My New Years Eve ....

Hi Everybody,

So let me tell you a story...
 On New Years Evening Vickie and I decided that we would spend our evening together at her house with the dogs Ruby and Dougal joining us.
We wanted to have an Indian take away as something different and tasty.
I got to her house at 5.30 and we ordered our meal on line at 6.15 pm

We were both hungry and so we were looking forward to the Indian food.
We waited .... and we waited ... and we waited and 8.45 pm it still hadn't arrived.
We couldn't wait any longer and Vickie made us a turkey and cranberry sandwich instead.

At 9 o-clock there was a knock on the door, and we thought  at long last the meal was here, but by this time we were eating our sandwich whilst watching the little film called "Room on the Broom".
 I went to the door to tell the man to take it back.

But there was no Indian restaurant man stood there ....  just THREE big policemen.
This of course made us think something was wrong with a family member.
The leading police man said to me
"We have had an email at the station to tell us that you are having a party"  well I laughed and told him he had that wrong and Vickie came to see what was going on.

She also denied it and invited him in to look for himself..
I asked "Do you have any ID because although you are dressed as a police man it doesn't mean you are one " and he showed me his identity badge. Two of them came inside.
Parked on the other side of the street was police riot van with probably about ten police men in it.
We couldn't believe it and he asked if we had any idea who had emailed them " Have you had a dispute with a neighbour?" 

They had a look outside and then we all laughed at this silly situation.
Ruby and Dougal of course where enjoying the company and the fuss.
We told them we thought they were  the delivery man with our Indian meal and the second policeman asked us where  we had ordered it from ... he said his wife had ordered a take away from the same place at 4pm and they still hadn't got theirs either.

After they had gone we had a laugh about it, but imagine somebody had nothing better to do on NYE  than email the police. telling a lie and wasting precious police time for nothing.

And at 10 pm the Indian delivery man rolled up with our take away and we told him in no uncertain terms what to do with it ... politely of  course !!

And that was my New Years Eve

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

   

Happy New Year 2021

Hi Everybody,

I hope you all had a good Christmas and I sincerely wish you all the happiest of New Years. Lets hope 2021 is better than the last year ... fingers crossed.

So there was no Give Away last week but this week I have a bumper gift inside this box to offer to one lucky winner.

There is so much in there that I can't get it all on one photo but this is what is inside the box

1/  Complete Provence Collection from CMM which is stamps dies and embossing folder.
2/  Five packs of flowers
3/  Six yards of assorted ribbons
4/ Two Spellbinders Embossing Folders
5/ Three Spellbinders Ink Pads
6/ One pack of Glitter
7/ Three packs of Nestabling with matching pearls
8/ Eight packs of Want2Scrap flourishes, pearls and Chrome dots
9/ One pack of Doilies
10/ Three Polkadoodles die sets    

11/ Six coloured embossing powders
12/ Tonic Stamp block   
13/ Tonic Ball Tool
14/ Tonic Glitter Markers
15/ Tonic Sequins
16/ One pack of decorated Hatpins
17/ Six tubs of coloured and sparkly embossing powders
18/ One floral topper
19/ One pack of brads

I am sure you will agree that this is a bundle worth winning , just add your FULL NAME to enter.

The box is all packed and ready to send to one lucky winner and it is my way to say a great big.  THANK YOU 

to everybody for being with me throughout the year

Happy New Year xxx

Merry Christmas xxx

Hi Everybody,

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas  despite the restrictions placed on us all by Covid 19.

My plans for the day have been totally changed, more or less the day after I told you what they where for a small dinner on Christmas Day.

Lets hope that next year will be better and we can all get together again and enjoy our families as we should.

As you will have noticed there is no Friday Freebie this week so I hope you are not too disappointed, but be sure to come back next week and see what is on offer as a special gift for the start of 2021.

See you soon ...

Hugs xx

New Heart Box

Hi Everybody,

Just popping in, after a busy week, to tell you that my brand new collection will be featured on Hochanda this afternoon.

The Heart Box will be demonstrated by Pauline Hickey and I am sure she will have some beautiful samples to show you. 

So I hope you can join her to see what she has in store.

This box is created with the largest of the Heart Boxes and then I have covered it all with Jute to make it really different.

I even made the flower to go on the top with hessian and string, and of course the pearls add that litle bit extra too.

There are a lot of ways you can dress up this shape and it will suitable for any occasion. There are two sizes to  the Heart Box it will suit any thing from party or wedding favours to larger gifts like .... chocolates  !! And you can make the matching Card to accompany it.

I hope you enjoy Pauline shows

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Clean & Simple

 Hi Everybody,

I know not everybody likes my style of cardmaking with all its flowers and flounces so especially for them I have done a really clean and simple card using the Stunning Snowdrops Channel dies.

For this card I have inked the background starting in the middle and working my way to the edges with lighter strokes of Wilted Violet.

And the added the Snowdrops cut in plain white card to the top. I have wrapped this panel with purple ribbon and a bow before adding it to the white card base.

I have used he stamp With Love from the collection and then dotted it with lilac gemstones as a finishing touch.

I think it looks really cool and I wold be happy to get this for any occasion.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx