Monday 23 April 2012

THE BOX!

Thankfully I don't think that my Mum reads this blog, otherwise she will find out what I have been up to.  The plain MDF box has now been transformed.  I have taken piccies of the lid (see below) and I am just waiting for the mod podge to dry on the base before taking a photo.

The paper and German scraps are from Calico Crafts.  I do miss their bricks and mortar shop (and my visits with Sarah C!!) but they still have some good stuff online.  These items were bought specifically with the box in mind so I didn't feel too bad at having a little splurge!  I also dunked a length of  white lace into a mug of tea (without milk or sugar!) to dye it to blend in with the background!

We had an interesting weekend.  We spent Saturday cleaning out the gutters for someone (well to be more specific, hubby cleaned them out and I just stood and watched for moral support!!!) and thankfully the rain held off until after we had finished.  Last night we went to the Anglican church that we have started attending in the evenings.  They had an ordination service, complete with 3 Bishops, and about 7 other clergy in frocks!  Thoroughly enjoyable (the service I mean!!).

Not much else.  Misha has slept all day, having taken one look at the weather and deciding that she would prefer to stay dry.  That suited me fine as I was not having to clean up muddy pawprints the whole time.  Our next door neighbour has decided to start breeding pigeons (in London for heaven's sake!!!) and so everytime Misha wants out, we have to toddle down to the end of the garden to see if the pigeons are on the loose.  Very stressful!

That's it for now, enjoy the box!




Mandi xx

Wednesday 18 April 2012

AAAAAARGHH TO THE BLOG!!!!!

It has been two months since posting, and as ever I have not really known if I am coming or going.  Both daughters have had medical *incidents*, Bex has had her kitchen and bathroom gutted and re-done and I went to the rescue afterwards with a mop, bucket and copious numbers of old knickers (aka dusters!).

Even more frazzling is that yesterday when I went to try and catch up on a bit of blogging I was horrified to find a load of black warning triangles where some of my pictures had been so I am now in the process of trying to rectify that and restore the images.  I thought that the pics were saved somewhere in blogger but that doesnt seem to be the case.  The only trouble is that I have got rid of some of the photos!

In between times I have done a few bits and bobs in the way of crafting. 

The latest piece was a never-ending card which I did for my Mum for Easter.  Having declared that she didn't want anything and chocolate seems to get stored away in a cupboard, I thought I would try something special in the way of a card.  She loved it ........ but asked me not to make any more *nice cards* as she has nowhere to keep them!!!!  I am not quite sure what to make of that ..... and will probably continue to make them anyhow!

........ Since writing the above I have been to the Ally Pally show and bought an MDF box which will be altered in due course and given to Mum to keep her cards in!!!




  
TTFN
Mandi xx

Thursday 5 April 2012