Colds and flu are going round and round...

bad blogger that I am this is another marathon post...

I actually made something today - well a couple of things actually!!! I made a birthday card for a good friend so I can only show glimpses until she has received it........





.....and then with the Wednesday girls tonight - the flu is going round the schools here like wildfire so we were sadly depleted - I showed the girls how to stamp an Outline stamp and then a fold here and a pinch there and make it into a fancy thingy that you put on top of a present. Add a jewel and a bit of Stickles and voila!





Yaa's


Maddie's


Yesterday was a fiesta so the shop had to be closed for the day. Colin was flying back from the UK so I had envisaged a nice lie-in but no it was not to be - he texted me at 7.50 to say his 9.30 flight was on time!!! I know to a lot of people 7.50 was a lie-in but I was just so disappointed. I'm not whinging really!!!lol!

We sat in the sunshine (23 degrees) and had a long lunch with friends Erica and John who are sadly moving back to live in Erica's native Germany.





On Monday the girls made bauble toppers - again illness meant there were fewer girls...

Lauren


Dayana


They concentrate so hard...


I was asked to start a Saturday morning class for other youngsters - so they too made bauble toppers ( do you see a theme emerging here!!!

Blaithin


Celia


Rosangela


A couple more weeks and then we are off to the woods!!! Well, Centre Parks at Penrith in 3 chalets - the whole family and some of the new inlaws of daughter Victoria - 20 in all so a mad, mad Christmas in view.

I just hope that the lurgy that the girls have mostly all had passes me by. Colin, who hasn't been to a Dr in 40 odd years, has gone to bed early with a hacking cough and cold blaming it on the awful English weather so I shan't be going to bed too soon as I don't want whatever it is he's got!!! It's not that I'm unsympathetic but being a one woman business I can't afford to be ill.

I am going to make a mug of hot choccy and go and get my fix of Golden Balls that I recorded this afternoon...

so Bye for now
Sue

Gosh is it Wednesday again already.....

...I had eight classes last week so no wonder I missed it!! One every morning and three afternoons! Whew! Anyway, onto this week.....and two more classes today....


Lin Nice brought some ladies from Benissa for a class this morning and we played with the lovely Ranger alcohol inks ( a first time for them ). I showed them how to apply alcohol inks onto glossy card and while they played.......



... I coloured a piece of glossy card with mustard seed, pine needles and fired brick Distress inks, stamped with mince swirl (Judikins) in Brilliance crimson copper, coloured three pots of Amazing Glaze with Ranger alcohol inks using lettuce, butterscotch and cranberry, dabbed the card with Versamark pad and applied the coloured powder over and heat set it. The bottom right hand corner I then stamped into the embossing with a pre-inked swirl butterfly stamp (Outlines). This was so good I am planning on making a project in similar vein to incorporate it into one of next years workshops. This technique was from http://sanscardsblogspot.com/





























Tonight the older girls that come to the Kidz club started on a 3 week project of a Bind-It-All Christmas album. They polished, stamped, masked, heat embossed, glittered, cut out and stuck.......all nicely messy...with the gorgeous Paper Artsy Egg and Nog stamps. Two more Weeks to go and then you can see the results.

It's now twenty to twelve so I am off to bed...night night.
Sue x