My Cousin's Birthday Card

Hi My Friends

I hope you are all well and are enjoying your Sunday. Cloud & Sunshine for us today but still pretty hot in the sunshine. Air con working at full power in my workroom though.


I got called over Claire's a couple of times this week to sit with Phoenix while she went to interviews, such a hard job Right!! He is so unbelievably cuddly and he even closes his eyes when he gives me a kiss, Oh I love him to pieces. On Thursday Claire went to an interview  at a little village school in a place called Colden Common hoping to get a part time teaching position. She came home on cloud nine and couldn't stop telling me about it an hour later she got the call she really needed that she had got the job and the want her to work Monday & Tuesday which means it doesn't interfere with Phoenix's child minder and we have the rest of the week to spend together when she can fit me in. 

It took quite a long time to photograph this card today, being a darker room and not quite so much light I had to get little spot lights out just to get these pictures. I'm going to have to work on my lighting as this was such a faff!. and maybe a new camera too.

Plans are going relatively smoothly for the 14th Anniversary party, still waiting for a couple of RSVP's but on the whole it's heading in the right direction. It wouldn't be such a panic but it's Cheryl's party on Saturday 13th ( the cousin the card is for ) and our party on the Sunday, so it's one last mad dash to the Wholesaler for a few dessert then back home to make the rest of the desserts. Anyway it'll be alright on the night!!! (Day)!!



Here Goes!!

That it Folks! Hope you like it. I really enjoyed making this card and I am hoping to use some if my new flower dies I bought months ago.

See you all soon, Take care all.

Love & Hugs

Tina XX

My Sanctuary

Hi My Friends

This is my new work room, don't get too excited It still has corners to be rounded on the work bench opposite mine. I have a new Venetian blind that will go up over the weekend if time allows as we are having our Fathers day get together this weekend.

Well, we had the lounge carpet fitted today and it looks FAB. I've waited 20 yrs for my lounge to look like a cosy carpeted place to spend time in. I was so tired of climbing over furniture in the hall trying to get to the front door waiting for the fitters to arrive today. The guys were so lovely, I offered them some bacon rolls as it was lunch time, they looked shocked but said that would be lovely, after the bacon rolls they ate a whole packet of chocolate digestives, butter short bread fingers and a boost bar each. They did a lovely job and offered to bring all my furniture back into the lounge, which they did. They asked with this kind of luncheon service are there any other jobs I need sorted, bless em! They left with more cans of coke and another packet of biscuits and said if you ever need another carpet fitted book a Thursday, cheeky buggars! I said we are having a new dining room carpet, bedroom and little, hall carpeted in August but have not chosen them yet.They just said remember Thursday's.!!

Well onto workroom pictures. This is more than a workroom for me, this really is my sanctuary when I am having a reflective day, it's definitely a place I can come and chill out with a glass of wine, watch telly and think of projects to do. Now that it is almost finished I'm really hoping that I can get back into crafting my style of cards again, just so long as they have not gone out of date as it seems more stamping these days.

Anyway here goes!!
Hope you like it as much as me.

Here is my main part of my work bench.

This is to my Left of my work bench.

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This to my right of my work bench.

Sorry this is Mo Mo she really loves to get in on the action.

This is the right side opposite my main workspace without Mo Mo and to the left side of this bench is the door into the room housing all my odds & sods.

 

Odds & Sods door shelf.

These units are where I keep my stamps, glues, glitters, foamiran, ribbons and medicine draw. Plus so much more and the air con in the middle, sadly not used this year yet.

This is Squeak, another little member that shares my workroom, ( Bubble, his sister was too shy to be photographed), she''s hiding behind one of the 25 under unit box's placed around the room.

This is Half Pint on her own swivel chair that has to be right next to mine.

Finally, This is a very treasured gift given to me. It was made from a photo of my beautiful little Summer that passed 3 yrs ago. Hazel's daughter captured her colouring perfectly.


I would loved to have been able to have one of those fold away cupboard units but I would have needed several of them  but they would never have fitted into the eaves of this room. but I love what Paul has built for me and am very happy to while away the hours here in my little craft world. Thanks Paul X.


Sending you all Love & Hugs

Tina XX

Paul's Card

Hi My Friends

Sat in my workroom yesterday trying to think of a Father's day card for Paul. My little grey brain cells had definitely gone to sleep I just couldn't think of anything to do. So I had a large glass of wine and hoped it would jolt my cells into work mode. I remembered a few months ago Sue Wilson making a card by cutting strips of card so I started with that thought, then I remembered I'd bought a stamp a few weeks ago of a woodland scene as it looks a bit like our driveway but we now have leaves. Our driveway is a lovely tunnel of a mingle of a linen tree and a mulberry tree. I got the inks out to colour the scene and then thought nah! I'll do monochrome. So I put everything away and got out black and white card and black ink, cop out I know but I knew Paul would like it just for the effort put into it.

I was going to put photo's of my new workroom on today too but we are using it to store tables, lamps and objects from the lounge as we are decorating and having a carpet fitted Thursday. We have finished  my old workroom and turned it into a little summer room to sit and look out over the front garden, that's what we built it for 20yrs ago but the room has had many uses in that time, so It's nice to put it back to what it was intended for. We are going to look like 2 silly old f--ts sat sitting having our mug of tea and dunking a custard cream, so we thought we might invest in another toy box for Phoenix's toy's too so we won't look so indulgent.

Photo's of workroom to follow on Friday when the the lounge is straight and everything is out of my sanctuary.


Here Goes!

Not a difficult card but enjoyed making it.

Take Care and see you at the end of the week.

As Always Love & Hugs

Tina XX

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