Last Thursday the SSO took me the Ladies Day at Newmarket Races, but not before giving me the most awesome Necklace for my birthday... I hoping she will get a chance to put it on her blog when she gets a chance. If I will put it on here but she will only moan at my dreadful ability to photograph anything.
Don't know if I have mentioned it was my birthday yesterday........
I have been such a lucky lucky girl with the most stunning gifts from my crafty friends, hop over to visit Dee's blog cos I know she has upload her most original gift, and hopefully soon Cindy will show you the most lovely 'hanging' (for want of a better word) that she made for me, 
I also had a wonderful altered mirror (I suspect she got inspiration from YCJ - good girl) from Debs H.... and all she got from me was this lousy card! - We share the same birthday!
Thank you to everyone, I hope you realise how much I appreciate everything that is made for me.
Oh.... last but not least... My lovely nutty friend Joyce painted this lovely picture for me... Some of you know the meaning behind the picture, for those of you who don't I am cuddling my fourth most favourite man - after Matt, Ed and my daddy!
See.... how can you not love these guys in these photos?? I am honoured to be able to call them my friends
Not had much time to do anything this week, getting ready for a visit this weekend of my most fabby friends, so thought I better de-spider the house, left the dust cos I can write 'i love you' in it! But I have spent the morning at school with my son, they have a 'Sculpture Trail' and they all made something out of an old school chair. My Son's class had the theme of Animals, and he choose to make a Dragon! What a lovely morning we had..... and here is the result!
There were so many lovely ones, they are going on show tomorrow and I will get some photos of the others. It's lovely to see so many kids and mums creating together, just goes to show that everyone has a bit of creativity inside them, it just needs to encouraged out. Thumbs up to our Head Teacher who has got such a good ethos as far as arty stuff goes... well she is pretty fab all round, wouldn't do to tell her though but as I doubt she ever looks here I am pretty safe saying it LOL!
random pics out of my mums Woman's realm and sticking them in my scrapbook. I did consider for a nano-second of missing this weeks lesson, but that is not the point of doing a course AND my book is technique based so it must contain lots of different techniques. Well I tried, honest I did, but I still am not comfortable with it. But here is my page. The face made of many faces was done by using the packing tape transfer method.
Me and Mr Bessie
pposed to be charms, but since when have I done exactly as I was told and mine have turned into magnets! The nice thing about magnets on BT's is though that you don't have to glue them on as the magnet sticks to them as well, so it the recipient wants a charm they can remove the magnet and use that on something else. Having said this these magnets are so strong you have to prise them off !! 
pages (as do the buttons) I really like this look, although it would counteract the effect if you did it on two many pages. A simple idea to edge you pages, but I wouldn't have thought of it so thanks Ingrid for your inspiration!
Well the plan for today was to do a bit of washing... went to laundry basket to find it had magically been filled overnight I was sure it was empty yesterday! - SHOCK........... Kids had tidied their Bedrooms. HORROR..... This resulted in a load more washing!
Plan 5; Continue with the Altered Abacus I started at the beginning of the year.... yeah sommat has gone OK cos it went to plan (well almost) and is now finished. Not bad, I planned on it taking most of the year as I wanted to do it bit by bit as and when I had time and inspiration to do another bit. It's June tomorrow and it's finished and I am happy with it so all is well in Nicks world.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUCHSIA
Can't believe we are Week 8 already! Not sure how many weeks we have left but I am seriously running out of pages to alter! Really enjoying this course as I am really just playing. The whole Project is just for me, it's not a pressie, it's not for a workshop, it's not going for sale, it's not even going to be seen by anyone else (well apart from the odd blog follower!) so it's just for me to play with, experiment and generally just experiment and mess about! How liberating is that!
My pages have been painted, glimmered, scrawled on, stamped on, decopatched, doodled on and generally abused!
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
So here is an Altered Book. The book itself has only had a Niche cut out of it and the cover has just been painted black. Nothing else added, decided to leave it plain and simple. The lady of no name came from the £1 shop... small foul Barbie type thing. Now I do have a terrible confession to make, you may think me evil, but boy it was fun.... her face was sliced off on readiness for a clay face to be stuck on it.
castle..... He is Neil Buchanan's (Art Attack Fame) biggest fan and thinks he has the best job in the world! Amazing what you can do with a polystyrene cup, a few toilet rolls and some PVA and kitchen roll! 
Georgina hasn't been idle either.... When you have the best Grandma she deserves a Birthday Cake!!
rest of the course! 
Well that's what I have called her, but it's not up to me cos by the time you read this she will be living in Kent with my Best Mate, Sparky. If you ever visit Kent (which is a brave thing to do in itself!) then you can spot her house quite easily cos it's full to bursting with my old tat!
Then a bit of paint and this and that. Edward found the log at Blickling Woods - Blickling Hall was once the home of Anne Boleyn and it is said she still comes to 'visit' her old house and grounds.. perhaps it was her who left this evenly cut log in the middle of the forest!?? - and the Ivy leaves are made 
from polymer clay.
....with the online Altered Book course that I am doing. It had to go on the back burner while we got ready for YCJ and my daughters Birthday and the new business but I have almost caught up now. My Book doesn't really have a theme, it's supposed to be full of things 
that inspire me but really I am just playing with techniques etc.. thoroughly enjoying it because it is rather liberating just playing and not worrying about it being perfect, cos it's 
just for me and no-one else! 
Although I was a bit behind I had to just jump straight to this weeks lesson of 'pockets' I have folded the page here and am using it to display some of my favourite ATC's I have been sent in the 
and Mrs Bessie and to pick her up and transport her up to Ally Pally... and drum roll............ we managed the whole trip without getting lost!!! Was a lovely weekend, I did have a bit of a spend 
Lin of LBCrafts is the reason my children will be living off bread and water for the next few months! 
people will hopefully be going home with. Although they all look very different they all employ the same techniques, so hopefully we will see some very different things being created. 
So have a nice weekend everybody because we will!!
Feeling a bit guilty cos I am horribly behind with my Altered Book Course, but hopefully I will be able to knuckle down and catch up next week!
Just telling you that apropos of nothing...................
Anyway here is my first quick project, an Ipod case. It will be interesting to see how it stands up to rolling around in my handbag and alot of handling! 
That's not actually the name of the ATC, but I never got a return for this 1:1 swap...... perhaps the chap from Ireland didn't like it, perhaps he had personal problems that prevented him from making me an ATC, perhaps it got lost in the post, or perhaps he was just too rude and too lazy to make one!
