long time no craft.

Illness has a lot to answer for! The winter was a very difficult time for me and the ME got much worse. I then started to get a lot more pain than I was used to, so I recently went back to the doctors to see if there could be something else. 

I was then diagnosed with Fibromyalgia too. It was bittersweet as it meant I knew why I'd been in so much more pain, but it then adds something else for me to cope with and another thing that can't be cured. 

Anyway, let's get on to happier things! I've been slowly crafting again and have a few scrapbook pages to show you all. 

I had my niece, who is now 11, with me for some of half term, so we worked together on these two pages. 

Here is a close up of the title. I love the stickers from doodlebug. 

The journalling die cut is also from doodlebug. 

We had such a fun day at the halloween festival and Emily, my niece, came up with great ideas for the pages and how to match colours etc..
We did this next page about the great selection of pumpkins. Some of them were huge! 

We both love these doodlebug rub ons. It suited the fun theme of the page. 

Here are the pages together. 

I hope you like them. I'll add some cards soon as I've made a few cards too.
I hope you are all as well as possible xxxxx

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Long time no blog! Things have either been busy or i've been too ill to even move off the sofa. This relapse lark is not much fun. 
I have been doing a bit of manic crafting for a craft fair, but it was a waste of time as hardly anyone turned up, it was in an awful venue and on a freezing cold midweek night, so i sold nothing :-( 
I'm trying again on the 7th at a pub that has much more passing traffic and regulars etc... and near to lots of homes, so so hoping i sell a few bits as i need some more money for prezzies! 

Here are a few of the things i made:

 

 

Inside pages: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another album:

 

 

 

A fold out album:

 

 

Inside pages: 

 

 

 

 

 

Chipboard tree decorations:

 

 

 

 

Little gift box:

 

 

That lot exhausted me so i've not made anything more for a few days. BUT as i've been snowed in and i adore Christmas, i have got my tree up and am working on making this a festive little haven. 

I'm sure some of you have had snow worse than i have but it's been weird as two days ago we had hardly anything then now we have this:

This was the view from my front door this morning! 

 

 

 

walking in a winter wonderland! 

 

 

The village pond: 

 

 

Seagulls on the pond, and i'm not even that close to the sea! lol 

 

Millie moo moos running in the snow. 

Right, well i've probably bored the hell out of you all now with hundreds of photos!

I hope you are all as well as possible x  

 

We will remember them.

Hello everyone. The evil monster that is ME is still having a huge control over me and my crafting is in very small amounts :-(  I have been making a box for the baby boy album, but thats about it so far, apart from a bit of colouring and still trying to get used to promarkers. 

But today, more important things need to be remembered and on this day i am very thankful to all servicemen and women, past and present, who risk, or sadly, give their lives for us and our country. 

‎"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them"

 

 

 

baby boy album

Hello everyone. Nice to have something to blog! I've managed to do bits of crafting inbetween sleeping and resting, and i've finished a baby boy album for an order. I just need to make a box for it now. 
Hope you like it:

 

I love this baby embossing folder. It's so cute and makes a great front cover. 

 I found these cute little charms on ebay and thought they'd add that extra little detail to the album. I've used teddy bears, dummies and rocking horses. 

 

 

I made a little pouch for little tags for the birth details. 

 

 

It's been lovely getting some crafting done but think today needs to be a rest day after being out for a few hours with my sister, niece and friend for halloween. 

 We dressed up and went to a local farm where they do allsorts of halloween things. No pics of me as i'm normally always behind the camera and the only one taken of me yesterday was horrible!! lol so here's my gorgeous little niece instead:

Here are a few other pics for you to see. This is the pumpkin that Emily and i carved. She called him nightmare, as he looks like "nightmare before Christmas"

 

Arn't pumpkins such great looking veggies! I love those organic shapes and love how varied they can be. Emily loved how big this one was! :

I'll end with my precious little furry friend, who was snuggled down on the settee like this whilst we were doing the pumpkin. How cute does she look! 

 

I hope you've all had a good halloween weekend and are all as well as possible x xx