Hi there Thanks for popping in. What do you do if the smoke alarm goes off in your home? It’s alerting you to the risk of a fire, right? If you’re in our kitchen when it starts beeping, you open all the doors and windows and start waving tea towels around vigorously to expel the smoke! But that’s usually because the smoke in question is a direct result of my culinary skills! I think that anxiety is like an inner…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Our friend Gina – she who found the little ginger Toms we adopted – sent me a photo this morning, with a message: Happy Found Day to the Vikings! Yep. Ragnar and Erik were found a year ago today, abandoned and frightened. I remember seeing Gina’s post on Facebook. She was looking for a home for them. After speaking to Dave, I reached out to her. “Can we have them, please?” And the rest…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Following on with our weekly tradition of a half price Offer of the Week, here’s a beautiful arty offering – a very traditional take on Christmas : our gorgeous stained glass windows – both as dies AND as little stamps. We also included a clever nested Peace and Love window, which is really cool. Check out the little stamp too… Let me show you some lovely artwork from the clever Design Team, which really…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. And thanks for joining in yesterday evening if you did! I can only speak for myself, but after quite a strenuous week at work, I thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with the Clarity gang, and putting those Lino Cut Stamps through their paces. Having played with all three of the Stampsets, I can’t say I have a favourite. All three are really REALLY useful, clever, and easy to make great art with. As I said…
Hi there Thanks for popping in! Had fun in the SHAC SHACK this morning, preparing our Christmas Crackers. Well, I did. Have fun, that is. Chuntering away to myself. In case you’re wondering what I am talking about, here’s the set of printed crackers that we have started decorating. So Güd! Available as a complete kit HERE I was showing off some pretty spectacular finished samples that Dee, Elaine and Jane had prepared for us. Let me show you… Thank…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Here’s a brand new journaling set by our Sam Crowe, that Leonie is showcasing on The Craftstore today (2nd show at 2pm) . I remember having a long Facetime chat to Sam about these a while ago. Mainly because I couldn’t get my head round the designs! But once she had explained it to me, I was 100% converted. The notelets and list stamps for example. She said, “aren’t you always writing notes on…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. I noticed this morning that our Half Price Offer of the Week is one of my all time favourite frame sets – so lovely to use! And we’ve got these Entwined framers both as stamps AND as Groovi Plates – complete with a set of useful sentiments using my handwriting. I remember drawing these beauties to enhance the Floral Alphabet Set I had drawn before! Here’s a sample I did earlier, using the J…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. How are you? How am I? Or perhaps the question we should be asking is WHO are you? And WHO am I? I seem to wake up most mornings wondering what the hell is going on in England, in Europe, in the world. And I often catch myself wondering what I am supposed to be doing, and which role I should be playing in response to the world we live in now. Which brings…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. It’s definitely colder today. Turned the heating up and dug out the sweater box. We’re in a rain, sun and wind loop. Autumn is here. Did you join in the SHAC yesterday – Thursday? We welcomed Autumn with one of our little poppet Marina Fedotova postcards and a very seasonal border doodle….Still to be completed when I get a mo. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. I love her artwork. It is just a pleasure to…
Hi there Thanks for popping . There’s something very new and exciting on the horizon for all you lovely Parchers and Groovers! Josie has come up trumps once again. This time she has gone round ! Really clever! 4 fabulous circle grids – Josie is showcasing them herself on the Craftstore.com tomorrow at 6pm. In fact, we thought they were that good, we turned them into a ONE DAY SPECIAL! So that gives Josie 5 whole hours to show you…