Saturday workout Jewellery

Today I have entered the Saturday Workout Challenge over HERE

Hello dear friends of SaWo. It is time again for a new challenge.
Many thanks to all those who last week so busily recycled.
There were wonderful creations. This week the challenge is “Make your own jewellery”. Whether it be rings, earrings, broaches, bracelets, it’s up to you. I am looking forward to being surprised with your pieces of jewellery. I wish you loads of fun with crafting your creations and have a great weekend.

I already made the necklace and earrings a little while ago but wanted to support Sandie and her challenge blog so I am showing them for this weeks challenge.

Thanks for looking

Chriss x

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Missing You

Hello all,
I just want you to know I hope to be back with you all soon and to give you an insight into why I have been absent for so long.
I have been creative in other areas.

up on the roof... I couldnt go there...daughter holding ladder

Alecia DGD2 every day she helped the hair was styled first...lol

This room was pine cladding and when removed the walls were covered in cork tiles... alecia did a brilliant job at removing them the orange wall has been removed

I have a million photo's.... lol... Chris also moved house at the same time and so we havent been able to blog we will post some of her pics here soon too.

I bet you dont envy me do ya...lol

Catch up with you all real soon.

love Chriss x

A peep at some ATC's

Hi,
So Sorry I have not been around for some time I have been busy moving house.
I hope very soon to have the place ship-shape and ready to get some crafting days again.

In the meantime here are a few of the ATC's I created before the move for the ATC challenge over at Fiskars, for this month we needed to make 9 ATC's on the subject of 'fruit' well


everytime I think of fruit in the summer it brings to mind long cool glasses of Pimms...I think I captured that here... the background papers have been recycled from a local college prospectus dated 2007/8...I just new it would come in handy one day.

The bathing beauties I purchased from Karen at Scrapz

Thanks for looking and I do hope to get some blog hopping done leaving some comments for all my blogging pals.

Have a great reast of the week.

Chriss x

Once again life has been busy some of it good but some of it very sad, we had a berevement in the family a very special brother-in-law, he was only 52, music and guitar were his love, Dave had just finished a band practice when he took a heart attack. He had a very special gift of lighting up a room with his smile. R.I.P. Dave. x

My mum also had another cancerous lump removed from her breast and we are just waiting the results from that...she is 80 and had a breast removed 5 years ago.... she was in her last 6months when the hospital found another lump. Bless her she is so positive. Love you mum. xxx

I have also been packing up my house as I am moving to somewhere a little bigger giving me a room for all my crafting 'STUFF' at last the kitchen and lounge and staircase will be free of the clutter. And a window in my kitchen....Yahoo xx Chris won't have to sleep on the sofa again... ah bless her little cotton socks.

I am child minding this weekend ( or is it the other way around!!! are they are granny sitting? ) whilst mum n dad go to a wedding...

Now these children keep me smiling and I just happen to be carrying my camera today... how could I not smile at these....let me share them with you....

This is 11 yr old Jessie ...I think you will agree she has a style of her own

here she is with Lucy

.Her older sister Alecia also with Lucy.

And both girls together..... a pair of shady characters...lol

See the ' black n silver ' necklace I made, it's one of my faves.

Thanx for looking. Chriss x :0)

BIG HELLO !!! you have been missed

BIG HELLO,
This is a very quick post as I just want you to know I have not left the country....once again my PC crashed on me but I was unable to get it fixed as my son was on holiday...HOW DARE HE IN MY HOUR OF NEED...LOL.
We now know the problem, a part of my Acer laptop does not like AVG so every new update was causing it to crash... don't know if anyone else has had the same probs with an Acer and AVG.
Before it crashed I managed to take on the Fiskarettes 1st ATC challenge the theme being ''Wings'' below are my 9 entries for the challenge. Hope that you like them.

All images are from 'Lisa's Altered Art' arn't they just gorgeous.

I hope to catch up with you all very soon as I have missed you and your wonderful art.

Take care. Chriss x

It's Friday xxx

It's Friday again!!!
Apparently the happiest day of the year... Did anyone feel happier today than they have in the rest of the last 6 months????

Chris decided she would tag me and I must show picture number 6 in my 6th album

This is one of my dads school attendance certificates he was awarded at school.... My dad never took a day off even when he didn't have any shoes to his feet.
... Sadly Dad is no longer with us, he passed away 10yrs ago, I still miss himloads .xx
Happy Father's day for Sunday to all those wonderful dads out there.

So what have we here...
I finally finished the sewing machine.... Firstly I coated it in Alcohol inks which I bought from Karen at Scrapz over HERE and then I decorated the machine with Lisa's Altered Art sewing images, I love her images, why not check them out by clicking on her button on the right.



The completed sewing machine is now A DOOR STOP.... lol.

And as promised another bracelet.

Have a great weekend love Chriss x

Happy Monday

Hello and a Happy Monday....
doesn't the week fly? before you know it we are a week closer to Christmas...oh, sorry about that...every year I say that the year went fast and I am convinced that 2009 has already gone faster than other years...Do you know it's only 5 more pay days to Christmas!!!

Over on the our ATC blog HERE we had a challenge to recycle an old Calendar here are my ATC's for the said challenge.


The backgrounds are all Cosmo Cricket's fab papers and the images are from the 2005 Ordinary Women Calendar.... I just adore those images.
...sooooo much fun.

The second picture of my mini sewing machine... (see post below) Hope to get it finished to post the completed project for Wednesday...why not pop back then and see another of my bracelets too.
Have a great week

Love Chriss x

Altered sewing machine

Hello I am back.... however, still not over my awful bout of flu I have gone through boxes of mansize tissues. I have sneezed, caught it, killed it and binned it...lol.
Take a look at this cute as cute ATC the image is another of LAA isn't she lovely...I hear a song coming on...lol
I managed to make this before my mini sewing machine give up the ghost sounding in soooo much pain....
well I put the SM in the bin... took it out...put it back in the bin...and out again...

This is it before I started doing things to it...you know me...come back in a couple of days and see it when it's finished,

Below are 2 bracelets I made when my puter was in hospital...the top one was sold last week...one of my fave ones at that.

The one below is going to a craft fair at the end of June.

AAAACHOOO got to go and get myself to bed...I have read Fern Brittons book and am now halfway through Collen Nolans as I have been tucked up in bed most of the last 3 days...but have to get up to make my own chicken broth.
AH!

love Chriss x

TWINCHIES & JEWELRY

Happy Friday,
During the time that I was without a puter I played with my beads here is another necklace for a friends craft table at the weekend... The hot pink beads are from Denise in Dubai...thank Denise xxxx This one is called 'Pink Wink'

Now then Chris and I got together this week and had a great time creating 2''x2'' pieces of art, they are otherwise known as Twinchies, we know alot of you know about them already but what you may not know is that there is a challenge blog out there for both Inchies and twinchies and my pal Chris introduced me to it and am I so glad she did.... why not check it out over HERE

The theme for this week is 'SCHOOL' and this is my take on the challenge using 'Lisa's Altered Art' images.

LAA has a brand new sheet out on sale right now its 'ZANY' go see for yourself over HERE I can't wait to use it.

Chris not only told me about that blog but she also told me about another great challenge blog too and it just happens to be doing twinchies for their 1st few weeks

check it out over HERE.

Today their theme is BIRDS and as I just happen to have a new Crafty Individual bird stamp here is my entry for this week.

I also caught up with the last 2 weeks challenges and had a great time doing them.... the green and pink being my 1st ever twinchie.

And the bottom one well I just couldnt resist using that little girl in the background who is waiting for her wings as she looks just like me at her age...must find you a photo out one day to show you.
Thanks for looking and big smiles to be back.

Chriss xxx

Have a great weekend x