The Christmas Cottage

I finished the outer shell... the cottage itself.

I may add some flowers or something... I haven't decided yet. I did, however, make a decision on the lights - and they're along the front of the cottage, attached to the roof. I so wish I could take a photograph that does this little project justice... but my camera just isn't up to the job :(

This project is so different from the Christmas House Mini I made... this seems so much less serious (and a lot easier!), a bit twee and almost whimsical and cutesy.

So, without further ado, here it is...

You can just see the lights poking out from the scallops on the roof. he original idea was to make the chimney as a hideaway for the battery... but the battery was too big. I did still want a chimney, and made it just big enough to contain a small 1.25" square box. And inside that little box shoved in the chimney is...

... a tiddly little book. Of course it's the Clement Clark Moore poem "A Visit From Saint Nicholas" (also known as 'Twas The Night Before Christmas').

It's not as nice as the mini-mini I made for the cardboard tube mni... but I really didn't have the patience to do all that again  - especially after I discovered that I had deleted all the files with the tiny pages on from my computer. Grrr!

I've used a lot of the DoveCraft "Noel" papers - and was thinking that my best friend LouLou would love this image of Santa on one of the paper sheets - so I stuck him in a window on the side of the cottage.

Finally, I had to figure a way of keeping the battery inside the roof... so I simply made a little ledge for it to hide in. Easy!

The inside of the box is all prettied up... ready for the mini-album to go inside - and I haven't even begun thinking about that yet!

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What a busy Wednesday so far... in fact, I actually forgot it was a Wednesday and time for "What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?" hosted by Julia at the Stamping Ground.

It was 'craft night' at Pickwells last nght, so my wonderful daughter Beth (she of the recent prom night) looked after my granddaughter Lily whilst I was out. This morning I was so tired as Lily decided that 11pm was still way too early to fall asleep for a 2 year old, and 7am was a good time to get up again *lol*

Still...  she did have fun drawing pictures sat at my desk, which is a bit of a mess today...

I haven't had a chance to open my parcels yet - and I'm itching to know what's arrived! I think it's a set of 100 'shabby chic' papers I bought at a bargain price, as well as some other goodies :) I'm still working on the mini-album for the Christmas House Mini project and had to buy some permanent pens last night because, of all the hundreds of pens I have, nothng I own is a pale pink shade - who would've thought it!? I bought a couple of magazines... both of which I have barely even glanced at yet, and I also got hold of some irridescent spray gloss varnish. Lily has been crafting too - her pictures are really quite good. At only 2 years old, her drawings of a cat are very recogniseable... but her favourite picture to draw is....

Spongebob Squarepants!

Have a wonderfully happy and productive "What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?" to all!

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I only seem to post twice weekly lately - and one of those posts is always on a Wednesday to show my workdesk to the world! *lol* So... happy "WHAT'S ON YOUR WORKDESK WEDNESDAY?" to all.

By the way... if you ever want to join in just pop over to the Stamping Ground and add your name... it's really a lot of fun to have a nose around other people's work spaces :)

I've started work on yet another mini-book project... a Christmas House, and this is taking over my desk this week (and possibly a few weeks to come too!).

The house (which will have a 6"x8" mini album inside when complete) has had the edges painted, and the roofing 'tiled' (Martha Stewart edge punch) and I'm using Papermania silk papers to decorate it (eventually!). My carousel is full again... including glue sticks that fit into my new glue gun that Hubby bought for me (YAY!!!). It's got a lovely small nozzle, and runs on batteries... so no cords getting in the way (for kittens to chew). Quite a tidy desk today (I'm quite proud of myself for being less messy *lol*) and even my work mat is clean. Though that mat will have to be replaced soon - I'm wearing away the numbers and cutting grooves into it!

More news (you just know this will be about kittens again! *lol*)...

I sold a kitten!

A lovely lady called June bought Boo-Bear, renamed him Thomas and took him home to meet her 8 year old cat Charlie.

The next morning June phoned me... Charlie had no intentions whatsoever of making friends with 'Thomas'... so he's back with me and being called 'Boo' again...  ah, well.

And it didn't take him long to snuggle up next to Sox and get right back to being part of the household again.

All kittens doing well... being very cute... and still biting my ankles. It's a wonder I get any crafting done at all! *lol*

But they are so adorably cute, aren't they...?