have been joining in my students classes whilst they have been trying out fashion illustration techniques.It has been a great chance for me to set aside some art time and get back [literally] to the drawing board.The 'going back to school' feeling was a real joy [despite giving up my beloved Friday morning lie in], especially as last week I splashed

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[This weeks prompt was 'a symbol you love'] TA plain cardstock background was covered with Prima papers from the Pulse collection, the bracket stamp is Sasafrass Lass and there is a bit of Cosmo Cricket lurking in there too. Guess where these bits came from? Yes the marvelous and ever expanding bit box. Another project completed and assigned to the *best* category. The asterisk is Scenic Route

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There are many times at work when the phrases 'it's not fair' or 'I want to play' pop into my mind.[un]fortunately for me I can still remember what it was like to be a student; teaching in the environment where I used to study is a constant reminder of the fantastic resources that my students have access to.Currently my first year group are working on a printed textiles project, which, since

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It's that time of the week again when the UK Stampers weekly challenge rolls around. This weeks challenge was to create another 6"x4" art journal page based around the theme of 'School Days'. Being a teacher I had collected quite a few bits and pieces around this theme which yes, I was saving for *best*.This is a *best* occasion.The ingredients for the page included 10 random things you

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This week's prompt was 'I am'...The phrase 'bubble head' has stayed with me since Christmas day 2010 when I decided that curly hair was the way forward in the style stakes. The process of setting your hair in rollers has a distinct tinge of nostalgia about it and my hair always feels more 'done' when it's styled like that.However Mother dear referred to me as bubble head, hence, 'I am a bubble

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Art journal challenge week 2: Gifts. Week twos challenge was to create another 6"x4" page around the theme of 'Gifts'. The elements were supposed to include the best and worst gift that you had received and some recycled packaging. As usual I couldn't escape the lateral thinking and had to change the 'best and worst' elements to 'gift and curse'. The same thing, apart from being entirely

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Some of you may remember waaaaayy back in 2007 Emily Falconbridge started a challenge based on a class she had taken called 'a deck of you' where each week a prompt would be posted to inspire people to create a mini journal page on a deck of cards. Well waaaaayy back in 2007 I decided that I would like to do this challenge, it was on a small scale, I had just kind of started with the whole art

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Is hosting another great challenge throughout 2011 set by Efemera; this year the challenge is to create an art journal based around a prompt and series of ingredients each week.This weeks prompt was goals, below you can see my creation. I'm relatively happy with it apart from the hand written journalling at the top. Hand writing on my work is going to take some getting used to, I'm tempted not

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Boy I'm on a roll! Projects being started and finished left right and centre. This is the second UFO to be completed in 2011, handy really to complete it so early in the year as it happens to be a calendar!The Junkitz kit came from Scrap-a-ganza in 2007 and had previously been made up for my old house.So it was time for an update, I replaced the acetate numbers and the calendar with a free

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Ok, so what is it with this obsession that me and many of my fellow crafters have about 'saving it for best'? We buy mountains of yummy crafty stash and then put it away somewhere never to see the light of day because it is too good to use.Madness. [or verging on it anyway].One of my resolutions for 2011 is to seriously limit the amount of crafty purchases I make and challenge myself to use what

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Hello, hello and a happy new year to you! I do hope that you have brought a lump of coal with you on your visit as you are the first footer to my blog in 2011. As I type we are still waiting for the first first footer to call at our abode this year, I went out the garage door this morning, does that count?Anyhoo; can anybody tell me why it is that somebody else's *stuff* is always more

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Hello readers, followers and those who have happened to drop by. Are you feeling festive yet? No, me neither. There is one thing that I dislike about autumn and that is the speed with which everything turns Christmassy. Don't get me wrong I *♥* Christmas but I also love the excited feeling that you get when you know it's coming - that kind of feeling is difficult to sustain over a 3 month period,

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I thought I'd share with you the results of Saturdays [accidental] mega bake-a-thon.... Please bear in mind this was my first ever attempt at making bread without the supervision of a mother...  [Super mega-bake-a-thon] I was so super pleased with the results that I had to phone Mummy dear and ask her to go onto Skype so I could show her the results! Unfortunately she was on her way out and

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There have been quite a few blog worthy events over the last week or so and I did contemplate doing something fancy such as scheduling different posts for each topic but then thought better of it. So forgive the somewhat eclectic style however those of you who are regular readers will probably not be at all surprised. The first event came last week on return to work. I know I rarely blog about

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I am a regular reader of the inspirational and well designed Copy and Paste blog even if I not a regular 'do-er' of the projects. In fact that's a complete lie; until today I've never been a do-er but Kirsty's most recent post inspired me to have a go (especially when I knew immediately where I could go to take the most appropriate photographs). My friend has a fabulous apartment on the sixth

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Just dropping by very quickly before I partake of some chocolate cheesecake and James Bond to show you some sneak peeks of my competition entry for the UK Stampers 'Design a header' competition. I don't want to give too much away [I'll end up like Willy Wonka and hide away with my Oompa Loompas] but if you would like to enter you can find the details here. There are some fab prizes on offer

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Hello peeps! Again, so soon. It is my new years resolution to knock the blog drought of old on the head. And yes I am aware that it is not January but August. For me August/September always brings about that new year feeling because it's back to school/college/uni/work time. Having been in education for so long [3 graduations later to be precise!] and hopefully some-more along the way too [sorry

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Two posts in one week... have you recovered yet or would you like me to help to get back onto your chair? Anyway I'm not sure this post counts, it's more of a mini post to boast about more of my collected purchases during my recent break to Vicarage Hill. Kind of like coffee and petit fours would be at a dinner party: lovely but not a necessity to the whole. Ta da! [Home-baked lemony loveliness].

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For those of you who either know me in person or have perused this blog on more than one occasion you may have gathered by now that I am rather partial to collecting *stuff*. The recent summer jaunt I embarked on down to Devon: Vicarage Hill to be precise [which according to it's owner [via the Post Office] doesn't really exist] left me frothing at the mouth when I realised just how much *stuff*

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Two posts in nearly a week - I must have taken leave of my senses! Actually it is more to do with being back at the parentals and not having my time stolen by such evil deeds as washing up and cooking meals. Bliss!I came back to the [lovely] north east last Thursday so that I would be in time to join in with a group sewing day on Friday attended by lots of other fabulous crafty people.My aim was

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Wow - it really has been a long time since I blogged [again]. Please do excuse my lackadaisical approach to the online world.This time I bring to you a little 'tweetie' called Birdie. Birdie is my creation for Weft Studio's competition which closes this Saturday.On entering you received a competition pack which included some Angelina fibres, merino tops, buttons, beads and fibres to name but a

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I was browsing the land of inspiration that is the world wide web and happened across this cute little book via Shimelle's blog.It's about coffee, it's got cake in it, it's a mini book and it's free! - what more do you want from life?All you need to do is sign up for an account on Two Peas in a bucket and you can download a plethora of lovely jubbly digi kits for free.Digi is addictive, see even

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At a recent crop with some of my favourite cropping friends I felt that creating a 12x12 layout was a bit much to take. In reality creating a 12x12 involved packing too much *stuff*; cards require much less *stuff* packing.To make these cards I was determined to only use my scraps, of which I have many, to Andrea's horror; I think that my bit box brings her out in a cold sweat. :)Some of these

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Whilst I was on a small journey around blog land I happened upon the new Scattered Scarlet blog which is home to a range of talented people and wonderful ideas as well as a handy link through to 3D Jean where you can purchase all the yummy stampy, altered and vintage supplies that you will ever need.A recent post showcased the fab Canvas Project Kit tackled by the members of the design team; Jean

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On the 12th of every month it is my turn to post on the Banana Frog blog and here is is my project of the day for today...A scrapbook layout using only text stamps, recording a small selection of my many Agatha Christie books!If you would like to see some more close ups of this project check out the Banana Frog blog here. Until next time.♥

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A quick show and tell today...After the great bake-a-thon on Monday I had many pictures to show for it (as you will know if you read my last post) :)What is a girl to do with so many pictures? Why a digi layout of course!The papers and elements are from either Scrap Girls, who by the way, if you sign up for their daily newsletter, send you a lovely freebie by e-mail each day and who doesn't love

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What a busy sixth months I have had... since my last post I have bought a house, moved into it, decorated my lounge, stairs and landing all with the help of my super useful Mum and Dad. (Thanks parentals!) All of the above is a large contributing factor to my distinct lack of posting since *ahem* October last year... whoops!Anyway enough of my excuses and back to the point. 'What is the point?' I

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Why is it that the more that you have to do in life the less time you appear to have to do it?I appear to have been faced with this paradox on a frequent basis since my last post a (metaphorical) million years ago. The dull things in life such as moving house, starting a new job, shopping for food and cooking the tea have stolen the precious moments that I used to have to sit down and write some

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It's not the amount of space that you have, it's the fact that it's 'your' space that is important. That's what I keep telling myself about my new office. I say office with a hint of amusement - the said space is actually an old shower room use by a life drawing model. Until squeezed in to erect some floor to ceiling pin boards the walls that you can see were even tiled.There is just enough room

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I always knew that I had a fair amount of *stuff* and that's ok, *stuff* is good and *stuff* makes me happy. However when you're moving into someones house as a lodger you need to be careful how much of this *stuff* you take with you.I managed to fill my little diddy Corsa to it's limits (not for the first time either) and this was only with my clothes, shoes, handbags and beauty products! I

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words are addictive, not just words that you use in day to day conversations but words as an instrument of design. Julie and I had our final play day for a while today *sniff sniff* and as we discussed the freakish similarities of our minds (if you check out the slide shows on both our blogs it may appear that we secretly share the same brain: either that or I'm slowly ripping off her identity!)

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ok, so at what point does having a mountain of stuff to do become counter productive? You know that feeling, there are a million and one jobs that you should be getting on with but your brain can't face the reality of doing anything? Maybe I should write a list... but there I go again, giving myself another diversionary thing to do. I could spend the time that I don't already have making a list

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is anyone else the same? you sit down to make (what, in your head) is a relatively simple project and before you know it your desk looks as though a Tasmanian Devil on roller skates has spun across it. I think the problem is I get so engrossed in a project and excited by all the pretty stash that I just keep digging *stuff* out until I have a tiny, tiny space to work in. It only lasts so long

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ok so I haven't blogged for a while, after having lots of space to myself I seem to have created a grand total of 'nothing much'. My mojo seems to have been stolen, so if you happen to see it on your merry way around the world I would be grateful for its safe return. I did however have to make a layout for my Banana Frog Project of the Day which is posted on the 12th of each month. This month was

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Hurrah Hurrah I'm home alone! Now that the parentals have gone away and left me all alone what do you think my first thought was? 'wild party and trash the house?' or 'eat as much junk food as humanly possible?' Nope, much more mundane than that I'm afraid...I get a whole craft room to myself! whoop! All the space that I need to glue and stick and I don't even have to tidy up after myself.

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I hope you've all been busy checking out the party over at shimelle.com and soaking up all the inspirational projects that have been appearing there as if by magic all weekend. I was totally psyched when Shimelle asked me to come and play with all the other *cool kids* at her party. Julie created a lovely project this morning featuring a highly elegant photo of me running away from the sea in my

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Before I decided to start this whole blogging thing I often thought that I wouldn't have enough *stuff* to blog about. Oh how wrong can one person be?! Lots of things have happened in the last few days that are worthy (in my humble opinion) of some blog space so I'm going to post twice today - crazy stuff I know :D.Check out my new tag below for the UK Stampers Weekly Challenge which you can find

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My brilliant and always creative, partner in crime Julie gave me a lovely jubbly bag of bits to play with when she came over for sticking and cake on Wednesday and inside the bag of joy was this little sticker:Now I don't think Julie knew about my secret addiction but I recently I have become *obsessed* with shopping. It's like a need - if I go out I have to buy something. Now quite frequently

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okay, so the first post didn't include any pictures, that would have been far to extravagant. *lie* the real reason is it would have taken me far to long to decide which pictures to include.Having made such a difficult decision I have gone with something that illustrates how much fun one can have with friends and little bottles of ink... Mid playtime a rather large and uninvited guest joined us

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I did it! I finally sorted out a place to put all my *stuff* - (see below for definition).Now it's here I haven't the foggiest idea what to put on it. Do I add everything that I have made in the past few days all at once? Do I spread things out over a period of time so when I'm busy I can still fool people into thinking I make *stuff* all the time?It is a minefield of questions, lurking and

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