Barcelona

Some beautiful images from

our trip to Barcelona...

 all my favourite colours !

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Inchie : Home

The Inchiebyinch prompt word this week is:

HOME

I've cheated a bit as I've just framed an inch square of

some stitching I did on an old postcard

which someone lovingly wrote while they were away from home

It was my first attempt at stitching French Knots

to make little sewn flowers

So my inchie represents

HOME GROWN

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Hurried a bit to get this done

 as I'm going away for a few days...

I'll be HOME soon

and come to visit to see what you've made !!!

Matchbox Swap

The Partridge

 has come home to roost...

The swans have swum in,

the geese have landed & laid

& the Gold rings are shining brightly !!!

How are you others getting on ?

I'd like to have every set packaged by

mid November

to enable the ones going overseas

a chance to arrive in time for Christmas !

I'll be away next Tuesday for a few days

( Barcelona here I come with my teenage daughter ! )

so hope you leave a message

about how your swap boxes are coming along !

My email is

Pennysteel@talktalk.net

for my postal address

inchie : FUTURE

The prompt for this weeks inchie is

FUTURE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvIAyxpjEuc

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Blog award

What seems like ages ago,

sweet Cory from:

http://pinkdogwoodblossom.blogspot.com/

gave me this award !

Thank you again Cory.

I have to answer this question :

If I had the chance to go back & change one thing in my life

what would it be ?

Then pass the award to six bloggers.

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The answer to the question is without doubt,

to go back and give my teenage self a good pep talk.

Tell her not to be so shy & nervous.....

Tell the boy who asked my best friend  to find out

if I would go out with his  friend

 " Yes "

Don't answer for me -

I didn't know anything about it til later ( Too late ) !!!

It might have helped my confidence to know

someone wanted to ask me out & didn't because my best friend told his friend no !!! 

Tell myself the acne does go eventually

( and you will look nice )

You have a great life ahead

but don't waste time in the cafe at college -

get working hard

& get that  qualification !

Learn to drive now silly girl

cos at 47 you still don't !
Stop biting your nails..
cos at 47 you still do !

Stop being so reckless walking home from parties alone in the dark to save your taxi fayre

and NEVER take a lift from someone who has been drinking
and don't drink too much ...

as thirty years later you will lecturing your daughter about this very subject !!!

" What ? I have a daughter" ???

umm probably shouldn't have told her that !

( and a son  -shhhsh don't tell )

( oh ! and a wonderful husband  !!!)

Tell her everything is OK and she does stop being so quiet...

in fact later on,

she'll find that...

SHE CAN' T SHUT UP !!! 

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I'm passing this very pretty award to some very crafty
( in the nicest way )

 blogger friends :

* Jo at Fiddlesnips

* Carolyn at LOVE STITCHING RED

* Margaret at Alice & Camilla
* Kimmie at Art in Red Wagons
* Cathy at Menopausal Musing
* Carol at Madness & Mess

all of these lovely blogs are on my sidebar
and all of these ladies inspire me to create & learn.
Thank you


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inchie challenge The Past

Our prompt  for this week's inchie is

The Past.

This had me remembering my best friend Natasha.

We met at primary school aged five-

Tash was hanging upside down on the school railings.

We spent so much time together 

& were ALWAYS dressing up.

We were in a fancy hat competition

and wore our long dresses

 & were photographed for the local paper.

Our dresses were were very like the

Kate Greenaway ones I've used in my inchie.

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I've backed my inchie with a vintage

footpaths map

showing the village where we grew up.

We learned our

abc and sums together.

I've smudged some chalk on & some blue ink.

Cleaning the blackboard was considered a treat

 and I remember getting our first

ink pens & getting inky fingers !

I've photographed my inchie

on  the inside cover of an old school book.

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Tash & me messing around

in the photo booth-

I'm the one in the silly headband !

( I plaited that out of three long scarves ! )

Great memories from

The Past

Thank you Fiona

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swap lovelies

A while back I offered some copies

of La Mode 1900

as a swap.

In return

I wanted either a piece of artwork inspired by the paper

or

material for a comparable price.

Jo ( Fiddlesnips )

made me this delightful postcard.

I love it - so dainty.

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Jo also mde me a Hen House ATC !

I've started to make a few ATC's but they are no way

as good as Jo's !

Thank you Jo.

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Margaret

( Alica and Camilla )

sent a scrumptious package

from Switzerland-

full of old book pages,

papers, cards etc

with German or French script.

Lovely !

I've had such fun looking through them.

Thank you Margaret 

English / French phrase book pages

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My other swappers live in the USA

so my packages took a bit longer

to travel

over the pond !