Hello
If you live around my part of the world I hope you are managing with the extremes of weather we have been having. Cold one day hot the next! We wouldn’t like it any other way.
Anyway I have a few things to share
This is a card I have made by request from my eldest daughter. I used Annabelle Stamps Party Animals and coloured with markers (SU and Tim Holtz), layered and mounted on to my card front. I die cut the “20” using Memory box classic numbers die and a second time with fun foam. A touch of glossy accents to finish off. The recipient of this card is after a new puppy!
I am linking this up to the 30 Day colouring challenge here
This is my second card for the challenge. I hope to have one or two more to share before the end of the challenge.
It has been particularly busy. Mr M has his last day of formal classes on Friday and we are then off to Graduation dinner. Then it is a little study time before the exams start. As his year is coming to an end mine is getting busier. As a pre school enrolment officer it is busy finalising numbers and groups for 2016.
A little knitting share
These were made using Moda Vera not just socks yarn and the pattern on the back of the ball band. These were requested by Ms E as a gift for a friend later this month.
This is my very first pair of socks. I shared these with my Wednesday group today and some thought I had been very clever and changed the wool to create the pattern. I must admit the wool is varigated and knits up to this pattern.
and these
These are a work in progress. I have used this pattern – Hermione’s Everyday socks which can be found on ravelry as a free download here. Thank you to Erica Leuder. I have also used the notes from here thank you.
I was requested to have this pair finished by this coming Friday as a gift for one of Ms E’s friends. Unfortunately I wont make that deadline. I work tomorrow and then I have a meeting for my enrolment officer job tomorrow night.
I will come back and share when they are complete.
Two more pics before I go
These are pics of the only orchid I kept of my Mum’s after she passed. It has flowered every year I have had it and I don’t do anything special to it and hardly remember to water it. It normally sits under a tree near the fence!
Thanks for stopping
Until next time
Cheers
Vicki
frommycraftroom 
Love the card & the bright socks 🙂
Thanks.
Super cute ABS card, I have this stamp set and will have to get it out again now lol. ps Love your mother’s beautiful orchid, what a precious possession.
Thanks Therese. My ABS need a little more love 🙂 they have been a little neglected lately.
Thanks for sharing that ABS image – I have used that in the past, and it’s lovely to see it again! Your socks are amazing – the variegated wool has knitted up to a lovely pattern. What a precious orchid you have – flowering so regularly for you! Enjoy the Melbourne weather Vicki – I am too!
Thanks Ann. I need to give some of my older sets a bit more love.
Wow lots of photos to share. Don’t remember the dog from Annabells, its so cute. Love your card.
Love the sox, I cant knit full stop. Tried once and the yarn was so tight on the needles we had to cut it off with a knife lol. Obviously it made me too tense. Yours looks brilliant.
What a beautiful orchid and how brilliant that it continues to flower and look so beautiful even when you forget to water it.
Thanks Aileen. Sorry to hear your socks didn’t work out so well.
I think the orchid survives on the right amount of neglect! 🙂