My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Huge thanks ladies and gent for joining Glyn and myself at our one day workshop, Stoneleigh last weekend.  What a great time we all had assembling, painting snipping and sticking our  Mini Cabinet and Drawer Set  together around a lot of laughter, nibbles and retail therapy.  Here's a few pics of everyone crafting away and some of the finished projects.  .   Say cheese everyone :-)  If you'd like to join me and like minded crafters at one of our future events see below for 2019 locations & dates and follow the links for more info and bookings: One Day Workshops 2019 Project:  Traveller's notebook in a choice of papers Reading, Berkshire  - Saturday 21st September 2019 Stoneleigh, Warwickshire  - Saturday 5th October 2019 Weekend Craft Retreat  - limited places left Holiday Inn, Kenilworth, Warwickshire - November 15th - 17th 2019 Have a great day all, thanks for...

Afternoon everyone, What a great day we had yesterday crafting in Cardiff.  Ladies thank you so much for joining me for the day. Your albums looked fabulous - I hope you enjoy using them.  We had a break for cake. Charlene was in charge of the knife and here are our Birthday Girls, Claire and Morwen.  Happy Birthday both.    there was a ta da from Angela :-)  and a great time crafting away with the gorgeous floral shoppe papers. (after we'd sniffed and stroked them of course lol)  I'll be back again at the Holiday Inn, Cardiff North on 20th & 21st October to run two more workshops.  Projects will be different on both days so if you'd like to do it all again,  missed out this time and would lie to join me for the day follow the link here for more info and bookings;  Graphic 45 Workshop Cardiff 20th October 2018   Graphic 45 Workshop 21st October 2018 Have a great week everyone, thanks for calling b...

Hi everyone, what a day. I was up early this morning with a whole load of things to do, only to find the heating had given up the ghost over night.  It felt like the Beast from the East thats hit the country this week has some how got into my house lol!!!!  All my plans went out the window for a few hours while Oli's friend and his dad called by to get my little boiler up and running again.  Thanks so much Alex & Mark.   With so many roads across the country blocked or closed I was really l ucky to have made it to Scotland and back before the weather took a nose dive lol!!!  Fiona and Mandie thank you so much for organising last Sundays workshop in Cumberslang,  Glasgow, Scotland, Emily for all your help setting up and packing away and to all the lovely ladies who came along for a fab day of crafty heaven, and for  all the goodies you bought along too. Yum Yum........ Here's a few pics from our day together.  ...

'oh have you seen the fairies dance upon a summers night & watched the gnomes & pixies prance when'er the moon is bright' Hi everyone, hows your first week of 2018 been.  Good I hope.  I've stuck to my New Years resolutions and have earned myself a day off tomorrow to take down the Christmas Decorations and clean the house lol!!!!  I'm really excited to be launching my regular monthly 'kit in a box' feature with this adorable Accordion Album altered in papers from the Fairie Dust collection by Graphic 45.  It's a stunning collection for us to craft with, full of dreamy colours, fairies, flowers and toadstools - and the perfect paper collection for my first 'kit only' based project.   These kits are suitable for crafters of all levels, come with everything you need to make the project including glue, double sided tape and printed instructions.    What a great way to take a project away with you and craft on the g...

Morning Everyone  I'm back after a fab few weeks of workshops and retreats.  Our first was in Norwich on 4th/5th November.  We had two days of crafty heaven creating Games Compendiums and Seasons albums with their stand.  Ladies thank you so much for joining me and a great time over our two days together. Bev, I hope you managed to pack up your project safely for your trip back to Australia.  Then it was all hands (only my two) to the pumps prepping for our one day workshop and my last two day retreat of the year at the Holiday Inn, Kenilworth.   Our Friday project was a little festive album and box altered in papers from the Winter Wonderland collection by G45.   It was a great day, lots of laughs and a little bit of crafting thrown in for good measure lol!!!  Mel with her finished project One Day Graphic 45 Workshop with Clare Charvill Kenilworth Nov 2017 An then the biggie!  There were 37 of us in for the bes...