My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Well hello my crafty friends, its been a while since I blogged ............ we're in Poldark country - Cornwall having a busy busy time come holiday.  We drove down last Friday. OMG - so did everyone else.  it was the day after the GCSE results came out here and the world and his dog were heading for the coast.  After sitting in traffic for hours we pulled off into the services to grab a drink and it took an hour and a half to get back on the motorway again.  Met a lovely couple heading for Salcome as we sat in the queue so Christine from Crafting at the Cottage if you're reading this I hope you're having a great time on your hols too.  Harry and I headed off to the Cornwall Papercraft Show early Saturday.  Great show this year, thank you to all who came along, shopped and joined in all the make and takes on the stands.  It was busy all day and a great time had by all.  Harry was a star, manned our stand single handed until Sarah and Peggy ...

Happy Tuesday everyone, it's a bit of a grey one here but Harry baby and I are looking forward to a week away with Auntie Annie in sunny Cornwall.  We're heading off on Friday and will be at the Cornwall Papercrafting Show at Lanhydrock Hotel and Golf Club  with our shop on Saturday 22nd. I'm running Graphic 45 make and takes on the hour from 10.15am so if you're planning on coming along, or down on holiday and in need of a crafty fix, and would like to make one of my little notebook holders see Harry on the stand to book your slot.  We'd love to meet you. I"m also hosting Graphic 45 workshops at Ruths shop in St Ausell, and Karens shop, Total Papercrafts in Bodmin during the week.   I'm really excited to be featuring a Time to Flourish project made for  Graphic 45 over on their blog today.   If you're keen to get started with your festive makes here's a great idea for a wall hanging using the gorgeous imagery from G45's calendar coll...

 A very happy Sunday to you,  hope you're enjoying your day.  Its been a week of mixed emotions starting off with a trip down to London on Monday with Harry to meet up with my lovely friends Sarah and Cathy, and also Cathy and her husband from the US (So Much Scrap) if you re a You Tuber.  We met at the main entrance to Harrods, London and headed up to the Georgian Restaurant for Afternoon Tea.  Oh my, we drank and ate for over three hours and had a fab time chit chatting about all things crafty and oodles more :-) Kathy I hope you're enjoying your trip and have a wonderful time in Paris.  Roof Lantern and chandilier, Harrods London Sarah, Harry, Cathy & Cathy at Harrods London  On Tuesday we headed up to Crewe to say goodbye to our dear friend Lyn. It was a very emotional day but Sarah, Lyn s daughter had arranged a very beautiful and personal service and shared her heartfelt Eulogy to Lyn with us all.  We laughed and cried, s...

Rare Oddity Folio Album  Well it's the middle of the week and things can only get better lol !!  Hope yours is swinging along.  I thought I'd share one of my new folio album with you today made from the Rare Oddities collection by Graphic 45.  I love all things Halloween and the course in this collection are stunning.  Petaloo flowers always work really well with G45 too, and I've added a few to the cover of my little album to pretty it up. A great little album to give as a gift and takes a couple of sheets of chipboard, a few sheets of card and an 8 x 8 pad to make.  Of course other papers can be used to alter the albums and to make those extra tags and photo mats that we all like to add in.  I use a standard structure for the basic album but each one is different inside. Each one fits into our Folio Album Stand too.  Neat eh!!   lol . Here's a few pics of them both.  The  Project sheet  is available o...

ABC Primer Altered Gift Caddy by Nicky  Happy Tuesday to you.  Is it a back to work kind of a day or a just getting on with the jobs one.  Mines a bit of both here :-) A little while ago one of my lovely customers, Nicky bought a couple of gift caddy kits from me and turned them into fabulous home made lemonade kits for her children to give to their teachers at the end of term.  Altered in papers from the ABC Primer collection she really did make the perfect gifts.  they really were the perfect gifts for the summer break.  Before wrapping them up Nicky added a homemade lemonade kit made up from a small kilner jar of caster sugar, a wooden lemon reamer, an old fashioned school milk bottle, four lemons and a recipe card. Boys I hope you enjoyed giving them to your teachers.  Our gift caddy are really versatile and with Christmas coming up would make perfect hampers.  Here's the link to them over in the shop  Alter Me Gift Cad...

oooops!!  I'm a day late announcing the winner of last months blog giveaway.  I was a busy bee yesterday and by the time I got home it was just too late to get blogging.   I thought I'd share a commission with you.  It was from Harry.  He liked my little ATC boxes and asked if I could make him one in Good Ol' Sport papers for his golf tees.  Three golf balls fit in the bottom of the box too.  A great gift idea for those chappies in our lives I though as I was making it. Was also impressed that Harry knew which papers he'd lie me to use :-)  And now on to our giveaway.  We had an amazing number of comments this month, over 200.  Thank you everyone.  The winner selected by random.org  is  left by  Karen Petitt 12 July 2015 at 16:56 .  Congratulations Karen.  If you mail your address to me at mycreativespirituk@gmail.com  I'll get your Craft Maid Kit out in the post to you.  I'll...