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.

Happy days in the garden.

Always a great time of the year when the fish are active and the pond is full of life.

A nice surprise arrived on the doorstep.

 Full of goodies from decoart.

How much fun I am going to have with these.

They are a prize that I won on-line.

It's a great collection.

I have to say they are very generous.

I know that some of you liked my little MG pebble

and this is where the idea came from.

Meet the real Mustard.

 This is her 40th year with us.
She is beautiful to drive but there is no power steering so I have good muscle tone in my arms Lol!
It could have been changed but we've tried to keep her as close as possible to the original spec.

Of course I can't leave you without a little walk round the garden.

The wisteria is flowering again.

The Hydrangea are looking good.

And the beautiful roses.

  I like these but  not sure what they are called.

Apples doing well.

Looks like we will have pears this year now I've netted them.

 Found a few damsons too.

In the park the cygnets are getting bigger everyday though rather ugly at this stage.

Look closely, what does this remind you off?
I'll tell you what I think next week.

 So that's how they do it!

Back again soon.

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

And if you would like some more smiles you just need to pop over to see what our other friends have been doing this week at Annie's for

"This Week's Smiles" and you can also share your  smiles too.

Angela x

WOYWW -579 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk. 
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Everything's back to normal, desk is a mess!

New stuff from Hobbycraft and a salad spinner, what fun I'll have with that! 

I think everything else is more or less the same as last week. There is a box of labels that I'm going to use on the storage in the cabin.

And if that'a not enough this arrived.

Full of gorgeous stuff from DecoArt. Can't wait to have a play with those.

And as many of you were admiring my MG rock last week: 

here is the real Mustard.

Naming the car I think is something that collectors tend to do as we don't normally call our cars anything unless it's a swear word because they've broken down!

So that's me done for today.

 Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and join in the visits around 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.

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

I am here to show you a card made with this Masterboard.

Not what I would normally think of as a Masterboard but several sheets of card that have been brayered with paint so they are the basis of what I will use to make this card.

I had been watching Tracy Evans playing with this stamp and decided I quite liked it despite having told myself I didn't need it! 
Oh well!

Anyway here it is and I've stamped it onto several of the brayered sections so that I have lots to play with.

I can now make my mind up as I go along what to use.

 Stamped on some old book pages.

And from there I started to put the card together. Ripped some of the book page and attached it.

The spotlighted circle is from one of the other stamped pieces and I've also cut out the body sections of the beetles and glazed them before attaching them. Spotlighting is one of Tracy's favourite things to do.

Looks okay but we're not there yet.

I've used one of the splashy stamps to add more interest, stamping it several times without reloading with ink and a sentiment stamp along the bottom. 

Here we are all finished. 

I decided to mount it on to a cream card blank to match the old book pages so edged it first with green distress ink.

And to complete the design I've added several enamel dots.

You can just about see here that I've added some of the beetles to the inside too. 

I do have several pieces left so I'll be back soon to show you how I used them up.

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.

I managed to get a better photograph of the new fish Jaffa and now you can see the gorgeous orange colour and pattern on him.

He's next to Big Mama fish though she is more difficult to see as she is much darker but if you look at the size of her head in comparison to his it will give some idea of how much bigger she is.

Last of the summer fruit.

These cherries are gorgeous and great for eating while I read the Private Eye.

If you read the Private Eye you may have seen this and if you don't read it you should as it tells the news as it really is and things you will never be told in the newspapers.

For those of you who don't know the Private Eye it's a British satirical and current affairs news magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. The publication is well known for it's criticism and sarcasm of public figures though to be honest they often deserve it.

Other than that I don't have a lot this week as we've been busy with my mum as she had another fall on Sunday and hurt her foot but I'm pleased to say that by Tuesday she was feeling better. She still finds it difficult trying to recognise the carers as they all wear masks and she doesn't know who is doing what. It's very frustrating for her.

Normally there would only be two carers visiting but there are still some disappearing through illness and the company are continually trying to recruit so there are plenty of jobs to be had in the care sector.

She had her birthday this week and she is 92 so that's enough to make anyone smile.

We have been walking the dogs in the park.

The willows are doing well after their savage pruning.

And Maisie and Stan wait patiently while I take the photographs.

So that's it really.

And if you would like some more smiles you just need to pop over to see what our other friends have been doing this week at Annie's for

"This Week's Smiles" and you can also share your  smiles too.

Angela x

WOYWW -578 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk. 
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the 
Stamping Ground,our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

My desk isn't very exciting today.

My poor tube box is still sitting there at the back waiting for me to get back to it, several stamps on the left waiting to be sorted but I have finished my little green car which is why the varnish is still at the back there waiting to be put away.

So here she is my sweet MGB GT. 

Her name is Mustard which may seem strange considering she is British Racing Green however when we bought the original car she was Harvest gold and some years later my hubby and a mechanic rebuilt her and the colour was changed.

We have had the car now for 40years so she's kind of part of the family.

So this is my interpretation of her.

Front.

Back.

 And sides.

So pleased Sarah encouraged me to change the font on my blog it's so much easier to read now. I have had lots of you asking which one I'm using so guessing it's a problem lots of us have had so get on there and sort it! 

So that's me done for today.

 Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and join in the visits around the other desks.

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

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x