Sarah's card Retreat

So i am feeling a little nervous but excited as well as this weekend i am heading to Warrigton for Sarah's cards retreat. I have always shopped at Sarah's cards online shop for ages and i love the stuff they stop. The retreats i have been on before have all been mixed media stuff so never just scrapping. You would think cos i have been to retreats on my own before that i would not be nervous but no i was a little worried. It had nothing to do with the place it was being held at as i have been there before with Artsycraft. It was more to do with if i could do the lo's and if the people like me. I always worry about people not liking me and i know it isounds silly because i think i am a nice person.

I dont think i will be able to blog when i am there as i'm not sure if they have internet or not. I will blog as soon as i get back tho.

6 Days

Ok so I have not managed to post each day as i have be busy  having so much fun. I can't tell you guys how much i have come away with this week. The projects that we have made have been so amazing.

Lets start off with the first three days which was called Sun, Moon Stars. These are three great mini books all made different and i think they are all amazing. As i was looking for photos to load i realised that i had not taken pictures of all the projects so will have to post them later.

The first class is called Sun and we had to draw things in the mini book what made us happy. This book was made using lolly pop sticks. I did find this class a little hard only because im not a really good drawer.

 Here are two pictures first one is Dina and the second with Dyan wearing there pink moustache. Its was a little funni as Dina wore hers on the weekend and nearly choked to death by the fluff.

 Dina showing us the second album called Moon. Which we put all are fears and bad bits in.

 This is the third mini album called Stars this picture is the front cover but its no where near done.

 Now we come to the weekend and on friday dina was taching us how to make these amaing birds. Here is my birds which i think turn out really well.

 This is the second bird that i did. I still need to work on the background tho.

This was Sundays project were we had to do a drawing and see what we could see in the shapes. Can you see anything in mine??

 All weekend i got to sit by the amazing Ann- Marie we got on so well and she is a lovley person. Hopefully i will see her again at Dyans sometime.

Here is me and Dina on the last day

Me,Dina and Dyan I love this picture and will cherish this picture for ages.

So that was my amazing six days away. i could write so much more but i think i would bore you with everything.

I will post some picture of the projects in more details when i get home.

Dina Wakley

In just two days I will be on my way to Art From The Heart in Harrogate for a six day arting event. The lovely and very talented Dina Wakley will be traveling all the way from Arizona in USA. I have taken Dina's class before at Afth and done some online classes as well and have loved them. I am so lookingn forward to learning something new. I knew that the first three days we will be doing three different altered books but I'm not sure what we are doing for the other three so that is a surprise. I will hopefully be able to post when we are there but if not I will do a long post when I get back.

RIP

I will never forget...
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Let us all never forget...

It's my Birthday

Yay today is my birthday and we ventured out to York. The weather looked a little grey but it was fine when we left Doncaster. We decided to take the train as Archie and Henry had not been on one before and if you don't know my Dad likes trains. Thats why we ended up at the Railway museum. Anyway when we got to York we did end up at the Railway museum as Dad likes trains and so does Archie. Henry is not really at the age yet to like trains but I'm sure he will. We decided that we were going to go for lunch at Pizza express as it is ok for children. Outside the Railway museum they have a road train that takes you just pasted pizza express so we jumped on that (the boys both loved it). So we go into Pizza express and order food and just when it came we looked out the window and the heavens had opened and i mean pouring it down. We waited a little bit but it did not let up. The boys were ok as they sat in there buggy with a rain cover on. Anyway we ended up going into an outdoor store and get umbrellas and rain coats.
Me and Em had sandals on so are feet were wet and it wow horrible. After doing a bit of shopping we headed back to the railway museum for another look round and then got the train home.
We came home and got cleaned up and head round to Em and G's for a take away tea. In all it wow a good day even tho it rained a lot

Photography Sessions

Today the lovely Kirsty Wiseman came round to do a one to one photo session with me. I have been wanting to do it for a while but things just got in the way. I have known Kirsty for a long time now i'm can't remember how we meet tho but she is the most nicest person i have ever meet.
Today woz all about getting out of auto mode and into manual mode. I must admit that i think i picked it up really well only after two hours wow i shooting in manual mode and getting good pictures.

Here are a few picture i took today. The first two pictures tho are wot Kirsty took of me.

I just love this picture of Archie. He kept on wanting to open and close the window .

I don't think i have got the hang of when the swing is moving yet but all i can do is practise and get better at it.

I would decently say to anyone who wants to learn photography to get in contact with Kirsty as she is great at explaining things and she is such a great person.

Studio M

So you probably can tell by my posts that i have a great Mum and Dad who will do anything for me. Well when i got into crafting i took over the little bedroom with my craft stuff but seeing how my stuff woz taking over Mum  decide to let me take over one of the large rooms as my Studio/Study. Anyway when i moved into the room i decorated it all and it looked great. Well it has been a couple of years since then and it wow time to re vamp my studio as i now call it. It is now all finished and i am moved in. Im not joking tho i have moved everything into my bedroom to sort out and i can't believe how much stuff i have got. I am going to have to go and sort it all out which I'm not looking forward to. If anyway wants to come and help you are more then welcome lol.

Anway here are some picture of my new Studio. I hope you all like it as much as i do.

 Can you see woes on the wall in my next photo?? Yes its the two projects i did at the Artsy craft weekend in Warrington. The arch on the right i also did on an Artsy craft weekend but that wow a couple of years ago now.

 My new cricut imagine which i love

 The inspire wow white at first but i decided to paint it so it would stand out a bit.

 Got the print letters when i wow in London. Don't know if you can see but it say Create.