The Shame of a Tip of a Craft Room

I stood in the door way next to tears, “where do I start?” “Should I just give it all up as a bad job?”.

I felt thoroughly ashamed of the whole room, it needs organising, so much stuff, so much unused, more card than a craft shop, more ribbon than a haberdashery, something drastic needs doing.

I know, it’s my job, I know it’s my fault no-one else to blame. Standing at the doorway I just wanted to give it all up.

So I figure to get you to understand I need to give you all a visual, if nothing else it will shame me into sorting out this dreadful mess.

I hope you are all sitting down and ready for the shock.

make sure you view this as a slide show to get the full impact of what I am faced with.

		Craft Room Mess VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

 

So I managed to get nearly 1 unit sorted with my card stock and here it is, I need another 2 to 3 shelves of card adding to this.

Talented Friend

You know sometimes you just have to share a bit of love, I have a crafty friend who is never far away from her camera, this year she has took some outstanding pictures, she isn’t a blogger but she is on Facebook and with her permission I made a 2014 calendar with some of her pictures.

Jo Ann Sinclair, a very talented lady, she is allowing me to show you the Calendar.

In a video format for you to view

A friend is…

So we all need a special friend yes? I think this says it all.

A friend is by Mo’s Digital Pencil 

 

Coloured with Graph’It Markers, Copic Markers and Chalk Pencils.

Teamed with Kaiser Kraft designer papers and a pretty black flower, image mounted on black cardstock from Creative Crafting World.

Well that is this year nearly out so I need to thank you all for your continues support and encouragement and hope you will all join me for another year. All the very best in life to you all for 2014.

Hope that you have friends in abundance x

This way or that?

Firstly I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, we did very busy, we sank into the sofa last night and simply vegged out.
I dug out my new slipper boots and as I don't normally wear slippers this is a new experience for me. I sound deprived don't I? Believe me I'm not, it was just personal choice.
So I don't want the fashion police to come after me so which way should they be worn?

Sunderland Glass Center

On Monday we decided to go and watch a good friend of ours at the Sunderland Glass Center, Davey Martin is such a talented man and this craft of glass blowing is seen less and less with all of the imported glass we see in our homes today, mass produced.

We went to the center full of expectations and we weren’t disappointed.

This is Davey but you will have to forgive the photography as I forgot my camera and had to rely on Chris’s phone.

Davey used to be a retained Fire-fighter with Chris but his full time employment took him away from it. We managed to stich together a video of Davey at work showing his skills.

They do demonstrations to the public on a daily basis and there is no entry charge so it is well worth a visit.

There is loads to view there like these exhibits.

I’m lucky to have a few pieces made by Davey so thought I would show you some of them.

The bowls is what Davey was demonstrating in the video.

This is a piece he made for Chris as a gift for him retiring from the Brigade.

isn’t is gorgeous?

and this is another bowl in different colours.

Now those eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed something inside the bowl in the above picture.

Glass baubles.

Simply stunning and unique.

You can even book up and have a try at making these yourself.

Paperweight

Now all of this as wonderful as it is I left out one small detail.

Davey absolutely loves his job, I truly believe he would do it for nothing. Why? probably because no two pieces are alike, every piece is one of a kind.

Please support your local craftsmen, it would be such a shame not to have these talented men and woman.