London Calling

Okay, I'm getting all patriotic quite early as we have quite a year in store with the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games.  These are very old photos of me back in 1975 and a day trip with the keep fit club to the Royal Albert Hall - we did a bit of sightseeing as well and a trip on the Thames from where most of these pics are taken.  I've borrowed the collage bit from the Craft Stamper to try and get the old brain cells ticking and it is not the last you will see of these stamps (which are only a few of the ones I have recently purchased).  I am off to London next week for a "Sinister London" day trip, which is actually my present to the other half for his recent birthday - so hopefully I will get a lot more pics then and so a book maybe next.  Who knows!!!!!  Anyway look out your old photos, if not of London, then maybe you have some lurking around of the Silver Jubilee Street Party celebrations.  I seem to remember being in an organising committee for that and arranging all sorts of events to raise money.  I remember we had a darts competition in our garage, oh such fun!! And we held a special garden party for the OAP's in the avenue, now it's my turn for pampering and it doesn't look like anyone is organising anything this time around, oh well......................

New Year, New Pages

Hi Everyone and a very Happy New Year to all of you.  Hope you all had a good Christmas and you are all looking forward to the new pages for this year.  This is a Christmas page but doesn't look it but maybe some Christmas trees etc might be a bit more exciting.  anyway this is some of my clan on a Karting Experience on 27th December so it is really a bit christmassy.  One large photo, it is slightly larger than 6x4 and 6 small photos that are 1 3/4" x 1 1/4"  add a bit of spraying, splattering black and white pens and some journaling, viola, finished.

This is a close-up of the bottom left hand corner so you can get a glimpse of the splattering and spraying.

Tim's Tags

Did this with a little help from Jenny as she had the dies and stamps.  You may think I have a lot of stuff but you never have what's needed at the time - anyway we managed and it's great because it is so full of stuff.  I made the little ticket at the top and also the plaquette with 25 on it.

loved doing this one although I didn't have some of the required elements so I had to make them up.

This one bears no resemblence whatsover to the original as I did not have the required embossing folder.  I used this one and I quite like it.  The tag is made from sticky backed foil sheets , embossed and then painted. and then embossed with clear embossing powder.  These are the only ones I have done so far but hope to make a few more next week.  You can see all of Tim's  Tags and how to them on his blog.  Just leaves me to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year and see you all in January.

Turkey for Dinner

Well what do you think of these little beauties?  So darn cute and will be place names for Christmas dinner.  Guess where the idea came from?  Yes, Tim, see further details at http://timholtz.typepad.com .

Another Dina Book

This was the Star book about all our dreams

This dream has been achieved so much sooner than I ever would have dreamed.  Sorry Mum craft room won against a downstairs loo, lol   

It's ready - Almost!!!

Floor down, units from Ikea made up and days of going backwards and forwards with my stuff.  Looking good now and it is actually quite warm during the day with no heating.  Hopefully tomorrow I can get down to doing some work in there.  Sorry you will have to look sideways as I am in a hurry to do this and can find out how to change photo round - thought I had done it and still it came out the same way.

This is this weeks page.  It looks a bit busy but in fact the main bit of the page only takes a few minutes.  It's the photo that the toe is pointing to that takes the time, but not too long.  Bring a couple of photos and some photo copies of the photos you wish to transfer so that you have some to practice with.