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I've been terribly stressed for a few days

so...

I went to the beach earlier

for a good dose of nature's finest.

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A little extravagant of me - one of those times when they were ringing up the price before I'd checked it so I thought... " Sod it ! "


We have done the home made Advent calendars - the candle ones & the chocolate ones. Lovely ones sent by a lovely God mother too but I just loved this rusty bucket one !


It will go well with my decor... rust & buckets !


I'll add another photo when it is stuffed with goodies and on display.


Got a seventeenth birthday party to organise first.... not a party as such but a get together. DD is going to cook & two friends are coming early to make a cake for her. We have been banished to the pub !


Last year for her sixteenth she had half a dozen friends in for a James Bond themed evening. They all dressed up & the boys looked fab in their Dad's DJs !


We did games - pin the numberplate on the ... Aston Martin ( wee man supplied us with a picture )... " Who am I " with Bond character names and Charades from the Bond film titles.


It was hilarious. We decorated in black silver & pink all very stylish and borrowed a chocolate fountain. Great fun.

Kard Krazy

Here is my Tuesday Tag for this week !

I love this illustration I found over at Kickan & Conkers showing Mendel's law

I always remember mum telling us a limerick her Biology teacher told her
class to remember the law



It isn't politically correct now I'm afraid to say the whole thing but it started :



There was a young woman from Starkey...



and ended with:

... one black one white and two Khaki

twinchies

Another challenge - to make a design in a 2 inch square ( first find a ruler with inches ! )

from Awfully Big Art Adventure.

They are to be twinkly & glitzy... something I don't really do !

I'm pleased with the result and will give it to a friend for her birthday card this week as she loves sparkly things !


I used silk I had hand painted a while back, padded it out with bubble wrap added some stars & beautiful gauze with little crystals on and a few glass ( well plastic ) dangly things I saved from a beautiful set of Christmas lights which were broken. Outlined it all with silver ribbon.

Tag Tuesday

Only just in time to add these to Tag Tuesday.... I was making them anyway & finished them yesterday.

I've made labels too and they are going to decorate three lovely bottles with ceramic stoppers - filled with bubble bath & given to three good friends for Christmas.

Dans ma maison il y a....

... une petite fille. My house contains a girl - she is Rapunzle in her tower... " Rapunzle, Rapunzle let down your long hair !


Made up from bits & bobs in my note book today.

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While I was away I found these ....

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FABULOUS PRINTING BLOCKS !!!

I LOVE THEM