Still Crafting...

It's been over a year since I blogged here - but I do blog other places too :)

So much has happened - but I'll condense it down...

Miss Violet had kittens.

Miss Violet got run over and died.

I got another cat called Kitty-Belle.

Lily-dog got old and ill,  and had to be put to sleep.

I got another dog - Yorkie called Barkley McScruffles.

Kitty-Belle had kittens.

I became a millionaire selling my crafting and jewellery items.

That last statement was not true :)

 

I've actually spent all day crafting and getting ready for a fete in July - I am making door plaques, pirate chests, "I'm Bored!!!" jars, jewellery... loads of items :)

Here's a few I made or finished today:

 

The pirate chests now have little diamante gems on the middle finger of the skeletal hands... and I so wish a photo could capture how adorable the door signs are - lots of decoupage, googly-eyes, glitter, and 3-D bits and pieces.

As I am doing a lot of fetes and fairs through until December, I thought I would amalgamate Patchwork Apples with my Elandesse business... making jewellery and craft items for children (as well as jewellery for dogs - really! lol)

I am going to save the hand-crafted more exclusive jewellery designs for jewellery parties and Etsy :)

 

I shall now spend the next three hours poking my nose around blogland :)

My Photography

Something a little different today...

For my New Years Resolution, I decided that I would write in a diary and take a photograph every day. So far, I've kept that resolution and have taken some really pretty photographs that I will (hopefully) get around to scrapbooking soon(-ish).

I thought I'd start sharing some of my favourites. I go so very few places, so most photographs are taken from my windows or out in the garden - a lot of photographs of the pets, the weather... and clouds. I must admit that I don't think I'll ever tire of photographing the sky - it's always different, never the same. To catch a moment on film (or rather, "digitally" nowadays) that will never be seen again is somehow quite special in my mind. Or maybe I'm just an old romantic and a fool *lol*

This one was January 11th... from my daughters bedroom window.

I love this one... so simple. It was taken at around 9.30 in the morning on January 16th.

My daughters favourite picture... taken in the garden on February 23rd.

And finally, I couldn't resist a photograph of the kitties. They are so funny - mimicking each other like a pair of book-ends. They do this sort of thing all the time...

This one was taken on the 28th February... I must have photographed them 20 or more times that morning, and every time one of them moved a bit, the other would copy. Just so cutsie :)