It's A Wednesday FREEBIE!

 

Just in time for a Wednesday Freebie! Here's Scruffy Dog...although he did start off as a fox... scanned in first thing this morning, a very quick scribble, to my laptop from my new printer/scanner. They seem to like each other, (the printer and the laptop I mean)  Go HERE to download him and if you do, and fancy doing something with him, you'll be up for another freebie of your choice. Comment if you can. No saving anywhere without a watermark, but a link back here is always welcome! Thank you for stopping by!

What's on your WorkTop Wednesday!? #785-Lots of bits!

  Hello Wednesday...I nearly forgot what day is was! Welcome to WOYWW?! A little late, but, no one will notice! I took pictures...but where are they??? Still on my phone I think...hang on...I'll just go see. I'm not home, I'm house stitting two dogs and the neighbour's pussy cat... haven't seen her yet, but I'm told she's very big and fluffy.

 

 And what's on my Worktop? This was on mine, but it's now all packed up, and in my case, so I can have a play with it while I'm here. It's a freebie from VectoriaDesigns. There's even a tutorial on YouTube on how to put it together.

    My old printer has finally given up the ghost, so...I bought a new printer, Yay!! It's sooo good, being able to print again! So I've printed out loads of digi papers and will spend any spare time, while I'm here, making up some little folders. This one above is the Gentleman Cats. I didn't do it as described. I first made the little specimen folders smaller... cut out the window, then made a tag that fitted inside the window and added the pussy cat gentlemen...

 Then I watched the tutorial again and started with the printing of the gentlemen cats on to acetate then printed out the specimen folders to the right size... Will show you next week, how it all turns out...(hopefully!) If you can't wait, here's a link to a quicky Look! And another to the main, 'how to' tutorial and don't forget,The Gentlemen Cats downloads are freebies! That's all from me for now! Happy WOYWW pop over to Sarah's Craft Shed and join in! Thank you for stopping by!

T for Tuesday...just a little late

 Hello! I'm  Late T for Tuesday, (join in over on alteredbooklover) including last week as well... aw well, never mind. I'm not here, I'm somewhere else, house/dog sitting, which is why I've been awol for ages and because last week was John's birthday week and I wasn't really in the right place to blog. So I booked a slot to take rubbish to the tip instead...oohooo... in the car- (John will be really moaning at me!) they still want me to pay if I use my van, even though I paid for 12 visits last year and only used one... meanies. So, once that was booked, I just did the garden. (The pots in the background had just arrived for Amazon) The weeds are still winning, after that, a bit of cutting and glueing, (with paper, not weeds) probably going to add that to my WOYWW post later.  I still managed to take photo's of my boring breakfast... including last weeks...waffle waffle....(fast forward if you like...) more waffle. So you're not going to get out of seeing that! 

Last weeks breakfast

  AND!! I even have some from last week, coz I miss you all... I tried the Alpro Oat milk, as daughter came over and being Vegan, doesn't drink cows milk... Coudn't waste it, have tried it before but went back to 'normal' milk, but tried it on my Shreddies, and it wasn't half bad!

I love those little Tea for One teapots, and if I see one in a charity shop, I usually buy it... This one was as cheap as chips... My cold drink today was Mixed Berries, nice. (It's still made from different teas. No sugar) 

The best icecream ever!

  Last night I made an icecream soda for pudding... icecream in a glass, topped up with that berry fizzy drink... yummy!! Of course, you're supposed to have vanilla icecream, and plain old lemonaid, but I didn't have any of that...

Well, that's it for now... I'll just leave you with one last picture. Hope you've had a great week so far! Happy T day...Thank you for stopping by.

What's on YOUR WorkTop Wednesday!?#783 A bit of Edwardian Diary

  It's a WOYWW Day!? Good Morning! I'm not here til this afternoon, as I'm off any second now, to house sit some little dogs! But first, I've pushed back all my crafty stuff on my work bench, in my craftroom (I haven't done much in here for months!) to make room for my Edith Holden 'Diary of an Edwardian Lady' books. Why? Because I've been binge watching Miss Paintalot on Youtube making  a ringbinder journal using said same  book and 'thought' (it wasn't too much of a strain)  I can do that! I've got all the stuff!  So I've dumped my books here, ready!!  Now I've got to disappear til later....

Hi it's later...very much later... I got waylaid, and hours and hours have flown by... and I haven't been able to 'play' yet, so I'll just show you the pictures I took earlier...

The tag I made a while back using pages from Edith's book, inked up with added labels and a flower.

 Jumping forward a bit...Here's another bargain of the week, this little black swivel thingy from the charity shop, was a fiver. In the background you can just see the larger white one I also bought a few years back for £4 also from the charity shop. Then my box of tags.

This is what I've been doing...here's Bronte sniffing her way around the garden and into the woods.

And here's Remi back in the house. They were both rescue dogs and came from somewhere near Greece I believe. Then, I was off to water someones garden and feed their fish! So that's my Wednesday! What's happening on Your Wednesday??  Hop over to Sarah's Craft Shed and join in! Happy WOYWW!? Thank you for stopping by!!

T stands for Tuesday With Nuts, Elderflower- Bargain of The Week...

  Mornings everyone. Happy T stands For Tuesday! I'm back home again, laptop all re-plugged in and believe or not, had just over four and a half hours sleep last night in my own bed, with no dogs sharing, just a huge Polo Bear (but he's another story) which for me, since John passed, is brilliant! So from 5'clock-ish, I watched YouTube in bed for about an hour.  There's just toooo much to watch and I want to make it all! BuT! Must mow the lawns before it rains! My Boring Breakfast is a bit different this week, actually this top picture was taken last friday. Shredded Wheat with Honey and Nuts, plus added fruit... I was surprisingly surprised. It wasn't bad! Better than no sugar porridge at any rate! Plus some cramberry Juice. 

 Back from being away House/dog sitting over the weekend, this was todays breakfast and back to drinking the Elderflower and lemonaid, made from different teas. And, lookie see, no crafty mess in the background for once... Now,  My Bargain of the Week, has to be 'The Concise  British Flora in Colour', book. Bought form a Charity shop. 

 

As with the other flowery books I've found in charity shops, I'm not really ready to cut this up and turn it into tags, tabs and other crafty things yet. (trying to get my phone to spell emhemera for me, when I can't even say it proberly, was impossible!) I love the inside just as much! And the price, just 99p.

 

Hope you all have a great crafty week, starting with today's Happy T Day. Pop over to Altered Booklover, who's having kababs this week I think, and join in! Thank you for stopping by!

Oh a Bit of dOOdling- An Always Freebie!

 What day is it today!? I don't know...anyway, I haven't done any freebies for ages as I haven't been home or had my printer/scanner with me. And as I'm rubbish at drawing straight onto my laptop, I just couldn't come up with anything that didn't look as if a two year old had drawn it. So, I've done this; 'It's Just O's'  It's going to be an always freebie, so do with it as you wish.  It's just doodling, and quite honestly, very therapeutic! Have a go! So Happy Always Freebie on a Monday! Just click and save. Thank you for stopping by!

Here's A Purple one...

 

 

 And a coloured one.

 

Sunny Saturday! Tom's belated Birthday Card!

 Happy 1st of June, another few weeks and the clocks will go back again. Winter is coming!!  I'm typing this in the conservatory. Not mine, as I haven't got one. It's nice and sunny, but not toooooo hot, yet, and I have two little dogs keeping me company. Outside, the bird feeder is going crazy with birds feasting on the food we've, me and the dogs, have just put out. 

 It was son-in-law's birthday a little while back, I did go to his birthday party the week before but didn't get to see him on his birthday as was busy, doing other things for other people.  Lesson learnt! Don't do other things for other people coz you'll just have a melt down. Which I did! Less said on that...back to Tom's Card!! 

As you can see, I've used the Lawnfawn Magic Iris diecut, which I bought from Craftstash, when there was a little bit off. (Plus 10%  for being a VIP)  Always wanted one, got one, and then didn't use it til now! Probably coz I thought I'd make a hash of it.

So, I made a 'practise' one first, cos there were a few swear words... but it was ok in the end! A lot easier than I thought it would be! As you can see, I've made one of my favourite cards. What I call,  'make up your mind' fun fold card. (As it's two cards, one opens one way and the other card opens the other way...) I Covered it in the muddest backing paper I could find, as Tom loves running marathons...including the big mud marathon, then added loads of cogs, wheels, and clocks, very simular to his 40th birthday card seen here (Oh! er...I nearly used that same blue clock backing paper!) There is a difference, the Magic Iris on the front.... open it up and there's the hidden 50th coloured (with Promarkers) sticker inside. 

The Back, showing pocket for birthday money

 The back holds a pocket with a little homemade envelope containing birthday money. Normally if there's a pressy there's no birthday money! (Well, you're only 50 once, aren't you!) Anyway, Tom liked his birthday pressy so much, he stripped off in the carpark where we all met up and put it on! (Shoulda taken a Picture!) There's more pictures of Toms fabulous birthday cake on a T for Tuesday Post, he didn't get his card then, because, basically... I hadn't finished it! and I forgot his pressy. (So many holes in my head, things just keep falling out!) Well, that's it from me. Hoping to find some challenges! Thank you for stopping by!!

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