Happy Birthday Kirsty!!!

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My sweet and lovely friend, creator of City Crafter Challenge and Our Beautiful World

Kirsty

Celebrates her birthday today!

I made this card for her

"Happy Birthday dear friend ....

I hope you have the best birthday ever and may all your dreams come true"

We're celebrating over at the City Crafter blog too ... Please hop over and leave some love for a very special lady

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Every Kind of Happy

Hi there ...

Today at City Crafter we have our lovely Kirsty hosting for us with a brand new challenge

Birthday Banners

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Kirsty is asking that we make a birthday card with a banner

Easy peasy huh? Well not if you've lost your mojo like me

Here's my card

... hastily put together

With soft girlie colours, some paint splats and a computer generated sentiment

This week we have the talented BBart Guesting for us ... Hop over to her Blog ... she is one talented lady I can tell you!

And take a look at the cards from the rest of our DT at CCCB ... We're hoping you'll be inspired to join us this week ...

I have 20 circus projects to finish for Thursday Club next week so I'd better get to it ...

Have a fabulous day

~ Ros ~

Seeing Spots

Good morning...

It's my turn to pick the word prompt for 

Our Beautiful World

So this week the prompt is

Spots

We may not have summer weather here but we did have a relatively mild winter so plants have flowered early and the garden has been full of these pretty butterflies ... I managed to zoom in on this one which was sitting right at the top of my Forsythia tree ... Those spots resemble eyes ... to keep away predators

 It was quite difficult to spot this one camouflaged on the gravel

Lucky I didn't step on it ...

Of course butterflies are not the only thing we have had a lot of ... the ladybirds have been just about everywhere ... 

I keep finding them in the house and have to put them outside again ... And would you take a look at these guys

Hmm, enough said...

Ladybird and butterfly sharing a brief moment of Spring sunshine and this female blackbird with her spotted chest loves letting me know she's wants feeding ... she comes and sits by my door

I guess if you look you can find spots everywhere ... even on Bananas

And I just have to show you this sweet key holder I bought a couple of weeks ago ... I just couldn't resist those spots

...Or the cute little owls

Ok, I'm off to Our Beautiful World blog to see what my fellow DT members have posted ... Care to join me?

I hope you link up your "Spots" photos with us this week ... and be sure to link back to 

Our Beautiful World

Have a wonderful Sunday and thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Missing You

Hello!!

I'm back home after a few days break ... Back to a cold and wet Liverpool

I don't know what I am missing the most ... those wonderful cappuccinos with cream, relaxing outdoors enjoying the sea air and the lovely scenery or just having the warm sun washing over me...

Mind you, the first day in Santa Ponca it rained heavily ... I've never been there when it rained but believe me a warm rainy day in Majorca is better than a dry cold one here!  I caught this little sparrow sheltering in the top of a palm tree ... guess he didn't like the rain either

which reminds me ... remember when I posted this photo way back in November for Our Beautiful World?

Well it's vacant no longer ... Excuse the blurry photo, but I had to be quick when I saw Mum and Dad feeding their babies

I have to keep an eye on my little ginger cat ... he's already tried to get up there but for now he's content to follow me everywhere ... he missed me ... Oh, and Gispy ... Well, she's gone missing again ... been 4 days now... sigh ...  Here's hoping she'll come back soon

I hope you are all doing well ... Wishing you a beautiful weekend

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Recipe Book

Hi there ... How's your week going?

It's challenge time at City Crafter once again and this week we have Anna hosting for us 

Anna is asking that we make a project related to the kitchen

(e.g.apron, cupcakes, kitchen utensils, recipes)

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I don't know about you but I tend to keep pieces of paper with my favourite recipes all over the place ... promising to file them somewhere...sometime

Well this challenge pushed me to make a book to finally store these recipes ... 

I used an inexpensive flip photo album to make this ... took me a long time to print all my recipes onto blank postcards but it was worth it ... In fact I've started another book as I filled this so quickly - blame Pinterest!

I made a pocket inside the front cover to hold conversion charts which I printed and laminated to keep them clean - I guess I'm hoping that there'll be no excuse for my DH not to cook once and a while

All the papers and embellishments came from my stash - those stickers I've had for a long time

of course I needed somewhere to put the books ... and I found the perfect container

A vintage radio tin which I picked up for £1.25 in the post Christmas sales ... it was filled with creamy toffees which were delicious 

I love this tin and it looks so good in my kitchen and now all my recipes are to hand

our Guest Designer this week is a very talented lady -

Maciejkowe Zacisze

Hop over to the blog to see her lovely creation and those from the rest of our team

I'm still on holiday so forgive me for not visiting your blogs for a while - I hope to catch up with you soon ... 

Have a lovely week 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Splish Splash

Hello!

Our Word prompt this week at 

Our Beautiful World

has been chosen for us by the lovely Kirsty ...

The word is 

Bath

Well, whilst I was in Lincoln recently I caught these guys taking a bath ...

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I can't believe how quickly those little ducklings can swim

Mum was quite happy to stand and watch once she'd had a little bathe

And as for me ... well, as you are reading this (scheduled) post ... I hope to be taking a bath too ... somewhere like this

or maybe dipping my toes in the cool blue waters 

around the sunny Isle of Majorca ...

Have a beautiful day and link up your photos for our prompt word this week at 

Our Beautiful World

Catch you when I'm home ... be good!

~ Ros ~