Little Pearl Dress

I thought I’d squeeze this one in, I am driving down to Peterborough tomorrow ready for shows on Create and Craft Friday 24th April at 10am and 4pm with Hunkydory. I’ve been busy busy prepping for the shows and I know I have some amazing deals on there so don’t miss it.

I want to show you some ways of using the fabulous little books and here is a sneaky peek.

I’m planning to squeeze into something like this for my Daughters wedding in 2016, well that is the plan.

I’m on first at 10am with Leoni so I think we will make a couple of these to show you how.

Create and Craft:- Freesat 813, Virgin 748, Freeview 36, Sky 674

 

New Beginnings With Hunkydory

I can finally reveal that I will be doing some work with Hunkydory, we all know what amazing quality their paper craft is and when they ask if i could do some TV shows for them I was delighted. I’ve been playing with A Little Book of….. and some of the Adorable Scorable.

This card was made using A little Book of Flowers and The Second Book of Poetry.

A double twist easel card with a straight easel center.

Such pretty designs

and such beautiful poetry.

Ahoy me Matey!

Another one of my Silhouette Templates made up, a Door Hanger.

I intended to tie a knotted rope through the holes to hang it from the door but in hindsight I think a bit of bluetac is a better option and of course that means no unsightly holes in a door.

I think this one is kind of cute don’t you?

Making Templates

So I started to go stir crazy sitting at home so I decided to start making my own Cutting Templates for the Silhouette, I started with the Hexagon Box shown below and then moved on to some Flowers and Characters.

I have loads stored up, I need to start making them up now.

Loads of fun working them out and getting the measurements correct.

I always think that a hexagon box looks quite vintage.

I think the chrysanthemum finishes it off quite nicely.

Ryhope Engines Museum

Something Chris has been promising himself to visit for many years and is practically on our doorstep.

This is one impressive work of engineering that is a must to visit, my Mam and Dad took our children many years ago and I remember just how much my Dad enjoyed his visit.

I’ve added a video below of the beam engines in all of their glory, the sheer size of these is immense and has to be seen to be believed. the smell of the oil and machinery all added to the experience and the pride of the men keeping this is working order.

As you can see even the building is mighty impressive.

The Museum is open every bank holiday weekend and we were definitely blessed with the weather for our visit yesterday, quite often they have a vintage car collection on display too so that is always a bonus.

A few of the photo’s took alongside our visit.

The Blacksmith’s workshop.

 

A mans dream, the oil cans.

One of the smaller engines on display.

Just look at all of that grease, Chris was drooling at this stage.

Just the oily rag missing from this photo.

One of the display models.

So pleased that we went to visit, More information can be found here http://www.ryhopeengines.org.uk/index.html