Who let the dogs out?

Ok sorry for that, I was trying to think of a witty title as looking back on this post it is quite 'doggy' so we'll move swiftly on shall we? ... good :)

As I said in my last post I would share some of my Yorkshire photos after I had gone through them, well that would make it a very long post indeed so I have picked just a few that have special memories for me so I don't bore you .... you'll just have to visit Yorkshire to see it for yourself ;)

This is on the top of Danby Beacon, the views are breath taking, though very difficult to capture on camera ... well for a novice like me anyway!



I love it up here, I have memories of painting sheep with Gran (well not painting the actual sheep, painting them on canvas LOL) when I was little and it's where I learnt to drive with my Dad in Mum's little mini ... oh so long ago!!!

This is the bridge at Lealholm



Another pretty little village that has hardly changed over the years and through that bridge is the river bank where I used to go fishing with my Dad, and the stepping stones are just round the corner

And this is the beach at Redcar, you may spot 2 little woofs rock pooling





.... they got oh so soggy!!! But we had sooooo much fun :)

Ok tourist pics over with, moving on to some work now ...

When I was here last I was very remiss not to direct you here to see a most lovely review that was written about me and my stand at Olympia Stitch and Craft show on Craft Critique. I met the lovely Fabrizio at the show with his friends and we had such a lovely chat, thanks Fab for your lovely words :)

Today my work has been lurking over at the Purple Cows pasture



Yep a very ickle Stan :)

Don't forget when you pop over there you can download the free PDF instructions for any of the projects the most talented Cow Girls have produced!! Go on fill your boots, well your document file LOL

And the other day I was lurking over at the Banana Frog Lilly pad with my project of the day



More pics and instructions can be found here and the last part of the Sketch challenge went live....



This was my offering, yep Stan again, pictures over the past year, the lovely all about arrows stamp set and yummy Glitz Detour papers.

We have another Banana Frog blog hop on the 30th, don't miss out, there may be prizes aswell as amazing inspiration from my fellow froglets AND there is a Birhday party at Froggy HQ on the 1st of May ... and you guessed it more prizes and exciting new releases ... put the dates in your diary ... see you there :)

Do you remember in the last post I mentioned a lovely thankyou card I had from my blog giveaway winner? well she has given me permission to share it with you



It just makes me smile ... thanks mustavcoffee :)

And finally!!! .....

Look who came home yesterday



Oliver Pickles! He is so ickle and cute and feisty and Stan is not over convinced at all, I think mainly because he is so tiny!!

This was the first time they met ..



Little and Large LOL I can't believe Stan looked like that just over a year ago!

And this was today when they actually played a bit ...



Hugging or biting each others ears off?????

So that's it my lovely bloggy friends, the end of my dog orientated post ... Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are all well and happy and until the 30th when I'll be here for the Frog hop Happy Crafting

Love
M x

Glitzy news, a volcano and Yorkshire

Hi all!

Well what a week! 1st off I have to share the news from Glitz!! I am absolutey thrilled to have been invited to stay with the Glitz DT following a fabulous 6 months on an amazing Glitzy journey and now we have been joined by some amazing talent and the DT has grown, go and meet my team mates here. So I'm happy to say more Glitzy goodness on the way!! Here's a Glitzy card I made my Dad for his birthday on Tuesday



I have been in Yorkshire for the past week with Stan looking after his sister Ruby while my Mum and Dad went away for a few days. We had so much fun on the moors, in the woods and at the seaside and needless to say I will bore you with the photos in my next post when I have gone through them all ... there are a few LOL!! Here's one of the terrible twosome though looking like butter wouldn't melt :)



It was so nice being 'home' as in the place where I grew up and it was fabulous to meet up with my bessies ... oh how I miss them! The pub is 'quiet' as for some reason within 20 minutes of us arriving we managed to clear the place .... oops!!!



When I got back I had the most beautiful thankyou card from Mustavcoffee my blog giveaway winner .... thankyou so much lovely and I will share a picture of it in my next post (if that's ok with you mustavcoffee!!)

Hubby was stranded in Egypt thanks to the Volcanic ash cloud but was eventually rescued by Disney .... I've always loved Mickey :) He had to travel from Sharm el Sheik to Cairo, then onto Jordan to Madrid to Seville then Cadiz where he finally joined the Disney Magic cruise ship! He has to work but heh nice work if you can get it heh!!!! Unfortunately another casualty of the volcanic ash cloud is the Scrapping angels retreat as the lovely Anna Bowkis has been on a family holiday to Florida and has been stranded ironically in Disney .. never liked that mouse LOL!!! The retreat will be re scheduled though and on a more personal note I hope Anna finally has a safe journey home with her family!!!

Well that's it for now just wanted to drop in to say Hi and share the Glitzy news! I'll be back soon with more Yorkshire pics and stuff. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you're all well and happy and until soon Happpy Crafting!!

Love
M x