Hello there! So good of you to pop in. I wish you were here! You’d be cleaning plates and packing stamps before you could take your coat off! In the run up to Ally Pally this weekend, we are ever optimistic that things will come together… Looking a little bit sparse at the moment, mind! We’ve just raided Jayne’s TV/trade stash so all is not lost!! The stencil section’s currently in the lead, with a pretty good selection. Stamps not…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. As promised, here’s a little step by step of one of the projects from TV this weekend. Surprisingly, despite the absence of Freeview, we still managed to sell out very thoroughly within a couple of hours. which just goes to show that you lovely peeps have either all got Sky – (highly unlikely!) or you were prepared to figure out a way to watch! Thank you. The HOCHANDA Crew also work so very hard, …
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Sorry we sold out of the Word Chain ABC on HOCHANDA this morning! Many many thanks for watching and supporting if you did; I just wanted to drop in and upload the basics of the painty demo I did with Hayley at lunchtime. Here’s how: Cut a piece of stencil card down to 5″ x 5″ and load a brayer with a little Cheesecake acrylic Fresco paint. Walk the brayer across the card, to…
Hiya! I hope you’re enjoying this lovely mild weather and sunshine! I’m up at the studios, waiting to go live, but thought I’d spend five minutes with you. Calms the mind, and get me out of this strange Shopping TV Bubble which I am in for 2 days again. As Sheila so wisely suggested yesterday, Let’s enjoy it! I’m here doing it, and I may as well have some fun!! Not that I am miserable! But I believe I can…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. STOP THE CLOCK!!! Enough is enough. If it’s not in the boxes, it ain’t coming with me tomorrow! Whose idea was it to do a One Day Special every month?? I must be blimming mad! Ah well. I could think of a lot worse ways to earn a crust! I am mindful of the fact that a lot of people won’t be able to watch tomorrow because Freeview is down for a few weeks,…
Hi there, Greetings from a hive of activity above the garage! The clock is ticking and the pens are clicking! The countdown is on for Sunday TV on HOCHANDA, and I’m nowhere near ready yet, so Heather and Paul have dived in to help me. 7 Hours of live TV is a bit extreme, even for an old timer like me! But the new stamps we have planned for the One Day Special are pretty cool…. You know all the…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Sunny day down here. I actually sat out in the warm sun and drank my tea outdoors earlier!It felt very good. Very relaxing. But then again, I am sprung like a bloody coil today, so drinking a cup of tea ANYWHERE was a bonus!!! What about you? Let’s go blue today, it being Thursday’s Blue Blog Day! And the Bloggy Sale goes on. These leafy stamps are very lovely to use. If you haven’t…
Hi there. Good of you to drop in. I can’t stop long; have a mile long list and two hours to do it all in. And then she heard herself, and the noise in her head. This will not do at all! she exclaimed. If you are going to write a blog about being mindful, then be blimming mindful! So she went and poured herself a large glass of cold water, for after all, it is the great life giver,…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in! It’s Tuesday and the sun is shining. Am ticking a load a load a boxes here! So let’s tick the Bloggy Sale Box too! One of the most fun things we have done in a while was the Jigsaw Puzzle. It really is a proper jigsaw! created by hand with stamps, just as if you were making a card – except you do your artwork on a jigsaw blank. We sell them in packs of 16…
Hi there! Windy, innit!! We’ve got a few trees down around this area. So Storm Katie is definitely blustery! Monday’s blog is flowers and trees, so nothing more appropriate today, than our new Groovi Baby Trees, Set of 4 plates and 5 trees. Designed by our lovely Melanie. These are so delightful to use, I thought I’d do a little step by step for you this morning, while the wind is howling round this little upstairs artroom and the…