"Merry Christmas"

Hi...........and a Merry Christmas to you all.

I apologise..........I've let you down........I've not been an active blogger recently, but hopefully I'm over the worse; I'm the final person in this house, to go down with a bug. Today is the first day I've even had the energy, or felt awake enough to even think of crafting.........(it was that bad!!)

The decorations are up...........and yes Santa did call...............I'm so glad he's into crafting, because I got some lovely new 'toys' to play with!!

Earlier in the month, I had a Christmas Appreciation Day for my 'Monday Mob', we of course did crafting, played games and ate lots of naughty goodies!! I made each of them a little gift (glittered bauble) and wrapped it up in an ornamental box

Thank you ladies for joining me, I had a fab day; the cards are gorgeous and my plant is doing well.

This is one design of the Christmas cards I made this year...........it's a tent card using the Contempo Christmas set in Old Olive and Real Red.

A bit late to show now, but hey ho, never mind.

I did make my own crackers for the table, they're very simple with a 'character' from All in the Family depicting the person it was meant for............everyone picked the right one......so at least there were no unfortunate surprises in the crackers!!

This was Grandad.......LOL!!

My sons commencing the mayhem........you can tell that, cause there's

a clean carpet!!
Just, in case you're wondering..................

........my eldest was wearing his turkey hat.......it comes out every year.........and now I've embarrassed him again........LOL!!

Hope you've all had a great, relaxing, fun family day.

I will try to be good and blog later in the week, but I'm beginning to flag a little

Jane x

Consider it Cased!

Hi All,

Last Tuesday I attended a class at Jenny Moors.......let me tell you.......she is one talented lady and I'm so lucky to be a member of her team. This is the box we made........it's really quick and easy to make. (If you'd like the instructions to make one, just click here, and you'll be able to see some of her other amazing projects as well).

I'm a little bit behind with Christmas preparations.............can you believe it, I haven't even made my own Christmas cards yet!! But these boxes are just so adorable...........I just couldn't concentrate on card designs; until I'd made some more. What do you think? Cute or what?

I don't think I'll ever get tired of Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive.

The paper is 'Jolly Holiday' and the tags from the 'Delightful Decorations' stamp set.

These will definitely help with my packaging problems.

Happy Crafting

Jane x

Snow........Glorious Snow!!

Hi All,

I think we must be the last place in the country to get snow.........my boys were so excited, especially when when their dreams came true........and there was no school!!
Don't you find it amazing how different everything looks, when covered in white?

Out ancient fruit trees were were bearing the weight well, thank goodness.

I rushed out first thing to take photos before my boys and their mates could spoilt the royal icing look and turned it into the rough style that decorates my Christmas cake each year....LOL!
This is the view down our road..........it was quite eerily quiet.

Mad I know; but I even went out the back gate, so not to spoilt the snow in the front garden; there was only the fox 's footprints.

The back garden............

neat and pristine.........

before.................

.......the fun began..........and I inherited half the neighbourhood!!

My husband was of course the biggest kid out there!

A large snowman was built in the front garden..........but his head........was used as a large snowball and ended up are somewhere down the street..........hope no neighbours were buried....LOL!!

My youngest felt with all this snow about we really should have a snowman to show for it.........

I admit; I did a double take and burst out laughing when I saw his creation.........their snowballs were bigger than him.......LOL!!

Me, I stayed indoors.........provided the hot chocolate, food and repeatedly dried clothes. When everything is repeated tomorrow (schools closed again), I'm going to try and enjoy the log fire and do a little bit more crafting than I did today!!

Keep warm, happy crafting

Jane x