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.

Collecting together a few more photographs from the Steampunk festival.

And it's not just costumes but some great imaginative construction too.

There are some really imaginative modified Steampunk machines.

You name it and it can become Steampunk.

Real Steam powered engines.

Modified Modern machinery.

Lots of crazy ideas too.

And robots of course.

And don't let the Goths miss out here today so we'll pop back to Whitby one more time.

I always think these photographs look almost unreal.

Whitby Abbey North Yorkshire is just stunning.

The ruins you see here are 11th Century built just after the Norman Conquest, though a monastery was built here in the 7th century around 657AD.

To the side of it is the church surrounded by grave stones.

You can see why the Goths love it so much.

The grave stones are very old but you can still read some of them and this one was very decorative too.

You can just see the Abbey top right.

That's hubby in the striped shirt.

From there we went into the church.

Which has some interesting pieces.

When we finished here we went back down the steps to the town for lunch.

It is thought that the 199 steps were used as a test of Chritian faith to those who wished to worship in St. Mary's church. Climbing the steps would prove that you were faithful.

I could eat this every day, beautiful seafood salad gorgeous.

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 - 745 - What's On your Workdesk Wednsday.

   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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

This was where I left you last week.

And this has been the progress this week.

Time to add the Gesso. As the colours will be quite dark I've started with black Gesso.

You can probably tell now that the theme is the Sea.

Still some way to go yet but hopefully I will have moved on a bit by next week.

This kind of project is not something you can rush as there are always things to dry and set but I love making something like this as the waiting time lets you think about the next stage and I can tell you plans are always changing if they ever existed in the first place! but the fun is in the process.

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

What No Masterboard!

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

I am here today to show you a card but no Masterboard as we've been away so time has been a bit limited but I'm working on one right now.

However I think you might like this.

I needed a quick card for a wedding anniversary and knew I wouldn't have much time to get it done so I've used one of my favourite techniques of stamping directly on to the card blank and then adding a stamped, embossed and diecut image. 

I also used a small stamp with bubbles from a different set and love how well it fits in. 

The sentiment stamp is by Creative Designs.

The glasses are Strawberry Margarita by 'Stamps by Me' and come with an embossing folder, layering stamps and  a die so what more could you ask for and I used Distress Oxides for the colours.

The bubble stamp was a freeby from a magazine.

A few strips of Washi tape to ground the main elements and some Stickles Glitter glue and it's done.

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 have lots to show you but will stagger everything so as not to keep you here for too long.

So there will be more next week, great if you like Steampunk.

This was August Bank Holiday when the Steampunk Festival took place.

Lucy the dragon is back at the Lincoln castle and she liked it so much that she has brought her friend Norman with her this time.

She has arrived in plenty of time to settle before the Steampunk festival began.

As usual there's a wide variety of costumes.

Often very stylish.

Some are quite amazing and must have taken an age to make.

They are so imaginative.

And very creative. 

Though a bit strange at times.

The ages of the people who attend vary too.

Don't worry the gun is only a replica. 

There are many imaginative ideas for Steampunk weapons.

And the pets are so sweet.

On the Monday after the Steampunk Festival we started our journey to Whitby in North Yorkshire.

Some of you may know that Bram Stoker based his novel of Dracula around Whitby and it was there in the library he found the name.

We went over the Humber bridge on the way to Whitby. Great views.

Just to give you an idea of where we are.

Yorkshire Moors.

And nearly there but it is quite a long way from Lincoln, took us about  four hours in all.

And this is the Guest house where we stayed.

Beautiful room.

Very cosy.

With lots of original features.

Then into the town.

Several boat trips if you fancy it.

But I'm more interested in walking round and taking a few photographs.

We had a visit to the Abbey after walking up these long steps to the top of ther hill.

I wonder if you can see what Icecream they are selling?

I have lots more photographs of the Abbey but will save those for next week.

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