A Gift

Hi All. Nice to see you at Jumbled Crafts

Thank you for your support yesterday. I am sure you will be pleased to know that everything is now sorted out-well it will be when Vic demolishes the old plant house and we get a new one. Sarah--the owner of the stray trampoline said she would send someone to take the trampoline apart so that it could be moved and then be taken as scrap to be recycled as it was badly bent. By the time the chap arrived Vic had taken it to bits and all they had to do was remove it from our garden to Sarah's. She also told Vic to order a new plant house and he found the same one online and she paid for it and for the delivery charge. Another neighbour offered space in his greenhouse as a haven for our plants until their new home is in place. What a wonderful neighbourhood we live in :)

I even found time to craft in the afternoon and made a little gift. It is a tissue holder and holds a small packet of tissues

I made it for the Challenge at Try it on Tuesday where the theme is to make a gift or a tag. It also fits in at Allsorts  and Crafty Creations where the theme at both is 'Anything except Christmas'

I found a pattern here though you may not be too keen on the language in the first sentence the pattern is easy and the end product looks good.

Have a lovely day everyone

Chrissie x

Yesterday

Hello Everyone. I hope you are all safe and well and haven't suffered in the gales and the high tides. Our electricity was on and off all day and -----

My planned Crafty Day yesterday turned into something very different as we got an unexpected Garden Extra. One of the huge trampolines, with high netting around it, landed on top of our little plant house and then decided to get well established in the middle of our small lawn. It had to fly over two garden fences and an archway before being stopped by the plant house and our higher fence. It took all the daylight hours to try to rescue some plants and to make the debris safe as it was taking off all over the place in the gales and driving rain. At one point I felt like Mary Poppins ready for flight as I tried to hold onto the trampoline while Vic made a tether for it.

The owner of the trampoline is a hairdressers and was very busy so couldn't come to see us until 6 pm though she did send her mum to view the damage. We have to wait now for someone to come at 11 am to assess what needs to be done to remove the object and we still have plants to house and a structure to be demolished. Looks like another day with no crafting for me.

Must say my life is never dull ;0) and thank fully the very high tides didn't reach us. We are supposed to be below sea level where we live but it always seems slightly uphill when we walk to the seafront so maybe that is enough to save us.

Have a great day all

Love Chrissie x

Photographs from yesterday

Hello Everyone. Looks like being a very cold and windy day here so I intend to do lots of things at home that I keep putting off. One is make some Christmas cards as we have already received quite a few. Hope you stay safe and warm and enjoy your day.

Vic took 119 photographs yesterday but I have chosen just a few to show everyone. I did concentrate on the home made decorations as much as possible.

If you didn't visit Jumbled Crafts yesterday you won't have a clue what I am talking about. We went to

 Burton Agnes Hall to see how it has been decorated for Christmas. The link will tell you all about the Hall and it present generation that live there.

The family and helpers try to make lots of the decorations themselves and have all different ones each year.

The entrance

The entrance hall

The Chinese Room

An easy decoration with ginger bread shapes and teasels. The houses are cut out from card and had candles in between to shine through the windows. The little tree was gingerbread shapes.

  We could make all of those couldn't we?

This is the dining and is used by the family at weekends-they live in a part of the house that isn't open to visitors.

Simple cut out doilies on a wire coat hanger. Oh I just noticed the mistletoe--should have given Vic a kiss but he was too busy taking pics and I was halfway up the stairs.

This is one of the sitting rooms and I loved these paper snowflakes. They are easy to make and one of the ladies who look after the visitors showed us how to make them. All the branches everywhere that are used are ones that have been pruned from the estate trees and are kept in storage to use every year--some are very old.

Simple folded star shapes that Simon--the present generation-- made. He photocopied some of his music for the paper and made the stars. When he was 21--about 13 years ago--he asked for money for his present and built a wonderful woodland walk for everyone. It is now getting well established and in February and March is full of snowdrops.

This is the Queens Room I assume it it King's James Queen that slept here as there is a King James bedroom as well. Sorry I didn't read the notice and it is too blurred on the photograph.

The Great Hall was a picture with the purple and red paper baubles and the sunshine streaming in

This arrangement was at one end of the library and done by children from the little village school

The Grand Piano and a home made wreath in the archway.

Popcorn ornaments and butterflies that would be easy to make with card and glitter and peacock feathers.

Hope you enjoyed our day out--we went back into town for Aberdeen Angus steaks which were so big we brought half home with us--never asked for a doggie bag before :) Looks like we might have to make something with the steak as we don't have a dog lol. Usually we don't eat much meat either.

Have a good day today

Love Chrissie x

Twinchie Tag

Hello Everyone. Always great to have you call in at Jumbled Crafts and I always appreciate reading any comments that you leave--thank you.

I seem to have a  long list of challenges that I would like to enter but every day passes by and I don't seem have done any of them. Today we are going to visit a Stately Home not too far away. They have opened the house so that all can go to see their Christmas decorations. I expect it will be more than just a tree and a few lights so it will take all day :) They are also putting on special meals so we will have those as well I'm sure. As we haven't a car we go everywhere by bus or train so it takes hours more but the journeys are always enjoyable. All I need is more hours in a day really.

Back to the challenges. At Show us your Twinchies the theme is 'It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas'

I made this tag with my twinchie. It is part of a very old wooden stamp from Papermania and the centre of the image was just the right size. I stamped it and coloured it with Promarkers than added some peel off silver stars and silver thread.

I would also like to enter this at Anything but a Card where Anything Goes but with a holiday Twist

Have a really lovely day all

Chrissie x

Alpha Page and Tag

Hello to everyone who drops into Jumbled Crafts. Always great to have new and old friends visit my little bit of Blogland.

Today it is cold again and Dull as well so looks like a crafting day to me :)

This time at the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge the letter is S. I thought that 'S ' sounded like an easy letter but then I read the catch and there has to be something hidden on the page.

Here is my page which is coloured with two 'Big and Juicy' ink pads and then the white waves in Acrylic Paint. The peg and my finger are there to hold the book open.

Noe comes the tricky part as I made an 'upwards slider' that reveals a crab when the shell is pushed upwards. Had to leave some of the white on the crab edges as the claws kept getting stuck on the first one I added. I thought afterwards it would have been a lot easier to have added a rock that could be folded back to reveal the crab-hindsight is a wonderful thing!

This week at Tag Tuesday we have the theme Angels

For my tag I used a bought backing paper that I found in a forgotten stack of papers--I think it may have been free in a magazine long ago. For the angel I cut out the angel wings in silver mirror card and did a few embossed lines on them. I then cut out a circle and simple body shape and  drew the face on the circle and stuck a few bits of paper onto the body shape. Then a bit of faux stitching to make  it all look like a patchwork piece I added silver ribbon as hair and threaded through the hole.

Have a lovely day and thanks for dropping by

Chrissie x

Inchie Day-beach walk pictures

Hello Everyone. Start of a new month and a new week so I am hoping to get lots of things done. Off into town early today so won't be doing much crafting. It looks really cold outside with a bright red sky so I am hoping it doesn't snow. Have a wonderful day and thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts.

At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is Jacket. If you want to join in next year then the list is up already for the challenges with great themes yet again.

My thoughts turned to food and I made my inchie with a jacket potato as the centre piece.

A few pictures from our beach walk yesterday

Love Chrissie x

Christmas Card

Hi All. What a beautiful day it is here with blue sky and sunshine. I can't wait to get out there for a walk but I will wait a while as it is still very chilly at the moment.

The Craft-room Challenge this time is Vintage Christmas which isn't a style I usually do at all but I do like to join in at the Craft Room as they are such a friendly blog.

I Distressed around the white card before I started to add anything.  Next I made a piece of backing paper and tore a piece to fit just inside the card edge. Then came a doillie with  a bit of distressing on it. The image I found on a free Christmas Image Site. I added ribbon and then some embellishments, they are from a set I got from Poundland. The little flowers and the swirl I have had for a while in my bits and bobs box.

Do pop over to the Craft-Room and see the lovely things that the team there have made-very inspiring

Have a great day

Love Chrissie x