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.

I've spent as much time as I could in the cabin this week to continue my sorting but the afternoons have been too hot so been doing some crafting in the house too.

The table look stidy here but not today!

There's still lots to do.

However it's been pond jobs this week too.

Hubby cleaning the filters.

If you keep Koi you have to keep the water in good condition.

We have two filters and this is the older one which is biological and open at the top which is why we often find visitors in there the other is a pressureised filter all closed easy to keep clean.

This is our usual visitor and very welcome as he eats some things that find there way into the filter.

I'm not sure weather this guy might be risking things a bit as frogs will eat snails and slugs.

This little guy is on guard under the filter box.

He's so cute.

Another visitor to the garden.

And finially my beautiful Hydrangers, so pretty.

Have a great weekend everyone and a cool one hopefully.

 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 -890 - 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!

Actually this was last week just to remind you and this is the finished journal page.

As usual all the details are available on the Monday post here:

Back to the cabin sorting next!

So that's me done here 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 new journal page:

I love steampunk and it seems to be getting a revival amongst crafters at the moment though it never went away here.

This project ended up as a variety of techniques.

I've used Stamperia papers today to create the images but the idea came from this die cut cog:

I cannot remember when I made it and it turned up when I started clearing out my cabin.

It was die cut then covered in kitchen foil, embossed and painted with orange, black, purple and  Magenta pink.

I've used the seedless preserve by Tim Holtz to apply a small amount of colour to the images I've used to make them work with the background colours.

So here goes for the background:

Started with some yellow Distress Oxides.

then oranges, pinks and lilac.

Gradually building the colours up.

Stencil next to add some grungy marks.

Always love this part though I generally make a mess here with small white splatters.

Remove the low tack tape:

Stamping next to add more detail to the background using black ink. 

I've left the centre slightly lighter in colour to highlight the rest of the design.

Next added some images and a sentiment from the Stamperia set. A little bit of shading and highlights, finished with some Glitter Glue and it's complete.

I so love it and hope you do too.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge#127

Try it On Tuesday - Flying High

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.

I had a surprise last week when I had a phone call from the Care Home where my mother used to be to say they had found here wedding ring.

She lost it in the Care Home in 2023 but I'm not fully clear why it has taken so long for them to realise they had it. My mother died a year after she lost the ring but at least I now have it back.

The weather has been quite nice here this week and the flowers are all enjoying the warm weather.

This rose was already here when we moved in the house so it's got to be quite old but still has the most gorgeous flowers and a beautiful sweet smell too.

The colour is amazing.

More beautiful flowers surrounding the garden.

They are doing really well.

I wonder if you know what those small things are above.

Don't worry I'll tell you when you get to the bottom of this post.

I showed you the inside of this Guest House last week and today we're walking round the garden.

The lady who ownes this has collected so many interesting things.

The garden is a lovely place to sit when the weather is nice.

And there's plenty to see.

The owner made us a lovely cup of tea with some nice biscuits.

People staying here are able to help themselves to these all day if they wish.

Round the side of the house there is even more to see.

That is one large cockerel.

The monkey is here to keep you company.

That's all for this week. 

I'm busy sorting my craft cabin and if I manage to escape I'll see you all next week.

(By the way: The small round objects on the tree are baby grapes, fingers crossed they develop into something good).

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 - 889 - 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'm still busy trying to sort stuff in my cabin and it's been a slow job but just needed to get back to my desk and I'm working on a new journal page but you will have to wait a while to see the completed page.

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 journal page which I made in 2020:

It is so long since I did something Steampunk style so looking for some inspiration and this is one of my favourite pieces.

Sometimes it's good to look back.

Fingers crossed next week it will be something new.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x