Family Time...

We had a family gathering on Monday ... attended a farewell barbecue for Ross (my great nephew) and his Mum and the annual Lifeboat show on the beach just across the road from their house, made for a lovely day ... even the sun shone and for the first time it felt like summer! True to form I suppose ... the children all return to school and now the sun shines! It goes very cold at night though but I can live with that ...
It was good to be with my small family group ... though the house and garden were full to bursting with people ... Like many families, we have known a lot of tragedies ... lost too many young and beautiful people far too soon ... but we have survived ... a little frayed around the edges (well maybe a lot) ... but we are stronger and closer for it.
Inspired by my family I made this card today ...

A mixture of Websters Pages with some Papermania and the little birds are from Vinnie Pearce again - There is only 1 bird in the digital kit so I altered the colour and voila! 2 birds ...

I picked up the little scalloped lace at a flea market  ... thought it looked so pretty.

More to share tomorrow ...

Till then - keep safe

Ros

Let Your Light Shine ...

Hello and Good Morning to you all ... 


Here we are on week 20 of City Crafter Challenge and our very own Cheryl has set this weeks' challenge  "Let your Light Shine " ... make a card or project using the word 'light' or use an image relating to light ...

So this is my take on the challenge ... a lighthouse and anchor (everyone needs these in life right? and maybe even a rope ... but definitely a heart!) ...

I used the Tim Holtz embossing folder for my background ... it sort of made me think that we often hit a brick wall in life and need a little guidance ... the aqua and red I think are a lovely combination too ...

Please pop over to the City Crafter Challenge Blog to see all the DT work ... our Guest designer is the very talented Amy Tsuruta and our sponsor is non other than Lawn fawn who make the most beautiful stamps and there is a lovely set to be won. Your entries last week once again were incredible ... and we are so grateful for your support ...

I look forward to stopping by your blog this week and seeing your beautiful, inspirational entries ...

Have a lovely day 

Ros

Old Meets New ...

Good morning everyone ...
Today I am Guest Designer over at The Shabby Tea Room ... how neat is that?? I am so thrilled to have been invited and the theme of course is "Old Meets New" ... in other words .. create a card or project using something old and something new ... Simple yes? Well, being a hoarder of all things I think may be useful ... I delved into this and that ... (humm) ... finally I decided to go down the 'project' line .... this is what I came up with ...

... Ok ... so I'll take you through it ... See, I had this new but rather plain little plant pot ... a couple of crumpled serviettes (stuck at the back of a drawer) some old dress pattern paper ... and an old little metal watch face I bought at a flea market.... that's where it started ...

 

... you can also see some brand new goodies from Emma's Paperie (arrived just that day) and I thought that the circle would be ideal to mount the watch face on ...

So I grabbed some paper, lace, flowers, ribbon and a brand new brad (also from Emma's) and away I went. I used the serviettes to make one large flower and cut circles out to back the flowers I made with the dress pattern paper .... covered the pot .. (that was the hardest)! See, I have no training in art or craft and never attended any colleges ... in fact with the exception of attending a Stampin Up party ... I've never even had a crafting class at all! Everything is self taught, trial and error or watching tutorials on the computer - so I guess that there must be an easy way or a scientific way to do somethings that somehow has me perplexed. Anyway I figured it out and just went from there ...

So there's the "new' little pot all prettied up ... 

There's the old little watch face ... mounted on that new disc and then onto a paper rosette and that gorgeous 'blingy' brad in the centre ... So "old Meets New" ...

I hope you like it and maybe it will give you some inspiration along with the creations done by the DT girls at The Shabby Tea Room .. hop on over and join in the fun ... 

I'm off to spend some family time ... Enjoy your day

Ros

Surprise ...

I have a couple of things to share ... some little gifts that I've made for 2 of my blog friends ...
First up is this little set ....

... a token of appreciation to you ...  "my favourite colour is blue!'" ... Yep, for you Stella ... I hope you like them ....

And next is a little wall plaque for my City Crafters "Jar Swap" friend Lynnda who made me the most beautiful bag and filled it to the brim with goodies ... (We will be having our Jar Swap party shortly and you can see all my beautiful goodies) ... I nearly fell off my chair when I saw everything I'd been sent ... I'd never done this before and now think I should have sent more ...(oooh)

This is done on a canvas board so it can be hung ...

The beautiful lined paper centrepiece with the gorgeous flower border was one of my goodies and something I have never seen here ... 

I just hope Lynnda likes it ... Both gifts will be winging their way to you shortly girls ...

Tomorrow I am Guest Designer for the Shabby Tea Room! (can you believe it?) so I'll have another project to share ...

Time for a caffeine shot now I think ...

Till tomorrow

Ros

Blog Award ..

Wow! I am so honoured as I have been nominated for another Blog Award by both Deb and Stella ... two of the most loveliest ladies in blogland ... 

This is the award and there are rules that are to be obeyed ...

1. Thank the person that awarded it to you .... A huge THANKYOU! to Deb and Stella 

2. Copy the award to your blog ... Done. 

3. List 3 things you love about yourself ....  

1). I love that I was given the gift of Motherhood and have one amazing beautiful son who I love with all my heart ...

2). I love that I have been blessed with wonderful friends many of whom I have never even met (you) and a wonderful family ...

3). I love that I have known the special bond of loving and being loved by all the animals I have had

My List could go on and on ....

4. Choose a favourite photo  ... (that's quite hard) But this is my photo ...

This was taken probably about 18yrs ago ... after my first marriage broke up, my son and I rescued this adorable young German Shepherd from the RSPCA ... turns out she rescued us ... The 3 of us were inseparable ... we didn't have much in the way of material things and money but we had something  far greater .....

5). I have to pass this award on to 5 more people ... if Deb and Stella hadn't already got it I would have picked them too ... so here we go ...

Kirsty 

Linda

Rebekah

Mona

Heather

It's pouring down here again and I am so sorry for all the people who have come to join in the Matthew Street celebrations this weekend ...

Have a good day everyone and keep safe

Ros

You make me smile...

I know I have been absent for a few days ...  I had a few projects to do which you will see over the next few weeks and I was lucky enough to be able to spend some time with Ross. How I love that little boy ... with his constant questions and his endearing charm ... my heart melts when he asks about his Daddy ... 
Some of you wonderful friends have also touched my heart this week with your kindness and made me feel so blessed, so humble and so very grateful ... "Thank you".
One thing I've been trying to master this week is the art of making those little crochet flowers that I see adorning so many creations ... well, I'm not sure that I have mastered it  - or ever will - but  I had a go and thought I'd make a baby card so I could use one of my flowers together with a digital stamp from Pink Petticoat  which I hadn't played with before ...

 got to use my new tiny polka dot buttons too (from The Ribbon Girl) ... and there are my not so perfect flowers! I paper pieced the image and used embellishments from my stash.

I hope you are having a good weekend ... I'll catch up with you soon.

Ros