I don't just do paper

I have had to move things around in the spare room so that my radiators can be repaired- that means my craft table is in pieces and I am feeling restless. So I have been forced back to my knitting. Knitting is great but the children always watch me do it and I get endless requests. I was making a present yesterday ( I am desperate to show it but don't want to spoil the surprise) when Arthur asked for a fox ( or a wolf ) so I made him this today. Now Nancy wants one and Arthur wants a wolf and a spaceship and an alien and........

He's a little wonky and has gaps but he's ok

it's a Christmas thing

Here is my entry for the My Mind's Eye blog challenge
As you can see I have changed the sketch a bit, I have only one photo, the title
in a different place and there isno strip down the middle but all the other elements are all
there
the bracket shape
the three elements at the top and the two circles at the bottom

The Lo is called It's a Christmas Thing and it might need a little translating
for anyone outside the UK

At Christmas lunch we always have Christmas crackers- they have a little snap
inside, a gift, a (bad) joke and a paper hat. It is THE LAW that you must wear
your paper hat for as long as possible- the men are usually better at it than
the women and quite often fall asleep after lunch wearing it- This photo is my
grandfather wearing his paper hat about twenty (or more) years ago

This is the sketch

Day five finally

It took me a while but I finally managed to photograph and upload the last day of the mystery sketch from Lets Capture these Sketches.

I know I'm supposed to upload this to the gallery but it tells me I need to resize it and that is beyond me ( yes I'm sure it's very simple when you know how) so it's uploaded on the blog

This is how the sketch looked at the end

instead

Artastic

Artastic's challenge was to use the nativity painting by Boticelli as inspiration and include a stable an angel and gold

. The colours I chose were similar to the muted colour of the painting. I put everything down the middle of the LO which reminds me of the positioning of the stable on the painting again.

The stable is in the photographs as this is a LO about my obsession with nativity scenes I seem to have collected quite a few over the last few years and am now up to seven- this year i bought a playmobil one for the children to play with ( but only a little bit)

From Screen to Scrap- Nightmare

The From screen to scrap challenge this month is the Nightmare before Christmas- the challenge is to add various things to your LO inspired by the movie poster

I've managed to add 1. the moon, 2. the fence, 3. the purple and yellow 4, a swirl and 5. a skeleton but there is more to add as well

My Journalling Junkie Xmas

Just chuck it all In !

I decided to chuck all of my latest LOs into one all purpose post. James and the boys went out to watch football in sub zero temperatures last night leaving me to craft. 3 hours later i had seven LOs (five of which are here two are in a separate post)

Much excitement- our new printer is here and working so now I can print out little photos and make multi photo LOs- hooray

So here goes

1. Design Dollies latest sketch

This is Arthur blowing massive bubbles at our recent street party. Its quite common here for streets to close for a street party but our street is a major ring road so it's never been done before. Anyway this year our road was closed for major road works so we were able to have our first and last street party.
from this ( someone very kindly told me how to resize things but I'm hopeless)

2. the scrappiest

Arthur on a boat on Lake Como- I love the way he smiles
From this

3. Pencil lines latest sketch

Its called "waiting for change" because 1. I just scrapped this photo in large size and 2 I noticed how little Athur's teeth look. He's getting on for 6 now so it's only a matter of time before the tooth fairy is visiting our house for Arthur as well as Stanley
From this tricky little number

4. Get Picky

The get Picky challenge is all about using more than one photo on your LOs. This time the challenge was a quote from Audrey Hepburn

Here it is"I believe in manicures, i believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Its such a great girl quote and I took the line I believe in pink. Nancy loves make up but she's not great at applying it yet- as the photos prove
From this lovely quote and picture

5. Sketchy Thursdays

Gotta love this hat from Ikea- My first though was Carmen Miranda ( I don't think I ever saw one of her films but she's just one of those familiar faces[or hats}] from my youth.
from this