Late May recipes and pop-up book class

The following photo is a sneak peek of one of the recipes on our late May newsletter, the most recent of our recipe newsletters. This is the vintagey recipe, there's a bright, rainbow-like recipe to contrast it.

The next photos are of the pop-up minibook class, on Saturday 19th June. Email or ring the shop if you'd like to join this class. It's 11.30am - 2pm, £20 inc materials and tea/coffee/biscuits.

What a May it's been, hope June is better! I have been quite ill througohut, just waiting now to find out what's making me ill. Had to leave my mum to teach Saturday afternoon on her own - she did it brilliantly, but felt really bad that I was not there to be her assistant! It makes it much easier, having an assistant, to help people, cut things out if anyone's not a fan of cutting out, or help solve any happy accidents (accidental slips of cutting through the wrong paper or image ;)).

So looking forward to feeling well, I miss that feeling :). It makes you appreciate things though, and realise there are lots of people out there who have lots of things wrong, who suffer from illnesses that make you think, 'wow, how do they cope with that?'.

On to lighter notes...next gatherings are friday 11th june and saturday 26th june.

Each are 11am - 3pm, £3 and inc tea/coffee/biscuits and you can use the tools in the classroom. Bring a project, whether you are a scrapbooker, cardmaker, knitter, altered artist...whatever craft. Sit and make and chat and relax.


The C classes are going on at the moment - that is, C is for Colour. They're all booked up, but the next class in our alphabet series is D is for Diecuts. That is on Friday 2nd July 10.30am - 3pm (£20 everything inc except lunch and yourself). There's a repeat of this class on Saturday 10th July,same time and price. We haven't made any samples for this class yet, as we are looking at potential new papers for it, but when we've done the samples, they'll be posted on here :)

Hope everybody's had a good Bank Holiday, what have you all been up to? I could say we've done all sorts, but that would be telling fibs ;) A walk to the shops is as exotic as I got! And lots of chilling out.
Must dash, need to check up on my mum, see if she's having any luck finding a copy of 'Eclipse' (from the Twilight saga). She kindly offered to look for it on her trip out. Well, if it's going to be a while before I get better, might as well read through the mountain of books on my 'to read' list. Anybody got any good recommendations, of must-read books?

Take care x

Newsletters and Colour classes

What a sunny day it has been today - in our neck of the woods, at least. Thank you to the ladies who attended the men's cards class today, it was a shame we couldn't have taken the class outside! But due to lack of green space around the shop, perhaps crafting is better indoors than on the pavement :)

I have neglected this little blog these last two weeks, due to being quite poorly, but I'm much brighter (like the weather), so blogging has recommenced, hooray.

Below is a sneak peek of the first newsletter for May...

And the following three photos are of the samples for the C is for Colour card-making class. 6 cards, 10.30 am-3pm, £20 and it includes all the materials and tea/coffee/biscuits. The first date, Saturday 29th May, is full, but the second date still has places:
Saturday 5th June.

Comment, or better still, email, if you'd like to book a place. It's centred around colour, and how to incorporate it when stamping. Lots of ladies say they don't stamp because they're really bad at colouring in, but we want to show how you don't need to be a renowned watercolour artist to liven a stamped image, be it using coloured pens (Memento in our case), ink, watercolour pencils plus water, paper, as well as other pattern stamps...the ideas are endless.

Have a good week everybody x

Recipe Newsletter Issue Twoooo..sneak peek

I've just sent out the second issue of our recipe newsletter. Thank you to everyone who sent praising replies with regards to the first one, much appreciated! Here's a sneak peek for this second one...

...singin' in the rain springs to mind! April Showers is the theme. Just get in touch via the top right hand corner of this blog if you'd like to subscribe to our recipe newsletter, it's out twice a month.

Happy crafting x