Time for your weekly dose of mindfulness with the free Mandala Monday colouring-in design from yours truly.
Category: General Chat
All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – The Last Of 2016, A Christmas Work Break and Into 2017
Well my chums, isn’t time flying?! Almost a week into the new year and I will soon be back on the road however I thought that I had better bring you up to date with the last few weeks.
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Happy New Year!
2016 has been a funny one hasn’t it?
As most of you know I generally avoid the news as it is oft bleak and never usually rounded off with the heart warming story that makes you feel that the world isn’t always bad.
So, what will I think of 2016?
Scan N Cut TV Appearnces On Create and Craft TV Starting Tomorrow
Good evening my lovelies. Just wanted to let you know that although I have now finished workshops until the new year I will indeed continue to be a busy boy.
I have a range of television appearances organised at Create and Craft TV involving all sorts of products so here are some details of the first set of shows that I will be doing.
All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – Meeting Mr May, A Stately Home, Radio Interview, Getting Filthy In Nottinghamshire and Another Visit To Yorkshire
Oddly feel like this week has been a quiet one however I’ve still managed to fit in three days of workshops, a visit to a friend and a radio interview, among other things!
Time for a brew and a catch up I reckon …
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All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – Winter Cometh, Making It In Mudeford, Magic Mushrooms, A Winter Woodland, Fabric Land, The Strawberry Zebra and Down On The Farm PART 2
Hallo and welcome to Part 2 of this two-part All Counties Craft Challenge diary post – so much happened I had to split up the post to keep load sizes down!
Right, ready? Let’s go…
All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – Winter Cometh, Making It In Mudeford, Magic Mushrooms, A Winter Woodland, Fabric Land, The Strawberry Zebra and Down On The Farm PART 1
Hello All! I think that you will get the idea from the title of this post that it has been a varied yet exciting time on the challenge recently.
If you’ve got your weekly big brew ready, let me waft you back a few days …
Ten New Mandala Cutting Files Out Now – Includes DXF, FCM and SVG File Formats
Been designing a lot over the last few days so you have TEN new cutting files to choose from and also a saver deal to give you the best value for money!
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Past, Present, Future MDF Memory Matchbox
Hallo again. I’ve been having another play with MDF decorating techniques and came up with a lovely little project that I believe you will like.
It did however go bottom up and nearly ended up flying across the room.
Ready for a reason why ‘less is more’?
Then let’s get started.
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Time For Tea and Biccies With Jo Sonja
Well hello thar. Now, I often start these blog posts asking if you’ve got your cuppa ready.
Well, thought I, where is mine?!
I decided therefore that if I was going to make my own, I’d jolly we’ll make something lovely to carry it from kitchen to ‘lounge’ on.
So, if you’ve got your cuppa ready, let me tell you more …
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All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – Saltdean, Pam, A Bunch Of Beautiful Boxes and Disappointment In Devon
Hallo All. Well, it seems that I’m doing a workshop twice a week at the moment but this week saw an unexpected exception.
After the business of the Surrey weekend I thought that I was going to get some time to catch up however you all saw what happened with Maisy’s tyre so I’ve been trying to catch up with myself since that incident.
Inkpad Overview
All inkpads generally have a starting point of either a water, oil or solvent base.
From these three starting points various inclusions are added to give different effects and get different results. Examples of inclusion are colours (dye or pigment) mica, glue and some bases have nothing added.
Finding the right inkpad for the job can therefore be a daunting affair.
To help you understand the difference, I’ve put together an explanation of each base type along with some tips, suggested brands and techniques.Read More »
All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – MOT, Surrey Weekender And A Near Miss
It has certainly been an exciting and eventful few days on the All Counties Challenge this past week so hopefully that will make for a good diary entry.
Got a cuppa to hand?
Remembering, Rummaging and Rub Ons
Hey, do you remember rub-ons? Me too!
After being given a goodie bag recently, and having had a rummage, I found a wonderful set with which I knew exactly what to do.
Read on chums and I’ll tell ya about it.
All Counties Craft Challenge Diary – At The NEC, Workshops A Go-Go and Maisy’s MOT.
Sheesh! It’s been a hectic and exhausting couple of weeks so I’ve got a fair amount to tell you about if you’ve got a bit of time.
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