February's Crop Class

Helen will be taking the class at this months meeting of Craft Buddies, and will be making the Valentines Card shown below. I'm sorry the picture quality isn't very good.

Please remember that we will be at Coltishall Village Hall this month as Tithe Barn is being used for the Panto. We will however be back to normal next month.

Weekend of Celebration

Last weekend we celebrated John's 50th birthday. On Friday we spent the day with the girls and went out for lunch. I had arranged a surprise for John for the evening and we were joined by 18 of our friends at a local hotel for a 70's evening. We had a fantastic time and spent most of Saturday recovering. I made John a cake with a model Ducati on top and also took cupcakes to the hotel for our guests so that we could take the cake away with us.



Sunday was spent with family and everyone came over for lunch. John had some amazing presents and is looking forward to his track days on his bike and his day at Silverstone.
He received some lovely cards but his favourite were the handmade ones, his favourite being the one from Natalie and of course Ella.


Steph thought it would be funny to add John's pic to her card,

the other cards were made by Linda and Sheryl.


John is not going to let me forget the fact that I didn't make his card, and bought one instead, but my excuse was I was too busy making the cake and 'to make a card' completely slipped my mind. I did however make the wallet to put his gift vouchers in, so that kinda counts.

Treat to myself......

I wasn't really planning on changing my car just yet, but on new Years Eve I decided to go along to the garage to see what offers they had.
Yes you guessed it.....I gave into temptation and treated myself to a new Clio. This time I bought a Dymonique. They had one in the show room that was a special edition model. It reminded me of a sports car John & I once had. I expected to wait a while as they normally have to order them in but I ended up having the one in the show room and picked it up after work yesterday.

Short of time

Steph remembered at the last minute that she needed to make a birthday card for one of her friends but didn't have time as she had to work. As usual good old Mum was given the job and I quickly had to rustle one up.
For this card I used papers from Basic Grey, the butterfly and flowers were black peel offs.

Clare's Birthday Book

I have been making the most of the bad weather this weekend by staying at home in the warm and spending the time crafting. I have been making a book to put Clare's 21st birthday pictures in, and have managed to complete it.

I started off by using a template to cut out the page shapes, and then covered the pages with card and paper.

I edged the pages with ink to start with but didn't quite get the definition I wanted, so I then used thinned acrylic paint, which I found worked much better.

I have used rub on's on the front page around the door and also for the butterflies and have finished both the front and back page by highlighting with glitter.


I made a name page to go on the front of the book using some Karen Foster paper I had hidden away, it was perfect for the theme I was going with. I also made a keychain tag to attach to the front of the book, to which I added the book title and a small key charm.

I then completed the book by adding photo's and small amounts of journalling, finally finishing off by adding a few gems to add that little bit of glitz that Clare loves.

Cancelled due to bad Weather....

I am sorry to say that we are having to cancel Craft Buddies this month due to the bad weather conditions.
The next meeting will be on February 13th, at Coltishall Village Hall, Rectory Road.
Sheryl will now be running two classes in February they will be the zig-zag book for those who booked this month and a valentines card.
We look forward to seeing everyone next month.

School Closed!......

At half 6 this morning I received a text to say that the school was closed due to bad weather. Well I'm certainly not complaining, although it does mean that I still have to do work from home otherwise I will end up getting behind. Mind you I have taken a while to get myself motivated, and I keep stopping to play with new laptop. Oh well......work will get done eventually.
I thought I would share this pic of Shannon with you, I took it on Sunday when we took her down to the beach at Sea Palling.