Kissing Cousins

Well is was a nice visit with family and friends back in the states but way to short. My sister and I had a little bit of time together and were able to at least get the invites stated for my SIL's baby shower and I caught a few snippets of my little nephew and Belle. My sister Gave me some awesome stuff for my Bday(Which I will share in a later post) I also got to raid her stash...that was fun.thanks Cath! I did steal some of her mini albums to do some projects for her so I will share them with you as I finish them. Over the next week as things return to normal I will have a bit more time to work on them. Now I must call it a night as you can see I am still on East coast time now trying to adjust back to England time. Don't forget to enter our blog candy here! Have a wonderful evening. Angela

Passing the time and a bit of Candy.

In between a bit of shopping Belle and I settled down and began on the invitations for my SIL's baby shower. Now I can only show snippits so here it is a bit jumbled and blurry...Sorry but it has to be.
Once they are out We will post the entire card. Cathy and I came up with the layout the other night and it is really adorable. I cannot wait until they are all completed and the SIL sees them. I am not sure if I mentioned about my SIl but this is their first child and my brother and her are very excited since they have been married 15 years and gave up on the whole kids thing years ago. Well miracles happen and we could not be happier for them. My little brother(ok well he is younger at least maybe not littler at 6'6") and his wife will be wonderful parents and really will be good to this kid. Not to mention we can spoil them rotten. Unfortunately because I am in England and due to school we will not be able to make the shower although my sister will be flying down to attend. At least I can help with this little bit. My sister will finish them off after I am done with my part.

and now for the blog candy....You have until September 9 to enter so there is plenty of time. If you leave a comment you will get 1 entry. Become a follower you will get 2 entries(or if you are already a follower) and if you get a friend to become a follower you will get another 2 entries and your friend will too! Each comment you leave on any posts between now and Sept 10 will get you more entries so keep checking out the posts. As for the Candy, It is a Rusty Pickle Pirate Princess Mini book kit.
It comes complete with directions, papers, ribbons/lace, hardware book and more just add pictures and stamping and you will be good to go! perfect for Disney or party pictures of that little pirate princess. On Sept 10 we will draw the winner from all the entries. This candy is open to all worldwide. Good luck and thanks for following. Have a wonderful evening. Angela

Rooster Blog Party from Bella Vista

August 6th is the day for the Bella Vista "Show us your Roosters" Blog party. Now Cathy loves Roosters and has a whole kitchen full of them and since I was going to be home with her during this party I thought we just had to join in the fun. Now I try to buy any Rooster related items I can find for her and some of her items are very old from our mom. The room they are in (the kitchen has always been decorated with roosters from the time my Gran owned the house. I can always remember sitting at the kitchen table looking at the roosters haning on the wall. Now my sister has the house and even though it has been modernized it still retains the Roosters but in a new way. So step on through and take a peek at some of the lovely Roosters. If you are so kind as to leave a comment we will enter your name in a drawing for a little something special which will be drawn on the 14th. If you are a follower or become one you will get 2 entries for the drawing. We Will post the drawing gift later this weekend. And now for the Roosters.....





Some Roosters haning around...

A storage box...
Sugar bowl
Candle topper above and below is the old starage/medicine cabinet our Mom had in our old house growing up.

Above is a wire Rooster Brought back from England last year.
Some Decor Mom Bought...


A little covered dish above
more ceramics above

And the new wall borders above and plate below.

And these are just a few of the little roosters laying about the Kitchen. Hope you enjoyed the stop. Have a wonderful weekend. Angela and Cathy!

Stamp man July ATC swap

Here are the other ATCs I completed yesterday for the ATC swap over at The stamp Man. The theme was wings and you had to make 3 cards so here they are...

The first card used distreess ink on white card for the background. the stamp is from Tim holtz. the butterflies are Also from Tim and are stamped in each colour then cut and layered. Once the edge is torn this card is layed on a plain ATC card from 7 Gypsies which has been inked on one side with stormy sky and black soot distress ink. Lastly I added the white dots using Smooch ink.

The second card has a distress inked background using dusty concord, tumbled glass and stormy sky. the stamped used is from Stamptivity and stamped using stazon black. The bricks are done using lake mist dabber as a base and Blonde Moments paint base mixed with stormy sky distress ink. I cut a small rectangle from cut and dry foam and used it to stamp the bricks. The gold trim is from Smooch.

The third card is inked using old paper, stormy sky and brushed corduroy distress inks. the writing is from Wikapedia as is the large owl picture. The 2 smaller darker owls are from a napkin I received as part of a gift package. They were added using Blond Moments clear paint base. Once dry I stamped the branches from tim holtz stamps and added the moon using Smooch pearl and gold inks.

You can also view my ATC's for the ATC Swappers July swap here. thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful weekend. Angela

And the Blog candy winner is....

Thank you to those who stopped by our blog over the past few days. Now on to announce the winner of the "Being Kind" Blog candy. This blog candy includes several 12X12 papers, 8 1/2 X 11 papers, buttons, trim, stickers, Trading cards blank and stamp, card blanks, flowersoft mini kit, bag of real swarorsky crystals, misc prima flowers, prima bird and more...and the blog candy is.....

Poppet
from crafting when I can.

Poppet, please send me your address and I will get your candy out to you right away. thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day. Angela and Cathy

A fanciful twist Tea party 2010 -

Come on in and join us for the Fanciful Twist 2010 Mad Tea party.

Let me check the Guest list....

The party is all set up in the garden room....

The cakes are baked

and the tea is on the way

Now where is the mad hatter.....

Here he comes....
Now where did I put my crown???

Well now to the credits.....
The Book was made for me by a dear swap frind Liesa who can be found at Rosemary Cake.
The Tea party set up is actually miniture Belle and I make. this shot is in our greenhouse/garden room of our miniture house. Belle made the cakes.
The cake is a Bananna, Chocolate chip and Pecan cake made by yours truely.
The teapot is from my collection it is a Cardew Pooh and friends party one.
The wonderful hat is made by my darling daughter Belle. She made the whole thing sewing, wire frame butterflies and all.
My crown is another wonderful item made by my swapping buddie Liesa at Rosemary cake.

We hope you have enjoyed yourself and please take a cup of tea and slice before you go. thanks for dropping in.

Angela, Belle and Cathy

What a nice surprise! -Posted by Angela -UK

The other day I received this nice little package in the mail and we all like getting little surprises right? It was from Hope over at Pixie's Ponderings just as a thankyou for following her blog! Now how nice is that! It was a neat little napkin with all kinds of birds(this will be great with some of my projects) and a nice little tag card. Thank you Hope !

I also got a nice little surprise at school from one of the teachers I work with at school. For those that don't know I volunteer a few days a week at the local village school with the infants class (pre-1st grade in USA terms) Now all three of these grades are in one classroom and the teacher has to have multiple lesson plans for all the grades. I give the teachers alot of credit because it is very hard work. I really enjoy helping out in there and last week I happened to be needed there all week long. The teacher gave me this wonderful little bug box as a thank you for helping. Now it was a bug box for a reason. That week on Friday we went out to the nature area and studied what animals live in that environment(mostly bugs), hence the lady bug.

So as you can see I have been blessed with alot of kindness this week and in return for that my Sister and I would like to give out a little kindness. So if you leave us a comment we will enter your name in a drawing for a nice little surprise! Just as a thank you for being kind! We will draw the winner on July 1! Hope you have a wonderful week. Angela