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This week, I've completed two books, in between the rushing around, getting ready for a Special Trip tomorrow. The white silk and purple suede Wedding Guest Book for my friends, who are getting married in Mauritius in a few days' time.  I posted about this on January 12th, when I had got started on the covers etc, but it was finally completed this week, with a label mounted on the front. The

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This Saturday I ran a workshop day at the local quilting and sewing shop.  It was "Crazy Sock Creatures and Silly Sock Pets  " and - guess what - we made Sock Creatures! Jo-Ann made "worms"! Also a rather adorable dog.......with a very appealing look in his shiny eyes. Marie came up with a wonderful pink lady bunny, with loooong eyelashes - very glam!  She also had a go at the 2-sock dog, like

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Hello again everyone. Well, it looks as if the Pass the Page blog hop has been a success - thank you Julie, it was a great idea!  Knuston I'm posting again today, to see if anyone is interested in my Knuston crafting idea - see the previous post here, for more information.  I would like to sort it out reasonably quickly, so if you do want to come along - or you might do - please give me a

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Hello all Blog Friends, The fabulous Julie, of Letting The Days Roll By (who I was lucky enough to meet at our Bloggers' Crafting Weekend last November!), came up with a really clever idea for a blog hop,  waaaaay back in September, to celebrate her up-coming birthday.  She thought it would be fun to have a game of "Pass the Page", so asked for people to sign up and join in. Three months later,

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Okay, so this is a quick post, as I'm supposed to be Working Hard! I have been trying - in between book binding and workshop writing - to find a venue for a second Bloggers' Weekend...  No luck so far, but I will try again next week.  However, it occurred to me that Knuston Hall might be able to help.  They had e-mailed subscribers (that means me!), to say that a course was cancelled, so

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Today was another good drying day.  I put the sheets out mid-morning and was able to leave them there until about 2pm.  So, of course, as I pegged away, I was thinking about an unfortunate affliction.... [source] * * * I suffer from a chronic condition.  Aside from my asthma, I mean.  I have a bad, ongoing case of Foot-In-Mouth Disease.  I suffer recurring bouts of this condition, causing me -

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On my table this morning... This post is a day late, but it's what I have been working on for the past day-and-a-half (had to go out this afternoon).  The photo above shows the situation first thing this morning, with bits of a Wedding Guest Book scattered around, in various stages of construction:  Pages ready for binding - I did these on Tuesday; hand-torn and cut, arranged in sets of two

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So, yes, I know I haven't been around for a month.  A long time.  Lots of reasons why, which I won't detail here; I have just been so busy and I think that'll do.  However, I didn't want to miss Storytelling Sunday (even though I'm posting this on Monday evening!), so here's my effort for the month. * * * [source]This morning I was hanging up washing - on the outside washing line, which DS had

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This is my contribution to the last month of Sian's 2011 Storytelling Sunday.  I am sorry it's late - I wrote it at 4am on Sunday, but I had a bit of trouble with the ending! * * * Once there was a Little Witch who was so excited because her friends were coming to her tea party. She was especially pleased that a particular lovely fairy was among them. The fairy had curly hair and a beautiful

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'Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.' Dr Seuss Photos will follow, when I get more organised, but I just wanted to say a huge Thank You! to all of you wonderful ladies, who made the weekend so special. I was so delighted to see every one of you, and to meet you and talk to you face to face, after all the time I have been reading your blog posts (a very long time for most

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Yay! It's all organised.  We will be there! Ten Intrepid Crafty Folks are "exploring to" Coalport for the weekend. If you're coming along, I will be so excited to meet you. If you can't come, but wanted to (Miss Smith, Fiona, Heather, several others...), I'm hoping to arrange a similar Weekend in 2012 - perhaps toward the start of March.  I think it may be a bit further South, but not sure til

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Before I begin my long and involved story... A note to those attending the Bloggers' Crafting Weekend at Coalport, next weekend (25th-27th November). I sent out an update e-mail, to all those who have confirmed they are attending.  If you haven't seen this, please check your "Spam" folders in your e-mail.  If it's not there, shout, as it contains important information and also some questions that

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I have made my first sales directly through Facebook.  I decided to have a go at this, so set up a Photo Album, with pictures of ready-made books for sale.  I don't think I really publicised it enough - you need to keep flagging things on FB, as everyone's homepage shows lists of all their "Likes" or "Friends" comments and items, which change all the time. However, I had a request from another

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I received this from my friend Debbie...For ten days, Herman 1 lived on our kitchen work-top, covered by a tea-towel.  He received daily attention, as in the instructions.  On Day 4, I fed him, on flour, sugar and milk.  The rest of the days, I stirred him, so he continued to bubble and grow. On Day 9, as per instructions, I fed Herman again, then divided him into four Hermans.  However, I

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I think I mentioned that DS had chosen to go for a day out at "Go Ape", for his birthday this year?  Anyway, that is what he did; his friend and DH went round the course with him.  I was allowed in as a spectator and I took over 100 photos!  They had a training session, then went round the rest of the course.  Overall, from start of the training, to the final loooooong zip-wire, it took us 3

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I just went to look and see the date of my very First Blog Post.. Because I knew it was around the beginning of November 2009, that I started this Blog, as part of Shimelle's "Blogging for Scrapbookers" course.  It was... 2nd November 2009, to be exact!  Which makes today my Second Bloggiversary! Yay! Last year, in honour of our First Bloggiversaries, me, Jo and quite a few of our Blog Friends

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Hello Blog Friends,  sorry I've been away for a while. I have been pretty busy, but also had one of those blog-breaks that happen from time to time... No lack of material, but a definite lack of inspiration! But here I am, back again, like the provervial Bad Penny! To tell you about an Event that Happened this morning. For a bit of background...  You may not know, but I have a Page on

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An update for those who are attending our Bloggers' Crafting Weekend, from 25th - 27th November. Also a heads-up for anyone who missed the Invitation first time round and might still like to come along - it's likely that there will still be a couple of spaces available, if you get in touch with me!  Follow this link for more details. The Current Plan At the moment, this is the plan for our

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I made a nice page on Sunday.  I was so pleased with the "photo strip" effect on the page in this post, that I used it again. Almost the same template for the layout too - just an extra big photo, rather than the vertical photo-strip. Pat A Cake - My little great niece's first attempt at making scones.  Apart from weighing the ingredients and being shown the "rubbing in the butter" part, she

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A bit of fun, to make you smile - the newest video from the amazing Simon: Hope it makes you smile!

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A quick peek at what is going on in my studio this week... Well, a fair bit of admin actually, but that's not very interesting, so... A Guest Book, completed today.  It's covered with Liberty print Tana Lawn fabric (made into bookcloth), with the design "Strawberry Thief", by William Morris. This is the purple colour-way, which is my favourite.  I used damson coloured tussah silk for the bound

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A post for my blogging, bookbinding and scrapping friends! We all love to cut, stick, trim, punch, stitch, tear, layer, draw, write, plan, print, photograph and create.  We all love to craft - especially with paper and fabrics. But often, our dedication to our Craft can result in personal injury. We all know the risks involved in our Crafts... yet we bravely go forth and create, regardless

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I've been busy recently, making more books.  A couple were for presents, one was a commission and the rest were stock for my Etsy shop.  Photo Gallery coming up! Birthday Scrapbook-Card, for J's 14th Birthday on 26th September.  (already posted this here, but thought I would like to include it in this post too) A large (A4) sketchbook, as a Birthday Present for J. (also posted on the above

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Mallow and Dandelions... Apples & pears...   Bright ripe berries... Spinning spiders...  Red and orange rosehips, ripening against the garden wall... The last of the roses...   The blue September sky... Fruits and leaves ripening to gold and brown and red... All the Colours and Fruits of Autumn in my garden!

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Over the weekend, we celebrated my DS' 14th Birthday.  (Thanks, Amy for the photo-grid template!) A few highlights of our day - my nieces & nephew, plus my mum and her friend all came for lunch & tea on Sunday and we had a celebration.  It was also little E's 3rd birthday last Monday, so she had a present and cake too.  J. was very lucky and had some nice presents and plenty of pocket money! 

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Woo-Hoo!  It's all booked and paid for!  I just came off the phone to the YHA at Coalport and I have confirmed our booking, for seven beds, two nights, breakfast on Saturday & Sunday, dinners on Friday & Saturday, plus use of the classroom for our crafts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.   The confirmation Invoice/Receipt arrived by e-mail a minute ago.  We are Going!  For anyone who would still

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Dear Everyone, I have just sent out a batch of Paypal invoices, to the people who said they would like to come to the Bloggers' Crafting Weekend in November. If you are one of those ladies, please login and check you have received your invoice.  If it hasn't arrived, give me a shout, as I do need to have your payment by tomorrow night (so if there's been an error, we need to sort it out!). To

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Hello again all Blog Friends! Just to remind you about This Post, which I wrote last Friday!  It's about this: Do go and read it - we'd love to welcome you on 25th November! Lizzie and Jo

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Dear Blog Friends, For such a long time, we have all been blogging, following each others' blogs, chatting, e-mailing - even phoning each other, or occasionally meeting one or other of our "Blog Friends" when we happen to be nearby...  But, wouldn't it be great, if we could all meet up some time?  Now, it may not be practical for those on the other side of the Atlantic, or "Down Under", to

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What with summer holidays, bookbinding projects etc, I've neglected my "regular" Fun On Fursday slot... In fact, it's been about three months since I posted anything... So, as the news from the Turtle pool has been rather dreadful the last few days (but an improvement at last report) and as we could all do with smiling a little, here's a scrapbook page I made on Sunday, just for fun, because I

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We've all been busy here over the last week - lots going on.  DS went back to school last Wednesday - or rather, he went to school, but not "back", since he started at his new Upper School.  When I get organised and catch him a) awake and b) still in uniform, I'll take a photo! Then at the weekend, D and J were very busy in the garden: A couple of weeks ago, DH and my niece's husband set up

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Hello again, this is Part Two of my posts about some of the many Binding Types and Styles used for making books.  See Part One here.   The first post had some notes about Single-signature Bindings, the traditional Case Binding and Longstitch Bindings.  I would just note here, that I am not an "expert" bookbinder - after a couple of comments, which made me feel I was being regarded somewhat in

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I thought I'd make a set of posts about some of the Binding Styles  for books.  I posted some photos of a scrapbook that I had made this week, and someone commented that she liked the binding, but wasn't sure if it was a "stab stitch" - it was, in fact a "coptic stitch" type of binding... There are loads of different Bindings for books (not all of which are sewn/stitched), but they do tend to

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I haven't written a blog post for ages. More than two weeks. It's not that I haven't had anything to write about - life is busy and there's been lots going on.  It's not that I have no interesting photos - I've taken quite a few, of our few days away by the sea, of books and projects I've been working on, of the cat, even of my computer...  I think I have writer's block - or blogger's block at

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Well, I have had a crazy-busy week.  I completed two urgent commission books and am working on a third book (two down, five to go....).  However, somewhere I managed to squish in some scrapping and enter some of Shimelle's challenges.  I helped that last Sunday was Scrap Club day, so I got a good start there.  I worked on this page, for the "Signature Accent Challenge" and this for the "Colour

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This weekend, Shimelle held a great Scrapbooking Challenge Weekend at her blog! I decided to make the best of a day's scrapping at Scrap Club and I made / completed several pages (on Sunday and since), as part of the challenges. A slightly loose connection, since I am not certain that I have one "signature accent" as such...  However, this page has four of the things I have been using most on

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This is the second Challenge that I tried, from Shimelle's great Weekend of Scrapbooking!  The Colour Story Challenge was to create a page using only Red, White and Aqua. A sea-side theme seemed just right for this colour palette.  I had these two smallish photos of Wells-Next-the-Sea, in North Norfolk, which I had been wanting to scrap for a while.  This American Crafts paper, with the

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Some of you may just have noticed a leeeeetle bit of fun going on, over at the fab Shimelle's blog?   For those who have been sleeping too much since last Friday, Shimelle was hosting an Online Scrapbooking Weekend, with lots of Challenges, Tutorials, Sketches, Layouts.. oh, just fun really! So, I thought I would have a go at some of the challenges, seeing as it was our Scrap Club weekend and

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Hello all! I have not been "here" for two weeks...  Just very busy and also we squashed in a week away in the Wye Valley. I have had a stack of book orders to deal with - and I still have seven in the pipeline!  Making books for custom orders, along with preparation for our holiday kept me quiet beforehand and books, more books, laundry piles and housework have kept me pretty busy since our

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Yesterday I spent the day at my niece's house, helping her learn to use her new sewing machine. Grandma bought Keri-Anne a lovely sewing machine as a birthday present, as she has wanted to make clothes for herself and the babies, for a long time. I bought her a couple of excellent sewing books as well, so she was well equipped with information and tools, but not with experience! Sometimes you

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This afternoon, we have mostly been Slouching! Slouching at my computer... blogging and updating my Shop...Slouching in the messy bedroom...Slouching on the door mat...Slouchy guitar... It's nice to just relax for a while and "do nothing"... See you all tomorrow - with photos of what I'm working on (when I'm not slouching!)...

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Another item crossed off the To-Do List! After months - more months than I care to count - the horrible, messy gap, between my bedroom wardrobes and the wall, has been tidied! And... Woo-Hoo! HANDLES on my Wardrobe doors!  I only bought these about 18 months ago, when the wardrobes were assembled... until today, I have been opening the doors with a small screw that was screwed in on one door

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I am pleased with the results of my work over the last two days, so here are the Books I made, for J. to give to some of his teachers, as "Thank You" gifts: The Teachers' Thank-You Gifts For the French teacher - a pair of pocket notebooks / mini-journals, covered with bright paper and decorated with contrast ribbon ties. For the Maths teacher - A rather funky notebook, filled with a rainbow of

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Yesterday I taught my first ever Bookbinding workshop.  The two sock-pet workshops I taught before, were for children, but this was a course at my local sewing & patchwork shop, for adults. I spent much of this week getting my stuff together, making notes, preparing paper-packs for the students and making some "props" for teaching (such as a "paper sizes" chart, samples of different papers and

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Yesterday evening, I helped DS do a "dry run" of his Cookery Assessment for today.  He was given two sheets of paper, set out with spaces for his ingredients, utensils, safety considerations and method; he had to make an item of food in class today and present it to the teacher. J. decided to make Salmon Fishcakes and to accompany these with mashed potatoes and carrots.  Sounds straightforward,

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Hello all!  If you've been reading my blog since last year, you may remember this post, from last July, when I took J. and his friend G. to Oxford for a day trip.  The school had another training day on 1st July - they do so on the first Friday and Monday of every July - so we decided another day trip was in order.  After a bit of umm-ing and errr-ing, we decided to go to Oxford again, as there

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Good Morning, All Blog Friends!  This is my first contribution to Sian's wonderful Story Telling Sunday - I hope you enjoy the Tale!  When you've finished, why not go back to Sian's blog, to read some of the other stories - there are usually lots and they're all quite different and normally very good! Prologue I'm sure that those of you who are owned by cats, have notice their clever ability

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Hello All Blog Friends! Two posts in two days - goodness, what an extraordinary event!  I just wanted to continue the little story that was begun by yesterday's post. Yesterday I showed you four sets of book covers, that I had been working on and which were just about ready to use. Today I worked veeeery hard and completed the binding of two photo albums, using two of those pairs of covers:

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I've had such a busy period, over the last couple of months.  I've been binding books, then more books,  also planning and teaching workshops (sock monkeys and bookbinding); with the odd bit of scrapbooking thrown in, to stop me getting bored! Today, this is what has been going on in my Studio: A pile of Pages, all ready to be bound into books of various kinds.  There are two Wedding Guest

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This week it was Mr LizzieMade and my Wedding Anniversary.   We buy ourselves a joint gift for our Anniversary - have done for about 4 years now.  It tends to be something lovely for our garden, that we can share together.  We've bought a garden bench, a large parasol/umbrella, a tree....  This year we have chosen a rather nice arched trellis, to go in a space created when we removed an

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I haven't been blogging much recently.  I just haven't had the time - or when I did have time, I had no energy.  You may have noticed me pop up occasionally, with a comment on one of your blog posts, but I admit I have not been a very good Blog Friend recently...  Sorry! I have been Busy... I really have!  My small bookbinding business has suddenly taken off and I have had Work To Do!  I'm not

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Just a bit of fun for a Thursday afternoon - a new Simon's Cat film: Hope you liked it! (sorry about the silly advert that pops up - can't stop that!)

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I posted about a prize I won, from the wonderful Susanne of Snaps and Snippets.  The Kit was put together as part of the Counterfeit Kit Blog challenges.  This was Susanne's Version and she was offering it as a prize - which I was lucky enough to receive! I was determined to make the most of a whole day's scrapping, at yesterday's Scrap Club and I set out to use some of these papers and letter

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Woo-Hoo!  Finally we have put together my new cupboard!  It is huge... enormous... gigantic!  This is a wardrobe carcass, from Ikea, with three packs of shelves inside, instead of a hanging rail etc.  This is the stuff I have put away so far - but I reserve the right to shuffle it all around, about twenty times, before I decide exactly where it all goes best! At the very bottom, are the A1-size

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I'm a spoiled person... this weekend has been so lovely and I've had two great (early!) birthday presents, to make it even nicer. Yesterday we went to spend the day with my niece, Keri-Anne, and her little family.  G. had to go to work, so we only saw him for a short while, but we shared a lovely "picnic" lunch (at the table, as it was raining!) with Keri-Anne and the little ones.  In the

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You all must know by now, that I love Sock Creatures - especially Monkeys.  Sock Monkey Family Portrait - Family Monkeys, Mon, Bro' and Bella... Sock Monkey Family Portrait - the Class Monkeys - Teddy Bear, Zombie and Bella (that Bella gets everywhere y'know...) Socks are just so cool; they are ready-knitted little bodies and heads, for a whole selection of amazing creatures.  Socks are

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I really must post about this, before I forget - which would be so rude of me!  On Friday, while I was busy and busy, getting ready for the Sock Monkeys Workshop Day - of which, more will follow - the postman brought me a package: Um, don't mind the brown rolly one, it's paper supplies... it's the Big White Box you should be looking at!! I had forgotten about this.  It's just been so manic

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Well I took the sample books to the shop today.  The lady was very enthusiastic and gave me a shelf of my own, in the glass display cabinet, where the books are now arranged on a piece of black velvet (!).  They all look very nice. Her colleague is going to make nice labels for them, to say what they are and also a label with the course details.  Who knows, I may even get some students!  The

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Wow, I'm impressed... I have managed to keep this Wednesday Worktable thing going for 5 weeks now!  I think it may be becoming a habit! So, what was on my desk today? First Thing this Morning: In the middle of my messy desk, was my binding board, with this book on it.  This is another Coptic-stitch binding, with 10 threads in 2 colours.  It is almost identical to the peachy-coloured Birds and

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Well, I am so busy, I'm permanently out of breath just now!  I posted that I had lots of books on the go, with various orders to complete.  Since then, I have posted off three of the Custom orders, plus a few "ready made" items.  But I still have loads to do!  ** I'm writing notes for the Sock Monkeys workshop I'll be teaching on Saturday. ** I'm making Monkey-samples, for the same workshop.

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** Updated 16/5, with last 3 messages on Blogger Buzz -  Looks like we will eventually have our comments back too: Update (5/15 10:55PM PST): Blogger should be back to normal for the vast majority of people affected by this issue -- if posts are still missing, please check your drafts (you may need to republish). We are in the process of restoring comments made during the affected period

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This is what I have been working on recently.  It does look very like two other recent projects; this paper has proved immensely popular and I have had several requests for Custom books, with this "Birds and Butterflies" paper on the covers.  There's yet another one, still on my Commissions List! A Wedding Album, with "Birds and Butterflies" paper on front and back covers.  Hinged cover, bound

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Hello All! This should have been posted last night, but it was dark and I couldn't get a decent photo of the layout - pink does not photograph well in artificial light! I made it at Scrap Club yesterday. It was partly for a Challenge on Shimelle's blog, for (Inter)National Scrapbooking Day, but also because I have wanted to scrap this photo since the end of March, when it was taken. This

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I finished another book last night - the one that I showed as "in progress" on my last post.  A Guest Book, size 8" x 6", with a Coptic binding in red linen. It has 30 pages of white cartridge paper. This is the back cover... ...and a view of the binding.  There are 10 rows of stitching and it took 2 hours to sew them. I'm so pleased with this book and think it was worth all the work.  It's

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I thought I would show you what is on and next to my desk just now.  I have so many projects on-the-go! A pile of pages, boards and bookcloth pieces, for small and large photograph albums. Pages for three books, plus a set of covers for one Japanese stab-stitch album. Two commission projects - bookcloth pieces for a Wedding Guest book and covers and pages for a Japanese stab-stitch Wedding

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I have been working on a number of books recently, both for stock and commission items.  Today I gift-wrapped and packaged these three books, for the postman to deliver to three lovely ladies in USA! "Butterfly Garden" Wedding Guest book, for Victoria.  This is 9.25" x 6.5" and has 30 pages of nice cartridge paper, for guests to write their good wishes.  It has a Japanese-style stab-stitch

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This is a Special Blog Post. For a Special Lady. Her name is Marti, she's the lovely mom of Deb, one of my Blogging Friends.  She also has cancer and is fighting hard to beat it.  Today is a Special Day for Marti, because it's her birthday - and we all like to celebrate a birthday! So first of all, * * * * * * * * * * * *  Happy Birthday Marti! * * * * * * * * * * * * May you have a

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Oh dear... forgot to post this yesterday, but I can't waste all the nice photos! This is what's going on here just now: A second attempt at photo-collage.  I'm learning all the time - it's not perfect, but it's getting better!

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A project with others from the Beyond Blogging for Scrapbookers class with Shimelle - see the rest  here Collage template by Rhonna Farrer - available here

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We had a lovely Easter and the family came over for lunch and tea on Easter Sunday.  It was very busy and I was soooo tired afterwards. But I'm fine now and snatching a few minutes from book-binding, to post some photos of our day. DH snatches a quick drink in the kitchen after lunch...J. with the railway he kindly built, in a shady corner, for the amusement of our little guests...Our tiniest

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Well, it has to be this, really - a brand new Simon's Cat video on his You Tube channel: It's made my day! And just in time for Easter too... Hope you enjoy it!

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We have had a busy, but lovely day today.   Some friends came to visit, from London.  The morning was busy, busy, tidying up, cooking a nice lunch etc.  They were late because the M1 has been closed for two days, following a big fire early on Friday morning; they had to come by a slightly different route, but were here in time for a late lunch.  We had a Mediterranean style of lunch today -

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Okay, I don't normally join in with this (there are several "versions" of this on the go around the Blogosphere...).  But today I thought it might be fun to show you what's going on in my studio just now! I've been busy cutting paper and covering boards for book commissions: These are two front and two back covers for middle-sized Wedding Guest books.  I am working on a commission item,

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This weekend it was Summer! How do I know this? The Trampoline is back in action - we took off the tarpaulin and put up the net enclosure.The Bouncing Season is On! Mr LizzieMade has uncovered the garden benches for me... ...and for Sherlock. Sherlock knows when it's Summer.  He lies in the sunshine... ... in his favourite spots... ... and explores all the interesting corners, looking for

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It's Fursday again! Sorry, let's try again - Thursday again.  Hummmm... Anyway, I said I was trying to start a regular "thing" called "Fun on Fursday".  Yesterday's post could have been today's, as it was rather fun... but then, I posted it yesterday because I wanted to smile at it... so it couldn't be today's post as well, could it?  I thought of leaving this post til tomorrow, since I've

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Mrs LizzieMade today reported that a number of Days had mysteriously vanished from weeks during March.  Worryingly, this trend appears to continue, with Days still disappearing from April. Contact Lizziemade.blogspot.com if you have any Information that might lead to the safe recovery of the Missing Days. Mrs. LizzieMade offers a Reward for their Return.

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I am so lucky to have three little Great Nieces!  They range in age from just 8 days old, to 2 1/2 years old.  September 2008 April 2010 March 2011 Someone is a proud big sister... These little girls are so adorable... Big Sister is so lovely and fun-loving... Her little cousin has the cutest little face - she's so sweet... They are good friends... and now there are three of them! I am

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Firstly, Hello to all new visitors, especially if you have dropped by from Shimelle's BFS forum!  Glad to have you here, please take a look around, feel free to read and explore any posts you fancy; I love to read people's comments, so don't be shy - tell me what you think! Okay, so today the BFS prompt was about having a regular slot on your blog, where you post about a particular topic/

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Hello All Blog Friends - old and new!  Welcome if you've just come to visit my blog for the first time!  I'm joining in Blogging for Scrapbookers for the second time round; I've been a bit pushed for time in the last couple of weeks - preparing for the Workshop I taught on Saturday, visiting a new baby niece, making books...making other books! Today I thought I would try and join in with the

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Today I finally taught my first Workshop day for Frontiers Club - the Saturday club that J. goes to.  They offer courses to children on the schools' Gifted and Talented student register, to give them a bit of extra value/ interest beyond the school syllabus.  I taught an all-day workshop about making Sock Creatures.   Regular visitors will know of my fondness for sock pets.  Like Bella the

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Fanfares of Trumpets! (actually, maybe not... shh...she's sleeping....) Announcing the Birth of my new Great Niece! Mia Isobel was born today, 24th March, at 5am, after 55hours of labour (!). She weighs 7lb 11oz. Obviously, we're all very relieved, very excited and very proud of her and her brave, hardworked Mummy! They are now at home, resting and getting used to one another.  Both are well

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Today I thought I'd join in with the new Blogging For Scrapbookers prompt.  I've been working hard on the course notes, for the Sock-Pet making workshop I'm teaching on Saturday, but my niece is in the hospital, having her baby (slow going but all ok), I've been up since very early because DS has gone on a school trip today (7:30am at the school... yawn...) and I have the fidgets; I need to Do

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Today has been exciting, but also a bit nerve-wracking.  My niece (the elder one) is in labour with her second baby girl. It all started overnight, but unfortunately things have taken their time and not much is happening yet.  Summer 2010 - My niece, great niece (#1!) and me Everyone got excited this morning, so we all feel a bit flat just now. My mum's all worried - she is so far from

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D'you remember the wonderful parcel I received recently, from a certain DebTurtle?  It had Sweeties!! And some Cornmeal, with a recipe to try out my very own American-style Cornbread! So, today I did just that.  I found the recipe and cornmeal,  got my ingredients together, and also my equipment - don't you love my Cup Measures? So cute!  I measured out my 1 Cup of Cornmeal This part is 

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 A lady I know, called Natasha, had a baby girl recently.  I will be seeing her on Tuesday and have made her a gift: A small photograph album, size 8"x6". I bought some 100% cotton fabric yesterday and backed it with tissue - remember my post about making bookcloth? I have used it for the front and back covers. It has a silk edging on each cover, with a Japanese stab-stitch binding, in

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A lovely lady contacted me via my Etsy shop today, asking about this book: This is my Birds and Flowers guest book, with a moss green and natural linen Coptic stitch binding. She would like to buy the book, but needs it (in NY, USA) before 30th March.  The enquiry was whether this is possible.  Sounds simple - that is 15 days' time and normal postage takes 7-10 days for delivery in most of

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Okay, I know it's not normally "polite" to boast of one's achievements, or crow about one's supreme cleverness (au Peter Pan), but today, I think I deserve to do a bit of Own Trumpet Blowing! So, "Da-da-da daaaa!" I finished another new book for my Etsy shop and it's gorgeous!  It's a photo album, 11.75" by 8.5", covered with a gorgeous paper, with a design of vintage trunk labels from a

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So the shelves fell down, all was chaos, the chaos began to assume some semblance of order... Somewhere in amongst all that mess, I found my missing scrap-mojo!  Last Sunday I made two pages and last night I made the third page, that had been planned for the Sunday crop (I ran out of time - always happens). My page to record the Event! I just had to call it this... The big photo lifts up,

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The Studio is back in operation - yippee!  It is so much better than the huge heap of chaos from last week.  DH kindly helped me to tidy the worst of the mess on Saturday and I spent some of yesterday afternoon and this morning getting it a bit straighter and tidying the desk. It's by no means done yet - the new storage solution needs to be organised and it could definitely do with seeing a

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Our Scrap Club met yesterday, for the regular monthly crop.  I hadn't managed to go to the last two, so hadn't seen the other ladies since before Christmas.  It was so nice to "be back" and see familiar, friendly faces (oh and the biscuits weren't bad either!). I manged two pages yesterday - a big achievement for me, considering the mess things have been in recently.  It was really very nice to

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Oh the excitement!  There I was, about to sit down to my lunch today, when the doorbell rang.  Who could that be?  The postlady... with this: A Small White Box... from U.S.A. It had the sender's name on the other side, a certain nice blog friend... What could be inside?  Yummy! Sweeties! And American Sweeties at that.  We don't have these here (or not in my little provincial County Town anyway)

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Dear Readers,  when we last heard from our heroine, she had suffered a bit of a disaster: What used to be the shelves in my Studio... Having removed the remaining shelf fittings and picked up the stuff that was thrown onto the floor, we had been left with this: A load of stuff all over the desk and a precarious work table and "supporting" metal strips... ... piles of stuff all over the floor...

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We spent the weekend away at a family party - more soon, when I've gone through the photos. So we drove home this afternoon and didn't plan on doing much for the rest of the day, except relaxing.  The Boys had a model-painting project on the go, followed by a networked computer gaming session.  I settled down happily in my studio, with some nice new covering paper, cutting pages and boards

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Update! Just to complete the story of the Peacock Wedding Album, I posted it yesterday, in a special presentation/storage box: I had a large, plain white box with acetate lid, which I covered with deep blue mulberry paper. The inside dimensions of the box were a tiny bit larger than the book - quite handy really, as I was able to add some extra support and protection for the book, by covering

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I have been working hard on a great project, for an Etsy customer.  A lady called Sylvia contacted me, to ask if I could make a special Wedding Guest Album for her.  Her theme was Peacocks  (in a traditional style, rather than too blingy), with a colour scheme of dark blue, browns and touches of gold/copper colours.  I sent her a picture of some Peacock paper that I had: This was a

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Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce.... Bella! Just finished today, she's the Monkey with the Mostest - in terms of cheek and attitude, at any rate!  She started life as a pair of brown socks, with pink heels and toes.  Her head, body and legs are all one sock... Her nose is the heel part of sock #2 and her arms and loooong tail are also cut from the second sock. The tail is cut from the

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Inspired by Fay over at Beautifullilly's Ramblings, I had a go at Shimelle's Sketch challenge for this week: Here is Shimelle's Sketch... ...and this is my version!  I've had this photo on my desk for ages, meaning to scrap about it.  We went out for a meal together and the Boys were chatting and messing around, I got my camera out and J. & D. just spontaneously posed like this.  But it sums up

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Note there are a couple of short videos at the bottom of this post, which seem to load a bit slowly. I suggest you scroll down to the first and set it loading, then read the first bit of text while you wait! * * * We're having a spell of mild weather; earlier in the week there were high winds and it was still pretty chilly, but for the past two or three days, we've had much milder weather and

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Hello All, I wasn't going to post anything for a couple more days, as I still have a yukky cold (which isn't really very newsworthy!). On the mend though, after a lazy weekend (with no housework done for days, I feel a bit guilty, but it will have to wait until I don't get wheezy and dizzy from doing no more than loading the dishwasher!). But I have been blog-hopping this evening and found

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Today I am at home, resting and nursing a rather pesky cold, which sprang up overnight – I don’t want it to become a chest infection! But yesterday (when I still felt fine!), I had a lovely day out.   My niece, Keri-Anne was able to get tickets for us to see Peter Pan on Ice at the theatre in Northampton: Some highlights from You Tube of the show we saw.  The whole stage had been turned into a

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