Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

  Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week, well last week actually.

Some of you will recognise these places.

A bit further and we'll be at Maccelesfield.

This was the view from the hotel window, had we been staying for longer I would have liked to sit out there.

The following day we all got together to meet up with old friends that used to work together, mostly teachers.

It was great to see them all again.

This week has actually been spring cleaning which I am sure you don't want to see.

However, I have been in the garden too and the Bluebells are looking so pretty.

Pink ones here.

Blue and white.

Beautiful Lilac bushes.

They have done particularly well this year.

The tulips are coming to an end but they still look pretty.

We're down the bottom of the garden here where I keep the Bonsai which are waking up right now.

This is not a view I show you very often and yes we have a large garden. 

Our house is the one behind the tree in the distance.

We need a smile to finish I think.

And here's Alfred helping with the gardening with his favourite toy 'Little dog' and a stick.

Schnauzers are so clever.

When they are not being naughty!

Though sometimes being naughty may require some help from a companion.

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

Leave me a comment and I'll pop over to see what you've been up to this week too.

Angela x

WOYWW - 880 - What's on your Workdesk Wednesday.

   Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

The exploding boxes are filling up again. 

This was Monday and it didn't look like much would happen this week.

We've been away for a few days and I was just not in the mood for crafting.

However, I have this die set that I have been wanting to try out, it's an envelope card die.

So I started it on Tuesday, it's not finished yet but looking okay so far. 

It folds flat to go in an envelope and stands up really well too.

Dies are good, you don't need to think so much to produce something.

The papers are a mixture by Dreamees.

The stencil at the back is waiting to be used on my next journal page. Who knows I might be in the mood for that next week.

So that's me done for today.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and visit the other desks.

 I'm off now to see what everyone else is up to.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Make it on Monday.

  Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I am here today to show you a card I've made based on this journal page:

I wonder if you remember this?

The mountains, clouds and some of the trees were drawn by me and the rest was added using stamps.

I liked it so much that I decided to draw another set of mountains but smaller. This is about 5" x 7".

I used the same stamps to complete the design and then decided it was a bit bigger than I wanted it to be so used Picasa (photo editing program)to size it down.

The card blank is 5" x 7" and the design was reduced to fit it. 

I added Stickles glitter glue and mounted the picture onto two shades of blue card before adding it to the card blank and a birthday sentiment.

This is a birthday card and I know you may think it would make a good Christmas card and the design may well appear like that at some time in the future but this is a birthday card for a friend who lives in the French Alps.

I know he'll love this.

And I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

  Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week.

We've been away for part of the week and only just got back so although I have lots to show you it will be next week for it all appears but here's a clue.

We've been out on our travels to see some old friends that my hubby used to work with in a very different part of the country.

If you know anything about Lincoln where we now live you will now that we don't have hills like this as most of Lincolnshire is very flat.

Some of you may recognise the Cat and Fiddle which is well known in this country as it stands at the top of the peak District and is much loved by walkers. 

This will explain it better......

The Cat and Fiddle Inn is a former public house in the English Peak District, close to the border between Cheshire and Derbyshire. It sits on the A537 road from Macclesfield to Buxton, which runs across a high and remote area of moorland. A section of the road is known as the "Cat and Fiddle Road" after the inn. The building is some 1,689 feet (515 m) above sea level, and it was the second-highest public house in Britain before it closed in 2015 (the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire is slightly higher).^[1] In 2020, it reopened as a distillery, shop and bar.

And here we are arriving at Maccelsfield.

More to follow next week.

The dogs were pleased to see us back as they have been in Kennels for a few nights.

Daisy's examining the garden to make sure everything is as it should be.

See you again soon.

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

Leave me a comment and I'll pop over to see what you've been up to this week too.

Angela x

WOYWW - 879 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

   Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

I will do my best to visit as many as I can this morning but I will not be at home for a while so it may be later in the day or even tomorrow but I will get to you.

This was actually my desk at the weekend and if you were here on Monday you may have seen this already.

I've not really done much as regards Easter cards this year so thought I'd do something in my Ledger Journal.

The images are 'Art by Marlene' but if you want more information you can find it here which is the post below this one.

Hope you've had a nice Easter. 

For those who haven't heard, I've got my Laptop back which was fixed by a great guy locally and much cheaper than Currys wanted to do it! 

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and visit the other desks.

 I'm off now to see what everyone else is up to.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Make it on Monday.

   Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I am here today to show you a new journal page:

It's a while since I used the cloud stencils but now seemed like a good time.

The stencil is by Waffle Flower, inks are Tim Holtz Distress oxides and the images Art by Marlene.

The sentiment is by Appleblossom designs and the little birds were drawn by me!

I completed this with a little pencil shading and some Stickles Glitter glue.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Happy Easter, 

Angela x