Walking On the Moors

This evening I have a post over on the PaperArtsy blog, inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire Moors that are not far from me. 

I have used some of my older stamps and Brusho Pigment powders to create a moorland scene. 

I love this piece, it has such great texture. 

if you would like to see how I made this then pop over to the PaperArtsy blog where you will find  step by step instructions. 

Darcy x

well Hello happy campers, my room looks like an explosion of colour,paper and fabric with the odd glue stick thrown in. I am still making bags...

20 tote/long handle bags DONE !

now I am making some drawstring bags. I am also making a wedding album for my cousins wedding at the end of August, hence the mess in here, so much so I can't see the desk. So instead of a desk shot here is a peek inside my fibre boxes, these are just some of my fibres, there are other boxes and bags around the house. But these ones live in my craft room, usually up on a shelf.



I am having problems with my laptop keys, 3 have broken and another 3 are sticking, so as it is only a few months old it will have to go back. I have been backing up photos from it onto disc and also onto the external hard drive so I can send it off and not worry about losing stuff. As I have been sorting and backing up I came across a few of my cross stitch photos. For 10 years I ran a weekly club, with 24 members, I got fed up towards the end and got someone else to take over...well actually it took 4 of them to divide up all the jobs I did for 10 years on my own! anyway, I never intended to leave, but I took a bit of break and just never got around to going back lol then I got sick and spent 4 years having operations. That was 5 ish years ago, and I haven't really stitched in all that time. I do have lots of embroidery stash, I wouldn't give it away as I feel in my heart I will get back to it one day.

So here are just some of my finished pieces.

I gave 7 away to friends and to the charity shop a couple of month ago as there are just too many to hang up in my house lol



Have a great week.

Sorry for not blogging, I have been soo busy. The living room is almost finished and i have needed to tidy away the tools and ladders and paint pots etc, but the house is very tiny and we have no garage. The attic is the dumping ground and over the past 3-4 years it has become impossible to move in there. So i spent 6 evenings, yes SIX sorting and tidying up there. I sent ian to the tip with 5 black sacks worth, plus other random stuff, then reloaded the car totally full and sent him to the charity shop...that was last week. This week i put 9 clear sacks of cardboard out for the binmen, along with 5 balck bin bags. I took another 3 bags to charity and have another 3 waiting to go. I hasten to add the attic is still full hahahaha...but it is tidy now, so all the tools etc have been put away. i have also sorted a huge cupboard in the bedroom, it was a scary cupboard, everytime i opened the door stuff fell out. As i have been sorting,the craft room has become very messy, stuff was being dumped in there mid-sort, so now that has all been done too....I have come accross lots of old craft stuff, made years ago.

this is a hardanger cushion, made over 10 years ago and never been used. It is now in my bedroom.



I found several cross stitch pictures, finished but unframed, this is just one of them.



When my son was tiny he loved parrots, he saw a tiny advert only an inch big in a magazine for a cushion kit. Well i couldn't get hold of the kit so I had to make the cushion just by copying from the 1 inch advert lol

Do you remember the Jean Greenhow clowns, I made loads of them for kids in the family. Then i designed a couple of my own, this footballer was for my son, done in the local team colours.

I also designed this pilot, he is called Nigel the Navigator. I made him for my stepfather who loves old planes. You can't see in the pic but he has a backpack on with a big white knitted parachute inside lol

Cake making is going well, I am still on course for my 52 cakes

This one is date and walnut.

Battenburg, yes it really is. i used a ton of pink foodcolouring in one of the cakes but when I got them out of the oven they were both the same colour, very bizzare lol i just couldn't figure out where the pink had gone.

mars bar cornflake cakes, always a winner.

I have also built a single bed in the craft room, and 5 bookcase units in the livingroom. Here are the 3 tall units. I am going to get the extension units to take them up to the ceiling.

oh and as a result of sorting and tidying my desk has actually been tidied, first tme it's been like this in goodness knows how long. Won't last, today it will be covered in fabric and doll parts.