Jingle Belles ... Pink Christmas

Hello there ...

Have you seen this weeks challenge at Jingle Belles Rock? This month is breast cancer awareness month so in honour of that we are asked to make a pink Christmas card ... and those lovely Belles Lauren and Stef are going to donate a dollar for each entry this week to Susan G Komen For The Cure ... how wonderful is that!! My sweet Aunt had a double mastectomy at the age of 80 ... 4 years on she is thankfully doing well ... 

So I wasted no time in coming up with my card this week ...

picked up this leaf ribbon sometime ago ... it has a thread running through it and pulled into a flower I think it looks like a poinsettia ... what do you think?

... even sugared up some bells for the occasion ...

I now have 41 cards done for Christmas ... Phew! How about you ... have you made a start yet? 

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks ever so much for stopping by 

~ Ros ~

LESSology Challenge ....

You know ... some things don't always go as planned ... When LESSology challenge blog started ... I so wanted to join in with everything ... but time got away from me each week ...

This week the challenge is to decorate a paper bag (white or brown) and of course every challenge at LESSology must include a recycled item too ...
 In the UK ... we don't get those cute brown bags that my USA friends make such wonderful albums from ... they seem to have so many uses and appear quite strong ... But as it happened I did have a little brown bag .. well, a big brown bag ... (I cut the top off )... and I had need of a gift bag for one of my sweet blog buddies ... so it was finally the perfect opportunity to join in the fun ...

I had so much fun doing this .... and my recycled item is of course the lovely corrugated edging

The little chipboard birdie I painted using TH Distress stains ... and the little key came home with me from Majorca ... I got a bunch of them in an art shop I found in Soller ... they're called "Lucky Keys" ... I hope this brings luck to my blog friend

Sorry I can't share what is inside this bag ... don't want to spoil the birthday surprise ...

But one surprise I can share is this ... 

A sweet little gift and card from my lovely friend Kirsty

Kirsty made me this gorgeous crochet apple holder and the beautiful card

Look at that cute little leaf ...

THANK YOU KIRSTY!!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles ... Peace on Earth

This is my second post today ... The challenge over at Jingle Belles Rock finishes in a few hours so I had to  get this done pretty quick! The theme this week is 'Peace on Earth' ... incorporate anything that evokes 'Peace' for you ... I saw this peacefully sleeping baby Jesus whilst trawling the web and decided that was it for me ...

I also think that snow is incredibly peaceful when it falls ... especially at night ... so silently ... (Miss Lauren would disagree with me there ... she would say ... it's like a Ninja ... attacking without warning ... ha ha)

... and card number 40 is done ...

If you are interested in some of my photos please feel free to scroll down to the previous post

Have a lovely evening 

~ Ros ~

Farewell Majorca ....

Hello ...

I am back on English soil ... and I am glad to be home ... to be in my little craft nest ... Happy to see my son and to wake up with the cat snuggled on my bed

I will miss the sun rising over the bay ...

... Sleepy little harbours like this ...

... Sitting back with a cappuccino watching the world go by 

... and the living statues that sit all day in the heat and fascinate me ...

I didn't get a chance to post this Tag It passed to me by sweet June Lanum ... before my trip

Thank you so much June ... And now I think I have to tell 10 things about me ... I'm not good at this

1. I am a "Scouser" the only one of my family born and bred in Liverpool ... 
2. My parents and brothers are all Londoners
3. My Grandparents were French and Swiss
4. I have been married twice and have 1 beautiful son from my first marriage
5. I am a home bird ... 
6. I am happy with my own company and never really get bored
7. I have learned that I am a strong woman ... self sufficient and capable
8. I treasure my friendships and never forget a kindness
9. I adore animals and nature
10. I strive everyday to be a better person ... 

I would like to pass this on to Cindy Adkins "Whimsical Musings"  a relatively new blog friend who is  incredibly talented and helpful ... 

I hope you are having a wonderful day ... thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

3D at City Crafter

Hi there ...

I hope you are well and looking forward to this weeks' challenge at City Crafter ... which is brought to us by lovely Linda Robinson ... who wants us to go 3D! 

You can make any project you want as long as it is 3D ... The possibilities are endless ... what about a box?... a bag? ... a house?... a frame? ... If you are looking for ideas ... our sponsor this week is Adela Rossol "Creations By AR" who makes the sweetest templates and the DT all got to use one this week ...

I confess I already own a couple of Adela's templates but I think this one has to be one of my favourites ... 

Just look at those cute hanging baskets! 

You can use these for Halloween ... Christmas ...  as gift bags ... all manner of things ... 

I made my baskets two sizes ...  

 I had a problem with my printer which meant I had to open the PDF file in photoshop to print it ... However, this meant that I could also save it as a PNG file (transparency) and playing around I could even enlarge it but still use  A4 cardstock ... Cardstock in the USA is slightly smaller than ours here in the UK ... 

So I printed my cardstock first and added graphics and then just hand cut these ... So simple! and fun to decorate ... And you'll be amazed just how much these can hold!

I can see I will be using this template over and over again ... I love it! 

Our winner of thus challenge will get 2 templates of their choice from Adela and ... CCCB entrants this week can get 10% off one of Adela's templates! ... Just hop over to the blog to find out more and take a look at the beautiful projects from the rest of the DT ....

Well I am on a flight back to the UK today so I'll bid you farewell for now ...

I do hope you will join our challenge this week ... I'd love to see what you come up with 

Till soon keep safe

~ Ros ~

Majorca ...

 Here I am on holiday and back home in the UK the weather is glorious!

So ... I don't have much to share with you just a few photo's taken on my husbands fancy phone ... I have to wait till I get home to download the many others ... 

My brother is a keen photographer and has never been to the island so wants to see as much as he can ...  it's been quite hectic ...  the first day we set off for Palma ... to show them the magnificent cathedral 

With my SIl in the grounds of the cathedral ... can you see the horse drawn carriages behind us? and the beautiful marigolds ...

With my husband ...

The next day it was on to Santa Ponca ... of course I had to introduce my family to my tree ... the one that has sheltered me many times from the heat whilst waiting for the transport 

... And the next day we took the beautiful wooden train through the mountains to Soller ... where an equally beautiful tram took us to the port ...

Do you know these carriages came all the way from San Francisco? And this train begins it's journey in Palma ... actually running on tracks in the road along side the traffic ... it's a wonderful journey back in time ... the slogan the company use is "Our trains don't run ... they walk" and they are right ... an hour trip through mountains and orange groves ... 

You can tell that my brother loved this trip

Just a little part of my week ... 

Till soon


~ Ros ~