Chapter 5 & hopefully up to date ...

In case you thought we forgot to craft .... wrong ! Nan & I did get some time to ourselves ... (we didn't go out on safari EVERY DAY you know !!!!)

Here's Nan (& Nicki) using soft pastel chalks to colour the pages of a 'Flip Flap Book' that we made ...

Nicki had to show us she was working hard too !!!
We folded our own pages ... coloured them and then made them into a mini book ... this one's mine in Blue & Green (although it looks yellow on here) , Nan made hers Brown & Orange neither of us are too sure what we're gonna use them for ... but does that matter ???
I also showed Nan how to make a Mini Handbag out of a sheet of 12 x 12 ... she gave her first handbag to her mum & dad filled with little Easter eggs ...

Then Nan commented on T-Bag folding that she'd heard about so we made a few cards ... using the basic Triangle & basic Square Folds ... Sometimes you can get so caught up in fancy stuff you tend to forget the basics ...

Now here is something I took a notion to ... Nan's mum had a HUGE bowl of multi-coloured ... BUTTONS ... and I decided we all needed bracelets to wear that colour co-ordinated with our outfits for the weekend ... so before you knew it I'd made us all a whole bunch of them ... Pinks, Browns, Yellows, Red for Lorraine ... Black & Grey for Nan. And I have to tell you they look really 'funky' on !!! (sorry I got a bit carried away with them I know so SAD !!!)

Something else Nan & I had in common ... we both had very special friends expecting baby's !!! So what else to do but make the appropriate 'Tag Book Card' for them ... Nan's friend had a baby boy ... and my friend Juno gave birth to a baby girl ... (Sorry Juno you're seeing this before I've actually given it to you ... well you can act surprised !!! ;-) And I'm sure it will be a lovely keepsake for Tayton)

Above: the inside ... the pages are coloured using the soft pastel chalks, randomly stamped in pink & brown ... I used a 6x6 sheet of Dovecraft Baby paper to make the little tag pocket and I even cut out some of the little characters from the paper to add another dimension to the card.

Nan followed the same basic procedures adding her own spin to the pages ... we both had a lot of fun making these ...

Above: inside.

Below: The front cover

Something else a little different ... Nan's mum is the 'Designs by Lorraine' lady that makes me all my fabulous necklaces ... well I am her personal shopper (LOL) here in DBN for any unusual new beads ... of course I had to 'pop' into one of my favourite bead shops just before I went up to Nan's ... and lookey here ... something very new and very different ... you take a bunch of petal shaped beads ... some clear (fishing gut) wire!!! and you put them all together to form 'frosted roses' !!!! Of course if I had to get a Penny or Cent for every swear word issued whilst I was figuring out how to do the first one ... I'd be incredibly rich right now !!! PMSL

I started with Black & White but I think I may just have to do a few other colours too !!!

And then lastly I promised I'd show off all the lovely gifts I got from everyone for my Birthday... so here's the photo ... a lovely (too nice for outside) bird house from Nan, as well as a coffee mug and some lovely fluffy winter socks, Jane sent me over a mug too ... like I need persuading to quit chocolate!!! never as it says "I'm no quitter"... Sharon must have been a mind reader ... as soon as I saw the new Tim Holtz book I said to myself "myself you gotta get you one of those" and ta-da Sharon sent me one over ... so much better getting it as a gift.

My favourite perfume from June and of course she spoilt me with some money too to buy myself something nice ... Lawrence & Penny spoilt me as well with a set of gorgeous towels, Lovely Bubble Bath and Hand&Body Lotion AND chocolates ... Paul brought me the Dr Who Series Set !!! Can't wait for a cold,wet, windy day to have a DVD session ... and of course he spoilt me even more with charms for my Pandora bracelet AND and new Black & Silver Pandora Bracelet as well ... to start #3 !!! Nan's mum made me another stunning necklace and she also made me some more purple hearts to hang on my cupboards & in my clothes (it's a girl thing !!!) and my padded notebook & pen to keep by my bedside for all those inspirational ideas !!!

Oh forgot to mention the Gold Rolo Paul gave me ... you know the advert "do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo ? Well I now have a gold one !!! To keep forever !!!

See how spoilt I am !!! Thank you,Thank you, Thank you to everyone ...

And then finally ... don't forget all the lovely, lovely cards I received ...So glad most of them were handmade ... just wouldn't do for them to be shop bought ;-0!!!

And so I think my blogging should be almost up to date ... well except for what we've been up to this week ... but that will have to wait till tomorrow now cos I don't want you all falling asleep at your computers now do we ???