Sunday, 10 October 2010

In the beginning.............

If you can't beat 'em join 'em ~ so here it is, my very own blog :-D  Please bear with me, I'm a blogging virgin so it might be a slow process getting to grips with just what you can and can't say.  Also excuse the ramblings won't you!

Having retired myself from my own business, I now have time to catch up on my card making which I haven't done during the last few years.  I can't get to classes due to ill health so decided to use my trusty computer to find online tutorials.  Well, was I in for a ( very pleasant ) surprise!  I of course knew about YouTube but hadn't really bothered to look at it apart from when one of my daughters sent me details of something funny on there ~ I thought that's all it consisted of.  Can't remember how it happened but I discovered the crafting and scrapbooking videos and that was it.....I was hooked.  It was like an addiction.......I was watching morning, noon and all night long :-)  I have calmed down a tad now and have learned so much including altered art.  Making scrapbooks from paper bags and envelopes, handmade flowers from book pages.....and so much more. 

The days flying by ~ today for instance I've been making flowers out of fleece and leather which will probably be turned into brooches or attached to headbands ( now everyone knows what they are getting for christmas :-p ).

This morning I was watching Barbara from Stamping With Clarity on Create and Craft ~ I love her scatty type of demonstrating, there is nothing scatty about her talent though ~ anyway, she happened to mention a stamp show she was at a few days ago which just happened to be in my area and I didn't know anything about it.  I was really miffed at missing it.  Never mind, I have promised myself a trip to the NEC next month if I can manage it.

If I haven't bored you too much maybe you can pop back for a chat sometime, I'd love to hear from other craft addicts.  I'll sign off now, I'm in need of a cuppa.

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