Hi
I have been so busy this year, where does the time go, michael and I have been up to our little holiday home in Ovingham and spent many weekends, me crafting and Michael doing lots of odd jobs and the garden.
We have lots of horses in the field and they cause a lot of damage to property and fences. There also seems to be people around who pay to have their horses on the field as well as horses owned by the farmer, it is a lovely area with views over the Tyne valley and Prudhoe, our field is opposite Ovingham school.
There are lots of wild life around, las week we saw a little deer and a grey squirrel, we have a resident Robin family and lots of blue tits, grey tits, sparrows and even a tiny wren.
With no electricity, gas,or mains water we do have fun, it is back to nature.
Another busy time has been getting ready and having our Last Guild Convention in York,
the Guild has been going since 1979 and at one point we had 1800 members world wide, but times have changed and with fewer members joining, others leaving and rising costs it just was not sensible to carry on.
So on September 6th we had our last event, although we will have 2 more magazines which will bring us up to Spring 2015, and then we hope many members will keep in touch via email.
I hope to be able get back to my blog on a regular basis.
but until the next time keep crafting.

Where has the time gone?

Where has the time gone? It is ages since I blogged, we had a lovely quiet Christmas just Michael and I at home, but we did spend a week in Malta at the begining of December, and enjoyed the lovely sunshine, it was so lovely to walk around without a coat.
I made all my Christmas cards by November, and had them all writen and put in envelopes all ready for our return from Malta, so at least I did not have a pre Christmas rush.
It is now back to work and classes.
Our card craft group have saved 10,860 Wish tokens, so we are hoping to get given a portion of the £35.000 on offer, which would be great to beable to buy lots od dies etc.

This as a Rhea Egg which took me 9 months to make, and has about 25,000 tiny rhinestones stuck on a first cut out design, cut with a dentist drill, This is the front view.

This is the inside with a goose which has been decoupaged and spins around when the top finial is turned.

Here you can see the back of the egg, again decorated with rhinestones, I took this egg to Japan with me when I was invited to go and demonstrate twice in one year, all expences paid, great fun.

This is the side of the egg, as you can see it is a shell design cutout and decorated.

I have not to get busy with samples and Ideas for the craft club, so will finish now until the next time.