August is done...

This is my August page.
It didn't work out how I thought it would but I am pleased nonetheless.

I painted the page, dribbled a bit and splattered a bit and thought I would die cut Tim Holtz flowers on my big Shot for each days entries but I couldn't get 31 of them on the pages so on to plan B!! I stippled through the left over bits of the die with Dusty Concord Distress Ink and added 4cm squares of Spring Fling paper then a bit of stamping, a bit of outlining and a bit of doodling and a flower or three and ta da! finito!!!

I just need to remember how to add all my missing challenge pages onto Kate's Flikr page now

Bye for now

Sue.

I'm still in....

The lovely and very talented Kate Crane of the Kathryn Wheel blog - see side bar -suggested keeping a 365 day challenge diary at the end of last year and several of us took up the challenge. Here's my July page all done and dusted but I can't show the August page as it only has a coat of paint on and no spaces for the entries as yet and as I have left the Big Shot at the shop it looks very likely that it will remain unfinished until Monday now. so watch this space for August's page.....

Bye for now

Sue

Some lovely people making some lovely art...

My side step card....

and Eileen, Jean, Margaret, Lorraine, me and Mu yesterday with our beautiful cards..

I was so proud of the lovelies that came to today's class as they made this complicated tri-shutter card. I taught the mechanics of making the card and then they changed tables where Yaa was waiting to help them stamp, distress, cut out and paint the various elements on it. Here's Yaa helping the girls and Mario... and these lovely girls - Sophie, Becky and Lauren are here on holiday from Oban in Scotland

Two great mornings work and some happy people

Bye for now

Sue

another busy day...

.....in paradise.

This morning between 10am and 2pm

I washed 32 very dirty blending foam pads
made a card
made a scrapbook page
checked around the shop for missing items of stock
wrote out orders for several suppliers
de-glued a couple of tables used by the kids last night
and served a lot of customers.

Then lunch in one of the bars behind the shop followed by a 20 minute trip to the nearby shopping centre at Ondara where I bought a new unit to hopefully organise the classroom - then back to the shop to assemble it, home, feed the dogs and cat, get the washing off the line, sort and fold it, grab a bowl of cereals as can't be bothered to make tea, check e-mails, dig out 5 credit notes which I keep forgetting to use!!! water the plants - ask Colin why I have so many - load today's photos onto computer and then blog.....and it's now 23.43 - aaagghh!!!! where did the day go?????


On Saturday evening at friends Maggie and John's barbecue, Maggie who is a very talented quilter, showed me some of her beautiful quilts saying one in particular was a favourite of hers.
It was blue and brown with shabby edges (deliberate) so I made this card as a thank you. I distressed the edges of the brown squares with my Tim's distresser tool and also the lollipop flower. I have been doing a lot more doodling lately so thought I would add some to a scrapbook page for a change and am quite pleased with the way it turned out.....and yesterday I had the back windows etched so that people know what the shop is and what we do and sell. Almost three months after moving here we are still getting people in thinking we are new.
The back windows over look two bar/cafes - the shop door is only onto the main road - so we have been getting people peering in while waiting for their coffees or egg and chips.

I still feel wide awake but I have another long day tomorrow with a big kids class between 5.30 and 7.30 and you always have to be one step ahead of them so better go to bed so

Bye for now

Sue

Recipe for happy children

A notebook made from marbled card, a title cut with my squeaky and tired Big Shot and bound with my trusty and well loved Bind-It-All....RECIPE

Take six cans of shaving foam.... add 6 bottles of Distress re-inker... Throw in some hard work... Plus a pair of mucky hands....or two...that's my assistant... Equals

Nine happy children...After all the clearing up was done I sent Yaa to the Bakers for two of anything with icing on - we needed the sugar hit after that!!!

Off for a siesta as Colin and I are going to a bbq tonight.

Bye for now

Sue

Boy, are we motoring now!!!

I have been in work, work, work mode for the past few days and today made a couple of cards for tomorrow's class.

Last Friday Mu asked if I could show them how to make a sidestep and a triple shutter card so tomorrow that is what we are making.

A sneak peek of two more completed projects for Autumn workshops but the light is too bad to photograph them tonight so they will have to wait till tomorrow. Just look at the Distressing technique with the blending tools and the concentration shown by the girls.... and here's Marta and friends showing their cards Sven here on holiday from Germany...Somehow Bad Blogger deleted the photos of Beni and Celine so they will have to go on another post. It is so frustrating not to be able to move photos around any more if you forget one or accidently delete or if blogger does it for you.
If anyone out there in blogland knows how to get around this problem please let me know - thanks.

Bye for now

Sue

Wooden house

WooHoo!!! I finished a project in just two days....
I decided I was going to do something other than a project for classes and I have had a blank wooden house in my craft room for quite some time so yesterday I painted it with Pebble Dabber and stamped a few images onto card and tissue to play around with.
Today I went to the shop half an hour early, assessed the bits from yesterday and then Distressed and Dabbered and Stickled between customers, went home late for lunch (a Crunchie ice cream - well its too hot to eat!) left the house early on the pretence of having to buy a new clip to put my hair up and dashed back to the shop. Did some more, helped the Wednesday youngsters with assorted projects - catch up day for them - and then having told Colin I would be home for dinner about 9ish - well it was 9ish - well 10.30ish really! So that's it then....the black flourishes are painted on the wall and not part of the house... just look at the mess I created making it...but worth it I think.

Well its now 23.34 and it is still sooo HOT I think I might skinny dip before going to bed so

Bye for now

Sue