Christmas Message Frames

Hi,

I thought we were going to have a lovely sunny day...... they got that wrong today, its looks like rain any minute. Oh well its Sunday and I am having a well earned rest. Tomorrow is not going to be a good day and the trip to the hospital.

Today I bring you my Christmas message frames. I was asked if I could make a Christmas message frame with "wishing you a Happy Christmas" in it.

These are made from plastic canvas and cut into the shape of a snowman. I put the nose in orange and a black beads for the eyes. I cut a panel out to put the message inside it, I managed to put "Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year". I have made them so they could hang from a Christmas tree.

I do a range of message frames which I have put on my blog last march. Since then I did a good luck design and now there is a couple of new designs which are being made at the moment and when they are finished I will bring you them on a another day.

I hope you have enjoyed view my latest creations and hope to see you again soon in the meantime I hope you are keeping well and look forward to seeing you again in blog land.

Hugs

Margaret

Ginny's Christmas Challenge - D and a few images of Autumn

Hi,
At moment its pouring with rain, windy and not a very nice day, although its still mild. Monday I go and have my scan I am not looking forward to it and over the last week the pain has been very bad, hopefully this will be the last one and they will finally do something.
Today I am bring you is yesterdays Ginny's challenge - D so D for Dress. My card I place the image on starry silver miri card and red mat, I coloured it in with pro makers and the stars on the dress I did with silver pro markers. finished off with narrow red ribbon and silver peel offs. Today's its "E" but I cant think of anything for a Christmas E, so I am missing out E.

On the last two posts I have been talking about the beautiful autumn colours on my way to and from work. This autumn the colours have been really special and I have not seen such lovely colours for years. So yesterday I stopped at various places and took some pictures of the lanes, I drive every day into Frome, Somerset. These pictures are in and around Mells. Every time I stopped cars seem to come from every direction just my luck but I waited a few seconds and hopefully got the best pictures I could.

I hope enjoyed visiting my blog and I look forward to seeing you back in blog land soon. In the meantime take care.

Hugs

Margaret

Ginny's Christmas Challenge A and B

Hi,

Today is another nice day, although we did have some rain during the night. The leaves are beginning to drop from the trees but the colours are so lovely this year, rich yellows and oranges, tinged with rust. Its still mild and very unusual for November, I hope this keeps going for as long as possible, I hate the winter.

We had a visit from the Grandchildren and our Great Grand Daughter on Sunday night for trick and treat, lovely to see them all dressed up.

Today I am bring you the first two challenge cards for Ginny's Christmas challenge she is doing on the do crafts site.

A is for Angel see photo at the beginning of this post, this image was sent to me by a do crafts member last year unfortunately I can't remember who, but is it a lovely image. I placed it on green card, matted the image on silver card, and finished off with silver ribbon.

B is for Bauble, for this card I used purple card, and a silver edged ribbon, and them placed three baubles down the side of the card with silver peel offs finishing the card off. These baubles were from a free gift from a Craft magazine last month.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my piece today and I look forward to seeing you again in blog land soon, In the meantime please take care

Hugs Margaret

Local TV programme and my encounter with a hawk

Hi,

Happy Halloween.

We are having a lovely autumn here in Somerset, the trees are looking beautiful dressed in yellows and oranges laced with browns. My drive to and from work is a joy with the country lanes looking so colourful.

Today I thought I would tell you about a TV programme on BBC this Tuesday 2nd November at 9pm, It is about some shop keepers going back to the Victorian time. It was filmed in Shepton Mallet, in Somerset. Shepton Mallet is about 6 miles away from us. I am sorry the picture is not very good I took it off the BBC site. It shows the high street in Victorian times, we saw them filming a few months ago.

I went to the wool shop yesterday in Shepton to buy some wool for my Christmas cupcakes which I have started knitting. Their in the window was a question left by the BBC, on the board it showed a packet of sewing pins "What else did they use pins for apart from sewing and pricking". To be honest I cant think, I know pins are also used in lace making so I suspect they would say that was pricking but I have no idea what else they would use them for. When I find out the answer I will post it on here for you.

I also want to tell you about my encounter with a hawk on my way home on Firday. I turned to go over the bridge towards Vobster and their in the road was a brown lump, it at first glance looked like a pile of leaves but as I drove nearer, I slowed up and stopped as it moved, the head popped up, he well it might have been a she, looked at me, pick up whatever it was eating and flew off. It was a wonderful sight as it flew over the wall and into some trees.

For those you have asked how I am getting on, at last I have a date for the scan with radio active dye this will be on the 8th November. I hope this will be the last one before they decide what they are going to do. I am having a very bad weekend with pain, and very little sleep, at 3am this morning I could not sleep so I got up and wrote down the tatting design pattern that was on my mind. Now all I have to do is to tat it and see if it works out as well as it does on paper. I have been asked to make three pairs of earrings for my sister in law (Sheila). I hope she will like my night design. I will put it on my blog when I have done it for you to see.

I hope you are keeping well, I hope you have enjoy reading my blog.

Thanks you for visiting my blog and until the next time you are passing by take care.

Hugs Margaret

Commissioned Cards

Hi,
Just a quick post tonight, these are some commissioned cards which I was asked to make.
The motor bike card image came from and its proved to be a popular image for a man.

These two cards are similar and also another design that I have been asked to make several times, the butterfly is pulled across the image, I used on both a peel off butterfly place on card and cut around and put on the mechanism.

I hope you have enjoyed visiting my blog and look forward to seeing you again in blog land. I have been considering starting another blog for my writings. I have written a couple of novels and a few short stories but have been unable to find an agent or publisher. This would be one way of showing my work, so watch this space its only an idea at the moment and possibly won't happen until after Christmas now.

In the meantime until you pass by again take care

Hugs Margaret

Tatted Angles

Hi,

What a lovely morning here in Somerset, the sun is shinning and the washing is out drying, a bit cold but what do we expect for October.

Today I am bring you the tatted angels I found on the Internet, the pattern is lovely and is Katie's Johnson's 3 Dimensional Angel, (http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2001/katieangel.html) if you want to look up the pattern.

I did make a few changes though, the original pattern had the skirt glued to the body, and after a few hours of thought and play around I added two picots at the bottom of the body where there is 9 dc's. I placed a picot each side of the 9 dc's and then attached the skirt on the first row so ring A and B where on one side of the body and C and D and the other side making a circle. Sounds difficult but after a couple although fiddly its easy. They do stand up although I did put some starch on them. at the top of the angle I made a picot and used that as a hook for some thread so they could hang. I hope that sounds clear.

For those of you who are not into tatting I am sorry that is sounds technical but for those who can tat they will understand the pattern.

I hope you like the angels and look forward to seeing you pass this way again soon. In the meantime take care.

Hugs

Margaret.

Holiday Tatting

Hi,

Winter is now fast approaching, and we had our first frosts this week, although today has been a bit milder.

Tomorrow I am in Cheese and Grain in Frome with my craft table, this will have my first Christmas items on including Christmas cards, which I will bring you on my next blog, as well as some commissioned cards.

Today I am bring you pictures of the tatting I did on holiday.The large cross is from a book which I brought in the 1970's by Mary Koniors. A very easy pattern which I enjoyed doing.

These are some tatted stars, these patterns came from Burda's Anna magazine, they used to publish in English and I have every copy from around 1972/3 until a few years ago when they stopped publishing the English copy. It is a German magazine which is still published in German, the patterns are worked from graphs and not written. The cleaner we had at the Apartments used to have a look at my tatting most days and I gave her one of my stars as a present.

I am still waiting for my scan at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. This scan is going to take quite a while as they are going to give me an injection of radio active dye and they will scan as it goes into the liver, bile ducts and then into the gall bladder. I am not looking forward to it but if they are to prove the theory of my pain I will go through anything to get rid of the pain.

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog and I look forward to seeing you again in blog land soon
In the meantime I hope you are keeping well, until the next time you pass by take care.

Hugs

Margaret.