It was interesting

to see my card displayed on the mantelpiece & see how the look changed with the different lighting ....

We went away for the weekend, with the family, to a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales to celebrate MIL's birthday. No internet or mobile coverage for the whole weekend!

The card was displayed, along with others, & over the weekend the light changed from bright sunlight to overcast light & of course artificial light in the evening.

The shadows on the card changed obviously but also the depth of colour in the background squares changed quite dramatically giving a different look - quite fascinating :-)

It was amazing to actually see my artwork displayed & see the changes in it ..........

Also nice to know was that my niece loved her New Home card & had actually kept her 'old' one too & was still displaying it as a piece of art :-) It's really nice to know that my cards are appreciated :-)

 Take a peek at birthday girl's feet - she is wearing her cozy slippers that I made her for Xmas! :-)

Thought I'd share

some of the pressies I made for family for Xmas

 Slippers  for my MIL to keep her feet toasty warm

Both the slippers & flower were crocheted

I bought an inexpensive hat & used my handmade felt

and cut the flowers out using my Big Shot & a Sizzix build a flower die & sewed them on using buttons for the centers.

I made a Dressing Table Tidy for my niece

I painted the insides a plain antique white & the outside & top rims were given a coat of colour then painted white & crackle glazed

The recipient :-)

Other members of the family got Snoods - hand knitted & with handmade buttons that I crafted from Fimo


So there you go - a few of the handcrafted pressies ...

My MIL got in on the act too making the boys of the family (including the dog!) knitted hats :-)

Greetings from Oz

These are the slippers that I made for my daughter for Xmas - as yet she hasn't got them as she was stuck in Cumbria due to the snow & ice which everyone back home is suffering from! & so didn't make it over to her Auntie & Uncle's in York for the family Boxing Day celebrations. The slippers are knitted using a pattern and wool from the Wool Shop in Armley Leeds. The pattern says garter stitch but after seeing Maddys slippers made using moss stitch which looked really funky I chose to do them in moss stitch too.



These are the slippers that I made once I got to Oz - my Mums pressie and as I couldn't be sneaky I just knitted them & was rather 'vague' about who they were for! *giggle* She has been wearing them despite it being summer here as it gets down to a 'chilly' 13 degrees at night! LOL It is lovely to see the sunshine & have a bit of warmth it's been averaging a comfortable 25/26 degree's but went up to about 36 degrees one day :-)



I then made the small pair for the smallest member of the family at the Xmas Day celebrations - see how cute they are! They had to remain plain as I ran out of wool & didn't have my craft room to delve into for embellishments but they looked really cute anyway.