Hobbies and Crafts

The wanderer returns :)) a lot of reading to do to catch up

xx Jill

It is a long thread now Jill and this is the replacement. Please add some of your scrapbooking exploits of late!!

Not done any scrap pages for a couple of days as I needed to catch up with my card stock, made five yesterday and so far four today. Out tomorrow so back to scrapping on friday, hopefully with photos from tomorrow, our anniversary.

I really must stop buying craft stuff I have just got stuff for card making , couldnt resist, so looks like I will be making cards again, still trying to scan all the photos I have so I can do my friends Golden wedding album. and the the G.R.one....might make a change making cards.....we can start taking snaps of those,......

Ann, you should get some nice photos tomorrow, I love Trees ... especially early summer and autumn....have nice day...

Love Jean x

Westonbirt is a wonderful place, comes into its own in the autumn but lovely other times as well. This week is the week of the tree and there are supposed to be wood carvers there.

Happy anniversary Ann - hope you have a lovely day at Westonbirt.

Thanks Dee, we did, it was lovely, took enough photos for a couple of pages I think!!

Ann

Glad you had a nice day. I keep promising every year that I'll go down to Exbury Gardens when the rhododendrons are in bloom but never seem to get round to it. Perhaps next year.........

Have taken the morning off work as I wanted ot get a page of my son and grandson done to put into a deep box frame to give to son as a birthday pressie on Sunday. I'm almost there but I've kept this one very simple so it hasn't taken to long.

Have got grandson and his mother round this afternoon - she's just become addicted to doing her family tree and needs help tracing some elusive ancestors so its going to be a good afternoon methinks!

Ninja lady, we keep saying we will go to Exbury when the Rhododendrons are out as well but don't get down to daughters at the right time. There is another NY garden in the area as well that we keep meaning to go to (can't remember the name right now). Good luck with finishing the page then.

Ann

There's Mottisfont Abbey Rose Garden which is near Romsey - supposed to be very nice but again, right on my doorstep and I've never been there. Plus there's Hilliers Aboretum which does autumn walks.

Page finished!! It's okay - not one of my better ones but I'm sure son will love it. I keep telling myself that its the thought that counts!

Mottisfont is beautiful. I have been there many times(about 1hr from home). The gardens are lovely with huge trees and the rose gardens are their main talking point, especially in June when they open late in the evening for the perfumes to be appreciated. Not managed that yet myself.

I have taken young children that I childmind and my own parents, Mum in a wheelchair. We all loved it.

The house is smallish and all on the ground floor too so easy.

Do visit if you get a chance.

Linda :o) XxX

Mottisfont is the one I meant, we really must get there one day.

Hello, everyone, I havent been doing much scrap wise, we are hoping to have a new kitchen , so thought I would sort the cupboards out before hand, less to do when we get it.... cant believe what stuff I was saving ....why.....
so I got the bug and started sorting book shelves, my craft stuff, bedroom, cleared the cupboards in the bathroom, got rid of so many towels, now my daughter has decided to do her bedroom and office out too.....not before time.... only trouble is all the throw away stuff ends up in the little conservatory which is were I do my crafting, wish I had never started.....
hope you all are having better luck,


love Jean x

Hello all,
Gosh Jean thatw as a big spring clean, hope you didn't wear yourself out. Not scrapping today as we are working on part of the garden, hoping to make it more labour saving seeing as it was getting a bit much.

Blimey Jean, that was a serious mission!!!

Just got back from Thorpe Park - 16th birthday treat for youngest son. Have some lovely photos of him and his two girlie friends to scrapbook and managed to find some badges for the Saw ride which I can use on the page, plus some little name badges for son and his friends.

The amazing thing was I actually went on a rollercoaster for the first time ever (I'm usually such a scaredy cat) - Stealth which goes 0-80 in 2.3 seconds goes vertical 205 feet and then straight down again. OH was totally amazed that I even agreed to try it and I've achieved a whole new level of respect from teenage son......

And how did you feel afterwards Dee? And di anyone get a photo of that???

Typical - no-one got a photo of me!! How did I feel? Relieved I didn't

a) scream
b) wet myself in sheer terror (that would have been an embarrassing scrapbook page!)

There's still life in this granny!!

Dee I am intrigued about the deep box frame,any chance of a photo, please,

Ann, here I am again asking for a look at your latest photos,you know how I am with photos....we are having such awful weather here, no use even thinking about going out to get new scenes... keeping fingers x for end of Sept when we are away, hope there will be a late indian summer.....

love Jean x

Jean - I'll take a photo tomorrow before I give it to son for his birthday. In fact I may need to take two as the glass might cause a problem. Anyway, it's just a photo frame (from The Range) that is 12x12 and about 1/2" deep between the back of the frame and the glass to allow for 3d embellishments.

The frames are in the picture/frame section of The Range, not the scrapbook/craft section.

Off for an Indian now with friends - after such an eventful day I'm happy just to go to bed. Perhaps there are limits to the life in this granny after all!

Jean - have emailed the photo of the box frame across to you.