Vacation

I am currently on holiday with my family in California. We arrived yesterday evening and as you can see from the photo we have wonderful sunshine, currently it is around 90 degrees which is a little too hot for me but I won't complain just yet.

I have scheduled the rest of the design team artwork to appear here over the next few days and on Saturday morning at 10am you can watch the show on Create & Craft.

Please post comments here on what you think about the show, are there enough demos or do you prefer when we do more? Or is it the artwork that you prefer to see? Please let us know what you think so we can improve on future shows.

Dot Clark - Pirates

Artwork by Dot Clark for the Pirates & Princesses TV show.

Deborah Molwuka Pirates

Artwork by Deborah Molwuka using the Sea Dog alphabet and some of the pirate stamps.

Gillian Fitzmaurice - Princesses

Artwork by Gillian Fitzmaurice using the Princess stamps for the Pirates & Princess show.

Michele Rodgers - Pirates

Artwork by Michele Rodgers for the Pirates & the Princesses TV show on Create & Craft.

Filming Pirates & Princesses

We filmed Pirates & Princesses this morning, we had to be at the studio at 8am, which doesn't sound too bad until you work out that we had to get up at 6am (on a Sunday). After setting up we had to wait around for a while but then filming went smoothly and without interruptions , even though I was not able to complete my last card.
Above is a photo of the set, it was divided in half, one for pirates and one for princesses. The other photos are of our presenter Dennice and a Flat Book Frame Box that Vicky decorated for Dennice's daughter who loves purple (she has good taste).

The design team have done a fabulous job with the artwork and I will endeavour to post up their work for you over the next week. Alternatively you can see some of it on the DT members blogs. The new show is going on Create & Craft on Saturday morning - I hope you enjoy it.

Pirate & Princess Layouts

These layouts were created for the Pirates and Princesses show using lots of stamps. The Bailey pirate layout also includes a pirate ship rub-on from Hambly.

Inchies

Have you seen Inchies? The mini 1" version of ATCs. You can create and swap them in their own right or you can create cards and artwork using a selection of Inchies. This is 2 samples by Lesley who will be teaching this technique in her Mini's class next week.

Delivery Day

We had a delivery today, these are the new flowers that arrived from Petaloo. It is unlikely they will make it onto the website as they usually sell out before I chance to put them online. So if you see something you like you best call us or drop in the store. Also in the delivery we received lots of Hambly rub-ons which are on our website. Some of the Bazzill Stitchz templates and threads were in the same delivery, we will endeavour to get these up on line this week.




These are the new tote bags from PI. The wheeled tote is the largest one we have seen and as you can see from the photo has lots of storage inside. The pull out trays would be ideal for stamps and inkpads. The small tote is £35 and the large (which has 4 wheels) is £120. We are offering an introductory special price - buy both bags for only £130 - Saving a whopping £25.

Wedding

We spent yesterday at a friends wedding. It was a church wedding and I haven't been to a church wedding in over 20 years, this was the first time that I was old enough to understand what was going on during the ceremony. Annabel was soooo excited as she has never been to a wedding. The whole time she kept tugging on my arm so she could give me a running commentary on the brides movements.
Annabel and Bailey were very well behaved and everbody loved Bailey's shirt (it had the tie painted on).
The weather held out for us and it was beautifully sunny until we went inside for dinner, apparently then the skies opened and it poured with rain.

On all the tables we had disposable cameras to use but also there were cards for a website where we could all upload our photos for the happy couple to choose their favourites and make in to an online album for us all to view. I thought this was a great idea that would have been brilliant when I got married, but no one had digital cameras then! I've already uploaded some of my photos (only 32 of the 124 that I took), a lot of my photos are of my children and I'm sure they don't want all of them.

Looking out the window now it is an overcast day but dry. Fingers crossed it stays dry so we can enjoy the rest of the weekend.