Autumn has arrived

 Hi,

On Monday we went to the Royal United hospital in Bath, waiting for the bus that never came,  I took these beautiful pictures of the trees in the Park and ride odd down Bath.   

It was a grey misty day,  quite cold,  we got even colder waiting 40 minutes in a drafty bus shelter,  that really was as uncomfortable as could possibly be.  Looking at this wonderful display of autumn colours,  silent,  golden even without the sun,  sums up autumn in one word,  golden.  

I’m not an autumn person,  I prefer spring,  but when autumn shows us the gold,  reds, bronze and sun kissed colours,  then it a lovely sight.  Of course no doubt soon the rain and the wind will return and this colour will be lost for another year.  Let’s just enjoy the mellow weather and look at the wonderful range of autumn colours while we still have it unspoilt 

Hope you have a lovely day where ever you are in the world

Margaret.

CD Sunday challenge - anything goes #169

 Hi,  

At the time of writing this post the weather today is beautiful,  really lovely sunny day,  here in Somerset, so by the time this is published it could be anything but lovely day.  The host this fortnight is Pamela

For this fortnights challenge,  my card is a free download from Craftsuprint.  I used the whole kit only adding a red hand made bow to one side.  I decoupaged the Robin and poinsettia flowers at the top of the card.  

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page the challenge and do not have a blog,    

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

Margaret

Happy World Card Making Day

 Hi,

Happy world card making day,  I thought I would show you a card I made a couple of days ago,  not had time to do any crafting so far today,

This is from a new kit Joyful Giraffes kit by Debbi Moore,  I love these giraffes and I have some more cut out to make,  they are so cheerful.

Today the weather is bad,  high winds,  strong storm showers with a bit of sunshine in between,  during the night the wind and rain were really bad,  Scotland is getting the worse of it,  it’s been bad here I would nit want to be in Scotland,  

Have a lovely weekend and have a lovely day crafting,

Margaret 

Onion Ring Bookmarks

 

 Hi,

It’s a beautiful day here in Somerset,  I have been catching up on some jobs in the garden that I can manage at the moment,  Vernon has had a cataract op,  and is not allowed to bend, garden, hoover, lift, carry anything heavier than the kettle,  and having 7 timed drops a day,  so everything is on me,  not easy when he’s my career,

The top picture is a bookmark called Onion Ring Bookmark by Robin Perfetti,  I love Robins patterns she designs them to be so easy. I also like doing onion rings.  This one I made using Lizbeth Blue River Glades in no 40,  this was some thread I won from Wanda years ago. 

This bookmark also the same pattern I was tatting on the coach holiday we did to Austria in August,  I did also do a hanky edging but I have not sewn it on the hanky yet,  will show you when finished,  I tatted 30 inches on the coach,  plus I made a butterfly for Sue the hostess on the coach,  The gold coach has a hostess who makes tea, coffee and anything else the passengers need on the holiday,  she looked after us very well,  in fact everyone on the coach was so helpful,  not had so much help from strangers before.

I used Lizbeth Pink Parade and leaf green together,  no 20.

I have photos of Austria to show you but I am still working on that,  not easy at the moment to find the time looking after hubby.

Margaret

CD Sunday challenge - anything goes #168

 

Hi,

We had a baby due in the family,  so I used my challenge card for this fortnight’s challenge making a card for the new baby,  we are now great Aunt and great uncle to a baby girl  and her name is Matilda Ivy.    The host this fortnight is Carol,  nice to see you back Carol and you have recovered from your illness.

It’s not often that art is given to a Facebook group by one of its members to download,  this particular member Jo Kryptakitty Lovatt from Annie’s Craft Haven (world wide),  kindly gave some wonderful art work for  us to use,  this was one of the beautiful images and I felt it was just right for a baby card,  I used a piece of scorable  Hunkydory card in pale pink,  matted the image onto pink card and the pink lace border down the side I found in stash,  it was a free gift from crafts  beautiful magazine,  I have no idea idea when,  but I have not brought the magazine for many years.  I added a silver cradle and words in peel offs, and made a pink ribbon bow.

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page the challenge and do not have a blog,    

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

Hope you are having a lovely weekend

Margaret 

Austria cakes and ice cream

Hi,

We went to Austria in August by coach,  Vernon is fed up with flying and all the hassle so we thought we would try a coach holiday,  it was wonderful.

The one thing Austria is known for is its cakes and my diet went straight out of the window,  did I care no I’m on holiday,  but they were nice and the little restaurant a few yards from the hotel had the best ice cream and cakes.   

Now I am going to make your mouth water.

This was to die for, honestly it was out of this world,   The strawberries were delicious 

The display of cakes at towards the end of the day 

Ice cream this was delicious 

This is Apple strudel that vernon had with ice cream and my Apple strudel   

                                             With cream in Salzburg 

      

We had some different food on holiday,  did not really heal my ulcer, but who cared it’s was a really lovely holiday,  I wish I had taken more food pictures,

Margaret 

2024 TTAL - temperature tat along part 17. Finished

 Hi,  

At last it’s finished,  I finished tatting the edging just before we went holiday in August,  it then lay on the coffee table before I washed it, blocked it and now here it is finished,  it’s been a labour of love not,  I got so fed up with it,  and with other things that needed doing plus being ill for seven months,  the edging  just dragged on and on,  I did two rows of edging,  now looking at it I think I should have made it a big bigger,  but don’t suggest I unpick it because it’s not happening, 

What will I do with it now,  well I really don’t know the size is 21 and half inches by 19 inches,  or  54 cms by 48 cms approx.  I brought some beads from Etsy with 2024 which I put in the middle,  I took weeks before deciding where to put them,  but they are in the centre,  the edging is the two blue squares in the middle. Thus adding the blues bringing them into the cloth more .  There are beads for everything we did in 2024,  including birthday, anniversary, holidays and of course Christmas  and Easter.   Will I ever do another one,  it’s not on the cards,  perhaps in years to come I just might, but I have no plans to do it again.

Have a lovely weekend

Margaret