Orange, blue and red.

I have been playing with paper and glue, great fun.    I have a friend coming round Saturday to make some guest books for her wedding later on in the year.  We need to make two as she is getting married in South Africa and having a blessing over here.  I thought I had better have an experiment to work out exactly how we are going to create these books.  I will post a picture of the finished book later on in the week.

Completed this last book for Regional Day (75 days away), I am not making anymore  at the moment, as I now need to make yards of bunting before our next Committee meeting.  Che Guevara is coming along, machined background nearly complete, but run out of the main colour thread, so will JUST HAVE to go to Barleylands to get some more on my way to the bank to sort out a problem. 

 

 I have been having trouble with a Mobile phone company, who 2 months ago, took out of my bank account over £100 more than I asked them too, the foreign gentleman had a job to understand my instructions.It's  not my phone bill and they wont give me my money back, in spite of numerous and very, very long phone calls.  I have been finding it quite hard to remain polite and not to make the air blue. The account I used is where I put any money I am given for my birthday etc, so not a lot of money in there, and I use it to buy my paints and threads etc.  Their error had nearly made me go in the red -not impressed!!!!! 

Not much to show for the weekend.

 Kezzy has continued to work on her art project.  She has to draw a tiger in the style of Henry Moore's pen and ink, so had a go at his sheep first to get the feel of it.  She is going to try and do the tiger tonight.

I have finished the covers for another book. I found this scrapbook paper to line the covers, which looks like it was just made for the job.

 I also did a couple of pages for my journal on my holiday to Cornwall last year. 

A very lazy Easter

I have been down to my mothers for a long weekend.  I was intending to blog Thursday night and wish everyone a Happy Easter but plans to take Kezzy and Mitch to Dovercourt on Friday changed late Thursday afternoon, so it was a frantic dash to get them sorted and packed up to be ready to leave after our evening meal.

It has been strange to be child free for so many days-feels like I have gone deaf!!!LOL  It has been a very relaxing break, sitting in the garden enjoying the sunshine.  We took mum to Olney for the day on Saturday, she always enjoys our trips there but will never drive there herself.

The picture above,  is the pathway through the trees to get to the pond at the bottom of the garden.  This was originally just a bare field that cattle grazed in until my mother bought it.

My brother has quite a few projects going on around the garden.  This is the start of the new kitchen garden.  He has had to enclose the area with netting to keep out the pigeons, rabbits and mountjacks. 

After picking the children up from Dovercourt, we drove onto Harwich to take photos of the setting sun.

Flower wower!!

 Usually as soon as my Tree Paeony comes into bloom, it gets spoilt by wind or rain.  This year looks like I could have the blooms for longer than 1 day!!

 The flower bloom is almost the size of a dinner plate.

While hubby was up in the loft this evening, he found this.  A quick search on Google revealed that it is a Hornet nest.  A marvellous feat of engineering.  I shall be taking it to work with me next week to show my children as we are doing about bugs this forthcoming term.

At last.......

Although the sun has been shining, I didn't get to see that much of it this morning/early afternoon, as I was at the hospital with Mitch.  He had to be assessed to get back on his medication he used to take a few years ago, for his ADHD, I hope it works.
I have managed to get some more machine stitching done to the background of my Che panel this evening.  Hopefully another couple of hours and the sky will be finished then it will be time to complete the foreground.

Tonight

Tonight it is our Embroiderers' Guild meeting.  Our speaker is Jennifer Hodgkin on 'The Quaker Tapestry'.  Tickets will also be on sale for Regional Day on July 2nd.  Visitors welcome.

We spent Saturday at Colchester Zoo, every time I go there I am impressed by the changes they are making to improve the animals habitats.  Kezzy had to take photo's/draw tigers as part of her GCSE Art.  The tiger was on the move the whole time making it imposable to draw, bad enough trying to get photo's.  We must have been outside the cage for almost an hour trying to get some decent photos.  Thank goodness for digital camera's. Kezzy was brave enough to hold a Giant Snail, you wouldn't catch me doing this!!! 

I celebrated my 11th wedding anniversary on Friday.  Hubby bought me enough lillies to fill two vases:0).  We spent the evening at the pub (two pub visits in one week!!!) listening to a live rock group. Another non creative day :0(

Little books.

 Managed to complete the books I started the other day.  The one above, has taken the most time as I embellished it with some hand stitching.  I have got one more like this one to complete but as I am going to my Mothers for the Easter weekend, I might save the hand stitching until then.

This one is for Nickie, slightly different construction so as not to spoil the picture.  I shall post it through her door tomorrow night.  I hope she likes it.

The travel journal, I have used split rings so that extra pages or memento's can be added in easily.  Apart from Nickie's all the other books are for our Regional Day sales table.