Labelcrew

Oh yes i am way behind on my blogging, yet again.
Last Monday the Three Of Us caught up for our Labelcrew project.
We made these gorgeous journal covers.

Susan's on the left, mine in the middle and Tracey's on the right. Same pattern but all so different.
We also celebrated a very early birthday for Tracey. Her birthday is early February but we didn't know if we would be catching up before then. As Tracey's "One Little Word" for this year is baking we thought that her gift should help her along with her one little word. So along with some cake pans and cooling racks we made her these

some pot holders

and a tea towel (another Sweetwater project)

Love the tea towel, its not one i would use, i would have it purely for decoration and all my friends KNOW not to use my hanging tea towels.

I have my photos all ready for tomorrows post (didn't want to overload you today), all i have to do is to remember to post it.

Enjoy your week
xx

Chrstmas Decorations

I have had a lovely day today and have spent most of it in my craft room pottering around doing this and that and finishing a few projects. So i have a lot to share with you today.

The three of us caught up a week or so ago to make a Labelcrew project here are some photos

Tracey's is on top and as Susan was the hostess she didn't get much time to make hers (to busy decorating a yummy pav) so the three pennants are hers and the blurry one on the bottom is mine.

I worked some more on mine at home, changing the ribbon and adding some buttons.

Cute cute cute.

here is what i played around with today and Andrew has just told me that i have a "glittery moustache"
oh well you get that, it is Christmas after all.

and here is another project from my Mouse Paper Scissors Give class and i am not giving this away

OK its meant to be an interchangeable theme where you just add a different photo but i wanted Christmas so even my backing is Christmas, i can always change the photo every Christmas.
Now here is a close up of the flowers as guess what i made these all by myself, so happy, they turned out really well, you just need a tea light candle and some polyester type slinky material, so just ignore the singe marks where i got a little close to the flame.

I think i need to distress the star a bit but otherwise i love it.

and tonight i may just do some hand stitching and try and get up to date with some of the stitch a longs i am involved in.

thanks for visiting
xx

Cute

I cant believe that it was over a week ago that "the three of us" got together to make a LabelCrew (link in sidebar) project.

Here is what we made

Susan's is on the left, Tracey's is in the middle and my chubby one is on the right. Aren't they just the cutest pin cushions ever?

and just in case you needed to see a close up here i am with said pin cushion and don't forget that it was late at night.

OK now for a couple of cards and lifts i might add as well
this first one was from the papertray ink gallery and i just had to copy it

simple and easy
now the next one is a lift from my favourite card maker Dawn Mcvey and this card was on the cover of the very first issue of the Create:Stamping magazine-another line in the scrapbook trends magazines.

so i just had to copy it, here is my version

A lot is happening in Linda land at the moment and although craft is my therapy at times like these i certainly wont/don't have the time to do many posts so please forgive me if my posts are few and far between in the next month or so. I love to see what you have all been up to so i will still be looking so please be safe,be happy and have fun.
xxxx

A sewing bag

Happy Sunday

as you all know, last Friday night was our Labelcrew get together.

here is what we made, but before i show you first let me remind you that this is MY work and don't forget what MY motto is.... "near enough is good enough"..... in the sewing dept any way. So please excuse the pockets that are meant to have rounded flaps and how everything is not exactly in a straight line and the other mistakes.

here's another closer look

and an even closer look i covered the button with my I Top tool

looks OK so far, well here's the dodgy inside

OK, i love it, if it was perfect it wouldn't feel like i made it. I love the colours, the fabric is called Pure by Sweetwater. Now all i have to do is pack it with my sewing supplies ready for our next Labelcrew night.

TTFN
me
xx

Papertray Ink (PTI) Love

Hi there
last week my May PTI order arrived, and oh what fun i have had with theses stamps and dies.
I went to their gallery to get some inspiration and there was one card that I had to make so here it is all totally lifted from their gallery.

I liked this card so much that i had to make another

which i have sent to my dear friend Jenni whose birthday it was yesterday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN.
and of course i had to use my scraps so i made this gift tag

Aren't the doily's cute they too are from PTI, a die that i am using over and over again.

Tomorrow night "the three of us" are getting together to make our next Labelcrew kit, so here is my fabric all cut out and i am ready to go

I cant wait for tomorrow night it seems like ages since we have caught up, and what are we making you may ask-well I'm not telling i will show you on Saturday.

Easter Pails

It seems like ages ago but it was only last Friday that 'the three of us' caught up for our monthly Sweetwater sewing night.
This is what we made with our label kit

Some oh so cute Easter pails/buckets

this is a close up of some of the labels we received
and here is a close up of one all on its own.

again all three of us went for different colours and i must say that unusually for me mine was the brightest could be the fact that the only canvas i could get was bright pink or red and red doesn't go real well the sunkissed fabric line.
Here's the link for Susan's blog and
Here's the link for Traceys blog
The link to Sweetwater if you want to have a look at their blog and wonderful fabrics/labels is in my blog list.
PS the buckets are bigger than i thought, i bought 35 eggs thinking that i would fill all three, and i can stuff all 35 into the 1 pail, that's probably why the one pictured in the photo looks a little wonky. Might need to find a big bunny to go in there and just a few eggs.
Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your weekend.
xxxxx
Linda

In The Summer Time

Last Saturday the weather was buuutiiiiiiiful, not to hot or humid and the sun was shining. So Andrew and i decided to go out to lunch. When the weather is this perfect we usually head down to the Iron Bark Brewery which is in the Swan Valley (5mins from our front door) and we  share this yummy platter. What could be more perfect. (and now that i have the new bute I phone 4 i took some snaps and boy did they come out great)
so here is our lunch-such a shame you all couldn't come and join us especially my bloggy friends in the US, you could spend all day here amongst the grapevines  listening to some great music, eating and drinking.

a very quick lay out made with Echo Park everything.

I have made my second gift bag to go with last months Labelcrew only two left now.

but boy oh boy i can see a whole lot made in christmas fabric.

Now if you follow Susan's blog and Tracey's you will know that we have started on a big project that will take us through to next year, its a quilt called A Family Gathering happily referred to by us as "the Caravan Quilt" because one of the blocks has a caravan on it.

here is my first block

you should go and check out the girls blocks as our colour/fabric choices are so different and it really is amazing how the same pattern looks so different (if you know what i mean)

I am lucky to have an extra day of today so a lot of craft has already been done and my postie just delivered my Papertray Ink stamps and dies that i have been waiting, waiting for so i am of to play some more.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my ramblings once again and welcome to all of my new followers, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment it makes me feel very special.
xxxxx