Remember the Calendar I made with Jo Anns photography? this is now available as a PDF file that you can save to your computer and then print it out.
The photography is exquisite and I’m sure you will love the images.
The Calendar is available for only $5 and you will get a download link to your email as soon as the payment is made.
I stood in the door way next to tears, “where do I start?” “Should I just give it all up as a bad job?”.
I felt thoroughly ashamed of the whole room, it needs organising, so much stuff, so much unused, more card than a craft shop, more ribbon than a haberdashery, something drastic needs doing.
I know, it’s my job, I know it’s my fault no-one else to blame. Standing at the doorway I just wanted to give it all up.
So I figure to get you to understand I need to give you all a visual, if nothing else it will shame me into sorting out this dreadful mess.
I hope you are all sitting down and ready for the shock.
make sure you view this as a slide show to get the full impact of what I am faced with.
So I managed to get nearly 1 unit sorted with my card stock and here it is, I need another 2 to 3 shelves of card adding to this.
You know sometimes you just have to share a bit of love, I have a crafty friend who is never far away from her camera, this year she has took some outstanding pictures, she isn’t a blogger but she is on Facebook and with her permission I made a 2014 calendar with some of her pictures.
Jo Ann Sinclair, a very talented lady, she is allowing me to show you the Calendar.
In a video format for you to view
So we all need a special friend yes? I think this says it all.
A friend is by Mo’s Digital Pencil
Coloured with Graph’It Markers, Copic Markers and Chalk Pencils.
Teamed with Kaiser Kraft designer papers and a pretty black flower, image mounted on black cardstock from Creative Crafting World.
Well that is this year nearly out so I need to thank you all for your continues support and encouragement and hope you will all join me for another year. All the very best in life to you all for 2014.
Hope that you have friends in abundance x
On Monday we decided to go and watch a good friend of ours at the Sunderland Glass Center, Davey Martin is such a talented man and this craft of glass blowing is seen less and less with all of the imported glass we see in our homes today, mass produced.
We went to the center full of expectations and we weren’t disappointed.
This is Davey but you will have to forgive the photography as I forgot my camera and had to rely on Chris’s phone.
Davey used to be a retained Fire-fighter with Chris but his full time employment took him away from it. We managed to stich together a video of Davey at work showing his skills.
They do demonstrations to the public on a daily basis and there is no entry charge so it is well worth a visit.
There is loads to view there like these exhibits.
I’m lucky to have a few pieces made by Davey so thought I would show you some of them.
The bowls is what Davey was demonstrating in the video.
This is a piece he made for Chris as a gift for him retiring from the Brigade.
isn’t is gorgeous?
and this is another bowl in different colours.
Now those eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed something inside the bowl in the above picture.
Glass baubles.
Simply stunning and unique.
You can even book up and have a try at making these yourself.
Paperweight
Now all of this as wonderful as it is I left out one small detail.
Davey absolutely loves his job, I truly believe he would do it for nothing. Why? probably because no two pieces are alike, every piece is one of a kind.
Please support your local craftsmen, it would be such a shame not to have these talented men and woman.
Sometimes you stumble upon something and just love the effect and this week I did just that, clearing away my Christmas craft stash and found my glamour dust, no crafter should be without this stuff.
I used Shellac UV Gel on my nails and had a play with the glamour dust adding it to one of the layers and this is the effect.
Now I realised that without enlarging the picture it was hard to see the magical effect so I got Chris to video it for me.
I prefer clear nail varnish for my nails but this just gives it a spiced up look, love it.
Not a lot to this card but I love the look of it.
It started with a bit of play, I used the Spellbinders Rustic Wreath M-bossabilities and the Wreath Die using some silicon gel to adhere the die cuts.
I used glitter glue around the edges of the die cut pieces to add a bit of sparkle and some pearls from Mei Flower as the berries
Tied a pretty sparkly bow around it once I had matted it onto gold card and then glued it in place onto a white card.
Isn’t it pretty?
We got the photographs back from Chris’s Long Service award and I have to say we are thrilled with them.
The photographer Peter Siberry is just amazing, he also used to be in the brigade but his talent led him to being a top class photographer now running his own business along with his wife Sue.
Here are the fabulous results of a fabulous evening. be sure to view as a slide show.
Peter is in the County Durham Area and he has a mobile studio you can visit him at his websites for more information.
and/or
http://www.inkspot-photography.co.uk
