WEDNESDAY'S THOUGHTS

Hi everyone

I started the week with BIG plans to sort out my work-room - guess what?  All I can say is that I planned to get around to it, and I have!  Look top right of my blog.

Hasn't the weather been wonderful these last few days?  Sad that it seems to have gone back to what we expect of Autumn now, but great while it lasted.  I have read numerous posts on Facebook and Twitter that snow is forecast for the end of this month - I hope  not.  I don't mind snow (well, when looking out of the window at it), but would prefer to have some more summery weather first please.  After such a  disappointing summer, I think we need some more gorgeous autumnal weather to set us up for winter.

Yesterday was World Animal Day.  To celebrate Jazz and Daisy had a packet of Dreamies - they can eat those treats faster than I can finish a bar of chocolate!

I have joined in with the Wow Me Wednesday blog hopping event today - you must check out the amazing makes on the blogs that take part is this great event.  So many gorgeous Halloween goodies.

As well as being industrious (well, sort of) in the clearing-up area, I have also been busy making cards - in fact I made 20 on Monday.  I decided September was my 'getting out of the habit of having a stressful job month' and now back to planet earth and need to get on with making my business successful.  My plan was to make some inexpensive Christmas cards in packs of 5 to sell at my forth-coming events.  I will pack them into a handmade envelope and think they will look pretty nifty and, I hope, prove to be very popular.  Here are some pics of a few that I have completed:

The cards are 5" x 5" 300 gsm and the papers are from a Christmas card-stock pack.  I have cut it into either squares, long strips, triangles or curves.  Added stock greetings toppers, and some jewels too.

It is not long until my first event of the season - 19 October at the Wyke School. Don't forget to come along and give them your support if you are in the area, and of course also buy some of my Christmas cards.

Enjoy the rest of the week everyone, I hope the temperature doesn't drop too much.  I will be back with my usual Sunday post.

Jill

THURSDAY'S BLOG HOP - WEAR IT PINK

Hi everyone

Wear it Pink is Breast Cancer's biggest fund-raising event - the main focus of this event is 28 October 2011 when everyone should aim to wear something pink and give a donation to this charity to support their work.  A good friend and fellow crafter, Caroline of Carolee Crafts has been encouraging fellow crafts people this week to take an active part in this event by contributing in whatever way they feel they can (for example, a percentage of sales during October or for items sold on 28 October).  Caroline has set up an area on her website specifically for this event and we can link to this to pledge our support (and money of course) - so if you have landed on my blog either by chance or to check out my latest news, please do click on the link above to access Caroline's website and give us your support.

In a pink frame of mind, I made the following two cards.  Plain white card stock, topped off with pale pink. the first one has a triangle fan-shape embellishment, two green jewels and a Happy Birthday topper.  the second one also has a pale pink background, topped with a dark pink embellishment (cut using a Martha Stewart corner punch) and finished off with a Best Wishes topper.  I will continue to make 'pink stock' with the aim of selling them at my 19 October event at Wyke School.

So come along blog followers, join us in our aim to help support Wear it Pink.

I will be back blogging on Saturday of this week (not Sunday as usual), so don't forget to come back and check out my new makes, news of the day and an update on our Wear it Pink campaign.

Jill