Clearing my desk....

 

I am trying to clear up my desk  from last year and use everything thats on it!  This lovely LOTV image is another image Anneke sent me...

Everything on my card is from my bit box that sits on my dest except the buttons..

I have decided that in the month of January I am NOT buying any crafty bits, I suppose like lots of you I have cupboards and drawers full of 'stuff' not used so although I haven't made any New Year resolutions I am determined to use what I have, I know its very tempting when you see new things especialaly dies  but theres also another part of me that says 'when do you stop'.... I've been crafting for 20 years now and there must be things lurking in the backs of drawers and cupboards that haven't seen the light of day for years. I know my friend Val is reading this smiling and say 'yeah right'..lOl..lOl..

We have started sorting our house out getting rid of things that we dont use or want any more.. we've done the loft, and two bedrooms so far....I'm  dreading doing my craft room but it just needs to be done but I'm afraid its going to take several months!!...

Enjoy the rest of the weekend...

Anne

Happy New Year

 

 Wishing you all A very Happy New Year

Anne

Christmas cards ready for 2016.....

 Hope you all had a lovely Christmas..

 I have now used all the beautiful sepia images that Anneke sent me and thought you might like to see them before I put them away for next Christmas.

I've tried to used die cuts and papers from my bit box on these cards but I did purchase Joanna Sheen's Wisteria die which I have used but not as the flower itself but as leaves etc...

 The little wooden embellishment is also one that was in my packet of goodies from Anneke...this round die cut just fitted nicely in this Marianne die cut..

 

For my last card again I've used a Marianne die cuts to mount the little Christmas scene, the poinsettia and leaves were also in my 'bit' box...  

Many of us have been experiencing loss of followers and this is the reason why so please read
...

Have you lost a few followers?

In a nutshell, Blogger have (as we suspected) been tinkering with the Followers service.

Quote from a post on 'The Real Blogger Status' dated Monday December 21st:

During the past weekend, Blogger started the process of simplifying Following. This involves removing non Google accounts and profiles from Following.

As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.

This is the link to the blog, explaining in more detail
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2015/12/blogger-followers-google-friend-connect.html

Hope this enlightens those of you who've been wondering!

Anne 

A Very Happy Christmas to you all......

 This will be my last post before Christmas.....I've been busy making more cards with the lovely sepia images from Anneke....

 

 I would like to thank you all for taking the time to visit my blog over the past year and for all your lovely comments....

Wishing you all A Very Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year to you all...

Anne  

Winter wonderland....

 When I opened my Christmas card from my  lovely blogging friend Anneke from Cards, Vintage and More I had a lovely surprise as Anneke had enclosed some lovely crafty images and embellishments and included were some beautiful sepia Christmas images,  I just couldn't wait to have a play....this is my first card.
I just added a little bit of glitter to the snow scene  and my topper was complete.  Printed backing paper from my stash but  can't tell you where it was from as it was an odd bit and I just added the little Sue Wilson Snowflake and also Spellbinders small poinsettia die,  leaves from my bit box...
Thank you Ann so much for my gifts...I hope to make some more cards before I put all my Chritmas bits and bobs away...

Anne

Nearly done....

 

I've been so behind this year with Christmas cards but I think I have now just about finished....sorry for not posting more cards  on my blog but I have had the lurgy this week and haven't felt like doing anything but just wanted to get my cards ready for posting which I will do tomorrow. 

 Just love this Penny Black stamp called Xmas Kiss there are certain Penny Black stamps that I wouldn't part with and this is one of them...the trailing Ivy is from Sue Wilson and the Merry Christmas is Poppystamps die...Martha Stewart Holly punch in the corner.

Off to see our youngest granddaughter singing in church tonight...

Have a great weekend..

Anne

 

A special cake.....and birthday

 

We've been away last week celebrating my special birthday.....the lady who was going to make my cake had to pull out at the last minute so our lovely grandson Charlie who is 14 offered to make my cake instead.....Charlie knows how much I love chocolate and this is what he made for me isn't it fabulous?    I can tell you it tasted sooooo good...inside was layers of chocolate buttercream it was so yummy....His hero is Mary Berry....bless him...    Charlie I love you.....thank you so much for making my special my cake...Its a shame the photograph isn't better but wanted to share this photograph with you all....

 

Anne