We are well into the build up for Christmas here, today we welcomed a new friend into the house, his name is Prancer and you guessed it he is Olivia's Reindeer from Build-a-Bear! She has waited three long years to own a reindeer, each year one appears on her Christmas List and each year we ... Read More about The Excitement Is Building
Memory Keeping at Christmas
For about the last 4 years I have attempted (some years more successfully than others) to take part in Journal your Christmas with Shimelle. The concept is one that makes me warm and gooey about holding on to the anticipation and the happiness that Christmas brings. A photo and a thought each ... Read More about Memory Keeping at Christmas
Christmas Crafting Underway
Where does the time go? The Christmas trees are up at the shopping centres and the Christmas tunes are playing on a loop, and it's certainly not too early to get your Christmas Crafting on...........! I have the awesome Stampin' Up! Autumn/Winter catalogue on my crafting desk and with so many great ... Read More about Christmas Crafting Underway
The Retiring List Is Here
I can hear the stampede from here as the rush starts for the retired items. All those things that may have been on the wish list and are now about to disappear, but available discounted. WARNING!!! the retired list sells fast and with Punches and Designer Series Paper at 50% off it would be rude ... Read More about The Retiring List Is Here
Crafty Dabble Day
The housing estate that I live on is pretty big and is a recently built development, we have a Face Book group with lots of members and I recently posted there and offered folk a 'Crafty Dabble'. I'm hoping to start a regular Cheswick Craft Group and thought that those unsure what that might ... Read More about Crafty Dabble Day
Loving the Butterflies
I unashamedly love butterflies always have always will. Stampin' Up! has always indulged me with stamps and matching punches, but wow these new framelits are surely the prettiest things ever in the history of butterflies........It would be impossible not to enhance any project with these ... Read More about Loving the Butterflies