Did Alice have a peaceful
night. Absolutely not. As well as snoring I talked in my sleep as well. Alice had visited the
little girls room during the night and had heard me all along the hallway and
through the closed door. By morning my snoring strip was standing on end so
obviously had not done its job.... or even half its job. "Oh no,"
poor Alice
and one more night to go. I have to say that in no way did she
complain. We laughed at the weird noises that little craftywhippet could
make.
Morning
Downstairs
again to the craft table, still ready to craft but wilting.
Next Project
was Ann’s distressed clock. "Whoo hoo" says Jeanette, "I
love distressing." We embossed, and stamped with Versamark, added embossing powder, heat
gunned the image and filled in the gaps with the distressing pad plus the edges
of the card. Bill, a friend of Ann’s, was catering director for our stay
and not only did he supply us with teas and coffees but brought music as
well. So now we were singing the compilation
playlist that Bill had made for us (something for everyone’s taste) while
we were crafting. That spurred us on and was great. Bill joined us crafting for
the first time and he excelled. I had hoped when the photos were
taken I could end up with Bill’s as it was better than mine!! As for
Jeanette....well she was well distressed!!
Next
was Jane's project. This time a Christmas easel card using 5x5 scalloped square
card (which is now on my list of purchases for the craft exhibition.)The papers
were attached having been pre-cut to size by Jane. Well done that girl.
The Forever Friends decoupage was
made up and glittered. After the holding spar was in place we added the lovely
decorative snowflake and brad for the finishing touch.
Time
to stop for lunch so I left out my second project so that they could all start
while I cleared up after lunch. To hear that you would think there were
plates but we do quick and easy (to Ann’s horror) using good old
kitchen roll instead of plates to save time washing up. Really it was
only mugs etc.
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Afternoon
I
came back downstairs, wishing Ann had a chair lift, to find that everyone
was finding
my project dreadful to cut out as the lady was so small and detailed. It was
voted that I should join in making it as well. As I started cutting
I began muttering "what idiot thought of this idea, cut this out easily, I
don't think so." I gave up cutting the last bits. Sorry girls, it
was time consuming and for Ann and Alice who had developed colds and watery
eyes they couldn't even see the lady let alone cut her out. However we
finished our 7 for the photo.
After
each project the table was tidied before starting the next one so it was tidy for a short while.
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Jeanette’s
was next. Bill had returned by this time to help us out again and we made
Wedding Anniversary cards with gold or silver foiled words. Jeanette has a
foil-it machine and it makes all the wording wonderful, and she included an
insert. This was a project that didn't need distressing, poor Jeanette. When we
were upstairs she looked pensively at the wallpaper and said "that would
be nice distressed." Come on!! She only has one ink pad at the moment
but did have access to Jane’s and Ann’s full boxes of distressing inks.
Back
to another tricky one again, Jane’s second project. We had to (have a look at
the card) use a glue pen to glue the word Peace,
after trying to figure out where the word was in the first place before
adding glitter to the word Peace
to make it stand out. Funnily enough, upside-down or not, Peace was the same. Very clever. It was assembled
with all the prepared pieces to complete the card. By this time we were asking
how many we still had to do, bearing in mind that each crafter brought two
projects. Wonderful idea....not.
Evening
After
dinner we made Alice’s
stacker card. Pyramage patterns on top of a distressed front and matching ribbon
down the side edge. Jane and Jeanette were still going strong, (after all, they
are younger!), the rest of us were drifting into automatic pilot.
Twelve down
and two to go. The last two were going to be made in the morning then we would
pack up, go for lunch in Rothesay and be ready to head for the ferry
and the drive back to Glasgow.
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Up
the stairs again to have a cuppa and head for bed. The idea of doing late night
clever things had long gone and really all we wanted to do was sleep. But...the
little snoring strips had to come out again. As Alice had a cold I suggested that she have
one as well as they are also good for clearing sinus problems. After I put
mine on it felt much more in place. Much better.
Alice put on hers and out went the
light..... but did they work this time?????
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