Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Monthly make, weather and Tintin

Blistering Barnacles it's chilly!  Our house has been taken over by Tintin phrases, Mr H loves the books and for Christmas recieved this boxset.  Some of the stories are awful - I'm surprised Tintin has any brain cells left - he gets knocked unconcious at least once in every episode. It's a bit stereotypical but....

the little Habbies have taken to it in a big way, R watches intently and KP runs around barking like a dog everytime Snowy appears.  Ach well, it gives me 10 minutes to myself, so can't complain.

The weather here has been a little chilly over the last few days but alas no snow.  We started the week with thick fog which made for a very atmospheric walk to nursery!


 The clock tower
 The shops at the bottom of the street have disappeared into the gloom.
 The hill and woods at the end of the street seem to have vanished too.
 I happened to be out and about the evening of the day these were taken and it was very eerie walking up the lane myself with the mist swirling around!
 The next day the fog was still there but it was so cold that you could see the frost settling.  It was the oddest thing, it looked like someone had been out with a can of spray snow.
 The cobwebs were all beautifully painted - R informed me that the fairies had been busy painting them,  They looked so delicate and you could see all the ice crystals, very pretty!
 You do have to feel sorry for all the wee spiders though!   You don't realise there are so many webs around until they are all painted silver.

My first month of making in 2012 resulted in quite a number of creations - more than I thought I would manage!
 After taking down all the Christmas decorations the house looked a little bare, so I decided a chain of colourful wheels would be just the thing. Taken from Christmas Crafting in no time  Thankfully we had the birthday party which provided a nice selection of colourful paper (Mr H did laugh at me ironing a few of the more crumpled pieces, he muttered something about shirts but I pretended not to hear him!)

After visiting Aannaboos house I got this great idea for organising myself.  A peg for each day of the week, one for the 'to do' list and one for shopping.  All I need to do is find the letters 'm' and 's' and I can finish them!

I also managed the birthday cake (yep claiming that as a make!) and my curtains are ready, they just need curtain poles to attach to (Mr H take note) - I know he noseys on here to see what I'm up to.


Here's a sneaky peek at February's effort although I have already finished one make for KP.

I also managed to finish my scavenger hunt for January and will pop along to add the extra photos to the previous post.

Phew! note to self, don't leave it so long between blogs!
Keep cosy folks, spring must be on the way soon (she says sitting on the rug in front of the fire, with her thick jumper on)
ttfn


Wednesday, 1 February 2012

January photo scavenger hunt

What fun that was, a new camera and no idea how to work it!  Now I know what some of the buttons do just need to figure out photoshop!  (or it's free equivalent!)

So here we are, January, some taken very last minute, but done - nearly.  My camera stopped working last night, so a few photos are missing - they will be uploaded as soon as I figure out the problem.  I also still need to take photos of my monthly makes.  Bloomin technology!


Blur - spinning with KP

Company - all the local crows got together one morning, the noise was deafening!

In Season - snowdrops, what could be more springlike
In the distance - using the zoom on my camera at Largs (these were a speck with the naked eye)

Mess - tomato soup is a favourite

Odd - A tree trunk washed up at the beach with some odd orange mould


Warning - On the waste ground down the lane

so I still need to post
2, entrance, in my bathroom, information and soft


Watch this space...

Ta da - well a few days (weeks) late but here are the last few pictures.
 2 - myself and KP, we hadn't seen the sun for weeks so it was quite a surprise to see our shadow's on the path.
 Information - the bookshelf in the sitting room, cooking, crafting, animals and gardening, all there and all jumbled up!
 Soft - my Christmas slippers from my Auntie

In my bathroom - Well I was in the bathroom, does that count?  The sunrise over the church hall, my bathroom is still not finished and was a tad messy for taking pictures.

and finally
Entrance, the gates to the estate.
So a little late, but we get there, I must pop over and see what I should be looking for this month.