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.

The weather's been lovely this week, mostly sunny and just a little rain which we need. The evening......

have arrived with the most gorgeous clouds.

These colours are quite amazing.

Christmas card making has taken up some of my time this week but also lots of gardening.

It felt like a great garden when we moved in years ago but it is hard work to keep it looking tidy.

Last week we had a day out to Rufford Park (Ollerton, Nottingham)

We've been visiting this park since they opened it in the early 70's. We started visiting it as they used to have some brilliant art exhibitions.

There still is a sculpture garden with some interesting art work....

even art work you can sit on.

This guy has got to make you smile.

This is the memory garden.

There's always something interesting to see.

And after walking round the garden you have to stop for a coffee and a bun at the cafe.

There's lots more to see but they are for next week, don't want to wear you out.

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 - 903 - 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!

Christmas cards again this week.

Thought you might like to see how I started these.

And now they look like this .......

Just about to add some Stickles glitter glue and then they will be ready to be mounted onto the card blanks.

And 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 need to get back to making some masterboards soon but there has been a lot going on here at the moment. I've been preparing a class for my friends which we do each year making Christmas cards, lots of gardening!, pond cleaning and cabin sorting.

But what I have been doing is making more Ai photos ready for next year's calendar and as the children are now back at school this seemed like the right one to make at the moment.

How cute are those faces.

If you were wondering, this was the original photograph.

Hope you like it.

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.

Lots more gardening going on here this week and here are our Ai helpers.

If you saw Daisy and Alfie on Friday last week helping with the gardening they looked like this......

Well......here they are again but looking a bit different due to Ai

These two can garden but it usually means digging the lawn up, eating bugs, weeds and of course chasing squirrels Lol! and then getting very dirty which they love!

Gardening here is quite a job as we have a big garden.

This week has been cutting the wisteria and cleaning the pond filters.

Now that is one big wisteria and despite the dry weather it's done really well. We cut it down like this every year and it still grows back.

Another day was the turn of the filter box.

This little guy just did not want to come out!

This one is an old style filter box and is open at the top so we get lots of frogs visiting but he needs to come out until the grids are replaced.

We also have a modern filter box too but that's been cleaned earlier this week.

This was hubby who finally got him out with this old flour sieve.

He's back in again now the grids are replaced.

The frogs are so funny because even when you get them out they will find a way to jump back in.

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 - 902 - 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!

To be honest it's desk is no different from last week but.......

I did finish the felted slug that we made at the felting group last week.

Other than that my time has been spent gardening and Daisy and Alfie have been helping..... and if you believe that you will believe anything Lol!

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 something a bit different than you normally see here on a Monday. 

I'm working on images for next years Calendar and have another Schnauzer Ai photograph.

Some of you may have seen some of these before if you visit my facebook page.

The weather has changed too and we're all going out with our umbrellas and raincoats and the dogs are set up and ready for the weather too.

And if the rain stops we'll be off for a little shopping trip too.

Hope that made you smile a little.

Other than that I'm busy working on Christmas card designs but you'll get to see some of these soon. 

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x