No Internet!!!

Our suppliers box blew up at the end of last week, great smell as well...

Luckily there was no accompanying fire. However dealing with them (transact, grrrr) was an exercise in frustration. Geoff got through to them to report that the box had blown up and he needed the internet for work. But could he explain that to them. No. he was not the account holder so he couldn't even report a fault. So I hopped on the phone and was placed in the queue (there's an hour of my life I won't get back..). Honestly this is Canberra and your a comparatively small supplier. How hard is to man the phones slightly better than that??

Anyway all fixed now, just have to get a new router. sigh (oh and the other headlight went on the blue car and the drivers seat got stuck in the furtherest back position in the red car which my little legs and too short arms can't cope with, so not a good weekend - luckily not too expensive to fix any of it, just really, really annoying..)

Enough rambling, time to post what should have been posted days ago, the next Get Creative @ Crafty Croppers challenge! Hooray, and it's a sketch - double hooray.




I went digi for this one (as did a couple of other on the DT, it's just that sort of sketch I think).


This was our favourite place that we stayed at, anywhere. It was a small place just outside Luang Prabang, Laos and the husband and wife have set up a set up a series of bungalows, all hand built by him. We went everywhere on the back of an open topped jeep, so much fun. And the food was all cooked by the wife, consistently good. Despite no tv or internet, the kids loved it as well. Never bored, there was always something to do and we played lots of cards.


Anyway, go over to Crafty Croppers, check out the very talented Dt's work and have a go, you know you want to....

Have a great day, I shall be here getting my fill of the big wide world that I have craved over the past few days...
xxx

So Excited!!

I have been looking forward to this month because - ta dah - I am guest designer at Crafty Croppers!! Irini and her team create some of the most gorgeous stuff, sigh. Just love it!! And now it's my turn.

The first challenge of the month was a total challenge for me - here it is

Soon we will be celebrating Easter.
Do you make and send Easter cards?
Do you decorate the house with eggs and baskets?
Your challenge is:
To make something for Easter whether it be an Easter basket for your 
child's teacher or Easter cards, painted eggs or 
garlands...get creative and have fun.

Now as we all know, I don't do cards. I have enough crafty addictions without adding to them..

So an off the page project was in the offing, so to speak. I will admit to grand ideas of an Easter Garland with paper eggs alternating with chocolate eggs, for hanging in the garden while the traditional egg hunt was on. Well, I created the paper eggs, hung some beads from the bottom, and started stringing them together. They looked truly dreadful. A complete fail whale, as my darling children would say. sigh. Time to start again.

I struck on the idea of a painted and decorated birds house with a hinged lid to put eggs in and be able to easily access them as well (can't have anything stand between the children -ok me- and chocolate..)

Off to the nearest big hardware store - no bird house but they did have a great little kit to make a bird feeder. Perfect. Very quick to put together.

After that it was a matter of painting and staining, doing some fussy cutting (!!) with the very yummy Cosmo Cricket c1934 ginger paper that came in my last Cocoa Daisy kit.

Hmm still not that Eastery, so a quick search of the Digi Cosmo Cricket site (available at Jessica Sprague, here) I downloaded some Easter files - isn't he a very cute bunny?- printed them on sticky back canvas and put them on.

The egg down the bottom and the butterfly cut outs are from Kaiser Crafts and the grass chip board holding the egg in was a lovely RAK from Irini (perfect- thank you xxx).


More photos - I am so pleased with the way it turned out - all the family approve - a rare thing.

All Ready for hanging in a tree for Easter.


It was all so quick as well. The fussy cutting was by far and away the most time consuming
 bit. If you had a premade bird feeder and some appropriate stickers, this would
 come together in a flash. 

So put something together for Easter and show it off. Can't wait to
 see what everyone else comes up with - should be fun. Pop on
over to Crafty Croppers and check out all the talented ladies
and their lovely works of art.  And the slightly dodgy photo of me
was taken in a hotel room in Laos. It is safe to say the windows were
the best part of the room.. 

Oh and all the eggs were gone within 2 days...

No more until Easter now!

Ps - you would think that being guest designer for
a Greek based site would come with some sort of
holiday, say checking out the Greek
isles for example.But much as I check the mailbox, I have yet
to come across any airline tickets. sigh.

guess i'll just have to save up myself;)