Scottish Castle!

Good Evening One and All, are we feeling a bit warmer this evening?  I noticed quite a few of you good folks were beginning to feel chilly and were sweatering up and putting on the heating.
We had so much rain this morning but, cleared up mid afternoon, although there were some large black clouds lurking, nothing else has yet happened.

Thank you for all you comments on my last card and also for entering into the spirit of remembering all the sweeties of bygone years.  Quite a few of you mentioned some I'd not heard of, and some I'd completely forgotten.  Patricia mentioned Penny Dainties which her dad split in two pieces when they went to the cinema, unheard of now as everything is so much smaller.  All the chocolate bars have shrunk, and Turkish Delights are a fraction of what they used to be, but 100% more expensive, just shocking I say.

Welcome to the fold Jacquie of http://jewelscardcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ 
 I am delighted that you have chosen to join my little group and I hope you will continue to enjoy what I have to offer when you visit.  Please call in to Jacquie's blog as there are some lovely cards to view.

Here is my card for today,

image from http://deliciousdoodles.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/castle
Fleximarkers
Core'dinations Card in Black and Grey
Silver Mirri
Papermania Capsule Liquorice Sherbet Papers ( here's the sweetie thing again)
Card Candy in Black
Glamour Dust on the water

This is a lovely image and comes quite shaded already, but I wanted to add a little colour, so the Fleximarkers I have are all very soft colours, just what I wanted to a twilight scene, hope you think it's worked.

Well folks that's me for another day, I've got a bit of a crafty mess to clear up and as I do all my creating on the dining table at the back of the living room, I feel I've always got to clear up.

See you all soon
Hugs Kate x

Christmas Candles!

Hello Everyone, Hoping today finds you all well, and good wishes and hugs to everyone one who is needing some TLC.

Isn't getting dark early now, mind you it's been pretty dull here today, but the lights are having to go on fairly early and I had to put on some heating, just too chilly in the house, but we are galloping towards mid September so what can you expect.

Thank you for leaving all the lovely comments on yesterday's card and I'm delighted that so many of you commented about the games you played as children, plenty of memories there, and to those of you in Englandshire, peever was the same as hopscotch, I'm pretty sure.

When at work, we have had a great time remembering all they types of sweets that were on the go when we were young, and of course there are quite a range of age groups, but it's fun as everyone gets excited and shouting " do you remember, MB bars, Aztecs, penny whoppers, Spangles" or whatever, and usually, and this is the best bit, someone goes to the wee sweetie shop in the market which sells lots of these old sorts of sweets and brings something back. It's also a great way to get my clients motivated and talking.

Anyway, on to today's card,

Sorry it's not the best focused and the colours don't seem to have come out too well.
Papermania Stamp, from a couple of years ago, one of my favourites
Prismacolour Pencils
Papermania First Noel papers, this is a particularly gorgeous paper pack
Core'dinations Red Card
Crafter's Companion Centura Pearl Card
Creative Expressions Gilding Wax in Autumn Bronze
SB Embossing Folder, sorry don't have the name of it
Die'sire Sentimentals Sentiment
Xcut die
Hobby Craft Copper Lace
The Ribbon Girl Gold Crushed Ribbon
WO Poinsettia
Hobby House Pearls
Glamour Dust, gold  and silver

I felt I wanted the candle image to be the main focus, so resisted putting on too many embellishments.

As the TV has been hijacked by football, I think I'll take myself off upstairs and do a bit of knitting.
have a good evening whatever you're doing and see you soon.
Hugs Kate x

I would like to enter my card into; http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/candles.html

Cosy and Warm!

Hello Everyone, not been here for a few days so I do hope you are all well.

Thank you all so much for the lovely comments left on my last blog post, especially about Alistair's conker, ha ha,.but seriously, I am delighted you take the time to read my little stories of life here in the Currie household, and to encourage me with the crafting.

Now,  this is for Blogging Friend Sandy  who doesn't know what a conker is.  Well Sandy, it's a chestnut and when they fall from the trees, you try to get a large one thread it with some string and you have chestnut challenges where you try to crack or break your opponents chestnut by swinging your chestnut to hit the other one.  The chestnut is commonly known as a conker.  I have no idea where or how it all began, but when I was a wee girl at school this game was all the go in the Autumn.  If you couldn't find a conker to play with, there was always, skipping ropes, marbles or bouncing a ball of the side of a building whilst singing a rhyme.  Oh, those halcyon days!!. Oh and I almost forgot about peever, where you marked the ground with chalk in squares with numbers, but earthor stones in a boot polish tin and sifted it along the square and then hopped in them.  Who needed an Xbox then.  Who remembers these games?

Anyhow on to my card;

 A closer view

LOTV image
Promarker and Flexmarkers
SB Fluer de Lis Squares die
LOTV Classic Christmas Papers
Bazzil Card
Die'sire Holly Die
The Ribbon Girl Charm
Hobby Craft Tartan Ribbon
Dovecraft Gems
Border, corner and sentiment dies given by a crafty friend, don't know what they are
Glamour dust, silve and gold

I think this is such a sweet little image, the pets with their Christmas Stocking, reminds me of  putting up our pet's stockings as well as Damian's in years go by.

That's all from me today, have a good evening everyone.

I would like to enter my card into,   http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/cute-n-cuddly-critters.html

A Big Conker and a Fairy!

Hello to you all out there in Blogland, I hope you are all well, but sending hugs and good wishes for those of you who are not so tip top.

Well it's cold here tonight, and I've put on for the first time since buying them in Iceland my Elfshoes.  They are so cosy, but the bells on the toes are doing Alistair's head in, but I don't care I love them.

Thank you all for the lovely comments on my last card, I do appreciate that you take the time to pop in and comment.  I would like to welcome Marlene, my latest follower and who lives here in Inverness, I met   her today with Fiona who is another crafty friend.  Marlene has fabulous projects on her blog, and some of you might know of her already, but do pop in and visit her at http://cardsmadebymarlene.blogspot.co.uk/

My hubby has been busy in the kitchen today as he brought home from his travels yesterday some mussels which he turned into Mussel Chowder.  Now I'm not for that sort of meal, not keen on seafood, I can do prawns in a cocktail sauce, that's about it, but I tasted some of the sauce and it was gorgeous.  He thoroughly enjoyed it, and hopefully it won't aggrivate his gout as seafood does.  Me? well I had a piece of Gala pie and beetroot.  I'm right off cooking these days and I don't bother all that much when it's just me I'm feeding.  He has done well this week as he made a scrumptious apple pie on Tuesday from our own apples, he is a clever boy and there is no end to his talents, here is something else he's made;

 A Big Conker, he carved it from a log, stained and varnished it and put an old piece of rope throught it. He wanted to show the size that's the reason ther is a one of those little bottles of wine beside it.

A closeup.  When Alistair was at Community Service, this was one of the projects he had the clients make, it was much larger and it still sits in their grounds.  I think it is rather cool.

And on to my humble effort, a card using  http://deliciousdoodles.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/holly-fairy.html
Promarkers
LOTV Classic Christmas Papers
Green Card
Green Mirri Card
Tonic Gothic Die
Die'sire Holly Die
SB Petit Shape
Die'sire Sentimentals Jingle Bells Sentiment
MB Fabulous Phlox and Leafy Branch
Glamour Dust on her wings
Pearls and Ribbon from my Box

Well that's it for tonight, I hope everyone has a good weekend whatever you will be doing.  We haven't much planned, it will depend on how the weather shapes up, not looking good for tomorrow though, perhaps Sunday will be better and we might get for drive somewhere.
Bye for now, Hugs Kate x

Autumn Sentiment and a Bright Pair of Socks!

Good Evening to you all, and I do hope it is a good evening, in fact a good day and that you have had time to do a bit of crafting.

It's been another lovely day here in Inverness, lovely and sunny and warm without the strong breeze of yesterday.  We went for a walk around the Culloden Battlefield in the afternoon, and although been there loads of times I've never walked right the way around, I could never see the point of it, and the weather was always pants, but today it was just a lovely walk, with lots of blue sky. We live a stone's throw away so it was not a big drive to it and it was just an outing to blow away some cobwebs.

I didn't manage to make a card today, I was finishing off my socks and here they are, dark shades on please,

Photo a wee bit blurred, but i was taking the shot from a strange angel as I was modeling them as you can see.  I bought the wool in Iceland and although I like it, it's not the softest of yarn.  
I am now going to tackle the lacey wrap that has been on the pins for ever, but as it's patterned, and I need to concentrated, it's still might take a long time in the finnishing.

This card I made the other week and it's using the free stamps from Creative Stamping Magazine, I have really just copied the example of the card in the magazine by Kim Dellow, just using different papers and sparkle.  I was trying out the masking technique for the stamps, never done before, and it took me a few times to get it right, but it's not too bad, anyway, here it is;

I think the stamps are so worth the money for the magazine and I think this sentiment is so lovely.
Prismacolour Pencil
LOTV Country Lady Paper
kraft Card base
Twine, buttons and pearls from my box
Glamour Dust

Sue, at Olliesmam used these stamps a few days ago and made a gorgeous card, I think it's great to see all the different ways the stamps can be used.

I hope you like it and I would just like to thank you all for the lovely comments on my previous card, and the kind comments on Alistair's lovely gift of jewellery.

That's me, off to put my feet up and watch a bit of telly,
Hugs Kate x

Winter Tree!

Hello Blogging Friends, I hope all is well with you, but if not, I'd like to send out kind thoughts and hugs to you.

Thanks you all so much for your kind comments, it really makes all this blogging thing so worth while.  for anyone who finds themselves visiting my blog, please leave a comment because I would love to hear from you and in return I could visit you and see what you get up too.

I had a hell of a day yesterday with my Broadband, it kept going off, which meant I had to shut down the computer, wait for a bit then start all over again, this happened three times.  I changed to The Post office from BT, I was finding problems with them and they were hugely expensive, the PO was a much better deal, but some Chief Executive in his/her wisdom have decided to change their system and this has been happening over the last few days and it just seams to be chaos. 
Normally when phoning about something I can get right through, yesterday and today the phones were jammed and I had to wait for ages for someone to speak to, today I gave up in the end.
My email is all to pot and folders with fairly important info in them has not migrated across and it's all lost.  No I wouldn't normally have bothered, but my existing BT email accounts will be stopping mis month so I'm trying to get things I need to keep transferred across.  So much for all this technology, it's going to be the death of humankind.

That's my rant over, but so frustrating, so please forgive if I didn't get around to you blog yesterday, I've tried to catch up.

A few of you lovely people asked to see my lovely jewllery that hubby brought from his trip away last week, here it is,

Sorry about the photo, it wasn't great in the first place and I then tried to make it better, but anyway you can see how lovely the set is, it's an Ortak design from the Orkeny Isles.  I think he has such good taste and I just love it.

Now for my card,

The image is from The Paper Shelter, and when I saw this I just had to have it, it just really appeals to me and I love the tree having a scarf to keep him warn now that he's lost his leaves.
It's one of TPS's coloured images
Kraft card
Core'dinations
Papermaina Snowflake Vellum
Xcut Leaf Die
LOTV Frosty Christmas Paper
Die'sire SentimentThe Ribbon Girl Charm
Hobby Craft Lacy Ribbon and Baubled trim
Papermania tiny bow
Gems from my box
Star Dust

That's me for tonight, see you soon
Hugs, Kate x

Poinsettia Fairy and CCAYR Sempember Challenge!

Good Morning to you all and I hope your Sunday is shaping up to being a good one, whatever you are doing.
Not the best of weather here but nevertheless we are going to brave a beach walk at Rosemarkie, which is on the Black Isle and very pretty and if we are lucky with the tides we just might see some dolphins.

Alistair arrived home, earlier than he thought he would, but feeling still queasy from a very rough crossing on the ferry from Strommness, but at least the captain got them in to Thurso. Sometimes the boats have to head out to the Atlantic for some time before they can manage in to port.  It's lovely to have him back safe and sound it a tad stinky, but with a lovely prezzie of a neckless and earing set from Ortak as a wee thank you for just being me and keeping the home fires burning. Wasn't that lovely!

Thank you all so much for your lovely comments on my Previous card, I love reading them, and also can I give a warm welcome to Lindsay of Craftymonster81 who has decided to follow my adventures in Blogland.  I do hope Lindsay you will enjoy my blog and my humble creations.

My card to day is my inspirational contributing to CCAYR, which this Month is Fairies with a Little Sparkle, and it needn't be a Christmas Fairy, any old fairy will do as long as it is made with lots of Christmasy glitter and bling.

I've chosen an image from http://deliciousdoodles.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/poinsettia-fairy.html

Coloured with Prismacolour Pencils
Green, Red and Gold card
First Edition Christmas Village Papers
SB Frosty Forms Corner and Border dies
LOTV Sentiment
The Ribbon Girl Crushed Golden Ribbon
Hobby House Dazzler
Glamour Dust

I hope this will offer some inspiration and that you will join us at http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-challenge.html   
Fairies with a little Sparkle.

Please pop in to see what the other DTs have created, they are quite beautiful.
Have a lovely Sunday and see you soon
Hugs Kate x