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Happy weekend ...... I hope you're all doing something nice this weekend.  It's lovely here on the island today ..... we've got autumn sunshine.  It's a but chilly though, so my cosy, warm layers are starting to come out of the wardrobe. As I mentioned yesterday, there's only 13 more weekends before Christmas ....... eeeek! I'd better get those lists started!  I must confess I did actually look a some Christmas cards in town yesterday.  Well, I was in the card shop with Lauren, waiting for balloons for Alex's birthday party today, and as I don't venture in to card shops much these days I thought I'd have a look round.  Don't worry, I didn't buy any, well not yet anyway.  The way things are going though I might just have to at some point!!! I do have one more for the festive box ...... I'm playing along with this month's CAS Christmas Card Challenge .   As you can see, the theme this month is .... Wreath I do like a nice Christmas wrea...

Happy Tuesday ........ It's been a funny old day ...... it's been foggy here for most it, which was not good.  Our little island doesn't cope well with fog!  First off the plane that brings some of the mail didn't arrive this morning ..... it couldn't land because of the fog.  Possibly why there was nothing through the letterbox today .... no craft stash delivery!! And then the practice/qualifying session for the racing, which is due to run this evening because it was cancelled last night, has been a bit of a worry all day. I think it is finally going ahead, a statement was issued earlier saying conditions have cleared considerably this afternoon on the mountain so, fingers crossed everything goes according to plan.  Did I mention we've got the MGP (Manx Grand Prix) on at the moment.  It's practice/qualifying this week, then race week next. Oooh ..... the sun has just appeared, so we might just get a nice evening after all.  I hope it's shining where yo...

Happy weekend ..... I hope you're having a good one.  So far we've done nothing ....... it's been wonderful! No early morning starts ...... no dashing off into town with a list as long as my arm, and no plans made at all ..... makes a nice change. I'm playing along with the current  CAS Christmas Card Challenge today ...... I think there's still a couple of days left before the deadline. It's all about Poinsettias this month ....... my favourite festive bloom. I buy one every year and try my best to keep it alive for as long as I can.  You see, I'm not very good with plants ....... so, it's lucky if it makes it to New Year's Eve!  (I also have a fake one as a back up!!) Anyway, enough about my not so green fingers ..... here's my card ..... Very CAS ....... lots of white space ...... minimal layers/embellishment ...... OK maybe not so minimal on the layers but, I wanted to really frame the pretty poinsettia. I stamped the image ( Perfect Poinset...

Happy Thursday folks ...... It's almost the weekend ..... yeah! March saw the launch of a new Blog Challenge, especially for Christmas Cards.  And, as the brains behind it are two of my lovely blog buddies ...... the talented Loll Thompson and Bonnie Klass , what else could it be for but .........  CAS Christmas Cards ,  one of my favourite styles. The challenge started on the 3rd of the month and runs through to the 24th ...... so I'm a little late joining the party but ..... I made it! As you can see the theme is Holly ....... surprisingly I don't have a lot of Holly stamps in my collection, not ones I wanted to use anyway!!  In the end I decided on this little guy ..... he's got holly He's a little Penny Black hedgie from one of their T for Transparent sets and he's been stamped in the centre of a square card and coloured using ZIG markers A little sentiment underneath (from  Happy Little Stampers ) stamped in gold ink. A few dots of white Enamel A...