4 May 2014 | craft-projects
Wow, I just took photos of all my photo album page and realised, that I have progressed quite a far bit. I think I am a bit more than a quarter through my photos. It may not sound a lot, but a quarter amounts to 125 photos! I have started to get more inventive and...
29 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Finally after a couple of weeks of painting, sanding and more painting and more sanding I completed my new shelf and its now in its final place next to my sofa chair. I wanted something to keep all the paperwork, books and bits and pieces that I have lying around and...
27 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
That wasn’t very successful! I had actually written this post last week on Easter Monday, but didn’t get around to do the German translation and just simply forgot about it until today! So, here my “belated” post. Happy belated Easter everyone!...
13 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Or better why wasn’t I thinking? Clearly, I was not thinking when I did my grocery shopping last weekend. I was so in the fruit mood that I purchased a rock melon, a huge water melon, a bag of plums and a bag of grapes. While I do eat quite a far bit of fruit...
6 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Woohooo I am back! After 5 or was it 6 weeks, I am finally back! I had a very busy time with having a friend from Germany visiting. Because I didn’t take any time off work, I tried to spend a lot of evenings and weekends with Petra. I only had some evenings I...
28 Feb 2014 | craft-projects
What could be better then just following the season, especially in summer? I have got a whole stack of paper, rub ons, stamps and embellishments and all of these reminds me of summer. Sometimes its even just the colors I am using that represents summer for me. But...
27 Feb 2014 | craft-projects
Well, I am calling it a series, but there are only four cards. I am sort of pulling out something I like to use and it seems to become a habit to create a couple of cards in the same color scheme. Since I have been quite busy over last last weeks and didn’t get...
16 Feb 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Finally, after quite a long wait, the donkeys are loose! On Friday, 7th February 2014 was the official opening of El Mexicano! Since I have been involved a bit with programming the webpage and also creating policies and procedures, work flows and a bit of IT set up...
9 Feb 2014 | craft-projects
I needed a baby card for a boy and I didn’t have anything left that worked, so I started making baby cards and while I was at it, I made a whole bunch of them. Well, I have to say I made a bargain buy sometimes last year which included a pack of 13 double sided...
28 Jan 2014 | craft-projects
I found this fantastic Stamp set with matching Die set just before Christmas and I couldn’t resist buying it. Its all about music instruments and there are lots of them. Of course I was sitting down and started using them straight away. I had purchased a...
26 Jan 2014 | craft-projects
We are now going back in time to December 2013, as I have a number of cards I haven’t shown yet. I had this new paper pad for quite a while and after I had finished with all the Christmas cards, I pulled it out and started using it. With the brown and black...
19 Jan 2014 | craft-projects
I have been busy creating birthday cards. Funny enough they are all for the same person! John ordered again a special card for his wife Verna for her 70th birthday and since we are all invited to celebrate with Verna, my friends Albrecht and Ross also ordered a card...
