Mojo Monday - 242

Hi,
Isn't all this sunshine wonderful?  I love that I am always up earlier, feeling more positive and creative when the sun is shining!  I really hope it is sunny and warm where you are today.

The decorating is driving me mad... I am having some time off from it.  OH has gone fishing so I am playing with paper and card!  I have found alot of different crafting things that I didn't realise that I had and have been trying to sort it so that I can make some cards with it. 

This is my take on Mojo Monday's challenge sketch 242.  The papers and image are from some things my mum gave to me when she bought one of those goody bags from Hobbycraft... so cute!  Nice fun sketch...

I also found some small packets of things from a kit I bought from a shopping channel many moons ago, and thought I'd make some more simpler cards for those times when I never seem to have an appropriate card...  I have gaps in my card box... I tend to mostly make just birthday cards, so I am making it my mission to make some 'other' occasion cards.

We have some exam takers in our family that are working very hard at the moment that I am going to send these to when they are finished taking them... I know they have been working very hard on their revision and I think a Congratulations for actually surviving GCSE's is definately warrented!

And a couple of simple birthday cards are always useful... am off to make some more!

Many thanks for popping by.

Take care.

Hugs

Kim

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Hi,

Just a quickie... this is a card I made as a 'Thank you' card... Using up some things I found as I have been sorting through stash. 

I am having a weekend of NO PAINTING!!!!  I am so fed up of all the disruption, I decided I need a weekend with no decorating, no work, just peace and quiet!!!!!!  So I have been playing... or trying to inbetween all the interuptions.  I came to take photo's and of course, my camera battery was dead!!!

Thank you for popping by, and hopefully tomorrow I'll get more uploaded tomorrow!
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday 239

Hi,

I don't know what has happened to the weather but I am thankful I have only had to do the school run today...

This is my take on the Mojo Monday sketch 239 ...  I enjoyed playing today... I have sorted some stash and am hoping to even get a start on some Christmas cards at some point!

I also couldn't resist having a play at a scrapbook page, these photo's were from a trip we took to Windmill Farm that I found mixed in with my stash... so I thought why not have a play with a layout too.

I will be back... I plan to play again later... OH has gone fishing (mad!!!) so I am making the most of being able to spread my stuff out in the living room.
Take care,
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday 237

Hi,
Here is my take on Mojo Monday's sketch 237.  What a fun sketch!  I actually found it quite challenging as I rummaged through my stash ...

I know I have been missing for ages... I have litterally only started crafting again this week.  We have had loads of work done on the house (to the point we actually moved out for a while) and I have not touched my crafting since Christmas.  I have missed it so much too...  As we started having a new bathroom, heating and some replastering done, begun to decorate, we have just found so many other things that needed doing... all put down to the age of the house... and the mess has been devasting.  We still have a long way to go, including one room that still needs a new ceiling and replastered walls, but at least we are back living here at the mo!

In all this mess, I have discovered that I have a lot of crafting stuff that I need to use up before I buy anything else... OMG!  My OH has no idea what is in some of the boxes... good job too!!!!!  Yes, it is crafting stuff!!!!

These are my attempts at beginning to use some of that stuff....  and I'm really enjoying myself!

Cute bears!

I will post some more later....
Thank you for looking.
Hugs
Kim
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Wishing you a happy New Year!!!

Hi,
Hope you all had a really great Christmas.  I wanted to pop on and say that I am going to pick my crafting up in the New Year and hopefully will have some things to share.  I have not been crafting at all lately and miss it terribly...  We are about to have some work done on the house... new bathroom and some work done else where... and in amongst all of this I am going to take over the cupboard under the stairs (currently used for junk and kids toys), decorate it out, put in new shelving/cupboards and turn it into a walk in craft cupboard.  Finding the right cupboards and how I am going to store my crafting is actually proving abit of a challenge... but somewhere the perfect idea is lurking waiting for me to pounce on it!!!! ha!  I am so sick  of having everything spread out around the house, some in this room and some in another... Everything needs a place... and although my OH would like me to throw all my crafting out and be done with it...  it is going to have it's own space too!!!!
Anyway, Happy New Year... hope 2012 is a wonderful year for you all!
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday 215

Hi,

It's been ages since I blogged... infact I haven't done a lot of crafting either... I am now very behind with my Christmas cards... am hoping for some free afternoons later in the week!

Still don't have my laptop working... think I am going to need to buy a new one!!! I miss it terribly, just can't seem to get to grips with this desktop... and I have to sit in Steve's room too!!!

Anyway, this evening I had a play after sorting abit of stuff out ready for my sessions and took inspiration from a sketch over at Mojo Monday... really enjoyed playing along! Don't you just love that DCWV paper!!!

Will hopefully be back tomorrow evening with something to show for my freed up afternoon...

I have been making lists to get myself organised for 'getting ready for Christmas' ... list after list after list... serves me right, I should have made a planner, I usually do!

Take care,

Hugs

Kim

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Having a Play!!!!

Hey...
Hope you are well and happy.
Still don't have my laptop fixed... I feel so lost without it!!!! Anyway, I thought I would take the opportunity with the house being empty to show you what I have been playing with lately...

I am trying to make some Christmas cards... We seem to send out loads these days, so I am leaving my 'special family' cards for a while and just concentrating on making all the others. I really want to get them done a bit earlier this year!!!!

I have been playing with my Cuttlebug and dies... I love the snowflakes and christmas tree's... and I have been digging out old patterned paper that I get out each year and don't use!!! The trees are in some lovely Doodlebug paper that I have had forever... I did one scrapbook page with some and just left the rest... I think it works nicely on these cards...

These I did with some mulberry paper that I found in the same box... it was one of those impulse buys that I thought looked pretty but never actually had a use for!!!

And these were jusing some bits and bobs too.... I seem to have a whole pile of stuff that I have no idea where they came from at all!!!!

I also crocheted my daughter a headband, I knitted her a blue one too, but I couldn't find that one to take a picture!!! There seem to be alot around the shops at the moment... trouble is she wants one in every colour!!!! Luckily they don't take long to make!

I also crocheted her this little bag... she is forever taking books and magazines to read in the car, so I crocheted her this to carry them in and out of the house, instead of us finding a whole pile on the back seat!!!

And lastly, I had a play at a making an ornament picture with buttons... found it on a challenge site that I have forgotten about at the beginning of the summer holidays... it was fun to do, just need to stitch some ribbon on it so that I can hang it up when Christmas gets nearer!

Hope you are finding time to play too.

Take care

Hugs

Kim

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