Hello blogworld
So we've been off to school, again, and it would appear that our view of bullying doesn't tally with their view.
Still we've been re-assured that they can cope with this child in her class, so we start the 3 month merry-go-round again. Hopefully there will be no more problems before the summer holidays and then get a new start in September.
On to more cheerful things - crafting blunders!!
Day 18: Crafting muck ups, tell us how you got round them OR Craft something that dots
Crafting muck ups? Hmm well I don't sell cards very often, so if I do muck up it doesn't really matter that much as I just ditch it and start over.
But I've had my fair share of putting the papers and image on the back of the card blank, of marking an image after I've carefully coloured it for hours, of ripping my last piece of matching patterned paper / cardstock.
And I'm a terror for matting and layering wonkily (is that a word?) - stick the image / papers down then happily slice around it and find that I've sliced at an angle and I end up with wonky matting.
I don't generally get round them, I either just start again or see if I can hide the mistake! Or I'm dreadfully honest and point out the mistake before anyone else does!!!
No card from me today - hopefully will get time soon.
Cheerio
Sarah
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Monday, 17 June 2013
June - Days 16 and 17
Hello blogworld
I warn you now this is going to be a long post! Please bear with me, you may find some bits interesting ;-)
Ooops, fell a bit behind there! Well I don't think you can blame me for missing yesterday - I had a very busy day. SHMbO woke her daddy up around 7am - she was very excited that to(yester)day is/was Fathers' Day. As far as she was concerned it was as good as his birthday!
We presented him with the cupcakes we made - made them with faces on! Great fun! Then we nipped to the shops and got him a couple of presents - a new T-shirt and some flowers - then in the afternoon we headed over to church.
The church that sits on the edge of our Hamlet held their flower festival over the weekend and as it was Rainbow themed the Leader of the Rainbows group that SHMbO goes was asked if any of the girls would like to do a reading for the Sunday service. Emily and her friend Jessica were asked, and agreed, to do the reading. Very excited they were as well - and they did brilliantly! They loved going to Church and singing the Hymns - couple of my favourites as well. I sing very badly, but very enthusiastically - oooh you'd wince if you heard me!!! I managed to slightly murder, Give me Joy in My Heart and Amazing Grace! Not to mention the damage I did to We Plough the Fields and Scatter.
Then we headed home to make Daddy his favourite dinner - home-made Pizza.
Which all left very little time for blogging.
Then today we are back at the usual weekly grind. Add into the mix that I've got a broken tooth and it's SHMbO's birthday on Saturday so we are winding up the pace getting ready for The Party in The Garden and you've got one busy week.
Anyway - enough waffle for now moving onto the prompts:
Day 16: When you’re not crafting what do you do OR Craft something that celebrates marriage
Umm, what don't I do? I clean our house, cook our food, take the daughter to and from school - take her to her weekly Rainbows group, her friends houses, trips out. I go to whatever activity they want us to attend at school - I've also been roped into being a part of the Friends of the school, not so sure about that one!
I also clean the holiday cottage that we let, make up the welcome pack which includes cooking the bread for said pack. I don't do the meet and greet - makes me nervous!
I wash the car, visit with my friends - a once a month ladies who lunch group! - I go swimming (twice a week if I'm being good), I go for a walk on the prom, when I get time. I don't do the garden (I'm a plant killer!), I don't put the washing in the machine (I'm a washing machine killer as well!), I do do the ironing and put everything away.
To sum up shall we say I'm a ~Wife and Mother; a Domestic Engineer and a Cleaner for a holiday cottage. I'll let you know another day if I remember another one of my many duties!
Day 17: Tell us how to do something, can be a craft technique that’s as old as the hills but your take on it OR Craft something that has the colour red in it
Oh My Goodness, there's no way I'm going to tell you how to do something! I haven't got the nerve or the expertise to do that. Instead I'll show you a card I made earlier in the year, but didn't blog, that's got a touch of red in it.
Front view:
The close up:
The Arty Farty:
I used:
I warn you now this is going to be a long post! Please bear with me, you may find some bits interesting ;-)
Ooops, fell a bit behind there! Well I don't think you can blame me for missing yesterday - I had a very busy day. SHMbO woke her daddy up around 7am - she was very excited that to(yester)day is/was Fathers' Day. As far as she was concerned it was as good as his birthday!
We presented him with the cupcakes we made - made them with faces on! Great fun! Then we nipped to the shops and got him a couple of presents - a new T-shirt and some flowers - then in the afternoon we headed over to church.
The church that sits on the edge of our Hamlet held their flower festival over the weekend and as it was Rainbow themed the Leader of the Rainbows group that SHMbO goes was asked if any of the girls would like to do a reading for the Sunday service. Emily and her friend Jessica were asked, and agreed, to do the reading. Very excited they were as well - and they did brilliantly! They loved going to Church and singing the Hymns - couple of my favourites as well. I sing very badly, but very enthusiastically - oooh you'd wince if you heard me!!! I managed to slightly murder, Give me Joy in My Heart and Amazing Grace! Not to mention the damage I did to We Plough the Fields and Scatter.
Then we headed home to make Daddy his favourite dinner - home-made Pizza.
Which all left very little time for blogging.
Then today we are back at the usual weekly grind. Add into the mix that I've got a broken tooth and it's SHMbO's birthday on Saturday so we are winding up the pace getting ready for The Party in The Garden and you've got one busy week.
Anyway - enough waffle for now moving onto the prompts:
Day 16: When you’re not crafting what do you do OR Craft something that celebrates marriage
Umm, what don't I do? I clean our house, cook our food, take the daughter to and from school - take her to her weekly Rainbows group, her friends houses, trips out. I go to whatever activity they want us to attend at school - I've also been roped into being a part of the Friends of the school, not so sure about that one!
I also clean the holiday cottage that we let, make up the welcome pack which includes cooking the bread for said pack. I don't do the meet and greet - makes me nervous!
I wash the car, visit with my friends - a once a month ladies who lunch group! - I go swimming (twice a week if I'm being good), I go for a walk on the prom, when I get time. I don't do the garden (I'm a plant killer!), I don't put the washing in the machine (I'm a washing machine killer as well!), I do do the ironing and put everything away.
To sum up shall we say I'm a ~Wife and Mother; a Domestic Engineer and a Cleaner for a holiday cottage. I'll let you know another day if I remember another one of my many duties!
Day 17: Tell us how to do something, can be a craft technique that’s as old as the hills but your take on it OR Craft something that has the colour red in it
Oh My Goodness, there's no way I'm going to tell you how to do something! I haven't got the nerve or the expertise to do that. Instead I'll show you a card I made earlier in the year, but didn't blog, that's got a touch of red in it.
Front view:
The close up:
The Arty Farty:
I used:
Stamp:
The Greeting Farm - Oliver & Amelia: Surprise
coloured with my Promarkers
Dies:
Nesties - circle and scalloped circle
Anything else?
Scrap of patterned paper
Embossing folder
Chipboard word - ages old
Bit of yarn
Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow - we've got an appt with the Head of SHMbO school, again, to see if we can do anything about this boy who keeps bullying her - tho it will probably be late in the evening again.
Cheerio
Sarah
Saturday, 15 June 2013
June - Day 15
Hello blogworld,
Cor, half-way through June and half-way through a blog a day already - gorn fast ain't!
It's also nearly SHMbO's birthday (this time next week) so I doubt you'll see any cards from me for the next week, as we get ready for the social event of the year - The Party in The Garden!!!
If I get time I will make a card, but I don't know if I will or not - so you may end up just with waffle for awhile. Apologies in advance.
And here we go today - waffle only, no card!
Our prompt:
Day 15: A day in your crafting life. Can be just words, words and pictures or just pictures OR Craft something that celebrates love
Hmmmm, now I very rarely craft all day. If SHMbO is at school, I've also got housework / shopping / swimming, etc. If she's at home, well there's no chance to actually craft for any length of time - I'm lucky if I get an hour before she interrupts in some-way or another. So lets just say my crafting day is about 3 hrs at a go, max.
I'm afraid no pictures - so just words.
So once, I've got back from dropping SHMbO off at school and had a chat with 'im indoors it's generally about 10ish and I'll settle down for a bit of surfing, this normally takes around an hour!! Then I'll remember what I was actually meaning to do!
Then I'll stamp, or print, my image, start to colour it in - by that point it'll be lunch time and I'll take an hours break.
We go back to the craft room (and a bit more surfing!) to my part coloured image, I'll then finish colouring it in. Once that's done I'll cut it out (die-cut or hand cut) then I'll move onto picking papers. By this point an hour or so has gone and I'm wondering where the hell the day's gone to!
If I'm lucky I'll get round to putting together the card. What's more like is that I've now run out of time and have to go get SHMbO and that's the end of my crafting day.
I think that just goes to show how much time I waste surfing!!!
Back tomorrow.
Sarah
Cor, half-way through June and half-way through a blog a day already - gorn fast ain't!
It's also nearly SHMbO's birthday (this time next week) so I doubt you'll see any cards from me for the next week, as we get ready for the social event of the year - The Party in The Garden!!!
If I get time I will make a card, but I don't know if I will or not - so you may end up just with waffle for awhile. Apologies in advance.
And here we go today - waffle only, no card!
Our prompt:
Day 15: A day in your crafting life. Can be just words, words and pictures or just pictures OR Craft something that celebrates love
Hmmmm, now I very rarely craft all day. If SHMbO is at school, I've also got housework / shopping / swimming, etc. If she's at home, well there's no chance to actually craft for any length of time - I'm lucky if I get an hour before she interrupts in some-way or another. So lets just say my crafting day is about 3 hrs at a go, max.
I'm afraid no pictures - so just words.
So once, I've got back from dropping SHMbO off at school and had a chat with 'im indoors it's generally about 10ish and I'll settle down for a bit of surfing, this normally takes around an hour!! Then I'll remember what I was actually meaning to do!
Then I'll stamp, or print, my image, start to colour it in - by that point it'll be lunch time and I'll take an hours break.
We go back to the craft room (and a bit more surfing!) to my part coloured image, I'll then finish colouring it in. Once that's done I'll cut it out (die-cut or hand cut) then I'll move onto picking papers. By this point an hour or so has gone and I'm wondering where the hell the day's gone to!
If I'm lucky I'll get round to putting together the card. What's more like is that I've now run out of time and have to go get SHMbO and that's the end of my crafting day.
I think that just goes to show how much time I waste surfing!!!
Back tomorrow.
Sarah
Friday, 14 June 2013
June - Day 14
Hi blogworld
Bit of a tired Sarah today - we took SHMbO to an after school birthday party. She's flaked out in bed and hubby & me are flaked in front of the telly. Not the most successful party ever - she cried, I cried and hubby descended into saying that he doesn't understand women!
Anyway we'll gloss over the whole episode and move onto today's prompt.
Day 14: Name your favourite smell, taste, view, sound and texture OR Craft something that has a music theme
So no time to craft, here's my favourite:
Bit of a tired Sarah today - we took SHMbO to an after school birthday party. She's flaked out in bed and hubby & me are flaked in front of the telly. Not the most successful party ever - she cried, I cried and hubby descended into saying that he doesn't understand women!
Anyway we'll gloss over the whole episode and move onto today's prompt.
Day 14: Name your favourite smell, taste, view, sound and texture OR Craft something that has a music theme
So no time to craft, here's my favourite:
Smell
Now that's got to be new print, you know the smell you get when you open up a new magazine, catalogue or book. It's an odd choice I know, but then so am I - and odd choice I mean!
Taste
hmmm now I suppose it's going to be a proper full fat Coke. It's not something I allow myself to have very often - leaves a horrible coating over my teeth. But I do like it!
View
Oooh I love either a good sunset or a twinkly night sky.
Sound
That's got to be my daughter's throaty giggle. She has a normal laugh, but when something really tickles her she gives off the most adorable throaty giggle - it's so infectious and cheeky!
Texture
Oh goodness me, a texture? That one's had me stumped for ages, I suppose I'm going to say sand between my toes. I do like sitting on the beach and digging me toes in!
Can't believe we're nearly half way through already - looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Sarah
Thursday, 13 June 2013
June - Day 13
Hello blogworld
Y'know just as I was typing this post I realised just how fried my brain is - I've been using the prompts to work out what day of 'a post a day in June' we are at, why didn't I just look at the date each day?? Oh dear, early senility calling me thinks.
Anyhow, today's prompt - and I've been a good girl and managed to do the double!!
Day 13: What do you want to learn to do? Can be crafty or non-crafty OR Craft something that has stripes
What do I want to learn to do? How deep and meaningful do you want to get? Be braver, be more ambitious, be happier?
How about, seeing as how we've had a lot of angst and problems this week - I just go for a simpler learning ambition.
To colour better! I've seen lots of on-line courses for improving colouring with Copics (look at people's side bars - a lot show some sort of Copic certificate) but I've not seen an on-line course yet for Promarkers. Why are there no courses that I can find for Pros, am I not looking hard enough, or do they not exist? Oh and I'm sure someone will say look for one locally - I live near Gods waiting room, no-one round here colours - they all do flowery decoupage, honestly, they do, honestly!
So in lieu of a proper course, I do a lot of YouTube looking and staring at other people's colouring, trying to work out how they did that, what colour they used, and how on earth they get their light source shading to work!!!
I would also like to learn how to take a better picture, I got a digital SLR bridge camera a few years ago, with the intentions of taking marvellous pictures - it pretty much only comes out now to take pics of my cards. Sad, very sad!
Anyhow there you go - my learning ambitions.
Now for some card-candy:
Front shot:
The Arty Farty:
The Close Up:
I used:
A challenge, or two:
Some Odd Girl: June Sketch Challenge - Was so pleased to be a winner last month, thank you!
Y'know just as I was typing this post I realised just how fried my brain is - I've been using the prompts to work out what day of 'a post a day in June' we are at, why didn't I just look at the date each day?? Oh dear, early senility calling me thinks.
Anyhow, today's prompt - and I've been a good girl and managed to do the double!!
Day 13: What do you want to learn to do? Can be crafty or non-crafty OR Craft something that has stripes
What do I want to learn to do? How deep and meaningful do you want to get? Be braver, be more ambitious, be happier?
How about, seeing as how we've had a lot of angst and problems this week - I just go for a simpler learning ambition.
To colour better! I've seen lots of on-line courses for improving colouring with Copics (look at people's side bars - a lot show some sort of Copic certificate) but I've not seen an on-line course yet for Promarkers. Why are there no courses that I can find for Pros, am I not looking hard enough, or do they not exist? Oh and I'm sure someone will say look for one locally - I live near Gods waiting room, no-one round here colours - they all do flowery decoupage, honestly, they do, honestly!
So in lieu of a proper course, I do a lot of YouTube looking and staring at other people's colouring, trying to work out how they did that, what colour they used, and how on earth they get their light source shading to work!!!
I would also like to learn how to take a better picture, I got a digital SLR bridge camera a few years ago, with the intentions of taking marvellous pictures - it pretty much only comes out now to take pics of my cards. Sad, very sad!
Anyhow there you go - my learning ambitions.
Now for some card-candy:
Front shot:
The Arty Farty:
The Close Up:
Digi:
Some Odd Girl - Tiny Princess Tia
coloured with my Promarkers (apart from the pink - that's Copics)
Dies:
Wot no - again! I must be feeling ill!
Papers:
My Mind's Eye: miss caroline - all dolled up
DCWV - The Garden Party
Anything else?
Ribbon and sentiment from my stuff
Distress Inks - edges of papers
Glamour Dust - crown
Do y'know I didn't like this one when I first made it, but I think it's a grower. I still think my cutting out skills and colouring of pleats need a lot of work, but I'm starting to like the colour combo. And I certainly prefer it to the last SOG card I made, I used the same sketch that time - but something went seriously wrong that time!!
See y'all tomorrow,
Sarah
A challenge, or two:
Some Odd Girl: June Sketch Challenge - Was so pleased to be a winner last month, thank you!
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
June - Day 12
Hello blogworld
Funny how it goes isn't it - you think you've got everything sorted and then life goes and trips you up again.
I think my regular waffle followers will remember the the trouble we had getting SWMbO to school a few months ago, the trouble ended up being that a boy in her class was picking on her - thought we'd got it all fixed and back to our happy SWMbO. Not, unfortunately. Yesterday said boy decided, after a group of them were playing a game, to get a thorn and scratch her leg and ankle. One minor step forward is that after this happened she went and told a teacher on duty in the playground.
Not happy are we - spoke very briefly to head this morning, now waiting to see what the school does this time. I'm on the point of changing school, hubby wants to ring the Local Education Authority.
On the builder front - we've decided to go back to the bloke who was originally supposed to come out this week but couldn't as it was too short notice. Hopefully work will start in a couple of weeks when he's free again. We'll see.
Hey ho, onto brighter things:
Today's prompt:
Day 12: What’s your favourite medium to work with OR Craft something with a sporty theme
Favourite medium to work with - ummm, well stamps, Promarkers and paper!
I love stamping, either 'proper' (as in rubber) or digi - I'm happy with either.
Then colour in with Promarkers (tho sometimes I use my Prisma pencils).
The play with paper.
This all equals one happy Sarah - well apart from when it doesn't go right, but that's another story!!
See you tomorrow,
Sarah
Funny how it goes isn't it - you think you've got everything sorted and then life goes and trips you up again.
I think my regular waffle followers will remember the the trouble we had getting SWMbO to school a few months ago, the trouble ended up being that a boy in her class was picking on her - thought we'd got it all fixed and back to our happy SWMbO. Not, unfortunately. Yesterday said boy decided, after a group of them were playing a game, to get a thorn and scratch her leg and ankle. One minor step forward is that after this happened she went and told a teacher on duty in the playground.
Not happy are we - spoke very briefly to head this morning, now waiting to see what the school does this time. I'm on the point of changing school, hubby wants to ring the Local Education Authority.
On the builder front - we've decided to go back to the bloke who was originally supposed to come out this week but couldn't as it was too short notice. Hopefully work will start in a couple of weeks when he's free again. We'll see.
Hey ho, onto brighter things:
Today's prompt:
Day 12: What’s your favourite medium to work with OR Craft something with a sporty theme
Favourite medium to work with - ummm, well stamps, Promarkers and paper!
I love stamping, either 'proper' (as in rubber) or digi - I'm happy with either.
Then colour in with Promarkers (tho sometimes I use my Prisma pencils).
The play with paper.
This all equals one happy Sarah - well apart from when it doesn't go right, but that's another story!!
See you tomorrow,
Sarah
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
June - Day 11
Good morning blogworld
Firstly I wanted to say thank you for all the very kind comments you left yesterday on my 'have a rant post' about the builder. Straight after posting that I went off and took out a lot of frustration on my hoovering and I now have very clean carpets!!!
Hubby is making phone calls as I type trying to find a replacement builder, but so far no luck - even tho we can't actually get one to come here, they all appear to be super busy and unable to help.
I'm not sure what will end up happening, but we haven't given up hope yet. There may even be the faint possibility that he and I will be out there sometime soon taking the roof off ourselves! I will share pictures if that happens.
Still looking on the bright side it does mean I still have crafting time for an unspecified length of time ;-)
So onto Day 11 and our prompt is:
Day 11: Dish the dirt on your biggest craft spend OR Craft something for a child recpient
Oh dear, what hasn't been my biggest craft spend!! The latest one would've been the E-bosser - hubby got that for me for Christmas, before that it was my Cuttlebug and before that it was my Craft-Robo.
I would say though that my two cumulative biggest spends would be my collection of dies and my ProMarkers - I shudder to think how much I've spent on those over the last 5 years or so.
And I've made a card as well!!! Yes, I think I can hear the gasps of surprise from here!
My card for a child:
Front shot:
The close up:
The Arty Farty:
I used:
Firstly I wanted to say thank you for all the very kind comments you left yesterday on my 'have a rant post' about the builder. Straight after posting that I went off and took out a lot of frustration on my hoovering and I now have very clean carpets!!!
Hubby is making phone calls as I type trying to find a replacement builder, but so far no luck - even tho we can't actually get one to come here, they all appear to be super busy and unable to help.
I'm not sure what will end up happening, but we haven't given up hope yet. There may even be the faint possibility that he and I will be out there sometime soon taking the roof off ourselves! I will share pictures if that happens.
Still looking on the bright side it does mean I still have crafting time for an unspecified length of time ;-)
So onto Day 11 and our prompt is:
Day 11: Dish the dirt on your biggest craft spend OR Craft something for a child recpient
Oh dear, what hasn't been my biggest craft spend!! The latest one would've been the E-bosser - hubby got that for me for Christmas, before that it was my Cuttlebug and before that it was my Craft-Robo.
I would say though that my two cumulative biggest spends would be my collection of dies and my ProMarkers - I shudder to think how much I've spent on those over the last 5 years or so.
And I've made a card as well!!! Yes, I think I can hear the gasps of surprise from here!
My card for a child:
Front shot:
The close up:
The Arty Farty:
I used:
Digi Stamp:
Some Odd Girl - Big Pressie Tia
coloured with my ProMarkers
Wot no dies??!!
Papers:
Do-Crafts - 'Happy Birthday to you'
Anything else?
Create and Craft - swirl
Craftwork Cards - sentiment
Ribbon from my stuff
The good news is that I actually won a prize over at the Some Odd Girl challenge and this digi is one of my picks from my prize - first time I've won anything this year!!! I was starting to think my luck had completely deserted me!
The bad news is that my favourite base colour pen for skin tones ran out just as I started this card and so the skin tone colours are a bit off.
Anyway, super long post from me today - congrats if you made it this far and see you again tomorrow,
Sarah
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