Winner of candy no 6...

Alright folks... here is the final winner for today.... this time around it was for the little hedgies & kitties... hmmm... wonder who the winner could be... no I don't actually as I've already gotten the winners name... lol... shame you don't know yet though so guess I best not keep you all waiting any longer eh!!!

Here goes...

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:3
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 17:29:51 UTC

And who was the third person to leave a comment on the posting....

SANDRA T

Well done Sandra and if you drop me an email with your address your new little pets will be winging their way to you asap...

Apologies to all those who didn't win this time around but hey... the giveaways are not quite over yet so keep checking back on a daily basis as it could very well be your turn next...

Have a fab weekend and hope it's filled with loads of yummy crafting.

Toodles for now

Lorraine xxx

Winner of Candy No 5

My goodnes... my wee fingers are starting to say shout at me say hey.... why are we having to work so much typing away on this keyboard... shame that eh... no not really... just a little bit hard luck for my wee fingers... lol

Righty ho... here we go again... winner No 5....

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:5
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 17:13:59 UTC

And who's the lucky winner this time.... my calculations tell me that it's....

SKORPIOCSKA

Big congrats... and if you can drop me an email with your address I'll get your goodies in the post to you asap.

Okay... off to make yet another draw... the last one for today...

Toodles

Lorraine xxx

Winner candy Nos 4

Just little old me again folks.... lol.... okay are you ready for the announcement of winner number 4.... sure hope so... who is going to be having this collection of stamps winging their wing in the mail I wonder...

Well... as chosen at random... the winner is....

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:1
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 17:04:26 UTC

Now I'm sure you can all imagine just how difficult this was for me to count all the way to number 1.... lol.... but amazingly I managed it... and I found that this lucky winner is none other than ....

MONI

Big congrats to Moni... please drop me a quick email with your address and I will get your stamps in the post to you asap....

Right... best dash... got another candy to find the winner of... lol

Toodles
Lorraine xxx

Winner of candy No 3

Alright folks... here goes with the announcement of our next winner of the day...

This time around it was 30 pins that were up for grabs and the winner chosen at random was.....

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:6
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 16:51:35 UTC

As usual... I popped into the comment box... counted down to the 6th name... and who is the lucky winner....

KIM

Congrats to Kim and if you can drop me a quick email with your address, I will get your goodies in the post to you asap.

Right I'm off to see who's the next lucky winner of the day so watch this space...

Toodles

Lorraine xxx

Winner of candy No 2

Afternoon folks... been and back from my tests so time to announce the next winner of the day... this time around it's for another set of Prima flowers....

Drumroll please... who could it be... hmmm I wonder... here is the random result

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:4
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 14:41:18 UTC

Now I've scrolled through the entries... not that it's all that hard to count to the number 4... lol... and the lucky winner of this candy is the one and only....

Daisychain

Big congrats to Christine and fingers crossed for everyone else with the remaining candy draws.

Christine, can you drop me an email please with your address and I'll get your candy in the post to you asap.

Righty ho... off to make a wee coffee now and need to get something ordered up for hubby's birthday before I forget all about it... will catch you all in a little while again with yet another winner.

Toodles for now

Lorraine xxx

Winner of Candy Nos 1...

Morning folks... thought I'd split the announcement of today's candy winners up and make announcements throughout the day, so here is details of our first winner.... this is for the white Prima flowers with Fuschia spots....

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:8
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 09:55:30 UTC

Now counting through the entries by my calculations our first winner of the day is

Vivi

Big congrats to Vivi and thanks to everyone else who took time to enter... never know... you may well be the next lucky winner.

Vivi, please drop me an email with your postal address so I can get your goodies in the post to you.

I have the hospital today at 2pm for some tests, but will do my best to announce another winner before I go.

In the meantime... happy crafting.

Toodles

Lorraine xxx

Candy Giveaway No7.... CLOSED

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Evening folks... and here's the next piece of candy up for grabs this week. This time around we have another 2 sets of stamps.. both of which are Woodware...

If you fancy a chance at winning them then as before, simply follow the rules.

1. You must have an active blog.

2. Leave a comment on this post.

This time around I've put the draw date back a little... so winner will be announced next Tuesday 4th May.

Toodles for now and happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Candy Giveaway No6... CLOSED

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Morning folks... sorry I didn't manage to post yesterday but it was just one of those days... ended up baby sitting and everything for my friend as her house was being painted and as we all know... paint and 2 year olds do not mix very well... lol

Anyway, to get on with the business of candy giveaways... here's what's up for grabs today... there are 2 stamps included in this giveaway, 1 with hedgehogs and the other with kitty cats... both stamps are from Little Claire Designs.

If you fancy a chance at Mr Postie delivering them to your door free of charge then simply follow the rules...

1. You must have an active blog.

2. Leave a comment on this posting.

Winner will be announced April 30th (TOMORROW)......

Good luck to all who enter and I'll catch up with you all again later.

Toodles for now and happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Candy giveaway No 5... CLOSED

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Evening folks and hope you've all had a fabulous day... perhaps some of you even managed to see some sun... lucky things if you did... lol.

Well time to get on with business... so this time around the giveaway consists of a sheet of stamps which are fashion related... what's included... a small one that says 'I love handbags', 2 small handbags, 2 small love hearts and a small design that could be used inside the larger bags or that you could add a handle to by making your own, there are 5 large handbags and the biggest stamp is a background one which has text relating to handbags such as 'shoulder bag' and 'evening bag'.

If you fancy a chance at winning these stamps then simple follow the rules.

1. You must have an active blog.

2. Leave a comment on this post.

Winner will be announced on April 30th.

Well I scheduled this posting this morning so I cannot tell you exactly what I am up to tonight but if all goes as was planned this morning then I will most likely be sitting making up some samples or doing some colouring in... oh well.... perhaps I'll remember to tell you all in the morning.

Think that's enough gibbering from me for the moment so I'll bid you all a good night, happy crafting and will see you all in the morning again with yet another candy giveaway.

Toodles...

Lorraine xxx

Candy giveaway No 4... CLOSED

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Morning folks... well as you've probably guessed by now I'm having a bit of a clear out at the moment as my time is filled with commission work so not really getting a chance to craft for myself. It's a good thing really as we all know just how quickly our stash accumulates and when do we ever take the time to clear through it... oh.... never do I hear you say.... lol.

Anyway, I've got a pile of unmounted stamps so I've split them into five different groups... hopefully that will mean you're more likely to be able to enter for something you want as opposed to something you don't want.

First up is a pile of stamps that have been gathered from magazines... christmas, bags, shoes, flowers etc. If you would like a chance at winning these stamps then simply follow the rules below...

1. You must have an active blog

2. Leave a comment on this post

Winner will be announced on April 30th.

Well, time to get on with the daily duties I guess, so I will bid you a fond farewell for the moment being and please check back this evening for another candy giveaway... I'm going to schedule the posting right now...

Toodles for now and happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Lofty's Garden

Morning folks...can you believe I've actually managed to upload a card today...lol

Here I used some of my beautiful new basic grey papers which I added some additional ink to around the edge and punched a hole for my brad that hold the sign in place. I stamped my sign on white card stock, trimmed, then mounted onto a trimmed piece of textured cardstock. Punched two holes in the corners and threaded through some fibre which is held in place with brads. Attached it to the paper in the same manner, then layered onto a white base card. Next up I took a strip of textured cardstock, again inked the edges and attached to the base card. Used my nesties to cut a brown scalloped circle again from textured cardstock and also a white circle to fit inside. Stamped my Lofty image on the white circle and then water coloured using Sakura Stardust (dark & deep colours). Once dry I layered my image onto the scalloped circle and attached it all to the base card using 3d foam pads. Finally to finish off I added some beautiful Prima e-line flowers and card candy as they matched with the flowers I had water coloured on the image.

Oh well... guess that's enough play time for me just now... time to get back to business... let's see.... yes, better start with a quick clean around the house, followed by a trip to Asda then back here to get on with some more cards...

Will pop back later hopefully with another little piece of candy giveaway but in the meantime... have a happy day crafting....

Toodles.

Lorraine xxx

Candy Giveaway No 3... CLOSED

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Sorry about failing to post yesterday folks but ended up with unexpected visitors.

However, I have managed to find another little something to put up for grabs today... this time around it's a pack of pins... 6 different colours, 5 of each colour so there are 30 in total... and they have pretty little flower heads on them.

If you fancy a chance at winning them the rules are simple...

1. You must have an active blog.

2. Leave a comment on this posting.

Winner will be drawn on April 30th.

Off now to give one of my bunnies a bath... he's been a little poorly so got a bit of a dirty bum... can't be having my baby smelling so in the tub he is going.... lol then a quick bite of dinner before my step daughter arrives with her boyfriend.. need to squeeze in a few more invitations before bedtime too....

Will have another rummage tomorrow again and see if I can come up with any more goodies to give away but until then I will bid you a fond farewell and a very good night...

Toodles for now and catch you all tomorrow again.

Lorraine xxx

Candy time again... CLOSED

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Evening all.... sorry it's so late in the day for posting but I've been working away on invites all day so I hope you will forgive me... lol

Anyway, here are another lot of flowers up for grabs... this time white & fuschia.

They are Prima E-line again and there are 50 in total.

50 free flowers... what do you have to lose... lol

To enter:

1. You must have an active blog.

2. Leave a comment on this post.

Winner will be announced on April 30th...

With that I will bid you all a good evening as I'm off now to make a little bite to eat... poor wee belly is rumbling away here as though it's been starved for days.

Catch up with you all tomorrow again... hmmm may possibly have some more goodies to give away too... time will tell.

Toodles for now and happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Prima flowers up for grabs....CLOSED.....

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Afternoon folks... sorry I've been awol again for a few days but been trying to get through these wedding invites etc... don't want the bride stressing now do we...

Now I had to order 20 packs of the lovely new Prima E Line flowers (Fuschia) and I have no requirement for the large number of spotty flowers that came in the packs (although I did keep some for myself), so thought I'd offer them up for grabs to one lucky person.

There are 50 flowers in total... 25 large and 25 small.

If you fancy a chance at winning these flowers simply follow the rules below.

1. You must have an active blog.

2. Please put a brief note on your blog with a link to this posting.

3. Leave a quick comment here.

Winner will be drawn next Friday.... 30th April.

Now all that's left to say is good luck to everyone who enters.

Happy crafting and catch you all later.

Toodles

Lorraine xxx

I so cannot believe it.....

I'm so gutted today.... I cannot believe that ABC has made the decision to axe one of my all time favourite programs... Ugly Betty.... I've even got the theme tune on my mobile... no matter how I've felt in the past I have always been cheered up the minute I heard the theme tune... it's so vibrant and alive. In addition to that it was such a fun program that made you laugh aloud and with the crap viewing on tv these days it was wonderful to have such a show on air... Obviously some numb skull at ABC doesn't quite know what good tv is all about...

Okay folks... rant over for the evening... see you all again in the morning...

Hugs 'n' kisses

Lorraine xxx

Mr Postie has arrived....

OMG... Mr Postie arrived today with my latest order from Mad About Cards... well at 29p a sheet how could I resist... 23 new sheets of Basic Grey papers and 2 sheets of alphas... had to lay them all on the floor to take the picture... lol. They are absolutely gorgeous... it was fun taking the picture as the sun was trying to shine on part of the papers which hid their true colours and even this picture makes them appear a little dull... trust me they are not... they are stunning and as I was looking through them, stamps from my collection were popping into my head saying use me... use me.... see even my stamps love them and they haven't even met yet.... lol.

Well best dash now as my day is a little muddled at the moment... started off with a surprise visit from an agent at 9am this morning (he caught me with wet hair.. just out of the shower, so need to rewash and dry again...), most of the housework is done, washing blowing like mad on the line... looks like a gorgeous day from indoors but gosh what a freezing gale it's blowing... need to pop to the supermarket then back indoors again to continue with some more samples and my inserts for the wedding invites... oh what a cruel evil life I have eh... lol

Catch up with you all later on again.

Toodles and happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Winter aftermath....

Morning all.... today I thought I'd share some pictures of what was my beloved garden... sadly the harsh winter has destroyed most of the tropical elements in it... apart from that is my fake castor oil plant... it does have a few brown leaves that have to go but it managed to hang on quite well. I do find this picture quite amusing though... one side, all the plants are brown, the other side, they are all green. From this picture you can see that I will need to cut down my eucalyptus, my yucca tree and I also have to remove 2 large flax plants. My garden certainly is going to be very much on the bare side this year..

Just had to show you this close up of my poor Yucca tree... it was growing in my garden for almost 9 years so had achieved a good height and always made me smile when I looked out of the window.. now however... not a lot to smile about when you look at it's sad pitiful state is there... lol

Well time is moving on this morning so I guess it's time to get my butt in gear, get the work done and then move on to some more card making... always make you do the housework that little bit quicker... lol.

Toodles for now and catch up with you all later on again.

Happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Souffle & Stardust...

Afternoon folks... here's another little something I've put together lately...

This is one of the flower fairies stamps (minus the fairy... lol) and this time I used another pen combination for the colouring. First up I watercoloured the image using Sakura Souffle pens... very often the pens that are overlooked as everyone thinks they are very matt in appearance but there are ways to change this. Once my souffle was dry I then put another layer over the top of the souffle by watercolouring on with some clear stardust. A little matting & layering on the card & voila... a complete card... oh almost forgot... I added the doodled dots with a coloured pigma micron pen.

Images & pens available here

Right I'm off now to wash some windows, do some ironing & squeeze in a little gardening too if possible.

Toodles for now and catch you all later....

Lorraine xxx

SALE...... Basic Grey...

Just a wee quick piece of info for anyone who likes Basic Grey... there is an Easter Sale still on at Mad About Cards and they have just added a whole load of Basic Grey stock to the sale.... items such as 12" x 12" papers are believe it or not... £0.29.....now you really can't ask for much more of a saving than that, can you... stock is selling like hot cakes so if you're interested in making a saving I'd hurry on over now.

Mad About Cards

Happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Flower Fairy - Zinnia

Morning folks... can you believe it's Friday already... sadly it doesn't appear to be forecast for another scorcher of a weekend but I'm sure we'll all survive it... lol.

This is one of the Flower Fairies stamps called Zinnia and don't you think she is just adorable... by the time I coloured her in I realised that anything else I added to the card would simply be detracting from her beauty so I made the decision to keep it mega plain.

Image was stamped using Staz On and then water coloured using Sakura Stardust on the wings, Shadow on the flower & skirt and metallic on the flower stem, her top and legs. I then edged both the image and the black matt with a gold calligraphy pen before mounting onto my base card.

All items can be purchased here

Well... I'm off now to get the washing out on the line to dry... yippee... we have another day of sunshine today so going to make the most of it... windows to wash, grass to cut, another bit of weeding and pruning in the garden.... well there is rain forecast for the weekend so have to enjoy the sun whilst it's here... lol.

Toodles for now and happy crafting.

Lorraine xxx

Race For Life....

Joanne

(sadly passed away from Ovarian Cancer)

Evening folks... I know that many of you will already have read about this matter but I am posting also for anyone who hasn't...

Joanne... was the cousin of one of our fellow bloggers... Amanda (scotspanda) who sadly passed away a few weeks ago after a fight with Ovarian Cancer.

Now, in memory of her cousin and to help raise funds & awareness, Amanda has decided to do the 'Race for Life' in Inverness on Sunday 9th May. She has set up a sponsor page and if you can spare even as little as £1 it would be a great help to her. Amanda is not a greedy person and would be so appreciative of any sponsorships received so if you would like to help her on her way then please click on the link below that will take you straight to her sponsorship page.

Sponsor Amanda in the 'Race For Life'

Thank you to all who have taken the time to read this posting and to anyone who gives a contribution towards the cause.

Love hugs & kisses

Lorraine xxx

Unexpected Visitor....

Morning folks... sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday but I had a day of visitors... started off at 11am with my friend calling by with her little girl Charlie, my mum popped in too ( numerous times) then I got a surprise text to see if I was around... who was it from.... Amanda Bateman my very dear friend... oh what a lovely surprise to get in the morning and she was only a few hours away... So, come 1pm I had a change of visitors... Gail went on her merry way with little Charlie & then I spent the whole afternoon (into early evening) having a good old catch up chat with Amanda. Baguettes & cake for lunch.... along with tea & coffee of course... then sat back chilling on the sofa. Now if that wasn't a lovely surprise for the day then I really don't know what is.

For anyone living in the Belfast area... don't forget that you can see Craig & Amanda demoing Sakura & Bruynzeel at the Stitch & Creative Craft show.

Kings Hall Belfast...

Thurs 15th - 10am - 8pm

Fri 16th - Sat 17th - 10am - 5pm

Well... time to move & get some housework done I guess... got numerous calls to make this morning & then some samples to finish.

Catch you all later.

Lorraine xxx

Stamp Set

Sorry folks.... I forgot to give you details earlier on the stamp that I had used for my card.... so here it is now... better late than never as they would say eh... lol.

This is such a cute stamp set called 'Stitchels Heart'. The set comes complete with cushion mount and they are very good quality stamps with lovely clear detail.

They are currently available from Create & Craft... item number.... 163 316

priced at only £9.99.

See ya all later...

Lorraine xxx

What a glorious weekend...

Morning folks and what a glorious weekend it has been here and I hope you've all had a piece of the sunshine over the last few days too.... it's so nice to finally feel like the winter is over, thermals can be packed away for another few months and time to brush the cobwebs off the t-shirts... lol

Even though I haven't taken time to boot up the computer (far too nice for that) I have been busy crafting away in the sunshine and I will do my best this week to post at least once per day... should be easier now that I've had a little sunshine boost. At the end of the year we binned our old patio table and chairs as they were a bit kicked so there was panic around here on Saturday... all this sunshine and no-where to park our bums in the garden. A quick dash to the garden centre and back we came with a nice round wooden table & 4 chairs (all of which fold for easy storing during the winter months). Next up a BBQ for dinner so off to the supermarket for some hotdogs (my favourite), steak and burger for Rob, salad etc. Needless to say our bums were in the garden all day yesterday too... lol. Though I must admit it's not the nicest of sights at the minute... the hard winter has killed so many of my plants including my 8 foot Yukka and Eucalyptus trees... very sad... so they have to be chopped down and the remainder of the garden needs to be tidied up as well so that will be a lengthy process over the next few weeks. Have a feeling it's going to look rather barren by the end of it all.

Anyway, in the meantime here's one of the little cards I made at the weekend, very quick and simple layout. I stamped the image onto some card and water coloured using Sakura Souffle, then I stamped around the border using the tail of the bird image and a little inking. Mounted this onto some blue card then again onto the base card. At the bottom of the card I placed a layer of brown card, on top of which was some blue paper which I punched with some Fiskars punches, threaded my ribbon through and then attached. A little inking around the edge of the base card finish it all off along with some little gems.

Well, time to sign off again, need to do a quick dash around the housework then out into the sunshine I go along with my paper and pens to do some colouring... later on I'll tend a bit of the garden and if the sun keeps up, may well be BBQ for dinner again... lol.

Hope you all have a fabulous day.

Happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

I've been poorly :-(((

Afternoon folks and please accept my apologies for being awol over the last few days but I've been a little on the poorly side.... been trying to keep work flowing as best I could but apart from that I've done nothing else. Old body just didn't want to play very nicely this week...

Anyway, here's a fun little card I made last week. I used a flower head stamp to stamp onto some coloured paper and then cut out, curled the edges then attached one layer on top of the other. Used a Pigma Micron to doodle around the edges, some ribbon became the stems & leaves then I attached my flower heads on top. Added some glitter to the centres just for a little sparkle.

Flower heads created using Stitchels Heart stamp set

Glitter

Pigma Micron

Sorry this is short and sweet but I'm trying to make up for lost time now and still got a bit to do before organising tea and I would really like to sit down tonight and do a little crafting... well I do have a lot of lost time to make up for don't I... lol... any excuse will do... :-)

Okay folks, toodles for now and hopefully I'll be back tomorrow morning again.

Happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Paint Your Own Picture...

I don't know if any of you managed to watch a lot of Create & Craft over the holiday weekend... so just incase you missed it... here is a little something new.

Paint Your Own Picture from Bruynzeel (sister company to Sakura)...

This is a fabulous new product that has just launched in the UK which allows you to download your own pictures to your PC then print onto canvas and paint. The image on the front of the box in this picture is infact a painting, not a picture.

At the moment this product is exclusive to Create and Craft so if you are interested in seeing how it works, keep an eye out for a re-run of the show or pop onto the Create & Craft website if you wish to make a purchase. Stocks however are currently running low so don't waste too much time... lol

Product code is 162 829

If anyone has already purchased this item and wishes to know any more about it, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to assist.

Well, guess it's time to get on with some more work eh, so I'll bid you all a fond farewell for the evening and will see you all tomorrow again.

Happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Easter Weekend....

Morning folks... and happy Easter to all... hope you've all had a fabulous time over the last few days, filled with fun and laughter, and hopefully not that much chocolate that you ended up sick... lol

I've been busy all weekend making samples and working on a wedding order... but as they say... all work and no play leads to a very boring life... so... on Saturday we took a little jaunt into Glasgow to the Transport Museum... unfortunately it's current home is not set up to store these beautiful antiques correctly and the result being that they are now showing severe signs of damage... so as of April 18th 2010 the current location will close to the public for good. Thankfully there is a new building being constructed to house this wonderful collection and it will be opening in 2011 at Glasgow Riverside. It will be a climate controlled building so hopefully there will be no more damage to the wonderful treasures it houses.

Sunday... well that was more of a work day... got stuck in as best I could whilst Rob took a trip to the gym etc, then we popped off to Tesco to do the weekly shop... rather boring day all round I guess.

Monday... another jaunt into Glasgow... this time to the Burrell collection, Pollok House and Pollok Park. Well first stop was the Burrell collection, a little nosey around the artifacts etc then into the coffee shop for a bite to eat whilst looking out over the grassland... very relaxing indeed. Now I don't know if you saw it on the news or not but there was a relatively rare calf born at the park a few weeks back and how could I possibly leave without seeing it... lol... so off we trundled around the surrounding area on the look out for the new addition. Pollok Park is home to some stunning Highland Cattle and one of them recently gave birth to a rare colour calf (classed as silver), sorry the info is basic here but I can't even find the correct details on the net at the minute... and would you believe that when we found the gorgeous little creature, it was sat amid the top of a hill and I then realised that I had forgotten to lift the camera :-((( now how truly silly was that. Hopefully, we'll manage another trip in the very near future.. armed with camera of course and I will then be able to post a picture. Whilst there we decided it would be nice to have a walk around the grounds of Pollok Park and did we see the funniest of sights... the river was flowing rather quickly yesterday and there in the middle of it all was this little duck swimming back & forth quacking his little heart out... he was obviously enjoying his white water rapid ride and boy was it hysterical...

Well... the holiday weekend is past and it's back to business as usual today... need to continue with samples as they are due for delivery on Thursday then some more work to do on the wedding order... no rest for the wicked as they say eh !!! lol

Toodles for now and I'll be back soon.

Happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Create and Craft...

Now I'm not at liberty to disclose any details at the moment... but all I can say is that there is a new product ready to hit your screens on the Create & Craft channel... yes I know it's the Easter weekend but that's no excuse... set your box to record and enjoy the shows at your leisure...

Create and Craft...

Saturday 10am and Sunday 9am

Me... well I'll definately be taping both shows to watch in peace and quiet when hubby's not around... lol.

Hugs, kisses & happy crafting

Lorraine xxx

Welcome to the Dragon's Den....

Now I would say good morning to you all... but hey... I'm just a little bit on the late side today to get away with that... lol... at least I guess it's still better than yesterday when I didn't manage to post at all. So sorry about that, but too much to do and too little time to do it all in... you know what I mean.... in addition to that I was feeling a little on the 'crap' side of life (quite literally)... thankfully I appear to be back to normal today which is a good thing as I have another long list to tackle.

Anyway, when I was at the NEC I didn't have much time to shop and what I did get I had to be careful about so I wasn't over my weight allowance... not much room in the old case you know when it's full of punches etc, and boy do they sure add weight to your case. Alas, this was one little fella I just couldn't leave behind... no way... he was definately coming home with me (in hand luggage of course to prevent breakage, just like my tea cup and saucer). He is just the cutest little dragon and is made from polymer clay... beautiful colours but my favourite parts are his nose & feather trim... cheeky little blighter that he is... he's already taken up residence on my craft desk and is not prepared to move...lol.

Well I just had to share with you and now I'm off to get started on today's work load but will pop back later to give you an update on some new shows on Ideal World.

Hope you all have a fab day full of wonderful crafting.

Hugs

Lorraine xxx