One Week on

I cannot believe that this time last week we were on en-route to Penzance. It's been a whirlwind week at home here on the Isles of Scilly and at work. Ian is doing a good job as a house-husband and is already known in the supermarket and hardware store!! 

Our house for three months:

From my office window I can see the beach and the boats coming in and out of the harbour. We live about 5 minutes from the office. I am loving walking to all appointments. Ian worked out I had walked about 8 miles last week.  

On Friday night, we had coffee on the beach and were lucky enough to see seals just off shore. The sunsets are gorgeous and Ian is in his element with his camera. This morning, after church, we cooked breakfast and then took it to the beach to eat. How lucky are we?

Off to work on my first day:

There has been a mass exodus of residents from the island as the school has broken up for two weeks.  Tomorrow, the ferry will bring over 300 people over from Penzance for the final weeks of the tourist season here.  It's strange seeing shops, cafes etc winding down for the winter.

Friday night after work, drinking coffee watching the seals:

Breakfast on the beach:

Tim is enjoying being at home and it was good to talk with him yesterday.

Have a lovely week.

Lots of love,

Bev x

Valentines Day 25 years on

I am still in shock that it is 25 years since I sent Ian a Valentines Day card. Due to the post he did not receive it until 15.02.1989. It took a further 8 weeks to get the message that I thought he was gorgeous!!!!

I wanted to make some a bit special and something different.

I took a  7 x 5 card blank and inked and embossed hearts around the edges as I did not want any white to show. I sprayed water onto brown paper and scrunched it. The background of the tag is made by using Sir Tim's distress stains and his fab new heart stencil. It is lush. The hearts were also heat embossed to give them a bit of a shine. Once the paper was dry I faffed around with distress inks and 'stuff'.  I painted a black mdf heart and embossed with black utee. The ribbon was coloured with distress ink. The 25 was a bingo number coloured with ink.

The card was put together using my famous heat gun.

Ian thought the card was 'pretty darn good'!!!!

 

Lots of love Bev xx

and another...

canvas creation. I used heart stencil, textured paste, rub ons and a utee flower.  This time I had no accidents with the melt pot which is more than can be said for when I used the glue gun. The moral of the tale is - never sneeze when holding a glue gun as it makes your nose very, very sore and you get no sympathy!!!!

 

 

Lots of love Bev xx

More creations

What happened to January, it seems a bit of a blur.  I am  enjoying faffing in my craft room and today I managed to use my melt pot and glue gun without incident!! Although at the weekend I did try and change the carpet with red paint!! A small amount goes a very long way!!! My gorgeous man helped me clean up the mess and I promised not to moan about him for a month!!! Its hard!!!!

I have done a couple of canvas's for raffle prizes. The first one is a technique I learnt on a workshop, tissue paper, paint and then gold paint. I used my melt pot for the hears and the rest is courtesy of kellogs, other cereals are available!!! The second one is paint, textured paste and rub ons.

I guess I am like most crafters as I am not certain whether they are any good!! What are we like.

The second canvas will not load on this post. Any ideas as to why??

Lots of love

Bev xx

Christmas craft 2

I have ner really got 'tags' as never know what to do with them. However, I made this one to go on a canvas. The background was left over ink on my glass mat. I have been recently using my melt pot thanks to the inspiration from the fab Hels Sheridan. If you get a chance her blog is just fab. Whilst tiding my craft room, I didn't have a space to sit!! I found some grunge paper so made the poinsettia using Tim Holtz die. To finish off I scraped some coloured textured paste through a stencil.

I am now going to enjoy the peace of Ian sleeping!!!

Bev xx

The Ashes Continued

Having watched the 1st and 2nd test through the night we vowed not to do it again as we couldn't keep up the pace!! Famous last words! For the first 3 days we tended to wake about 6 and watch until the end. On day four we decided to set the alarm for 4am thinking it would be all over by the end of play. How wrong we were. In a moment of madness, due mainly to the effect of red wine, we got up at 2.30am! We went back to bed for half an hour during the lunch break!! It was great fun and at one point we did think England might just win.

It was a crazy, daft thing to do and it has taken us a couple of days to recover!! Dear Tim uttered the immortal words:

'Why?'

Will we do it again for the 4th and 5th test - probably!!

Bev x

Christmas Craft

My first attempt at a Christmas house decorations. I got carried away and forgot to take pictures as I went along.

First attempt

 I added two coats of gesso, pale blue and  followed by snowtex and glitter.
The Christmas tree came from a poundshop. It had to be cropped and chopped to fit in!! The baubles and bells were originally gold. I used silver alcohol ink to jazz them up a bit. All the other bits and pieces were made using my bigshot and various paints.  The lights nearly learnt to fly as they were fiddly to use!!

 

2nd attempt originally a black and gold house, not certain what I was going to use it for. I again used gesso, paint, glitter and alcohol inks. I was a bit more adventurous with my big shot cutting out more bits and pieces. 

 

They were fun to do.   Bev xxx