Lantern Window. . . . . . . .

Good morning all. Hope you are all ticketyboo.

Its been a busy old week with helping John, hospital appointment, dentist, more samples for John and I did manage to squeeze in a lunch with a friend.

Tomorrow is another Coventry workshop with John (if any one fancies coming along, please let me know) and then Sunday, I shall put my feet up and watch the Singapore GP...............and John on Hochanda, of course lol!!!

Its handy having a smart TV now as when Hochanda disappears off Freeview at 7pm, the TV automatically connects to the internet and I can carry on watching rather than having to use the laptop or tablet and the buffering. If only it would do the vacuuming and washing, it would be very smart.

Jayne, glad to hear the knee op is out of the way. Hope that the recovery is swift and with minimal pain.

Stephanie, hope that the hurricanes have not caused any problems for you or your family.

Now, back to the card. When I was playing with John's Small Lantern (that is not a euphemism for anything lol!!!) I thought it looked a little like a bay window......my head works in mysterious ways. I decided on a Christmas theme.

Ingredients

White, platinum, red and green card

JND Small Lantern dies

Daisy's Jewels and Crafts Brick Wall stencil

Bling on a string from my website

"Snow" 

Its definitely a hand over in person card for those who don't want the extra postage cost.

First sight of condensation in the windows yesterday morning so I guess chilly times are on their way. I can get a touch of Raynauds in Summer if I'm ferreting in the freezer so I guess its time to dig out the woolly socks and mittens

Now as mittens rhymes with kittens (a tenuous link) its time to wish Lily and Molly "Happy Birthday" today as they celebrate their first birthday...........hip hip hooray!!!

So in their honour, some kitty pics to sign off with.

                                                          Love you Girlies.

Have a great weekend all.

TTFN

Ang x

When is a Lantern not a Lantern?. . . . . . . .

When its a box!!!

Good morning everyone. Hope you are well.

I must apologise for the photo quality of today's snaps. I have no idea why they look grainy. I did clean the mirror on the inside of my camera so whether that has caused the issue, who knows.

This post should have been on yesterday but I couldn't get the photos to upload.......perhaps that was the laptops way of telling me that the photos were naff lol!!!

Thank you for all of the lovely positive messages about my samples on John's shows. Very kind of you all.

Now, I did flash this one on Facebook, partially completed as John had asked me to pop it on so that was snapped with my phone.

This is the finished version that was shown on TV.

The small lantern was cut 3 times to make the box tall enough to accommodate the can of cocktail.

Ingredients

Cream, pink, plum and purple card

JND Small Lantern dies

JND Ivy die (from The Holly and Ivy set)

JND Mini Star Flowers 

Crafts Too 1mm stamens

Gold ribbon

Spectrum Noir pens

2mm pearls

Square pearl embellishment on a roll

Diamante and pearl brooch embellishment (to be on the website shortly)

I think that these must be the smallest fuchsias in the world as they are made with John's Mini Star Flower die. As the stamens are 1mm, you can gauge how tiny they are.

I will be putting several diamante and pearl brooch embellishments on the website. I think that they make fantastic embellishments and also, a nice gift for when the card comes off the mantlepiece.

Well, didn't he do well (as dear Brucie would say)? More sell outs again.

That's me for now. Have got a new TV which is a smart TV (certainly smarter than me) and need to sort out my internet bookmarks to save keep typing everything in.

Hope you enjoyed the shows and thank you again for your kind comments.

TTFN

Ang x