Short but sweet ....

Hooray at last!!

Well just to let you know that my Vintage necklace has finally made it to Project of the Week on the Do Crafts website http://www.docrafts.com/ please check it out and let me know what you think.

I hope you all like it.

Guess what I made this necklace from?

I was just wondering if you can guess what I have made this jewellery from?

Well if you haven't managed to guess by now then I will give you

a clue - Papermania Brads!

"Really" I can hear you say, but yes really!!

Earth Hour - 26 March 2011

At the craft club I run on a Saturday evening we decided to support WWF "Earth Hour" (no electricity or lights were allowed from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.)

Just a few of us!!

So we lite all our candles and lanterns and crafted by candlelight whilst enjoying some nibbles, drinks and laughs.
 

Doesn't time fly when you are having fun

I know its been a while since last posting and I keep meaning to post and then it just doesn't happen, so hopefully you will forgive me when you see what I have been up to.

Chainmaille Earrings - I made these hoping they would go in as project of the week for Do Crafts but it appears they didn't make it in, so am sharing with you all.

These are some of my latest demo cards for February and March, the rest can be seen through my gallery on the Do Crafts website - www.docrafts.com/Helen1

"From Someone who Cares"

Middle Stepper - For you Dad

Double Easel

And this is one of our Craft Club weekend away at The Manor, Okehampton the weekend before last where we had an amazing time with not only crafts but also doing some Zumba fitness, Salsa, and believe it or not woodwork amongst many other crafts we have not experienced before - now everyone is waiting for me to arrange another trip for next year!!

Our Evening Meal!!

Marg, Marlene, Helen, Janet, Chris, Jackie, Mandy, Anne

(I'm behind the camera of course!)

We had an amazing weekend and some great laughs including the dancing ten pins!!

Happy New Year

Well welcome to 2011, hopefully this year will bring you lots of joy and happiness and that you will all enjoy your crafting as much as I do.

I am already preparing samples for my demos in January/February - you can see where I am demonstrating for 2011 so far.

I look forward to seeing lots of lovely people and I will try and upload some photos shortly.

Best Wishes
Helen x

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Well I know its been a long time since posting, I just can't believe we are nearly at Christmas, kids broken up from school and snow to top it all off.

I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing some new faces and old ones at my demos next year.

Take care
Helen

My Summer ..

Well what a summer we have had so far!

The first week didn't quite go as planned as Ashley was rushed into hospital in Norwich whilst on holiday with his grandparents with suspected Menigitis and we had to drive for over 5 hours to get there in the middle of the night arriving at the hospital at 3am, for them to eventually tell us that it was a really bad viral infection that mirrored Menigitis (stressful or what!!!) then we had a normal week everyone back at work and the kids safely at home (thank goodness).

The next week my mum was taken into hospital with chest pains and had to have another angiogram to see if a stent could be put in or not but it couldn't so they kept her in for a few days before discharging her.

Then I had to take Vanessa to Swansea for a tennis tournament and we arrived on the Monday afternoon in the pouring rain at our campsite which was lovely but on the side of a hill and we had to put our tent up in the torrential rain and the tent almost took off over the top of the car and it took us nearly 2 days to dry out completely.  The tournament eventually went really well despite her having three start times the first being 11.30am on the Tuesday morning and she finally played at 6.15pm that evening, the rest of the week finally got better as did the weather and she got through to the quarter finals which was really good as it was a 64 draw in U14 and 32 draw in U16.

Then last week was the first week of my holiday from work and I ferried Vanessa around to and from the Burnham on Sea tennis tournament, unfortunately she got knocked out in the first round on tie break but was able to take part in the Plate event where she managed to get through to the finals, the weather was better but still quite windy (where has our summer weather gone?), during this week at Burnham tennis Vanessa also celebrated her 13th birthday (oh no a teenager, now I have 2 of them - god help me!).

The weekend just gone Vanessa and I went and did some girly shopping whilst my husband and son went to the Bird Fair at Rutland Water and now we are back to another week off work and more tennis this time in Taunton.

So there goes my Summer and my two weeks off work have nearly come to an end already!!

Helen xx