Crafting Day

My sister in law Marily stayed last week and we made each other 'Challenge Bags' to make atcs!!!! It is amazing the ideas we came up with. These are some of my efforts!!!!

Busy Week!!

What a busy week!!! My sister in law, Marilyn, has been to stay. We spent Monday crafting, Tuesday we visited Rufford Old Hall and Southport, Wednesday was Martin Mere then on Thursday Ormskirk Market. Today we took Marilyn home via Botany May.

I took some beautiful photos at Martin Mere - sharing a few here!!!

I will post some of the atcs we made on our crafting day later - we made each other 'challenge bags' - fun!!!

Gardening

Been busy today. Morning spent on housework - ugg! After lunch spent a long time in the garden - with being away last week the weeds had grown. It is lookiing beautiful with new things coming into bloom every day. The vegetables are doing well - we ate our own radish yesterday and today I planted the courgettes. Shallots, garlic, lettuce and rocket all growing well.
Evening was spent on making hydrangea atcs for UKATC. I've made six! Now to choose which ones to send to Hope.

Ireland

On Saturday we returned from a week in Ireland at a beautiful thatched cottage above Portally Cove on the south coast near Dunmore East. Jenny and Steve gave us the holiday for out 60th birthdays - WOW!!! They came as well and the four of us had a lovely quiet week spent mostly down at the cove where we 'bodged' for sea glass and Steve swam and explored caves.

It was a steep walk down to the cove and even steeper up on the other side to walk along the cliff top to Dunmore East - got used to doing it though!!!

ATCs

Above are copper atcs for UKATC - backgrounds from the internet. The first atc has punched copper coloured daisies and sewn on copper beads, the second has strips of Cuttlebugged copper metallic paper with copper ebads sewn on to compliment the background. In the third atc I used a Martha Stewart punch to decorate strips of copper metallic papaer - I also added beads and some copper peel off strip.

To the left are my Paris atcs - again thanks to the internet and some stamps I had of France. I found these hard to do but am quite pleased with the results!

These are my foxglove atcs for the Flower of the Month exchange on UKATC. I enjoyed making these - they are based on images from the internet as I had no foxglove images in my crafting stash!!