Make it on Monday review of 2025.

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

I am here today to show you a few more projects from last year:

Everybody's favourite the Fly Agaric.

And there little friend the snail, loved making him.

And this little fungi has been grabbed by a field mouse.

The hare is one of the earlier (very early) felted pieces I made.

These were interesting to make and are called

 'King Alfred's Cakes'

I decided it would be nice to have a baby Fly Agaric to finish off the group. It's interesting how these develop, hope I've shown you this here.

It's thanks to Sophie Wheatley for getting me back to this great craft.

I really need to get onto something new very soon! so watch this space!

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting, any comments will be much appreciated.

Angela x

Friday Fun Day

  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 finally felt like going somewhere this week and we went to Meadow Hall in Sheffield just in time to use my voucher from Hotel Chocolat.

I am going to enjoy this.

A little lunch was the next visit at Massarella's, a lovely restaurant owned by an Italian family.

Interestingly they live close to the village where my family lived but that's another story.

I wonder if you can guess which shop has this large sewing machine in the window?

It's called AllSaints. 

A very modern and often grungy style of clothing for men and women.

Looking down from this shop to the ground floor.

My friend sent me these photos that she saw advertised.

I would have loved to see these.

Just a bit too far for a day out unfortunately.

That's about the interesting part of my week and a few funnies to finish.

That sounds like my two for sure.

All dogs take note of this in the frosty weather.

Now this looks familiar!

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 - 872 - 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 think everything is about to explode. 

This is what happens when I get loads of ideas swimming around and try and get all of them started before they disappear.

I'm going to be doing a class at the Craft group and need some samples for next month.

I've seen a card like this but without any instructions so been having a play with it to make a prep. sheet.

This is fun to make and I'm working on a few samples in different styles.

I love pop-up cards and this one is easy to make and goes flat for the envelope.

I will have an instuction sheet sorted for this soon and lots more samples then need to get back to my collage grids.

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 review of 2025.

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

I am here today to show you more of what I got up to last year:

Felting fun today.

You may have seen some of these before although I don't show them here very often even though I am felting something every week.

Occasionally something other tham Fungi.

Horse Chesnut.

Larch Bolete.

But Mushrooms are my favourite especially 3D.

Panther Cap.

This is still a bit fluffy so needs some more felting......when I get round to it Lol!

If you were around on Friday I showed you this one too.

I love doing 3D fungi but I'm working on the pictures too but what do you think?

Hope you like them.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Friday Fun Day with Some 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 which actually hasn't been much though I am feeling better but it seems to be taking time for me to get back in the mood to do stuff so I did the ironing this week, how boring is that!

My dear friends are always here to keep me busy and make me smile.

This is Alfie.

And of course Daisy is never too far away. I think she was catching a bit of sun that was shining through the window.....yes the one day this week that we actually saw any sun.

It feels like ages now since we were away skiing and my dear friend who lives in Tigne, France sent me this.

Wish I was still there but we've been watching the winter Olympics to make up for it. There are some amazing skiers.

I have been working on some felting that I started a few weeks ago, a Zellers Bolete.

I find this very relaxing and if it goes wrong you can just pull the wool out and start again though I try not to let that happen too often.

I have many half made projects and need to get back to them very soon.

So that's it really, hardly a week full of fun so I'll finish with a few funnies:

This could be me Lol!

My tail wagging is improving slowly but I'll get there.

Maybe not quite this far yet!

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 - 871- 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!

Playing with the Funky Fossil papers that I showed you last week.

When I'm not feeling my best I find that these collage grids quite relaxing, just ripping up paper and sticking it down without thinking. 

Just take three different papers and use every bit no matter how small.
I finished them off with some silver ribbon but you can be sure more will happen here soon.

I often cut them out when I need a quick card and use them as toppers with a sentiment or an image to finish them off.

I started feeling a bit more like myself this week and so spent a bit more time at the desk.

I have finished (I think) the Valentine card.....but the one who will receive it wont see it here so no worries.

I used the stamps from the Creative Stamping magazine and coloured them with Tim Holtz watercolour pencils.

The heart ballon die is one I got from Temu and the falling hearts is a die by Sizzix.

I found some other heart dies in my stash and used those to decorate the inside of the card.

I couldn't help but put Snoopy onto one of the rotating dies, bit obsessed with it at the moment but it just adds a bit more fun to a card.

The spotty papers are from my stash, I think they were Crafter's Companion.

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

Masterboard Monday review of 2025

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

I am here today to show you some projects from last year.

I like to review my projects before getting started with the New Year. 

Oh! and a little rest after Christmas. I think it's good to relax and put the Crafting on hold for a while and come back to it refreshed ...hopefully:

So here goes:

I think of these as my Masterboard Grids.

I almost forgot all of this and need to get back to it soon, I have a plan!

Details relating to this can be found here:

This is my collage journal, so much fun using up all those waste pieces of patterned paper and card.

I so love these and they make great card fronts too.

Details here:

Details here:

The best thing is to just get all those left-over bits together, rip them up and attach them to the page then some stamping and stencilling.

And it's easy to cut them up and use them on card fronts.

Details here:

More examples.

These are papers I made myself and are Gel Prints.

Details here:
I think that's enough for now, back again soon hopefully with something new.

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 a few more photographs from the ski trip.

Beautiful snowy mountains.

Just a short stop off at one of my favourite bars.

But this was the day off due to snow!

Very poor visibility today.

Time to go back to the hotel.

And a walk in the snow seemed like a better idea.

Most days however were sunny with blue skies.

We saw this group and they all appeared to be wearing foil suits, no idea who they were.

Of course not everyone goes skiing, these two were out walking the dogs.

This is my dear friend Josette who owns one of the local bars. 

Not sure what happened here but they are fixing one of the cables that works the chair lift.

That's about it for today.

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