OOO Nooo my crafty area is all of a mess .. But dont panic

My crafty area where I do my cards is all of a mess,

as I am getting a new tumble drier delivered on Wednesday, and needed to get my card containers with my stored already made cards in off my old tumble drier, and move the old one out so can give that area a good old clean and scrub before the new one comes.

so having done the cleaning bit, cant get to make any cards till rearranged the rest of the stuff after the new ones delivered.

So for today's crafty photo its another bracelet,

this time made from scratch by using the chain mail method and using large wooden beads for the charms in different colours.

I of to crochet a beany hat now, so I can get some stock ready for the winter,

as it is already like autumn, not a good sign really.

Hope you who have bank holiday today are enjoying the extra day of work,

and for everyone have a great Monday.

Back sooner or later lol.

Thanks for visiting

Hugs

Angie

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I did the flowers, now here are the butterflies ........

Hi, on this rather windy sunday morning,

as you see on a earlier post that I made some beaded flowers,

which actually sold well for me, so I thought I would do some butterflies,

these are basic butterflies, but do look rather nice, think they would make a nice little topper for cards if not other things as well.

they are approx 1.75" across and 1.5" long from the antenna to the bottom of the body.

Please let me know what you think,

I like to know, as I can learn from criticism as well as compliments.

Have a great day,

Hugs

Angie

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Little Wooden Beads Chain Mail Bracelet .............

Todays crafty item hand made by myself is a small wooden bead chain mail bracelet,

I made this from scratch with all separate links, and then also made danglers for the beads.

I have been busy today with visitors galore, and popped up the town to the library to return my books this morning, also dropped off two large boxes of books to the RSPCA shop for them to sell.

Going to get some crafting done this evening, if no more visitors turn up, while watching the x factor and big brother.

Hope you all have a great bank holiday weekend.

Hugs

Angie

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A quick card and off for a cuppa and more crafting ...

Hello everyone,

yay its Friday, not much longer left of the school holidays,

and closer to our holiday, we are going to Cornwall. (MASSIVE GRIN)

This morning I made this quick card, it is literally out of bits laying around,

the image is unknown to me (sorry please let me know) one that I had coloured a while ago,

and all the papers are from my bit bag, there was two lovely glittery pearly butterflies lying on my desk along with the two gold peel offs, so just had to use them up.

I followed the new sketch from Just Inspirational today.

The challenges this is being entered into are -

Just Inspirational - Sketch

Rainbow Ladys - Sparkle and Shine

- 3 papers, 2 embellies, 1 Image,

Papertake weekly - 3,2,1 of anything,

Lets Ink It Up = Anything Goes with a dash of yellow.

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Thanks for stopping by,

I am of to my dear neighbours for a cuppa,

then back to craft some more.

Have a super weekend,

Hugs

Angie

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Mini Circle Easel Card 2.75"

Oh My a Second card all in one day,

not bad considering I had lost my mojo but thing now its back,

this circle easel card is approx 2.75" round,

It is made with embossed purple pearl card, that has butterflies embossed into it,

I used my stamps set from WaltzingMouse, that I made the flower with in the centre,

and the sentiment is from the same set as well.

I used lace around the top part of the card, and two pearl buttons for decoration as well,

I followed the sketch from Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges -

Sketch - Waltzing Mouse

Lace - Crafty Sentiments 32

Pearls & Lace - Delightful Challenges (hope the pearl buttons count)

Make your own flower - Craft Your Passion

Shapes - One Stitch At A Time

Miniature 3" - Allsorts

Buttons & Butterflies - Crafty Catz Weekly

Thank You for stopping by today,

love reading your comments,

back to some more knitting now,

have fun,

Hugs

Angie

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Vase of Flowers ...........................

This morning I made this card to cheer up the day as it is raining here,

so this card is nice bright and cheerful,

I used the wonderful vase of flowers image from Delicious Doodles,

the butterfly is a white peel off stuck on plain purple mirror board and cut out to make it 3d,

on the plain white card base I used a gold floral pattern on silver mirror board with a strip of pastel rainbow coloured lace, the vase image is mounted on plain purple mirror board.

I am entering this into the following challenges -

Delicious Doodles - DT call challenge

Cards & Things - Sketch

Stamp with Fun - Card for a girl

Craft Your Days Away - with wings (butterfly)

Flutterby Wednesdays - open theme with either a butterfly, angel or fairy

Kaboodle Doodles - 2 patterned, 2 plain, lace or flowers

Cute Card Thursday - No punches, die cuts, nesties etc

Thanks for stopping by,

of to do some knitting now,

Have a great day,

Hugs

Angie

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A sweet card ...............

I did get around to make a card today,

this was a order for my brother for a friend of his who adores cornetto's,

I 3d decoupaged it myself, and even tho it is a birthday card,

we left the front clear of words as the lady will probably frame it,

I would like to enter this into the challenges over at

Donna's Den - Decoupage

A Crafty Little Place - Food

Thank You for stopping by,

I love reading your comments,

Hugs

Angie

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Tuesdays crafty photo .............

Good Morning on this lovely Tuesday,

at 8am today it is nice and sunny and looks a good day for drying the washing,

so hoping its not going to rain like it did it yesterday,

These two photo's are of another bracelet I have made,

its a lovely bronze/brown colour,

I am hoping to be back later today or at least tomorrow morning with a card,

I feel like making a card today.

Thanks for stopping by

Have a super day

Hugs

Angie

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Restful Sunday?

Well after the night I had last night, I was hoping for a nice restful day today,

I was knocking on my neighbours door at 1.35am this morning as they had visitors and was rather loud and woke myself and my kids up.

so a little tired, but went and did my shopping at iceland for the week,

then went over to see my mum and dad, had a great laugh and sorted out the finance side of our holiday that we are going to find tonight,

we are torn between Wales and Cornwall, we shall see what ebay has to offer on the caravan renting side of things.

The above picture is a pink cube floating bracelet that I made one day last week.

I am going to have a early night tonight to catch up on the sleep I missed out on last night.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hope you had a wonderful day,

Hugs

Angie

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Got The Blues ............ Don't think so ... lol

Good Morning on this dull Saturday morning,

at least it isnt raining (YET) , today is the start of the new challenge over at

Ellephantastic Challenges,

and the theme is

MALE PROJECT,

this can be anything as long as it is male orientated.

I chose to do a coaster and coloured my lovely Roger Bear image in watercolours in all shades of blues, this is actually a gift for my youngest son as he ruined his Thierry Henry coaster so I recycled the actual coaster and added this picture.

The fabulous prize for entering the male project challenge this week is a set of fabulous pins from

POSH PINS.

I am looking forward to seeing all your lovely projects at Ellephantastic Challenges this week.

I am also entering this coaster into the following challenges -

Simon Says - Make A Gift

ABC Challenge - B is for Blue

Stampin 4 the Weekend - Anything Goes

One Stop - Anything But A Card

Have a great weekend everyone,

Hugs

Angie

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Floating Necklace and looking forward to the weekend,

Yay its Friday ;-)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

I have had some lovely news my mum and dad are going to pay for a weeks holiday for us all,

so this weekend we are hopefully going to organise it all,

cant wait to get it booked and have something to look forward to.

I made this floating bead necklace over the last couple of days,

so this is my crafty picture for today,

it comprises of 3 rows of beads and is meant to look like they are floating or not attached to anything.

This will be for sale on my ebay at the weekend,

see link on side of blog.

Have a great weekend,

and dont forget to pop back tomorrow for the new Ellephantastic Challenge,

Hugs

Angie

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Fingerless Mitts is today craftiness ...............

Here are a pair of hand knitted fingerless mittens,

they are knitted in double knit wool, in a light blue,

and have a cable pattern all around them.

Only two more weeks of the 3 boys at home left out of their school summer holidays,

they are now getting bored and can not occupy themselves,

why are the summer holidays so long for them,

I think it should be split up to smaller holidays for them and for us.

it would cost me £65 approx for the 5 of us to go to the zoo and that is without petrol and food

so they get fed up easy as we just cant afford to keep going out.

Thanks for popping by,

hugs

Angie

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Flower Power ......................... (lots of photo's)

Hello everyone, hope your having a great Wednesday,

the weather here is a bit overcast,

but I managed to get some nice photo's of my flowers that I have been beading,

They are approx 2" wide (around) apart from the one set of white ones in the photo below which are only 1.5" as I used smaller matt white beads on these.

They do take a fair bit of time to make,

but are quite nice to make,

I will be listing these for sale on my ebay later today,

(see link on side of blog)

I have done 6 pairs of different colours

to see how they sell, and how popular they will be.

The colours I have done are,

Matt White with pearl centre, Silver with a purple centre, gold with pearl centre,

blue with blue centre, red with red centre, orange with pearl centre,

I am entering these into the

Flower Power Challenge over at Fab n Funky challenges.

Anything Goes at Craft Your Passion

Thanks for looking,

really do appreciate you stopping by,

and love reading your comments,

I love to learn from criticism as well,

so dont be shy, just dont be rude lol.

Hugs

Angie

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YOU JUST HAVE TO GO AND SEE THIS BRIDE N GROOM ....

PLEASE POP OVER TO SEE THIS WONDERFUL BRIDE AND GROOM,

ELLEPHANTASTIC MR & MRS

THEY ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD,

have been beading some more flowers,

will show you them a bit laters,

hugs

Angie

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I did get crafty yesterday ................

I got a order for two bracelets from a dear friend of mine,

she wanted two bracelets for her nieces, one pink and one blue,

so I thought I would do same but just different colours.

the pink is more like a pearl and the blue is more see through with a slight pattern in it.

so I did get crafty yesterday in between trying to play catch up on all that I missed during last week on days out with hubby.

Please let me know what you think of these as I like to learn to better myself and my crafty items.

Thank you for popping by today,

its a bit overcast here, so might manage to get some crafty bits done today,

but first must look for my card making mojo as I lost it on holiday last week, lol.

Hugs

Angie

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Got a Head? ....... Get a Hat ........

Happy Monday morning to you all, ;-)

Hubby is back at work this week, so its time to try and get back to normal,

today will be spent catching up on everything, then hopefully will get some crafting done this week,

I managed to get this lovely dusky pink peaked cap made last week,

it is in aaron wool, (synthetic) fits an average size head, has a little peak as well,

I am pleased the way this turned out as it is the first time I have crocheted a peak cap,

makes a change from beanie hats.

We had a wonderful weeks holiday with hubby home, very busy going here and there,

the last day out was yesterday at the Ford Show at Battlesbridge Essex,

had a lovely day seeing all the Anglia's, Cortina's and the other fords as well.

As per usual my hat is for sale, and proceeds go to my local animal rescue centre.

please email for details or to order other items .

Thank you for stopping by today,

adore reading your comments,

hugs

Angie

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Oh my what a busy week,

Over the last week, with hubby being on holiday its been hectic nothing has been organised,

all last minute stuff, so no time for much crafting,

I did however manage to get time to try making some beaded flowers,

this is the outcome of my first attempt, will try better when he is back at work in peace and quiet,

I had a wonderful visit from my very good long time friend, who now lives in france,

it was so good to see you Pierrette and Fernard.

I have also crocheted a hat today, will post that tomorrow when got a better photo as weather is total rubbish today.

Might even get back into making some cards next week, if I can find my mojo again.

Have a great weekend everyone,

Hugs

Angie

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Monkeying around ................

Here is my latest knitted article, lol,

Its a monkey in a bow tie and hat,

I know just the thing you expect to see isnt it?

This week my hubby is at home,

so there will not be much posting from me,

as wont have peace n quiet to do much crafting,

tomorrow we hope to go to Gt Yarmouth, as my mum n dad are going with the village oap's and we can meet them up there.

Plus I have not been to Yarmouth for approx 5 years now so would like to see how its changed.

I will be taking some knitting or crocheting with me, so might have something else to show this week.

Hope you all have a great week,

chat soon

Hugs

Angie

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PS this monkey is approx 16" tall, and is FOR SALE x

Anniversary Card Challenge Time .............

Anniversary is the theme of the new challenge over at Ellephantastic today,

I have made this love bear Anniversary card, which was quite appropriate as it will be my hubby and I's 21st wedding anniversary a little later this month.

I would love to see you join us at Ellephantastic this week, there is a wonderful prize to be won.

For this card I followed the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches,

and used Roger bear from the Ellephantastic shop, coloured with markers,

I tried a different way of trying to get shading on this one, so he looked furry,

I am also entering this into the following challenges -

ICS - Sketch

Crafty Creations - Anniversary or Wedding

Charisma Cardz - Teddy bear

Cute Card Thurs - Whateva (open theme)

Cow Girls - Animals or Bugs (bear)

Don't forget to enter in the Ellephantastic's Anniversary challenge as well.

Thanks for stopping by,

hope you are having a great weekend,

hugs

Angie

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A little update on what I have been doing .....

I have been having some fun time with my 3 boys,

also some me time, I took time out to do a jigsaw puzzle,

it was only a 500 piece one with two vw campers on the village green picture,

it is up in my room awaiting the jigsaw glue so I can make it into a picture,

sorry forgot to take a photo of it before I stowed it away,

I have also been knitting, you have already seen the lookalike vw campervan (see post below)

and am half way throught knitting a moped (motor cycle).

I also made this love necklace, which is on a leather bootlace strap with a crab claw clasp,

This is for sale and will go towards my local RSCPA donations.

My little yorkshire terrier got took out by my mum and dad today for a cut n shampoo,

it only cost me £20, can't wait to see what he looks like when they get back,

so while they where out with our dog, I took my 3 boys to town, they all got a second hand xbox 360 each, and we had dinner in the nice cafe.

Back later with photo's of my cute dog, (hopefully he is not scalped)

hugs

Angie

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My Blue VW lookalike Campervan - Hand Knitted

I finished sewing this together today,

Its my version of a VW Campervan, I adore them vans,

so thought why not knit one,

It comes complete with surf board, knitted of course,

The photo below is the front of the van

please let me know your serious thoughts on this campervan,

As not sure whether to knit more and sell them,

This is the back of the campervan,

obviously can knit different colours as well.

Thanks for stopping by,

looking forward to seeing your comments on my campervan.

Hugs

Angie

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Good Morning ......................

Good Morning everyone,

I hope you all had a great weekend,

I want to share with you today a card that I made yesterday afternoon,

My youngest son has gone for a birthday sleepover/day out at the beach with his friend Logan,

He left at 6pm yesterday and will not be back till this evening, I hope they all have fun.

I made this card under the instructions from my son,

He wanted the gingham backing paper, and the wizards as he said he and his friend like dressing up, and love Harry Potter, so I had these toppers in my stash, cut them out and decoupaged them up, as you can see in the photo below, I also decorated the inside of the card to order from my son, lol.

As you all know me by now,

I am entering this into some challenges,

and they are -

Die Cut Dreams - Gingham,

One Stop - Patterns (Gingham)

Challenge Up Your Life - Celebrations (Birthday)

Totally Papercraft - going to the movies (Harry Potter)

Thank you for stopping by,

hugs

Angie

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Whoopsi Daisy has a new challenge ...........

This is my guest DT card for this month's new challenge over at Whoopsi Daisy,

the challenge this month is Blues & Greens,

I have used just one of the lovely digi images from Whoopsi Daisy,

they are a bargain as you get four on a sheet.

I used my pro markers to colour with, I need more practice and more colours or shades,

The backing paper was one I found on a cd I had.

Looking forward to seeing your Green N Blue creations over at Whoopsi Daisy.

I am entering this into the following challenges -

2 Sketches 4U - Sketch

Passion For Promarkers - Green

Paperplay - Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Clean and Simple

Stampman Challenge - 2 Colours

Thanks for stopping by,

and taking time to leave a comment,

I really do appreciate them.

Hugs

Angie

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