What makes us Hoarders

Something that I giggle about often, hoarding. Why do I do it? I strive to be minimalistic, I don't think that is will happen in my lifetime.

I remember visiting my Grand parents home and always coming away with carrier bags full of groceries I believe it made her feel good to give. You had to take the stuff as she would be offended otherwise, yes my Nanna was a first class hoarder of groceries.

When I lived at home with my Mam and Dad we lived in a remote part of the village so my Mam had a walk in pantry that was full to the gills, within the Pantry was a chest freezer, again full to the gills, with home made bread and pies and meat for our meals.

So here we are 35 years on and my Mam who now lives alone and is 82 years this year still has a full to the brim pantry. I took Mam a dinner up today and came away with 2 carrier bags of goodies.

My Husband Chris always says if we ever go to war he is going straight to my Mams house and boarding us all in as there is enough food there to last us all for around 6 months without ever having to leave ha ha!

So does this pass down the family!

I always have extra in but not to the extent that both my Mam and my Nanna had.

Now I know that most crafters are guilty of hoarding and after reorganising my craft room I am guilty as charged of this, I had to take a deep breath and give loads away to brownies, girl guides and a local school.

Are you a hoarder? What do you hoard?

Do you have like my a under stair cupboard that you throw things into never to see light of day again?

 

 

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Collage a Card Little Book

I was thinking that by now you will have started to receive the Little books that were purchased on my last shows so I thought I would show you a couple of cards that I made during the shows.

The first is the locker room (changing room) card.

Using the Adorable Scorable card stock in Cotton White to score and create a tile effect background.

Don't be frightened to play with these sheets, by cutting out the shirts and crushing them it gives the appearance of hanging shirts, if I left the nun crumpled they wouldn't have looked right, they would have looked as if they had been starched.

Next up is the Teacups with Filled with flowers.

Again teaming the image with coordinating Adorable Scorable and matching background card and making it into a centre stepper card.

I think the colours in this one is just lovely.

 

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Collage a Card Collection

Do you fancy making unique fun quirky cards for all of your family and friends? something to get them all talking about your card making skills?

Join me on Create and Craft TV with Hunkydory Collage a Card.

Saturday 5pm,

Sunday 11am, 2pm and 6pm

Monday 2pm and 8pm

It was quite funny that Jack my Grandson was devastated that I was using them to do my demo's on TV as he really, really wanted them for himself, he has become quite the card maker.

I think I may need to invest in a set just for him.

Not only fun to make but fun to personalise for the recipient.

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Crochet Wrist Warmer Winner

I got my hubby to pick a winner for the Wrist Warmers and I am delighted to announce the winner.

 

What lovely wrist warmers Jack I works to win these to keep my little beauties

Anne

Well done Anne, if you would like to email your details, link on my sidebar, I will get them posted out to you.

 

 

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Peony Paper Craft Collection (Free Download)

Free to download and perfect for Mothering Sunday.

It has been such a long time since I sat down and decided to make a paper collection that you could download for free and I thought what a better time to give you this than in time for Mothering Sunday.

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They are copyright protected.

Click here or the preview image to start the download (please note if you have a pop up blocker on you may have to either click on the pop up blocker button on your menu bar and tell it that pop ups on my site are allowed or try right clicking on the link and tell it to open in a new window).

Crochet Wrist Warmers Blog Candy

Would you like the chance to win a set of wrist warmers?

 

I was chatting with Rossella in the green room the other day we were both saying how in the colder weather we are both needing to keep our hands warm and use wrist warmers and fingerless gloves.

I was saying how I use the spandex ones for when my psoriatic arthritis flares up when I am at home but really don't like wearing them out because I have to go through the whole explaination of why I wear them as they look very medical.

So I set to with my Crochet hooks and made a set of wrist warmers, then I set to and made another set and thought is would be nice to give them as blog candy.

If you would like to have a chance of winning these, just leave me a comments and I will draw a winner on Sunday 6th March (Mothering Sunday)

Many of you have asked for the pattern for the gloves, this is a bought pattern from Ravelry and can be found here

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Beautiful Butterflies Liftables

Hunkydory beautiful butterflies, did you get yours from my last shows?

I hope you managed to get them. I thought I would play a little bit more when I got home, I love colouring and faffing with paper but the beauty of the Liftables is if you don't want to faff you don't have to.

First a bit of cutting, I thought I would just cut and see what happens.

I was pretty pleased with how this one turned out.

The next is from one of my shows.

 

This was another from my shows but I decided to add some colour to the butterflies with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens

A close up of the simplicity of this card, let's call it child play.

 

Now while I had the sparkle pens in my hands I thought I would keep going and made this.

 

So very vibrant, just adding water and saturating the background before adding one or two drops from the Sparkle pens.

The next is using Copic pens and pan pastels

 

 

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50 Shades of Mirri

New from Hunkydory Crafts 50 shades of Mirri, released today on Create and Craft TV.

Superb for giving your card making that something different.

This card was made using one of the blue shades, it die cuts beautifully.

 

I also used a digital image from Mo's Digi Pencil and coloured her with only the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens, I was very pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get skin tones and shading with them.

 

 

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Spectrum Noir Sparkle

Wow.... Talk about give it the old razzle dazzle.

There's nothing old about these brushes.

I need to use some colour in next weeks shows on Create and Craft and got my eye on these fabulous Spectrum Noir Sparkle brushes from Crafters Companion.

I love that they come in a handy carry case and they even have a wrist strap attached.

 

I dived straight in and primed the brushes and laid down some colour to test them out. The result just blew my socks off, I wanted to show you the results right away so try to pretend that my colour is on top of a delicate flower, butterfly or some other wonderful imagery and not the sheet of notepad paper that I tested them out on.

I had to angle the pad to show you just how very sparkly they are. I can't wait to get to work with them.

Thank you Crafters Companion, total sparkle with ease of use and no clogging.

 

 

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All about Weddings

This weekend has been all about weddings, my Daughter had a dress fitting and sorted out the wedding car for the special day.

So much to do, invite cards to make, wedding favours to make. They are all planned and we know what we want, just need to knuckle down and collate numbers.

Chris came in from work asking me to make a Wedding card for one of their agents so I set too and made this for them all to sign.

Of course I used Hunkydory imagery and topper sets as I wanted a professional finish with the best card stock available.

 

Using foiled acetate as a designer feature to the front of the card. Using the background card to hide the sticking son the inside of the acetate.

And finishing the back with some pretty card to send good wishes and sign their names for the Happy Event.

 

 

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It Never Rains but it Pours

I thought it was about time I gave you an update on our home renovations.

Although we thought things were going fine, the room had lovely new plaster and it was drying beautifully.

We soon realised that all was not as it should be on the outer wall.

 

It just wouldn't dry out in parts and we soon came to realise that we had a problem on the outside wall.

Silly I know but for some reason in the back of my mind I was thinking porous bricks, the house is around 108 years old.

Sure enough when we got the builder to look at it he confirmed it was indeed porous bricks and pointing needed.

So although the fire and surround are being fitted today we are at a total stand still until the outside work can be done and unfortunately that is weather depending.

 

 

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