What a sad excuse for a blogger I am! Life has just run away with me. I am so excited (as usual) about this Christmas season. We went to thGerman Christmas market last night. It was so different! Loved it. Phoebe enjoyed pottering around looking at all the "pretties", and we enjoyed some hot waffles, what more could we want?

I've finally got the crop dates for next year. There will a change of venue one month because of repairs to the Reading Room, but we don't know when. It's not iminent anyway.

Here's the dates:

All the saturday ones are 9.30 to 4 and the Thursday evening ones are 6.30 to 9. They are:
Saturdays: 5th Jan, 2nd Feb, 8th March, 12th April, 17th May, 14th June, 5th July, 9th August, 13th Sept, 11th October,8th November, 6th December.
Thursdays: 17th Jan, 21st Feb, 20th March, 24th April, 29th May, 26th June, 24th July, 21st August, 25th September, 23rd October, 20th November.

Get them in your diary :-)

The picture is a nice idea I found for a Christmas banner- it's not mine, it was a link from Heidi Swapp's web page.

Tesco bargain

Found these in Tesco today- 3 for £2. They unscrew and you can stack as many as you like together. Bargain!

Penkridge Croppers Exclusive Preview

Purple Room Crafts is re-opening under new management. Our cropping ladies have a wonderful opportunity to see what scrummy new stash is on offer before anyone else.
Where? Purple Room Crafts, Penkridge
When? Monday8th October from 7pm till 9pm. I will be there along with Shell, Carolyn, Linda, Vickie to name but a few. Hope you can make it.

Crop Dates

EVENING CROPS
Because our first evening crop was such a great success, I have booked 2 more! The dates are Thursdays 25th October and 22nd November. 6.30 to 9.30.

OCTOBER CROP
The 13th October saturday crop is now an all dayer! Sorry for the short notice- but I bowed under intense pressure from a certain cropper who shall remain nameless (Shell).
ALSO- there will be a major suprise at the next crop. I've been spending your money on something I know you will LOVE! (and it's not the Fancy Pants stamps, but they are coming soon too) Get excited!

........and my humble creation

Trish gave us and idea for a tag book on a ring to take on holiday and record the best bits of every day. Much better than taking a big journal, and more fun! I loved the book, and thought i would make one with lots of journalling tags on. I plan to do different colour themes and just take one off the ring and add it to a page when needed. You can write as the event happens and not have to do it all from memory. They have glitter on too, which didn't show up in the photo, but its been fun to make, and I look like a Christmas tree at the mo! Glitter everywhere!

some more inspiring work..........

This is Vicky's lovely work, so I couldn't resist putting themon here for all to enjoy! Thanks Vicky :-)

saturday's marathon crop!

These are the 2 classes we did on saturday, giant matchbooks and a canvas. We used the amazing fancy pants stamps, which made it all the better. We did not intend to make a profit, but did, so we will spend the money raised on 2 sets of fancy pants stamps for the crop, so everyone can use them and as different person can take them home each month :)

Trish did an excellent demo with tins, see picture at the top of the page. I came away with a very bad back, but oh so inspired!