Hobbies and Crafts

Thanks for the link Daff
its still not here it was dispatched on sat morning - cant wait tp play - will let you know how I get on
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Just don't make the mistake I did Scatty. After getting mine and making holes in anything and everything I decided that I'd do a page with twenty something eyelets set in it. Even with the crop-o-dile that was a mistake LOL

Why is it that no matter how much stuff you have you never have the right thing for the right job?

I've spent the afternoon with my jewellery making stuff putting together my fascinator for my friend's wedding on sunday. Was getting along great until it came to the twiddly bits (and it's got to have twiddly bits!) I've only got a small length of the right gauge wire left, so until I can get some more (hopefully tomorrow) I'm stuck.

Ooh that sounds an ambitious project Sarah.

Guess whats just arrived lol
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omgosh its lovely - lilac in a little case with loads of compartments full of eyelets and stuff

Nothing out of Jan for an hour or so now then. Enjoy learning how to use it Jan.

Ohh Ann im reading all the bits that came with it - there is a QVC craft day on next tuesday (23rd) ALL DAY!!

Oh, we have got visitors that day too!!!

Lolol Sarah... now that is just the sort of thing I would do... I tend to go OTT a bit, lol

I have been organising photos... looking for a particular one, which I still haven't found... it is probably staring me in the face, but I just can't see it. I know I have scanned it... oh well, will need to find the original again and re-scan... anyway... I found some gems I had forgotten about... so I have printed them off... and almost finished scrapping them, just can't stick the final bits down until I have seen the ribbon and brads in the daylight.... I think they will fit.

No glitter either!! Am I getting restrained or what?

Jan have fun... it sounds too pretty to use, lolol!

I have also found the photos of my very first cuddle with my granddaughter...... so guess what is going to be done tomorrow? lol

Love

Daff xxxx

you will be running out of scrap books soon if you go on filling them at this rate Daff.

I am normally so slow with my pages, Ann. I have 8 or 9 completed ones... and 3 where I have made all the embellishments, etc etc, but there is something not sitting right with them... so I have a bag with a few pockets in them, bought it a couple of months ago... and it holds them nicely until I figure out what is wrong with the layouts... or why I can't get it to work.

These last two have been very straight forward... and I have learned a lot, so some of the things it took me days to work out how to do, I can now manage fairly quickly.... so each time I try to learn something new, as well... I'll get there in the end, lol.... it is good fun, though, and very therapeutic and calming, I find, too.

Love

Daff xxxx

Edit... I have 12 completed pages, lolol... just been to count them... I am impressed with myself, lolol ;¬)) xxx

Well done, that is a lot in a short time, not forgetting the Valentines card.

I am in the middle of doing a page of son and Dil's two cats. They are facing each other and 'laughing' or yawning if you want to be pedantic. I didn't take the photo but as soon as I got it I had to scrap it. So far nothing is stuck down except I have matted the photo. It is going to take a bit of getting right as Under the matted photo I have at least four bits of different sized paper.

I have just spotted an advert round our shops for a stamping class starting locally (at St Johns Hall Daff) I might give her a ring and see what it includes.

I went out to get my jewellery wire this morning and of course came back with some papercrafting bits as well LOL

My LOs tend to have lots of bits of different papers on them Ann and I tend to have to make pencil marks so I get them stuck in the right place

Hi Sarah, yes I made pencil marks and so far all is looking OK. Now just have to decide if the matted photo looks better straight or diagonal to the page.

Finished my layout and really pleased with it. Opted for straight in the end.

I've finished the fascinator. I'm not totally happy with the twiddly bits because the only wire I could get that wasn't too thick is a bit on the thin side so it doesn't sit as nicely as the wire I started with. I am pleased with the overall effect though.

Just trying to decide what to start now. Might do a page from my pile of 'kits'

Ann, I had a feeling that you would

Finished the one page totally, and I am really pleased with it... and have the LO of another sorted as well... I'll leave it until tomorrow before sticking... the photo isn't a wonderful quality... it seems to have deteriorated on my pc!! So I am about to start playing at grabbing a still photo from a video, this should be fun. ;¬)) If I can get a better photo, then I will use that.I was a bit disappointed about the picture quality... it looked heaps better when I printed it out last night, lolol

Love

Daff xxxx