From Door To House!!

Phew!! I finally finished this project!!

All I wanted to do, was to make a scene for a Fairy 

I made  with my air dry clay. 

She had been sitting on a shelf above my desk, for a few 

years and I also wanted to give her some hair and clothes!! 

I did a crackle effect on the door and the frame.

I Die cut some Ivy and a climbing floral item

to decorate the bare frame.

The Bunnies are wood from my stash and I just painted them.

The Toadstools and the snail, I made using

some white air dry clay, then painted them with acrylic paint.

She is made with my clay and her clothes are all 

made with ribbons from my stash.

She is sitting on a piece of wood, like a piece

of a tree trunk. Bought from Hobbycraft.

 

She does have pink wings. I cut them from beautiful

Organza fabric and added some Stickles to it.

For her hair, I used some of my Felting wool.

I made a plait, which goes right around her head too.

I made a box to add onto the back of the Fairy door.

Was very fiddley because of the shape of the frame.

I had done it before but couldn't remember exactly

how I did do it!!   (Old age!!)

I lined it with a piece of beautiful rose pink Foil Card

from Hobbycraft. Can't see it properly because of the 

shadow on it. 

The black Fairy flying in, is a die cut one using glittered

card, again from Hobbycraft.

The Fairy sitting at her mirror, is an old stamp from

Lily of The Valley. Coloured with Copics pens.

Again, the pink and purple doesn't  look as bright as it is.

I know it took a long time to do. But I thought that a little girl 

could open the door and see something. So they

wouldn't be disappointed, just seeing a hole!!

I know I would be!!! Lol!!!

So this is why I haven't posted for ages, as I also had 

Easter cards to make for the Care Home I support.

Finished them today.

Thank you for taking the time  to pop into

my blog. As you know, we  all do love to get  some

messages from our blogging friends.

Stay safe still. 

Big hugs

Carol

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Home Sweet Home

I made this ready for the Craft Fair I was booked to do,

in a Holiday Park last month in Norfolk.

Because the village was put into lock down, due to the 

high number of Covid-19 new people testing positive,

so the Craft Fair and Village Fun Day was cancelled. 

The Roses and leaves I made with Air Dry Clay.

Sorry the pictures are not very good. 

Hope you all have had your Jabs!!

We went into Norwich City and was surprised how busy

it was. Also, most of the people were still using masks, as

we did too. That made us feel safer.

Thank you for your lovely messages on my last post. 

They are all read and much appreciated, I also

leave you messages on your blogs.

Stay safe and enjoy the sunshine, if you have any!!

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Card Gift

Thank you for all the lovely messages on my last post.

My little Dog is now in his new home in West Sussex

As I miss him, I have started to make another one!! 

My card is for a friend, I have known from when  her

and her sister, were young children.

She now has her own horse, Brandy, which she didn't

 think she would ever have.

So I just had to make her a clay horse and made a 

card heart to mount it on. Hope she likes it, as it was today.

We had our 2nd Jabs this morning and hope I don't

get the shivers this time!! Hubby had gone to bed and 

about 1am, I felt cold. It then got colder by the minute

and my teeth were chattering!! So I dived into the bed with 

all my clothes on. It felt like all my body inside was frozen.

Very strange but thankful it started to go after about half an hour.

It wasn't that bad but just was surprised.

I would rather have that reaction than have Covid-19!!

Thank you for taking time to pop in and love 

reading your comments.

Hope you are all getting Jabbed!!

Stay safe and well.

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Lovely Lily

Happy New Year everybody.

Thank you for all your lovely messages on my last post..

My first post, for hopefully a better year than the last one!!

I had a play with Clay for a change and tried out

this new mould.. It took a bit longer than most moulds, as

every part hat to be shaped and then left to dry out.

Quite pleased for the first one. I now no another way on how 

to do it, which would make it easier than how I chose to do this one.

I have been playing with my Needle Felting. Making different animals, 

Fairies and even toadstools! 

I can't wait to improve my skill at it.. I know I will look back at 

these makes and just laugh at them!! 

Still, it is keeping me sane, during the lock down. 

I think it's a case of wanting to go somewhere but you can't.

So some days, I have just sat around doing nothing, which is not me.

I was talking to a friend is Sussex and she said that she was the same.

So that made me feel a bit better.

I have promised myself, that this evening I will visit all your 

blogs and leave a message. 

I must try to get my head in a good place!!

Stay safe,

Big hugs,

Carol

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Noel

Happy Christmas to all my lovely friends and family.

We hope that, at sooner rather than later, 2021 will be getting

back to normal, as we know it.

This was one of my projects for the Craft Fairs I never did.

I  will spend my spare time playing with my Needle Felting.

I already have 2 orders. One for a Hare and one for a fox!!

I really need a bit more practice first.

So please take care, stay safe and stay at home if you can.

Big hugs.

Carol

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Home Sweet Home!!

Another heart and my favourite colour!!

A simple Clay Rose with Clay leaves I made. 

Also a few small flowers from Hobbycraft. 

The background was of course my crackle paint job!

The sentiment is a die, multi cut to make it a bit stronger.

Along with wooden bits from my stash. 

I am finding things that I have had for years and forgotten I had them!! 

Hope you are all home, safe from this awful weather.

Plenty of big trees down on the local news.

At least I don't have to water the garden!!

We are back to having central heating on!!

Crazy, when a few days ago we were baking in the sun!!

Stay safe and don't go buying hundreds of Loo Rolls!!!!

Didn't get that last time, so why them again?!!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog

and leaving your lovely comments.

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Swinging Fairy With Friends!!

This is my Swinging Fairy!! 

I made her with Air Dry Clay, also the Toadstools,

Snail and Caterpillar are the same clay

Sadly you cannot see her wings, as I made them with

a pretty sparkly Organza fabric.

I used felting wool for her hair, which I made into ringlets.

That's the hairdresser in me!!

Her swing I made with Balsa wood.

The circle is a wooden embroidery ring, 

covered with ribbon.

Getting used to this new format. Can't find the 

spelling check button yet!!

Hope it is sunny where you are. We are having

another sunny warm day and looks like 

not so windy, as the last few days.

Thank you for your lovely comments and

for taking the time to visit my blog.

Have a lovely weekend  and stay safe.

Big Hugs,

Carol

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Ellie Balloons

Thank you for all the lovely messages again on my last post.

You are all so kind.

I have been playing with clay again. 

I had made a blue one of these boxes for a boy

 before, but never got around to making a girly one.

Ellie is made, using a Kathryn Sturrock mould 

and air dry clay.

The balloons and gift box I make in my hands,

using the same clay.

The flowers are made from air dry clay too.

I have a few more ideas for makes, so just hope

my head will get on with it!!

I have nearly finished a cross stitch picture I have had for years!!

It was still in an unopened bag!!

This morning, I found 4 others that I had started but not 

finished for years. They are mostly very big ones, 

by my favourite company Lanarte. 

A week today, my hubby will be 70!! 

Sadly, we will not be having a gathering of friends

 and family, that I was lucky to have.

We will just have a lunch out at a lovely pub near to us. 

Just hope the weather is kind to us. 

Back to my craft room to finish off a few notebooks. 

I must give a BIG HUG to Chrissy. 

You are so kind and thoughtful. I will treasure it 

and will stay on the wall in my craft room for ever!

Thank you for taking time out to visit my blog

and hope you are keeping safe and well. 

Please leave me a message so I know you have been

and I will visit your blog too. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Big hugs,

Carol

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Clay Flowers Frame

Thank you all for the lovely messages on my last post. 

Also to my 2 new visitors, I hope you liked my blog. 

I love making flowers with my Air Dry Clay and Roses 

are a regular make. So for a change, I thought I would

 try to make a Calla Lily and a Camellia.

I do have some in my garden, so I went and had look

at them to make sure I could get the detail right. Ish!!

The frame was an old one that I recycled, painting it

with some Gesso first. I then topped it with some

Duck Egg Blue Emulsion paint.  

I dried the paint with my heat gun.

I then dry bushed some craft glue over the whole frame.

I then dried to glue off a bit with my gun.

 I then dry brushed white Emulsion over the whole frame,

covering the glue.

I then dried the whole frame with my heat gun, which

then created the paint on the top to crackle. 

Below is the top corner with 2 clay flowers and the 

white flowers are from Hobbycraft. 

The pretty paper in the frame is from my stash.

So the flowers below are a Rose, Calla Lily and 

a Camelia. 

I don't use Moulds for making most of my flowers.

I prefer to just make them in my hands. 

With petals it works, as they mostly have veins

on them, which they can pick up from your hands.

So I have made a gift box to put this in and it will

go up for sale soon!!

Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine and keeping safe.

I can't remember when we last saw any rain!!

Thank goodness we have 2 big water butts for my new plants.

Thank you for taking time out to visit my blog

and I love reading your lovely messages. 

Big hugs, 

Carol 

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Whale and Friends

First of all, I must thank you all for the 

lovely, caring and understanding comments

on my last post.

I now feel that I am not alone in feeling

different, in this sad and strange world.

So I just made this for a bit of fun!!

The base of it was a kit I bought last year.

I added the Sea horse, the Pirate flag and of course 

the little Pirate!!

The pirate and the Seahorse I made with Air

Dry Clay. The pirate was a mould from 

Kathryn Sturrock.

I only made his head, neck and his hands with clay!!

The Sea horse was also a mould.

Back to making more Christmas cards!!

Well they have to get done!!

Thank you again for you kindness.

Stay safe!

Big 1metre away hugs!!

Carol

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Book an Owl!!

This is a book box, using different papers and colours, 

right on the outside edge of my normal go to colours!!

On my screen it looks grey but it is actually

black and Denim blue. The papers are from 

Anna Marie Designs. I bought both the 6" x 6"

and the 8" x 8" pads. 

So the cover is using the 8" and

the little birds I cut them from the 6" pad.

I fussy cut the little birds, even their tiny beaks!

I now know why it got the name 'Fussy cutting'!!

I am not a lover of a white edge. I won't even use dies to

cut detailed images. It's very therapeutic too.

It's another sad day today, as I have lost another friend.

She was in her 90's and had been very poorly with

a nasty Cancer. 

She had been a friend for about 29 years and loved her to bits!!

That is 3 friends I have lost within 10 days. 

When is this going to stop?!!!

Hope you are all staying safe and well.

Big hugs,

Carol 

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An Old Frame

I have been having some fun with my airdry clay. 

It's quite relaxing, because if you don't like what you have made,

you just squash it in your hand and start again!!

 I have had this old wooden frame in my craft room

for ages, along with a few others. They were waiting for

me, to have the time to play with some ideas, to  make them 

look a lot better than they did. 

I gave it a base coat of Gesso and then a coat of grey paint.

Then came my crackle paint layer.

While that was drying, I made my roses with my Hearty Clay.

It was a first attempt at making the Calla Lily.

There we are, finished at last!!

Just a quick post and there are more sitting in my draft list!!

Have you got an Easter Egg? I haven't had one for years!!

I hope you are all staying home and safe.

My neighbour is in hospital with the Virus but appears

to be getting better. Everything crossed for him and his family.

Big hugs,

Carol

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Bits Of Slate......Or Is It?!!!!

I hope you are keeping well and safe, in this 

awful time we are having this year.

It's just surreal and can't wait for it to go away!!

I am trying to do different things, now that I have the time to play!!

I do like the look of slate but a bit pricey for what 

I would do with it. So I thought I could try to make

something to look like slate. So this is what I made!!

The bigger flowers I made with clay and the small roses are from 

Hobbycraft. The cream fillers are from Anna-Marie Designs.

This was the first one I tried to make. The flowers are from Hobbycraft.

They do sell some flowers with tiny beads around the centre

of the flowers. As I have had minute beads, in a few different 

colours for years, I would add some myself!!

Well today, I have finished painting a drawer set, which I keep

my distress inks in. I had one side not finished!!

Don't ask me why, as it was bought over 4 years ago!!!

It was my first purchase in Beccles in Suffolk.

Thank you for stopping by and leaving lovely messages. 

Just what we need at the moment.

Thank you, to you all that left me kind messages on my last post.

Big hugs,

Keep safe,

Carol

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