When you come to England?

"When you come to England you must have a scone with clotted cream and strawberry Jam",( even tho' it is morning coffee time! ) so said my cousin - and here is the photo to prove that she did.

New Award

Last week I was given an award by Connie and Viv, the Wylde Woman award recently started by Tammy Vitale (www.tammyvitale.com/). The purpose of the award is' to send love and aknowledgement to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy' The rules are that you can give this award to one or one hundred whatever you wish. You must link to their blogs in your post and back to this blog to enable Tammy to visit. I know that we agreee that all the blogs are marvellous and it is not easy to pick one rather than another so I have chosen just one and that is Jackie of dogdaisychains

A great visit.

Have had a couple of lovely days with my cousin Sandi and she goes off to our Aunt's in Yorkshire tomorrow, tonight i found out that back in january she had started a blog then thought nobody would look at it so never bothered any more, after an extensive lecture from me re blogging and blogland she has started it up again altho it will be silent for the next couple or so weeks while she is travelling and trading. ( see my links re sanderella.).We did have a small workshop tonight on soldering, have posted my first and only piece -it's not that easy , I didn't know you needed to use flux and also solder on top of copper or brass tape so it's a good job she was here, not a bad attempt but as you have to wash the flux off how do you stop the water going into the picture between the slides - anyone know the answer?

Today

Today I find I have been given the Wylde Women award by both Connie and Viv, thank you so much ladies, I will put it onto my blog as soon as possible, when my cousin has left us. I may not be around much over the weekend unless she also decides to visit you altho' I'm hoping for some instruction in soldering. Have had a fairly lazy afternoon sitting in the sun but then I started reading Somerset Sew - a fantastic Magazine, I found something I really had to make and that was it , back into the craft room until it was all finished - that also is something that must wait to go onto this blog. Jackie asked in Comments - do I ever rest - yes of course i do but when you have to make something you have to make it!!! The ATC pictured is for the Friendship themed ATC lottery in the New Inspirations group I belong to.

Water

The MAMMA maggiesmondaymusings atc swap theme this week is water so have used my favourite sizzix dye to cut out a seahorse from felted wool tops, it is on a background of fibres that have been embellished then zapped with a heat gun and this hopefully gives a waterworld effect.

Good Intentions

How come I go into my craft room intending to make the next set of pages for the book I'm making with Jan and Wendy but end up making a note book?? strange but true, I also made one at the weekend so one can go to my cousin, as she'll spend much of her time picking my crafting brain and going thro' my books and magazines at the same time making copious notes, and the other may go as a little raffle prize for the Do Crafts meet that is coming up next month.Perhaps the pages will get started tomorrow! The covers are much the same and the lovely main image I got from the Flickr collage site that has copyright free images that can be used in our artwork, I think it will be used on a few things.

'Wild Weekend'

As the pic shows I've been making some 'Wild Women', quite a calming change from the last few weeks of course work, so am doing a little of everything at the moment and enjoying it. The bases of the W W are wool topps hand embellished onto felt then decorated with stitching, sequins and charms, a pin has been fixed to the back so they can be worn as brooches - they look good on a chunky cardigan.