Gift Box

Gift Box

Close up of decoration

another close up

inside the box

September

Not had much time for crafting as been visiting relatives in the USA.


Here is the first of this years Christmas cards.

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Making flowers

While I was, on the whole, disappointed with the craft fair at Newbury, I did buy a new Spellbinders 'Rose Creations' die. It is very nice. It works particularly well with the thin brown paper that Amazon use to pack their parcels. So here are a couple of examples;

Carousel cake

The new Carousel horse stamps on Chocolate Baroque reminded me of my 5th birthday cake. It was a shop bought cake that was decorated by my father to look like a roundabout. It was the first of several, the later ones had candy sugar twists supporting the canopy, but I can't find pictures of the later ones.

Cousin Margaret is in the picture on the left and I am lurking behind the cake in the picture on the right.

a comment

You can tell that I am unused to this blogging lark as there are huge gaps between my text and photos - no idea how to remedy this.  
Is there anybody out there?




regards Joan

June Tags for Chocolate Baroque swap

It was a lovely sunny morning and after all the rain yesterday it seemed like a good day for a bit of digging in the garden. I have a Chusan palm in a pot which is looking distressed so it needs to go in the ground but it requires a BIG hole!!

But now the sun has gone in.............anyway here are some more visual delights.

Lilies in the garden

Clearly nothing to do with tags, but I wanted to share!!

regards Joan

All good things come to those who wait!!

....as promised the picture of the altered matchbox.

I forgot to take a picture of the inside, but I did include a recipe for the most scrumptious pudding. I wonder if Sue has made it yet? 




regards Joan