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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Took 5 Years!!!

Firstly, I must thank you all for your kind messages,

on my last post here and on my Face Book page. 

Also to welcome Debbie, a new follower and hope you 

like what you see!!

Yes, the title 'Took 5 Years' is correct!!

I started making this wine bottle just over 5 years ago!

I originally covered it with plaster of paris and painted it with 

duck egg blue paint. I then added some embellishments

I covered it with Gesso and job done. 

The problem was, I didn't like it! 

So it sat on my desk for 5 years. I even moved house 4 years ago

and it still sat on my desk!

Until last Saturday!! 

I wanted to do something messy, so picked up the bottle and made 

a start on it. Stripping off all the embellishments.

I made the flowers with clay and sprayed them with 

some bottles of Tattered Angels, a mica and a mix of colours.

I also sprayed the bottle with some of the colours.

I then used on everything, some Cosmic Shimmer Opal Polish and  

Metallic Gilding Polish, which I used my fingers to spread it where I 

wanted it. Very messy but great fun.

The colours are much nicer in real life and the Mica

is gorgeous. 

I am quite pleased with it now!! Lol!!

It's just like the world has been tipped upside down, with 

the Coronavirus and to me it feels surreal. 

I just wished that I could wake up in the 

morning, to find it was just a bad dream!!

At least, here in Suffolk, the sun has been shining for a 

couple of days and the spring flowers are so pretty.

Please stay at home if you can and stay safe. 

We have cancelled our holiday and I am thinking

of cancelling a scan, that I am booked to have on Good Friday.

Big hugs,

Carol 

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Have a Heart!!

Thank you so much for your lovely messages on my last post.

They were very much appreciated. 

Kelly you always make me smile!!

I made this heart this afternoon, to take with me to a Craft Fayre

tomorrow. I just have to put the ribbon on it, to hang it with.

It is the first time I have done this Fayre.

It's in a lovely town, Southwold, in Suffolk and right by the sea. 

The lady running it, asked me if I would like a table there. 

It took me 1 second to say yes please!!!

The white roses were made with airdry clay, by a lovely lady

called Mellie and she has a stall at a Craft Fayre I do, every month.

She is an award winning wedding cake maker.

At the Fayres, she makes and sells miniature animals, mostly bears.

So very cute and I have one on a shelf over my desk.😍

I made the pink rose and the leaves. All out of air dry clay. 

The pink rose was made with three shades of pink. The

darkest in the centre and the lightest on the outside

Off to bed for an early night, as we have to get up at 6am!!

Thank you for your lovely messages, that are well loved

and you know I will visit your blogs too.

Please keep safe and well. 

Big hugs, 

Carol

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Spot The Cat!!

Spot the cat and not the one at the bottom

corner of the card!!

Just found this card in 'Draft' and now see

why I didn't post it!! Photo was rubbish, as it

was taken on a grey day. So I just went into

my image program and lightened it a bit.

It is a very old stamp and took ages to colour!

I mainly used Copics, with a few Tombows

thrown in!!

I nearly just threw it into the bin, but managed

to finish it!! Phew!!!

Thank you for taking the time, to leave me such lovely

 messages on my last two posts.

You are all so kind. 

I am a bit excited, because I have been asked if I 

would like a table on Saturday 14th March, 

at a Craft Fayre in Southwold town.

Omg!! I have so wanted to get into this town!!

Oh, an update on my nose (saga) problem. Went to see a 

ENT Consultant at our local hospital last Thursday.

He stuck a camera up my nose! Not nice!!

He thought it could be a number of different things. 

Had a blood test as always. If that is ok, I will get a date to 

have a Cat Scan. If nothing shows up on that, 

I will the have to have an MRI Scan.

Having to do a nasal washout 6 times a day and

waiting for my surgery, to process a script for

nose drops, to be used for 8 weeks!!! Ugh!!

On that note, I am going back to my desk,

as I want to do something that came to me,

just before I got out of bed!!

But I must finish the 3 items on my desk, 

that I am still in the 

middle of putting them together. 

Do you have 'light bulb ' thoughts and 

then can't wait to do it?!!

I might have another post, if it works.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. You know I love to

read your lovely messages and then I 

can pop over to your blogs too.

Big hugs,

Carol 

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Butterfly Tick Tock!!

 Hope you are all safe and dry with this dreadful weather

we seem to be having, over the whole of the country.

💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧

I think we have been lucky here in Suffolk. 

We have just had a small pool of water in one flower bed 

in the back garden. Also my Obelisk was leaning a bit,

but all the Honeysuckle growing up it, stopped

it from going right over. 

We have our first Craft Fayre this year on 

Tuesday 3rd March. So I have been busy 

making new items for my stall.

This is one of the items.

I have one of these clocks in my Craftroom.

It was a class I did for The Craft Barn in Surrey.

Mmmmmm!!! A few years ago!!!!😄

The roof is decorated too but the photo is rubbish!!

It does have a back, so you can't see the clock mechanism.

It was just an idea I had for my monthly class,

as they wanted to make a clock. The class was

a full day, as they have to prep the pieces of the box.

I had cut all the pieces (and there are a lot of pieces!!)

 but they had to Gesso and

paint them with the colours they wanted. 

Then to add the texture using stencils.

Fortunately I had my instructions still, that I had written

up, as I was making the original.

Off to my desk again. as I have another project to get on with.

Thanks for your lovely messages on my last post.

Also for taking the time again, to pop into my 

little corner of Suffolk. The messages you leave

  are so appreciated and enjoyed. 

I will also visit your blog and leave messages for you too.

Big hugs,

Carol 

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Hare We Are Again!!

Hi to my lovely followers and thank you for

the lovely comments on my Giraffe.

Very much appreciated.

 As promised, Hare is another Pink Ink Designs stamp!!

In addition to the main huge Hare stamp, you also get

10 background stamps. They can also be used as toppers

in their own right.

This was the first one I bought last year.

How can you not just love that cute face!!

I also have another stamp set, that is stamped and 

coloured but not made into anything yet.

An update on my nose problem. I am now

on antibiotics. I am not having a full day of the smell

in my head now. So a lot better but if it is still with 

me at the end of the prescription, I have an appointment 

at our local hospital, with the ENT department.

So fingers crossed I won't need to go to the 

hospital, which I will cancel if all ok.

Have a lovely weekend and hope your

area is safe from Dennis!!

Thanks for visiting my little corner and will enjoy 

reading your comments, you have been kind

enough to leave me.

Big hugs

Carol

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Are You Having a Giraffe?!!!

I just had to take him home!!

He is very big, 19cm tall but I just fell in love!!

I found him at Thetford, Norfolk, Sincerely Yours Craft show,

on last Sunday.

He is a Pink Ink Designs stamp.

I do have another 2 of their stamps which I will also post.

I stamped him onto Langton Watercolour Card and painted

him with Watercolour paints, both bought at Hobbycraft.

I stamped his ears again and 3D them and also the flower.

The flower and leaves come with the stamp, along with 

other leaves and the sentiment that I have used as the post name.

I put some Glossy Accents on his eyes.

I have decided to keep this one for myself!!

Hope you are having a lovely weekend and

fitting in some time for crafting!

Thanks for taking time out to pop into my little 

Crafty Corner and you know I love reading your

lovely messages too.

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Hoot!!

Hoot!! Hoot!!

I love this Woodware Owl stamp and had fun making it.

Coloured him with Copics and added some googly eyes.

I 3D the Owl's beak and the branch. 

The papers came with a Magazine and cut with my 

fave Go Kreate die.

I went to the Sincerely Yours Craft Show

 in Thetford, Norfolk on Sunday with a friend. 

There were a few more stalls there

than at the Christmas event.

It's a small show but great for the essentials,

like card, ribbons, tapes and glue.

But!!!!

I had to buy 2 new huge stamps that I fell in love with.

I will post them probably at the weekend.

I bought one stamp last year in this range and as I 

couldn't decide which one this time, I bought 2 more!! 

More details when I post one!!

Thanks for popping into my little corner and you 

know I just love reading your lovely messages.

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Tweet Shoe.

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

I still have the problem! I did have a text from the surgery, 

to ring them and book an appointment with my usual GP. 

I did, straight away but couldn't see him until the 

10th February. That was 3 weeks from when I called them!!

So, this is another old stamp I bought at Ally Pally Craft Show.

It is a House of Zandra stamp. She is now trading under a 

different name.

I found it in a box of my partly painted stash!!

So I decided it was about time I finished it!!

So I got out my Copics pens and Nuvo Drops and finished it!!

I have quite a few more images in 'draft', 

so I will try to post a few more over the next few weeks.

Thank you for visiting my little blog and your

 messages are so lovely to read.

I am a naughty blogger and would like to welcome

 Christine and Julie as new followers to my little blog!!

A big thank you to Kelly in Florida too!!

Telling me her daughter had this same nose problem

and it eventually went away.

That made me feel a bit better.

Big hugs,

Carol

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My Old Stamps

I have at last come out of hibernation!!

I have a problem with my sinus and nobody I know

 has ever heard of it!! 

I can smell a chemical smell in my left nostril, on and off,

all day. I've had it for about 6 weeks now and in the beginning,

 I thought it was a combination of cleaners I had used on the kitchen floor. 

I then thought I had spread it around the house from the soles 

of my slippers. So I washed them but I could still smell it.

So I threw out my new slippers. 

To cut a long story short, I googled it and found it's called

Phantosmania!! 

My body is making the smell and nobody else can smell it!!

It is horrible and is now making my face swollen. 

Weird or what!! 

I spoke to a Pharmacist in Boots Chemist and she said I should 

try to get an appointment with a Doctor. 

So I will update when I 

see one!!

If you are still with me, I have used a stamp that I have had

for many years and not used for years!!

I used to have an addiction for Sarah Kaye stamps!!

I found the image ready stamped in a box, along with

quite a few more! 

I coloured her with Copics pens and the backing

papers were just found in a bits box. 

Is it too late to say Happy New Year?!!!

Thank you for stopping by and as always, I love to read you messages.

I will also pop over to your blog and leave you a message too,

So have a great weekend,

Big hugs, 

Carol 

xxxx

UPDATE: 

I had to go to a different Surgery and 

saw a very nice lady. She said it all

looked normal, but as she couldn't

see much, she is going to tell my GP that

I need an MRI scan. So she said to ring 

my Surgery on Monday to see if they 

have got it in action! 

To be continued!!!xx