It's been a great weekend

So it was an another early start yesterday....Linda and I left home at 6.45am.......headed up to Wellingborough to pick up Karen who had previously warned me that the road through Wellingborough had been closed but it would be fine as they had diverted traffic signs everywhere. Well, there was one sign at the beginning of the diversion, so we ignored tom tom who has recently been re-named Ruby Tuesday, and followed said sign.......yes, one sign, singular....no plurals involved here whatsoever!!!! Having ignored Ruby, we decided we had no option but to follow her instructions now as we came to a T-junction and have not got a clue if we should go left or right! Now, I have to admit, I am making this sound more dramatic than it really was but if I had been driving on my own I would never have spotted the "diversion ends" sign which was hidden behind a tree!!

Anyway,we arrive at Karen's and head up to Crafty Notions in Newark for a lovely, lovely day....a tad hot but lovely none the less! It was a retailer training day and it was soooooo nice to be sat sitting down with a pile of stuff to play with (fab goody bag too) and not be teacher for the day. It was an opportunity to play with product that I had heard about but not played with before. We came back with a whopping great big box of stuff for the shop, which the lovely Karen will have the pleasure of sorting out this morning. I'm not going to tell you what we have just yet, as I can't remember exactly what I did put in that box, But I'll be sure to let you know when Linda has it on the website.....it's all wet stuff.....inky and painty gorgeousness. It's going to be fab for journaling.

We had a bit of a play making some tags with the techniques we had just been shown. Made a few flowers and finally a little Christmas canvas........here they are in all there glory!!!
A close up of my Twiddlybitz painted snowflake. I chucked some gold embossing powder on it when the paint was wet....loved this effect.

My tags and flowers.

Close up of one of my flowers.

Close up of my tags.

This one has to be my favourite......love that tree stencil!

And last but not least......she's seriously gonna kill me when she sees this......Linda enjoying her giant (it was nearly as big as her) creamy, jammy, puff pastry, six foot long cake!

Take care, Lin