feeling sorry for myself...and it's all Colin's fault!!!

Not really but he had the cold first!!!
I made this jigsaw piece to teach lots of techniques to the ladies. It involves using three different types of inkpad, some stamping both with ink and paint, triple embossing, shrink plastic - loads of laughs and oohs and aaahs there - and a sprinkling of accent beads. Went down a treat... and here are yesterday morning ladies showing their jigsaw pieces - I managed to get through the class OK somehow as I have a really bad cold - closed the shop an hour early today though as I felt so rotten...so sorry girls forgot to take photos of the lovely work you did today... Here's my lovely Wednesday girls , Arlette, Alice and Celine showing the Christmas tags they made...

and here's the Monday girls...Sienna, Liza, Ana, Dayana.Daniella, Ciara and Lauren...

As I said earlier I have a really bad cold, shivering, head pounding, teeth aching - going back to bed so

Bye for now

Sue

Here's some of my work!!!! at last...

I am so busy making samples for my Christmas Open Day on 10th September that there is very little work that I can actually show without giving away the surprise effect on the day but

Yeah! Woohoo! here's something I made that I can actually show! This suitcase and mini album was great fun to make and I thought the girls would love to do it.... a glimpse inside the mini book... And from last night's class here's Lauren, Megan and Daniella with their beautiful suitcases and mini albums... Zoe from Valencia - she goes to the same school as Paola and Andrea below - in a city the size of Valencia how much of a coincidence is that!!! This is Marta, Paola and her sister Andrea from Valencia...On Sunday afternoon Tanya wanted a last yoghurt before leaving for the airport so we popped into smooy.....Just look at all that luscious goodness - Tanya's is topped with marshmallow, pineapple and chocolate and mine with marshmallows and chocolate... all those calories!!! a kiss goodbye...

On Sunday - her last day - Tanya got her sex on the beach...at last! It only took 4 weeks but she managed it!

This series of my work was displayed in the window and I was asked by one of the Spanish ladies if they could buy the canvas so I made it into a class instead...uhoh! more of my work!!!!! and here they are with their canvases - all the same but all so very different...

Gotta go, shop to open, people to see, things to do and all that so

Bye for now

Sue

A treat for Tanya and musn't forget the girls...

As you can see Tanya and Colin get on famously - they pull each others legs and are totally mad to be around...This is the second fortnight Tanya has spent with us in six weeks and apart from our house, the shop and the local beach we haven't been anywhere and so with Inga (and Dayana) looking after the shop Colin, Tanya and I drove down to Calpe, a small town a few miles south of here for a look around and a fish lunch for which Calpe is famous.
As I am seriously allergic to fish and seafood Colin rarely has the option of sharing a sumptuous fish meal and Tanya loves fish - here she is sucking the lobster juice off her thumb...
They had previously eaten - hm!!! no!!! pulled apart, sucked and dribbled their way through!!! - a platter full of enormous langoustines...
I realised halfway through that I should have taken a photo of the rice, lobster and squid dish...
you should have seen the mess the pair of them got into - ... We then drove down the coast to Alfaz del Pi where we had coffees and where they had these cute pedaloes...On Wednesday evening the lovely Becky brought in her fashion journal to show me. She totally embraced journalling when we did it earlier in the year and so I decided to show off some of her beautiful pages - there were also spots and dots, black and white and stripey madness but I had to choose and so here they are...bring on the fashion! keeping an eye on the time goody two shoes On Wednesday evening the older girls made star books - Maria, Iciar, Lucia, Cristina, Alice and Becky, Berta, Beatrix and Mar...Dayana had made her star book at Monday's class and she comes on Wednesdays with her Mum Inga who helps me with the classes and so I let her loose with some cardstock and dies...what a lovely scrapbook page you've made Dayana...
On Monday night the youngsters also made star books and here's Sienna with hers... Anastasia and Lucia... Lauren, Daniella and little Zoe...and here's the rest of the gang from Monday - Remy, Maddie, Megan, Dayana, Sonny, Lucia..... Sadly, as the school summer holidays come to an end, most of the youngsters are returning home soon so its bye till next year to some of them

It's now 8 at night and still so hot that I think I will pop off for a dip in the pool to cool off so

Bye for now
Sue

A round up of the week ...in pictures - well almost

Today, the shop was incredibly busy and I actually did some crafting! though not intentionally!

I couldn't find the project for tonight's class which is my Dina Wakley journal from an online class I took with her some time ago and which I was going to use to show the girls how to use gesso and spray inks..... and so when needs must..... I rolled up my sleeves and set to at ten minutes to two - we close at 2 - and sprayed, gessoed, sprayed some more - loads of layers, took it home and doodled on it, typed and printed out a quote and whew! taught it tonight...
very happy girls Alice, Berta, Megan, Becky and Alesha with their lovely pages.... and I caught Beatrix, Beatrix number 2 and Iciar just as they were leaving..... the terrible twosome - Alice and Megan - we'll miss you Megan but it will soon be Easter and you'll be back... the little sweeties from Monday class - they marbled card and bound it into notebooks and diecut a message for the front... good work all of you... and here's the card I made whilst the ladies were spraying and stamping on Friday morning...and Suzanne here on holiday and in need of a crafting fix... and Pat, Mu, Rena, Shirley and Carmen sharing a laugh...

Tanya's here for another two weeks r and r and I will update you on what we have been up to - sadly no mojitos or sex on the beach yet as we haven't had time but the weekend is approaching and we know how to enjoy ourselves...

and having just said that I am absolutely kn.....ed and I'm off to bed - I know, what a wuss you're thinking and you'd be right.....

Bye for now

Sue

Aahhh, October is here!!!

This was the sky as I pulled into our drive on Monday night at 7.30 - isn't it spectacular. I took loads of photos but I won't bore you so here's just one...

These are the youngsters having a good time at Monday night's class - they are sewing ricrac and die cut flowers onto the back cover of their black and white albums... This is a Jacaranda tree in our garden that has fern like leaves...

and our beautiful orange tree - sadly this tree might not survive as we are having an extension to the downstairs bedroom and it will have to be moved...the oranges on here are the sweetest you can find... I took one Jacaranda and one orange leaf and one from a tree that might be a fig tree - it self seeded so who knows! and used Dyan's Dylusions sprays and sprayed over two pages of my 365 day challenge diary - long overdue but better late than never eh Kate!...I then wrote a little about each and did a bit of sketching and doodling

I drew around an orange tree leaf onto hammered card to give a good texture and then cut 30 more and then sprayed them, again with Dylusions - very messy but fun - boy did my hand ache after cutting 31 of them!! I will write on the leaves each day and stick them in at intervals when I have two or three... and this is some of the youngsters having a laugh at class last night...

More soon

Bye for now

Sue

girls, girls, girls...

These are the friendly plastic pieces I acquired from the lovely Liz Welch which I promised to photograph. They are even more beautiful in real life - lustrous and sparkly.



The girls have all been iris folding this week...

On Monday the younger girls
Emily...


Dayana...


and Louisa made balloon cards.

and tonight

Melissa...made a basket and balloons..... and brought in a marble cake she and her sister Emily had made for us all to share at break - it was delicious - so light - thank you girls...


Yaa...made a basket and completed her album (from months ago!!)


and newby Maria made a basket and a dress.


Well done girls.

I haven't done anything arty for myself this week - everybody aaahhhh! get the hankies out!!! apart from filling in my 365 calendar which I will photograph at the weekend. I have been busy making samples for classes. There is an adult box and a card both for Valentine's day which are almost finished. Story of my life really - so many unfinished projects - so little time.

I was looking at Linda Elbourne's blog when I got home and she takes part in a what's on your workdesk on Wednesday - I daren't show you my worktable - it's groaning under the weight!!! There is a half completed scrapbook page, a gessoed but unpainted canvas, the aforementioned half completed card and box, a part completed mini album for another class, a shrink plastic project at the prototype stage - need I go on...so as you can imagine with so much on there it is hard to actually do any work but tomorrow afternoon I have told Colin and Mum I am going to put up a "DO NOT DISTURB" sign and try to achieve at least one finished piece of work.

It is almost midnight and I am going to bed
Bye for now
Sue