Thursday 24 June 2010

Come on England – part 2!

This was supposed to be the photo on yesterday’s post!

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Loads of cars are driving round with these flags clipped to their windows!  I know a rude joke about them, but I won’t tell you that here!  And did you know that having these flags increases your petrol consumption by 3 mph per flag, because of the drag?

 

Anyway, my post yesterday was to give the England time my good luck wish!  They didn’t need it, because they finally played well YAY!  They beat Slovenia 1-0, which means they go to the knock out stage of the World Cup.  They are playing Germany (our old rivals – don’t mention the war!!!) on Sunday afternoon. 

 

GO ENGLAND!!!

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Nicholas – Budding photographer

I say budding, these photos are better than any we took!

Photos taken Sunday evening on a walk along the Rife at Ferring

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This little dog is called Frankie and we chatted for while to his rather eccentric owner!

How cute is this???

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Sunday 20 June 2010

Beach

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I took this picture last night on our dog walk.  Isn’t the light fantastic?  I don’t think I have ever seen the horizon as sharop as that!  Means bad weather is coming:(

Saturday 19 June 2010

Sandown Quilt show

I went to Sandown quilt show yesterday with my chums, Burnice, Freda (thanks for driving!) and Maureen.  I spent loads of money, ands saw some beautiful quilts:

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These were all in the class: Barbados Beckons.  I love the bright, colours, such fun!

 

I did a workshop with Sally Holman.  She is brilliant!  We made a little beach scene, using foundation piecing and texturing.  Here’s what mine lloks like now I have done a bit more to it.  It still needs quilting, and some embellishment:

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And finally, here’s a picture of my new fabric and stuff:

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Let’s see how long it takes to actually use it all!

Sunday 13 June 2010

Macro practise in the garden

It is a blue sky with fluffy clouds day today:

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So although I should be tidying up and getting ready for Maurice’s brother and sister in law coming for dinner tomorrow, I thought I would take a few moments to practise with my macro lens in the garden.  There are some gorgeous flowers out right now:

 

I love these little daisy like flowers that start out pink but fade to white.

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I have loads fo purple aquilegia that have self seeded around the garden.  This one is in the gravel of the patio

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This red valerian also self seeds!  It is really lovely at this time of year but looks a mess for the rest!

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This yellow flag iris is all on it’s own in a dark corner of the garden, but I managed to capture it in it’s own ray of sunshine!

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I love the papery pink flowers of this cistus, but unfortunately they don’t last long. garden 132

Johnson’s Blue geranium

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More self seeds!  The foxgloves have made a welcome return to the garden after a year or two’s absence.

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Thsi is one of those huge alliums, a big globe head of starry flowers.

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This is a pot of osteospurnum, in a lovely dark coral pink colour, which fade as they age.

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Saturday 12 June 2010

A Crafty Day out

I went to the Craft Barn today with my Brighton crop girls.  It was a special demo day there, my was it busy!  We were queueing all round the shop and out the door at one point!  Anyway here are some of the coolest demonstrators:

Leandra from Paperartsy

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Lin from LB Crafts

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Julie Hickey from Craftwork cards

Sue Wilson from Creative Expressions

And last but not least, the great Suze Weinberg!

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Plus of course LOTS of retail therapy!

Thursday 10 June 2010

A Bakers Dozen

This is a really awesome class from Big Picture Scrapbooking!  It is run by Darcie Dowdle (wow what a name!!) who is Stacy Julian’s sister!  We started by collecting some bits each day and storing them in a decorated egg box:

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Crazy huh?

 

Next we collected 13 envelopes with photos.  Now we get an email each day some days a scrapbook page, some days a scrapbook tip.  I love Darci’s style, and here are my first 3 LOs:

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All scrapbook papers and embellies are from my wonderful kits from Cocoa Daisy.  I absolutely love the papers and colours they choose, and am always ordering lots of their add-on kits too!

The photos were so easy to find thanks to Library Of Memories class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking.  I now have categories and LOM albums.  These LOs go in the US album.

Sunday 6 June 2010

Croppin’

 

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We had great fun at our crop yesterday doing a ‘chinese whispers’ page!  We each glued some photos onto a piece of cardstock (I chose these photos of flowers in Worthing town centre – I also added the title and the patterned paper), and then passed the page round for everyone to add an embellishment!  I love the result!  Lorna added the gorgeous felt lace that echoes the railings, and Sara added the gold bling to the centres!  Thanks girls!!

Friday 4 June 2010

2 nights in a row!!!

Well, we were unexpectedly offered tickets to go and see George Benson at the Brighton Centre last night!

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WOW!  What a cool dude!!!  He was absolutely awesome!!!  (And not quite so loud and we were definately in the right age group, AND we knew ALL his songs!!)

Unfortunately my photos inside are really blurred:

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The white blob in the centre is the man himself!  You can see that we had good seats, in fact, right in the middle of the south balcony, row B.  I just love his laid back jazz guitar and his singing!

 

This concert rates in our top 10 concerts of all time, he really was awesome, what a great night, and how great that we got the opportunity to go, even though it was 2 nights in a row!



Thursday 3 June 2010

Ear Damage!

Last night we went to see the Stereophonics live at the Brighton Centre:

It is a very long time since we saw a band live at the Brighton Centre!  Not since the 1980s when we used to go to quite a few gigs.  So it was with a little bit of trepidation that we went, – would it be too loud for us? – would we look out of place being ‘oldies’? – we don’t even know their music that well!

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Yes it was EXTREMELY loud, and no we didn’t know everything they played, but we were by no means the oldest there, and we really enjoyed ourselves!

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As you can see the light show was pretty amazing! 

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Here they are playing Dakota for you!