Favorite Colours

The Through the PurpleHaze Challege for this week made me a little hazy I can tell you...... my fave colours change so frequently .... well craft wise they do.... this teamed with the fact that I struggle to make cards meant I had to think harder than normal this week ad I decided to play completely outside the box and go with my fave colours to wear as jewellery and so that made it so much easier...... antique gold, peridot green and bronze..... so the pliers have been out and I made a complete set, Necklace, bracelet, ear rings and a bag charm...... yes sometimes when I start I just don't know when to stop ......... My love of beads is all back again ad for anyone who has visited my little blog before you might notice the improvements have begun...... at a slightly reduced and more sedate pace than the jewellery....... pliers and beads ad I get a little carried away....... buttons and techno..... sometime, someday and I am adding to the must do sometime list is taking better photographs.....the last one will make any member of my immediate family giggle hysterically   :) x Jayne x through the Purple Haze challenge

One womans junk is another womans treasure....... oh yes!

Well another week and another challenge from Through the Purple Haze....... I used an old frame I picked up in the local charity shop for the princely sum of 30 pence, more old fizzy drink cans, Gesso, paint and a couple of brads ......... I don't often praise myself but I really love the results....... a very shabby christmas in July. In fact I am so happy with it I have been very brave and entered a second challenge at Anything But a Card..... which is in all fairness my kind of Challenge . This is to go with the still very shabby blog which I have done absolutely nothing about xx Jayne xx

It's not Purple, it's not hazy but it is (or at least it was) rubbish!

After being pressured (no names shall be mentioned) here is a little upcycled plaque I made for the Through the Purple Haze IndigoBlu challenge. Everything with the exception of the pearls was destined for the bin. It turned out absolutely nothing like what I started out to do but when I have paints I tend to go off at a tangent. I am not sure really what I am supposed to put about it as I'm pretty new to all this challenge malarky ..... the stamp is obviously IndigoBlu and also the flakes it is gilded with....... the flowers are metal cut from old drink cans, the plaque itself said something completely unfunny  and so unmemorable that once I had painted over it I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever. I need to go now and buy Blogger for dummies or something with equal informative powers so that I can bring badly updated blog kicking and screaming int the present day....... now that will be a real CHALLENGE!
 xx Jayne xx

A mini album for daddy

(did I ever tell you that you are my hero)

Front cover

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mini album using Lincoln Linen papers made for the Craft Cupboard challenge - The wind beneath your wings.

It's been a while

The title says it all......and I'm not going into why......well not right now anyhow but here I am back and this is a bit of crafting I managed today....... it's all for a challenge in the craft cupboard...... which seems to be where I reside now :) x

photos in the wrong order as I am technically challenged....... the one above is a close up of the scrap page for the colout challenge and the one below is my wall hanging for the black and white challenge ......the backing for this is woven and as well as Sarah's stamp I have used Stampotique's Key Keeper and lots of glossy accents.

The photo above is a close up of the scrap page showing a chain I beaded with ...... well beads and a lovely embossed heart charm. The brads I have had forever but I have added some seed beads with glossy accents and Sarah's heart stamp is stamped and embossed in different shades of pink and layered slightly raised each time.

The picture below is the layout on it's side because it decided that was how it would be and who am I to argue (I know not how to change it)
This is the actual whole layout and it's not a great pic...... the wording is Life's Most Precious Gift and it is my wonderful husband and gorgeous girls.

I shall go try and add this to the cupboard's blog now.......wish me luck. Following that I shall be off to search down a copy of Blogger for Dummies.......I am sure this exists and was written with me in mind. Jayne xx

I wonder if I can remember how!

Well when you have picked yourself up off the floor at the shock of an update, I'm sure you will be asking yourself what I'm wondering if I can remember how to do.

The answer comes in several forms........firstly can I even remember how to blog, its been so very very long since I did.

The reason..... well again several really, Jays dad who we all loved totally died and left a huge gap that can't be filled and his mum has been quite poorly for a long time now but hopefully will soon be living independantly again albeit in a new bungalow and not the family home. Sadie their dog also died and Jays mum now has a new jack russell puppy called Hattie (so its not all doom and gloom).

Next reason ..... my beautiful Ffi, it has been a long long haul but we finally have diagnosis for her problems.... We had the dyspraxia diagnosis and then unhappy at the way things were going we took her out of area and she was given the diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome......this led to a total turmoil of mixed feelings mainly anger that she had gone through almost seven years of being pushed from pillow to post here and the new specialist out of county knew within an hour of meeting Ffi, how the hell can that be. Anyhow the diagnosis wasn't the end but the beginning of new battles trying to get help for Ffi. That said I wouldn't change Ffi for the world but I often wish I could change the world for her :) We are currently awaiting results from tests to see if Ffi also has ADD this is the one thing I always thought Ffi had so it will be interesting to see the result although the forms we filled seemed to be very ADHD oriented questions and she isn't hyperactive so we will just have to wait and see how things turn out. Ffi will move to secondary school in September so this could make a real difference for her.

How to craft, yes I certainly seem to have forgotten how to do that......its so long since I did anything that I'm sure my mojo has gone on a round the world and then back the opposite way cruise. But I have made the decision to use it or lose it and I really don't want to lose it (I love my stamps far too much) so it looks like I'm back :)

My photography also has suffered so I have decided to do a picture a day kind of thing....just sheer randomness and I am not sure how I will upload yet.... probably not everyday and maybe even a new blog just for that.. I hope to start this very soon :)

And finally.....(if you got this far and are still awake then well done :) ) I am hoping there will be a little less of me as the posts go on..... I decided I needed to lose some weight.... EEK. I have a headstart on this one as I actually decided that 3 weeks ago and so far I have lost 6 and a half pounds...... still a way to go with this ongoing project then. lol

I feel the need for a picture and obviously I'm not blogging well as it has stuck it at the top and I can't remember how to move it. The picture is my beautiful Ffi with Dolly our friends dog. Ffi loves Dolly (I can't for the life of me remember what breed Dolly is but she is Italian and she is huge and lives in a paddock with Bentley the horse during the daytimes). The picture was taken about eight months ago so Ffi has grown a little since then. Well thats it then and for those of you not totally bored of my ramblings..... I'll be back!