Hobbies and Crafts

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See, what did I say. Well I shant be posting after tonight so happy scrapping all of you, shall expect to read of great things when I come back.

That is the last we will see of Daff today, knee deep in butterflies and glue she'll be!!!

I am back from the plumbers.... and deserve a special treat, so I am going to have a big fat English breakfast with all the trimmings out.... and then off to find some more ribbon and brads, lolol Cos I'm worth it, lol (flicks hair back dramatically) lol

See you all later.

Love

Daff xxxxx

Oooh, dragonflies!!! My friend would like those as well!! I've been buying up the pearly brads recently in pastel pink/plum/pearl shades to use on my gran's mini pages for the box album.

Grandson went back to his parents last night so, having excelled myself yesterday and got ahead of myself with the household chores, I'm determined that tomorrow I will shut myself away in the craft room and have some 'me' time.

Na na !!!! I have got some little butterfly brads, and dragonflies, all pretty pastel shades, I think my daughter gave them to me for Christmas.

Sorry!!!!!!! Had my sensible financial head on for while - doesn't happen often and takes me by surprise when it does! I really must be sickening for something........

Okay Daff - knock yourself out with brads!! Saw some cute butterfly ones in our local craft shop the other week. I didn't succumb as I don't have any pretty pages to do but did think hard about getting them for a friend's Christmas stocking!

Ninjalady, but she LIKES buying stash!!!

Daff - if you have embellishments like butterflies all over the place (sounds gorgeous!!) then you could secure the ribbon with tape underneath a butterfly - that will save having to buy more stuff if you don't need to.

Think I must be seriously ill - went to the Range and only came out with sandpaper!!!

Thanks, Ann and Ninja Lady.... I think I need to get some brads as well, then ;¬)) Just in case!!

Lol Ann... I worked with children for about 10 or 11 years... and adults with a learning difficulty for a few more years after that, craftwork for us was all about experimenting and using what was at hand. I loved textured stuff and collages... I more or less ended up with responsibility for what seemed like miles of *display* space... all down the corridors of all the after school areas (I worked in a residential school for 6 years) and behind our area of the dining room... we had great fun, most of the time... dreaded looking at my stuff, as I seemed to end up with more glue/paint etc than the children.... although I do think there was a conspiracy going on amongst the little darlings, lolol Lots of giggling if I turned my back!

I have really missed that side of the job... there were other bits that were emotionally and physically draining... but my littlie has inherited Granny's love of glue, paint and all things mucky, lol So more joys ahead, methinks. ;¬))

I have left it all morning... just gone to have a peek now, and I do love it.... hope I don't spoil it!!

I have a cutter thingy like a slidey guillotine (I know, not very good with technical terms, am I?) and the cutting bit has other attachments that will do wavy straight cuts (like for borders) but......... I have mislaid the destructions for changing the blade, and I can't see how to get the original off at all.... I'll have another bash in a mo... I can see only one place it could come off... maybe as my hands are a little more co-operative today I'll manage it.

Good luck later on, Ann.

Love

Daff xxxxx

Ann, wishing you luck at the hospital.. J goes tomorrow....utter chaos here the washer and tumble dryer are going up to the bathroom next week , so rushing around emptying the big cupboards ready. trouble is were to put the stuff ......crafting is on hold at the mo....

love Jean xx

As Ninja lady says Daff, the tape might show through the ribbon. Cut a bit off and experiment. other wise attach it behind something. The tape should keep it in place if you are putting it inside a cover. With the butterflies yes picture wire might do, you could attach it behind the top of the butterfly, or if you have metallic thread could you maybe stitch it on with back stitch?
You can actually buy a punch that cuts two holes for threading through, then you have to space it down the page of course. If the ribbon is not too wide a two hole punch would do but you would have to be careful not to tear the paper.

Goodness, you are much more ambitious than me!!! Talk about running before walking Lol!!!!

Not doing much craft work today, can't concentrate until I have been to the hospital and that is not until 4.20pm.

Ann xx

I'm pretty sure OH and I had it back in July - we didn't realise what it was at the time but in retrospect all the symptoms are the same, although we just thought it was a summer cold. I'm hoping youngest son doesn't get it as he's in has last year at school and can't afford to miss any lessons, although he didn't get it when we had it - mainly because he's at that unsociable age and spends all his time in his room!!

It's day 4 since daughter-in-law started showing symptoms so I would have thought grandson would have been poorly by now if she'd infected him. Hopefully we've managed to avert that little crisis.

I think I've earned myself a little trip to the Range this morning - we'll see how much shopping I can get done with an 8 month old in tow! Probably not a lot.

EDIT - I love the winter Daff when I can put a casserole in the oven at 2pm on low and its beautifully cooked when OH gets in from work and I look like I've been a domestic goddess all day!!!

Actually having grandson here has made me a bit more organised. Got son off to school and then put grandson down for a sleep this morning and then launched myself into the ironing while he was safely in his cot. So that makes me ahead of the housework and I can scrapbook over the weekend with a clear conscience!

Double sided tape might show through the organza ribbon Daff - you could attach the ribbon with brads or tuck the ends under a photo or journalling tag and attach it with tape where it won't show.

Morning all.... Ninja Lady, I do hope your DiL is well again soon... I love my granddaughters to bits, but they are very hard work, lol Even when they are good and easy to entertain, lol.

Ann, I promise I won't rush it... it is looking really good this morning... I love it... I want to print off some more of the butterflies and flowers, as I want to surround all the photos with them... and I need to put them onto thicker card too... I have some, somewhere... I think R might have it in his pc room, I'll go and look later. What should I use as the antennae? I think I have some gold picture wire somewhere.... would that do? And how would I fix it? The bodies of the butterflies are brown felt..... I am intending to stitch those in place.

I want to attach some organza ribbon, sort of twirled and cascading down and around the photos and trailing across to act as a sort of link... would double sided tape be enough to keep it in place, do you think?

Around the edge of the pages, I also want to add some more ribbon, but threaded.... I only have a double hole punch of the sort used for paperwork, lol.... I suppose that would be ok, too..... I don't want to go out today...... but feel I might have to go and get some more of the green organza, lolol.... Any old excuse, I do love the shopping bit of this... and some of those websites... wow!!!

I bought a set of sandwich type storage boxes in A*** the other day... some of them are really tiny, £3.00 for a set of about 10 boxes I think, but they have been sooooo useful... I have been putting all my loose bits and pieces neatly into them... and the one size has been perfect for holding all the bits I am going to use on these pages so they are tidy (ish) and separate from the rest of my bits. It has helped reduce the clutter on my table.

Now... lets go and do some swearing so that I will feel saintly and not guilty when I get engrossed in it all... Dinner is already in the slow cooker, lol

Love

Daff xxxxx

Sorry to hear about your daughter in law, hope she only has a mild dose of it and that baby or you don't get it.

I have never shaded the edges of photos yet something else to try.

Haven't done any crafting - daughter-in-law has come down with swine flu so I've had baby grandson for the past couple of days and maybe for another couple. Unlike Daff, the only sticky stuff I'm coming into contact with is banana porridge!!

I have been begging OH to bring home some sandpaper from the workshop for the past couple of days so I can sand the edges of my photos for the Thorpe Park page but he has the memory of a fish - looks like a trip to the Range tomorrow, strictly to the DIY section although I'm sure I'll be tempted with a quick detour to the crafts if grandson is in a good enough mood.

Haven't done any scrap booking as I have been making birthday cards. made them now up until December so that I can start on my Christmas cards when we come back from Dorset on 19th.

Don't rush it Daff, things go wrong if you rush Lol!!!

6 photos on a double page is workable (* says she who crams as many as possible onto a page*)

Sounds good anyway. You could make a label on a stick if you had a lolly stick.

Well..... I have a room full of mess, and a sore finger from cutting out..... I haven't glued yet, so am not stuck to anything...... and have toned down my grandiose ideas... but in doing so I think I have begun to create a much simpler but more effective double page spread!!

I love it! I have found a lovely bold patterned paper... bought it a couple of weeks ago as part of one of my forays, lol.... and I have cut out the butterflies and flowers, scanned printed them onto fine card...... cut out loads of strips of a couple of complementary papers.... now I have to decide which of the lovely photos to cull.... I want the lot.. there are 6, but it is a double page 12 x 12 spread, so I think I shall get away with it.

Now I need to figure out how to do the journalling... I thought maybe customize a tag into a sort of plant label, lol I hope to finish it tomorrow... I am so tired now... but I will finish it, I am determined now.

Must go... R is home from work, and I was supposed to do the domestic goddess thing... kitchen looks more like the magician's apprentice has got to it!!

Love

Daff xxxxx

Ooh I love outlets, but the ones I go to don't have craft shops.