Tea with the birds

Hello everyone who calls in to see me today.

Its T day over at

  Bleubeard and  Elizabeths,

where we are all made welcome with a drinks related post.

So on the left is a shot of the work surface and the journal I was working in.

The swan as you can see was on  a napkin, four swans on one napkin is  super from a crafters point of view and if you've found them  at a bargain price it  even better value.

 My newer stencils were also having an outing.

A better photo of the page which is A4 size and looks squarish in the

previous photo.

I used Brusho powders and stencil paste for the background.

There it is on the left , with some of the images I wanted to add.[digital notes in my sidebar].

 I was on about my third cuppa by now as I had to wait for the inks and stencil paste to dry out.

I hope you all have a lovely day today and thank you for calling in to see me.

I may be late adding this at Elizabeth, as we will be travelling home  after the Land Rover rally

and this post had been scheduled.

I am adding a reminder here for the current  challenge over at Try it on Tuesdays

Feathered Friends.... there is still another week for you to join us there.

A tag and a page

A  hybrid tag   with digital  additions.
The  only craft supplies I have away with me this time is the Laptop computer.
I took a photo of a tag I cut out of a piece of corrugated  card, to use as a starting point.
String is always in the useful bag in the caravan together with screwdrivers etc.

At Tag Tuesday  the current theme is..... Anything Goes
Internet willing  I will connect with the folk at tag Tuesday,

This is the page, including the tag that I went on to create for Art Journal Journey
for Gills theme of Elegance and Grunge.

Now I will say a huge thank you for calling in these past days
and thank  Elizabeth and Valerie for linking me T day and Tag Tuesday.

We are still on our travels  and are now with the folks at the Land Rover Rally,
our son  has managed to get me a link to catch up on emails.
My internet has been working on a less than snails pace.
It took me a number of attempts to write this post.
I was determined to get this post completed so I could join Gill for the last time this month at AJJ

I will be back home next week and will sit with a huge cuppa and catch up with properly everyone.

Feathered friends at TioT's.

Feathered Friends

 is the new challenge theme over at Try it on Tuesdays.

The girls are sharing a fantastic variety of projects, please pop over to take a look.
We hope you will come and join us.

Its a digital card from me today. 

I can get inky messy layers with clean hands using this type of crafting and even change the colour if I didn't like it first time.




Thank you for calling in to see me today, you are very welcome here.

Diary pages

Hello everyone and   Hi, to all the T day  folk. who call in from

 Bleubeard and Elizabeths

where we are all made most welcome with a drinks related post.

I have never been good a keeping a daily  diary, but after getting to know folk who do so, 

I decided that I would make my own daily diary and even if it was just a one  word entry,

 I would keep it up to date.

You saw the first three months pages I made earlier this year...here

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The one above for April is appropriate to share with you on T day,

as its all about the Mad Hatters tea party.

This is  for May, and I will even be taking it away in the caravan so I can keep it up to date.

I found a few more snippets and added them to June's store pocket.

Now saying that this is for June, makes me realise that we are now nearly  half way through the year.

A scary thought.............

Happy T day and thank you for calling in to see me today.

Joy... for Tag Tuesday

Its an  'Anything Goes' theme 

this time at

  Tag Tuesday

This  tag was made entirely in my computer program.

My chosen mode of crafting when I am away from home.

I am still able to add a number of background layers and have fun and that's what crafting is all about.

After today I may not be able to visit in a regular basis, internet and caravans have yet to get perfectly united, but,  things are moving on  and I never know till I actually try to connect.

So I have scheduled this and  a few posts in the hope I will be able to visit and add my pieces into the blogs I made them for.

Thank you for stopping by, you are always welcome here.

Paint your dream

A grungy, hybrid,  digital page today.

 There are  a few layers of paint on my journal page, the photo taken, then a lot of the images

 have  been added  in the digital program I use..

But as you can see the paint had a will of its own  and I even managed  to paint the wires that hold the book together.

I will join the folk at

  Art Journal Journey

for Gills theme of  Elegance and Grunge.

I hope the flower will fit the elegant part of the theme, the rest is just grungy mess.

Thank you for calling in today.

You are most welcome and your comments are always appreciated.

Fun days.... In and Out and always a cuppa close by.

Hello everyone who calls in to see me today.
this is quite a long post so I hope you are sitting comfortably with a cuppa close by...
First of all a journal page. made for Gills' theme Elegance and Grunge over at
  Art Journal Journey

Its a hybrid page which began looking like this.......

I used wax crayons and loads of water to blend then and still couldn't get a smooth looking base, but grungy is fun and  coloured fingers is a fashion statement for crafters.
 I then added some stencils, some with paste some just inked. A bit of gilding wax highlighted the stencil words.
Then it was off to the computer to add some extra images.




I will now say hello to the T gang, where over at
Bleubeard and Elizabeths
we are all made welcome with a drinks related post
Its an overload of photos today as we went for another visit to Beamish last week,

this time to visit the 1940's farm

So   lets begin

Getting close to the farmyard, hens  and ducks enjoying the sunshine beside the pond.

The hens were wandering everywhere. however the star of the morning was seeing the new born lambs in one of the sheds. This one was just minutes old. [photo top right].

A look around the barns and here was an old machine marked out as scrap to be used for the war effort fund raising

Doesn't the sun shining make a huge difference to a day out. Every thing looks so clean. This is no coincidence at Beamish, as the volunteers and staff keep it looking so good. 

Inside now and as it was cleaning day a few parts did't have easy access, but I think you get an impression of the rooms from the few shots I managed to get.

Even though they were cleaning the staff were wearing costumes appropriate for the  times. We spoke to the chap who had just finished black leading the stove and he said he had been  working on it for more than two hours. It was gleaming.

I have just to end with a photos of the cafe and the delicious lunch that we had.

The interesting thing in here was the information on Rationing. The children had a special menu where they could spend not money but coupon points, the meal had a points value and they couldn't go over it.

 [ the parents had to pay in real money]


We chose  a Beamish Rarebit, closely related to what we in the UK know as Welsh Rarebit.

here is a recipe link if you are interested

This was the childrens menu board.
A good idea we thought to help children value the food they can readily get these days.

Thank you for staying with me this long, your visit  as always is realy appreciated.
Happy T day.

Is anyone having problems with scheduled posts,
I have had a couple  of mine  show up on the  dashboard
 that were not meant to  be published until later this month,
Fortunately there was no connection to the whole post.
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