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... Tag! This week the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge is asking to see Tags... and being as that is all I usually make, I thought I would enter this latest creation. CLICK HERE for all the deets about the challenge... there's a prize to be wo...

Goodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Spring Sunday to you all. Thank you all for your fab entries last week... and apologies that I haven't got around to all your entries yet... will get chance to visit you on Monday :O)) The theme this week i...

Cor blimey, all this sunshine is going to my head and making me want to play in the garden instead of the Room of Stash! I know! Mind you, if you saw our garden you would totally get why it needs some attention... two long years of chopping trees, t...

Gooooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Mothering Sunday to you all. Many thank you's for your lushiously misty entries for last weeks theme... I have a winner to announce for my tag giveaway... more of that in mo. The theme this week is based...

... March! Blinking blimey, you turn your back for a few minutes and someone fastforward's us right into March! But that can be a goodly thing because it means that there's a new 12 Tags of 2012 from the one and only Duke of Distress. CLICK HERE t...

Goodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! Many thank you's for the lovely entries that you created for last weeks challenge... and thank you for all the lovely email entries too. I have been thinking about other ways to enter the...

...yep, that's me. It has to be hormonal.. or an age thing. I mean, how hard is it to remember to take a photo or two? Especially when the camera is in your pocket? Well, I forgot... again! I was in Preston on Tuesday with the lovely girls at In...

... several decades ago I bought myself a couple of little papier mache suitcases to alter... and promptly put them into the big box labelled "stuff to alter" and then did nothing with them. Being as I am a reformed character and now have a spotless...

...Umbrella Man... Aha! I sang that to you, you know... to the tune of Nowhere Man... did you like it? (or, are your ears now bleeding?) So... the other day when I was faffing about with honeycomb paper and Alterations I decided to have a little po...

Goooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! Many many thanks for all the fabulous stitched creations entered last week... and thanks to the email entries too... it makes me smile big to see all your fabby artwork! So, this week I...

..or rather... my silence is... because dear bloggy buddies, I have lost my voice! I know... fancy that... being someone who is ever so quiet and retiring and all that! Actually, I do have a little bit of a voice... only a smidge, so I am saving it...

...do you ever get that "made-those-once-need-to-make-them-again-right-now" urges? You know those little roses I made yesterday from the Mini Tattered Florals die? Well, I am officially addicted... as I also seem to be turning several shades of pas...

Goooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! Thank you all for your fab lurve creations last week... it was lovely to see some new peeps joining in with the challenge too! This week the new theme is... STITCHES/SEWING. To join...

...The Grungy Monday Challenge, hosted by the luverly Linda Ledbetter, this week has the theme LOVE. If you haven't seen the challenge before, do head on over HERE... it is a brill challenge, focussing on techniques from Tim Holtz and... it gets bet...

...I think of all the Stampotique stamps I own, this is my fave little fella... he is called Heart Throb and here he is today with his little pet Kitty. A couple of weeks ago I did a mini canvas using Claudine's gorgeous paints and I enjoyed it sooo...

...this Stan character seems to be appearing more and more here doesn't he? He is one of my new "fave" Studio 490 stamps (I know, ALL of them are but... ) even though he has been sitting nice and quitely underneath my desk for the past few years, it...

... in photographic skills... to the point that I am severely reprimanding myself and I am, at the moment, sitting in the corner with a big hat with a D on it. Why? Because... I keep doing this... making something, doing a fast photo-thingy and then...

Gooooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy, albeit freeezing, Sunday to you all! Many, many thanks for the lucious heart entries for last weeks challenge... and being as lurve is still in the air with the day of love on Tuesday, this week the theme...

Gooooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy, albeit freeezing, Sunday to you all! Many, many thanks for the lucious heart entries for last weeks challenge... and being as lurve is still in the air with the day of love on Tuesday, this week the theme...

...Cor, that sounds like it could be a name for a 1970's prog rock band... but no, it is actually the abode of Stan Spider who is probably one of my favest cutest ickle Studio 490 stamps. I have had a few questions and emails about the Art Part Spo...