Sunshine and rain seem to be alternating as if to remind us that it's still summer but warning us that autumn is nearly here. The good thing about the weather is I don't have to water the veg beds and it's brought one of my favourite natural phenomenon - a rainbow.
Made a wish - do you make a wish when you see a rainbow?
Weather like this gives me a good excuse to stay indoors when I should be going out. Last week I had to go out to book my stall for the second
Arts & Crafts Market which is on October 2nd. Due to a huge rise in interest from crafters I had to book way earlier than expected. Ms Cat told me that the next market will also be much bigger, expanding from one room to two! All good news but on the day I was going to Hackney City Farm, the morning began with grey clouds and lots and lots of rain. I planned to get my bike out of the shed but riding in the rain... no thanks.
Luckily for me the rain stopped and the sun came out.
I didn't ride the whole way as I am so unfit that I had to walk for some of the way, especially anywhere near busy traffic. I am a very nervous cyclist. Even cycling through the park is nerve wracking because of all the speedy young fit ones whizzing by with barely a ding of their bell... that makes me wobble. But I made it there and back in a couple of hours. Just as soon as I got in the rain fell again.
Despite the rain it's been a good end of my summer break. I made my first wedding card for a friend. You can't see all the clear embossed flowers decorating the card in the photograph along with the border print and gold strips. Took more than one photo but I could not get them to show up. Going to have to work on those photography skills. Anyway as this card was not for sale it is just as well it looks better in person.
I also created a new step-by-step project on my
VideoJug page using a digital stamp I found a few years ago. It shows you how to
create a decoupage poinsetta for Christmas cards. I'm going to use this for some personal cards myself but I am hoping some of you will give it a go and show me photos of your completed cards.
Christmas cards will form the focus of any cards I make in the next few weeks hoping that there will a demand for some at the
Arts & Crafts Market in October. I don't usually make Christmas cards to sell so this is a new venture brought about because of the craft stall.
By far the main crafting done these past couple of weeks involves knitting but not just for
my own project but for a fundraising campaign for
Age UK. I'd never heard of
The Big Knit but apparently it's been going on annually for quite a few years, some of that time under a different name - Supergran would you believe. All you have to do is make mini hats which will be used to put on Innocent drinks. For every one sold Innocent will donate 25p to
Age UK which will be used to support elderly people and ensure they are kept warm over the winter. So if you're into knitting or even new to knitting this is a great way to use your skills for a worthy cause. There is loads of time to get involved - deadline for sending in your hats is October 14th. Visit the
site to get knitting patterns for each skill level, videos showing you the basics of knitting and a great gallery of hats to inspire you more, if not already inspired by the photos of those I've made so far myself, some finished and some still in progress.
Finally I am currently working with a digital scrapbooking software package that can be used to create more than scrapbooking pages. I will be reviewing it in my next blog post and telling you how you could get it for yourself... in other words it's will be a giveaway! Yay!
Look out for that soon :)
I love your wedding card!. I also have those stamps from Papercraft inspirations but haven't had any weddings to go to recently, So haven't been able to use them much. : )
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