Kreativ Blogger Award

I have been awarded the Kreativ Blogger award by Jasmine at jazzystamper Thank you so much for giving me this award. I am an occasional blogger so this is an honour.

Here are the rules for the award:

1. The winner gets to put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 5 blogs for the award.

Here are the 5 that I nominate for this Kreativ Award:

1. Connie Babbert I find Connie's work very inspiring.

2. Makeesha I am amazed at how Makeesha finds the time to do all she does with 4 small children. I love her challenges and ideas.

3.Marelle this is another very inspiring blogger.

4.Valita. I love Valitas blog as she makes all styles of cards and is a very talented designer of iris folding. She is also very creative with her cuttlebug.

5. Michelle Zindorf I know that Jasmine had Michelle on her list but I cant not have Michelle on my list as I am amazed by her artistic talent with stamping.

Calendar

I started making this calendar a few months ago now and finally with encouragement from my niece I finished it the other day. I have used the designer paper Apple Cider and the stamp set True friend from the Spring Mini along with a couple of other sets. Here are a few months and the front cover. The calendar is from Amuse. I finally used my Bind it All that I have had for ages and it is so easy to use. I must try a few other things with it now.

Congrats

This is the card I made with the sale-a-bration set, Congrats. I used the Nursery Necessities set to go with it. I made a bit of a mess putting the dazzling diamonds on but otherwise its ok.
Now I will have to spend some money on new SU stuff so I can get the other 2 SAB sets.

Botanical Blooms

Hi and Happy New Year to you all.
Last night I decided it was about time I made some samples with the 2 Sale-a-bration sets I have. I made 3 cards with Botanical Blooms so I thought I would show them to you.
The first 2 are using the same dimensions but just put together differently. I used a sketch challenge for the first one and have used Elegant Eggplant and Always Artichoke.

this one I cased from SCS made by Melbarkwith. I tried to add a link but it doesnt seem to want to work for me.

Christmas at our house

Just as I was settling in to write lots about this past week, last night ,we got some unexpected visitors so you were saved from a long, maybe boring to some, post. Well here it is.

On christmas morning we had a nice relaxed time with the kids and our pets. We opened our stockings and presents and then had breakfast together, which Critishia kindly cooked for everyone. After that I spent the morning setting up a really great Christmas table. I had fun making it look as nice as I could with what I had. I made the place mats the night before and stamped over 2000 berries on the holly that I rolled on each side. I also had made over 30 of the little pudding boxes as we had 13 for lunch and then 21 for boxing day tea. I found my Christmas ribbon box and tied bows and attached them to each chair. I new all that ribbon would come in handy sometime.

My guests arrived at 1pm. My family for Christmas day. Mum and dad and my dad's cousins Margaret and Maurice, who are out from England, my sister Marion, Melanie and Amy and her boyfriend Matt.

All in all it was a lovely day. Big Thanks to my sister Marion and niece Amy who helped with the cooking. It was a scrumptious roast meal with plum pudding and custard and also Pavlova and fruit salad for desert.

The pudding box.

Emily, Critishia and I.

Table set for 13

The table setting with homemade place mats.
Everyone enjoying their meal.

I also managed to bath Skye and blow dry her before I started on the table setting. Skye getting a blow dry after her bath

Skye with her christmas stocking

Meeka with her stocking. She looks real interested, doesn't she?

My mum and dad. First Christmas with them for a long time. I loved having them here.

On Boxing day we had Grahams family for a BBQ in the evening and it was a great party with 21 people. It was a fun night and that was it, Christmas was all over for another year.

I hope Christmas was a safe and happy one for you as well. Now I am having a BIG rest for a few days before getting ready to start another year.

Carols in the Valley

Hi everyone,
I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas. I thought I would show you what I have been up to this past week. On Sunday evening we went to carols in the Valley at Sandalford winery. It was really good. I bought myself a new camera for Christmas and have been having fun taking lots of pictures. The first photo is of the stage from where we were sitting and then one taken with the zoom of the tree on the stage. I was quite impressed by the zoom on the camera. The third picture is of Debra Burn who was the special guest at the carols. Then after it finished they had fireworks so I took some photos using the fireworks setting on the camera. On the way home I went past some houses with lots of Christmas lights and took some photos of them as well.

Our Christmas Tree

We have always had a small half tree at our place as there has never been room for a bigger one. This year I have a lovely big tree although I still only got to put half of it up as there still isnt quite enough room. Here is a picture of Skye sitting under the tree. She has been reasonably good about the decorations but has chewed 4 of them up over the past week or so. she seems to only attack the star shaped ones. She also only gets them when she is not supervised enough or bored. Oh well she is only a puppy.

I hope you all have a lovely tree to fill your homes with the feeling of Christmas. I love all the decorations. over the years I have always made some decorations and below are some of the folk art ones I painted years ago but can now have out as the tree is big enough for them. I hope you are enjoying this time coming up to Christmas and that you have a lovely time with family and friends.