Christmas Holidays

Holidays - Fun to Do

Hi All
Just before Christmas we went to the lights in Alnwick Gardens, and watched the parade through the town, it was a great day, what a way to get people in the gardens in winter, the whole story brought the gardens to life and the voice in the gate was brilliant, then the lantern parade through the town, all the children with the lanterns they had made and the bands were fantastic they got everyone clapping to the rhythms. Then on the second day we went to the Angel of the North, in the rain.
In this week of Christmas Holidays we have been hit by more horrible wet weather, we thought the water was coming our way this time, but thankfully it was not too bad this time here in Kendal, our town is still trying to recover from the floods just before Christmas. The memorable day, my class was cancelled due to flooding, and many friends and colleagues were very badly flooded and have had to move out of their homes.
We have been out and about this week, over to Skipton, and yesterday went to the Yorkshire Sculpture park to see the Poppies, we had already seen the whole lot together in London last year, they were really spectacular, and just a sea of red from the top of the Shard, but now they are on tour and we thought it only right to see them again, and they looked beautiful falling from the bridge.  On our way we went through the recently flooded villages and saw the poor home owners gutting their houses and felt very sad for them.
I am not able to make any cards this week due to the Christmas Tree taking over the space in the living room where I normally have my craft table, but I thought I should have a play with my jelly plate, I really want to - I might just have to take over the dining room table for a little while!!!! I also have another card to make for my class in January and several friends and family with birthdays in January - including me! (although I have stopped counting).
Thats all for now folks.

Here is a link to my pinterest page - and a link to my scrapbook pinterest page - please drop by and take a look.

Alnwick Gardens

Alnwick Lantern Parade Drummers

The baghdaddies jazz band

Angel of the North

YSP Poppy Waterfall

Happy Christmas Holidays

Happy Christmas Holidays everyone

Now that Christmas is over and I have some time to sit down and write the next instalment of my blog, admittedly a long time since the last update. In the meantime I have been offered a job at Queen Katherine School, and have been making sample cards for Woodware, in addition to the regular monthly classes for The Paper Warehouse. The next class at The Paper Warehouse will be on the 16th January 2016.  A few months ago one of the ladies on the class asked if we could use pencils and the oils and paper stumps for blending, so on the class this time we will be using Crafters Companion Pencils, for colouring a skater boy by Woodware, together with Dutch Doobadoo Grafiti stencil (my favourite at the moment) and Clarity stencils,  together with distress inks we will also be die cutting a sparkly easel card using Desire Dies, and I have one card still be be finalised. I will upload them after the class for you all to see.


Here is a link to my pinterest page - and a link to my scrapbook pinterest page - please drop by and take a look.

Here are a couple of cards I made for my girls for Christmas and some I designed for Woodware. The one I wanted to show you the most miraculously disappeared from my iPad - i am not impressed, but this technology thing sometimes goes a bit crazy.

Christmas Card 2015 - Girls walking in the snow

Christmas Card 2015 - Skiing girls

Woodware Snowman tag

Woodware Snowman Card

Woodware Snowman Stack card

Woodware Robin 2014

Woodware Owl 2014

Woodware Jingle Bells card

Woodware Rudolf Tag card

And finally my New Year’s resolution is to get to grips with the blogging software and blog more often - so Happy New Year and see you all soon.

Lesley.