What with holidays and generally just being busy crafting things, I’ve had no time to update my blog or I forgot to bring my camera up into the loft (where my PC is) to upload any new photos.
I went to Hobbycrafts at Glasgow SECC at the end of October and bought quite alot of new stuff which has been keeping me busy.
I bought a couple of mdf plaques and some wood embellishments to make door name plaques for nephew and neice. The plaque is painted using brilliance metallic ink pads and while the ink is wet around the edge I used the plaque as a stamp on the background paper so I could cut out the correct size for the background (that find was a happy accident as I dropped the plaque onto the paper by mistake). They were easy to make and I think will make a lovely gift.
Name Plaques
We stayed in lovely log cabin (www.gadgirthestate.co.uk) while we were in Scotland (Ayr). There are 4 lodges in a walled garden and was really comfortable. We stayed in Holly Lodge which is one of the two larger lodges.
Hubby thinking about lighting the log burner!
I always travel with my craft equipment and choose to only take my scrapbooking items so I could do some honeymoon pages – I managed to do about 4, heres one of them.
honeymoon scrapbook page
Hubby, mam and I visited London in October to go to Harrods for a spot of Christmas shopping and generally just have a look around (note the word look and not buy!) The decorations were lovely.
One of Harrods Christmas displays
This was one of the many displays which caught my eye – a swarovski encrusted lamborghini for £1500!
Swarovski encrusted sports car
Another new make, is bodacious bangles. You buy wood blank bracelets and paint them to your hearts desire! Here are my first attempts which I hope to sell at some jewellery party in Nov/Dec.
Bodacious bangles (ignore my untidy desk in the background!)
A couple of pictures of our pumpkin carvings.
hubby's pumpkin
My pumpkin
We went to the Gosforth Park Race Course on Saturday for a charity event. Nemesis from Britains got talent performed as well as Same Difference (the brother and sister act from X Factor). They werent particularly good. The fireworks were good, but once you’ve seen Disneyworld fireworks nothing seems to compare!
Halloween fireworks
Well that covers whats been happening in my world so I must go now and get busy crafting!
Take Care
Lisa x
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