New Changes

Hi all
Long time no see..
Well a lot has happened in my life since I last posted but it's time to make some changes and
Well blogging again is one.
However this time it's about art Journaling and art work.
I will be posting some new tutorials and I tires of my work and just general chit chat so hope you will continue to follow along on ...here is a small sample of some of the work I've done in last 12 months
Thanks for looking see you soon

Michelle

Latest X-Stitch Creation

Hi all

Well been awhile about two or so months I guess... but I have finally finished my latest creation

I have done a Giraffe x-stitch this time and I am very pleased with how it's come out..

It's taken just over 2 months... but well worth the effort.
I gave it to my niece last night who absolutely loved it so it was worth every struggle I had doing it..

here are some pics

thanks for looking

My next project started last night is baby Gorilla

hugs all

Michelle

Well that's about it for now

catch ya

Cross Stitch finished

HI all

Been awhile since posting.

Recently been working on Cross stitches.

Yesterday I finished my elephant cross stitch which I was doing for my mum in australia.

I had planned to send it to her but found out last week she is coming back with my son for

about 17 days.

Damien is going back to australia permanently I am unhappy about that but I want him to be happy. So going to try and send him back on the same flight as mum.

Well here are some pics of my cross stitching through out the process of doing the elephants and the finished product.

Next is a giraffe...

Thank for visiting

Hugs Michelle

Last Post

Hi all
Sorry this will probably be my last post for a little while.
Creatively I have gone toward Cross stitching and eventually I will be creating my own charts.
Also My son wants to move back to Australia permenantly so need to sort that.
I have severe depression and am just not functioning well.
and I hopefully will be moving house soon.
I will be back with updates occasionally but will not be scrapping for a while nor creating
thanks of rvisiting and following on the blog
Hugs Michelle

Sorry About not Posting

Well been a bit bad at posting lately...
Things haven't been going so well.. I don't seem to have much creative desire.
I'm not interested in a lot of things
My depression is a bit out of control unfortunately
Damien my son wants to stay permanently in Australia and that is difficult...
I don't know if I will be creating much at the moment.
I've just been doing some cross stitch to pass the time
so here are couple of pics of my cross stitch and hopefully have something
new for you all soon
Currently working on a second cross stitch of some elephants hopefully be finished in about two to three weeks...
Does seem to be where my creative desires are going at this point...


Hugs Michelle

Well guess that's about it for now... Catch you when I get back

Hugs Michelle

Freebie-Quickpage Orange blue

Hi All

Hope your all having great weekend.

Not much happening here this week.

Joined the National Trust and hope to visit a few places

in the near future.

Well I managed to do some playing today and have created a QP

I have just called in Orange and blue

here's a preview for you

I've also created a layout for it using a photo of son and hubby

If you'd like to download the QP you can get it from here

Just look for Orange blue qp

Well that's about it for the day

Hope someone can use it and enjoy

thanks for visiting

Hugs Michelle

New freebie- Template

Hi All
Hope your having a great week so far.
Things not too bad on this front...lol

I got to creating again today and have made another template for you
Here's a preview of template 14
Again it's very simple but sometimes simple is best

I have also made layout for the template to show a result of what you can do
I have use a couple of pics of my hubby... One is a self portrait that he took of himself...
and one is what I took while he was sleeping yesterday...Yep I know bit naughty.
For this layout I have used a FTU scrapkit called A Little Leather of http://becky1screations.blogspot.com/

cosidering it's a self portrait not too bad huh? and considering he's blind... He's done brilliantly

Any way if you would like to download the template you can get it from here

Well that's about it from me today so will catch you later

thanks for visiting and looking

Hugs Michelle

New Freebie - Template 13

Hi All

Hope your all having a great weekend
I got to creating a little again today and have created a basic template
If anyone can use it. Here's a preview of the template


I have also done a little layout using the template
The template is 3600x3600 so full sized but easy enough to resize as necessary for taggers

ok for thos that would like the template please go here

look for zip called template 13 it's in two formats psp and psd.

thanks for looking

Have a great day

Hugs Michelle

New Freebie - Quick Page and Recipe and Rant

Hi All
Got to creating with a couple of my kits and created a qp for you for recipes
These kits are still available on my blog if you want them
Kitchen, Fruit salad and goodnight colours

Here's what I've done with it

Anyway hope you can use and enjoy it

Hugs Michelle

How annoying is it to people who have made a complaint to a company about the lack of good service. They get a reply from the company that answers everything else but the reason you complained in the first place?

Today I made a complaint to Amazon because it's taking them three or more days before they dispatch an item. Even when you are paying for delivery. I used the Supersaver which means I get free delivery to get free delivery I also have to wait for 3-5 to get it delivered by post after dispatch. Ok I'm fine with that. Free delivery you wait a bit longer..Not a problem not urgent I don't need the item immediately just a book I wanted.

However every time I order whether I order supersaver or whether I am paying for any other kind of delivery except to receive within 24 hours is taking 3 or more days for Amazon to dispatch. It's not about the postal side of things its not about the waiting it's about the time between when they take the order and process it and when they are dispatching the order.

I think it's wrong that you place an order one day they claim it's in stock but unless you are prepared to pay for overnight delivery they are taking 3 or more days to dispatch the item.

I don't have a problem waiting for goods to come if I did I wouldn't use supersaver as it is.. However when I place an order whether it is with supersaver or whether it's when I've paid for the delivery of the item. I expect that when they process that order they dispatch that order.

What I am finding at this time is they process the order and dispatch usually 3 days later I tend to find this unacceptable after awhile. The only way I get that order processed immediately is if I pay more in delivery than what the item is worth in the first place. What I mean by that is I can have the item delivered the next day but that costs me more than the item I have ordered, That is disgusting.

Yet when I write to them to state I think their dispatching dates are a bit out of order I get a letter skirting the issues and I get why they do supersaver and if I want it sooner I can pay for delivery.

Wake up Amazon this isn't about how long it takes to arrive in the mail. This is about how long it is taking you to process the order and dispatch the item. The last time I paid for my deliveries a few weeks ago you gave an estimated dispatch 3 days after I ordered the item and the book was not dispatched until the day after the estimated dispatch day and arrived 3 days after estimated delivery days taking into account you failed to send the item on the dispatch day.

So anyway sorry for ranting again but I do get sick of companies who do not really listen to the complaint of customers and go around in circles stating can pay for delivery to get it faster and it's no faster at all...

Whoops!!! I'm guessing it helps to leave a download link

If you'd like this qp can get it here Look for recipe qp

hugs Michelle

New Freebie- QuickPage

Hi all


Got to creating today


I have made a QP for any who would like it


I have used free CU items or elements


Thanks to Chris of http://polarfuchs-treasures.blogspot.com/ for the frame


and to Granny Art for the Birds and Flowers


Hope you enjoy


Hugs Michelle

If you would like to download this kit you can get it from here just look for Bush Garden

enjoy

Michelle

Another Collage

Hi All



I am feeling much better over the last couple of days.

So I have gotten to creating again

this time I have used my husbands photo's.

Yep although my husband is totally blind and can't see the photo's or what he's shooting he still

gets some great photo's so I have used them to make another collage

here's what it looks like

Hugs Michelle

New Freebie Quickpage

Hi all
Hope you've had a great week and a great weekend
Been busy here creating bacon and producing some of our own foods.
Hard work at times but so much fun.
Today I have used bacon we made to make Boston Beans
This dish has turned out great. I am so happy
Well onto other things
I have made a QP today using my own elements and paper I've made as well as some
bits and bobs I found on the internet or CU items I got for free
I hope you enjoy and am able to use
As the extra's I used were in either misc files or didn't have a TOU attached or in the file I do not know where or who they came from so if there is anything at all I have used and it's yours please let me know so I can give credit or if you wish me to remove it so I can remove the item

If you would like this QP please download from here

Look for Garden Daze zip folder

thanks for visiting

Hugs Michelle

New Freebie-QP

Hi All

Hope every one is having a great week so far.

Things have been humming along here quite nicely.

We started making our own bacon yesterday we have two more days to see how it went.

I made a great sultana cake this morning

WE made some fresh butter tonight and my hubby with a small amount of my help made a lovely fresh tomato soup all be it a little spicy he put a whole chilli into it.

Still it was lovely. We had some fresh handmade homemade barleycorn bread so all in all a great day.

Only problem I've got is I am in agony. My back has been playing up for days I know better than to push myself as much as I have but I love producing our own things.

Any way on to the new freebie today I have created two new QP I have used a couple of freebie kits and Tou's are included within the download

very simple but here are previews

If you would like these QP Here

Look for 2 QP

Just a loving Thanks

Hi all
today is just a loving thanks to my Husband Paul who put in a lot of hard work and effort so that we can produce some of our own foods.
What am I talking about? well let me tell you
Today my husband butchered some meat and minced it so we could start producing our own foods regularly.
so what you say? Well here's a little background my husband is type 1 diabetic nothing spectacular there I suppose lots of people unfortunately are. My husband has also had full kidney failure and a transplant since.
again so what??? well it's true that others have too. But when my husband lost his kidneys 12years ago he also lost his sight, completely, he is black blind, and although he was a chef before he went blind he has never done butchering.
So not only did he do the actual butchering of the full birds some chicken and turkey which particularly with the turkey took him the better part of an hour he also did the mincing for me manually believe me even with my help takes an age. Well worth the effort but hard work.
So I thank my wonderful loving husband for all his hard work and having stood on his feet for over two and half hours to do this.
I know it took a lot out of him because although I kept asking him to take a rest he ended up having a mild hypo. Recovered fully now but I know he's exhausted... However with what he did we ended up with good fresh mince and are now having turkey burgers for dinner and with the chicken that he butchered we'll be making fresh homemade sausages.
So with that I will leave it there and go make him a coffee and catch you all soon
take care till then and have fun
Hugs Michelle

New Freebie - QuickPage Dark Night

Hi all

Been a bit of a busy week in a good way.

My husband and I have started producing our own foods.

eg bread or butter, bacon and sausages.

We've only gotten started so lots of learning curves but we are determined to

produce as much as we can ourselves and then save up to buy a bit of land so that

we can grow our own produce as well.

Next week we try our making bacon and I've made jams and preserves before so I will be making some of our own jams as well.

Well other than that nice week. I have managed to create a couple of new quick pages with one of my own kits which is called the blue kit

here is a preview of the pages

If you want to download them can download from here

just look for the dark night zip.

you can find the Blue kit on my blogsite

Well that's about it for now

Hope you have a great day

catch ya soon

Hugs Michelle

New Freebie-Quick Page Spring Birds and Freebie Elements

Hi all

I have a new freebie for you today.

I have used a beautiful FTU kit called Tweet Morning by

Debbie of http://beckmoorescrapalittle.blogspot.com/

It's a great Freebie being offered so go over to the site and grab it while you can and please don't forget to leave a comment or thanks if downloading

in the meantime I've created a QP with this lovely kit and have obtained permission to offer as a freebie


so here is a preview

You can get the QP from here

Just look for Spring Birds and don't forget to get the full kit is offered free at http://beckmoorescrapalittle.blogspot.com/

Well that's about it for now

Happy Scrapping and see ya soon

Hugs Michelle

ps for those that would like to download my little critters I have made them available now as I'm not sure I'm going to get the kit finished as soon as I hoped

so here's a quick preview of one or two again and you can download from

just look for sea animals
hope you enjoy

again thanks for visiting

Hugs Michelle