Vintage men - Just for fun

Hi everybody, I'm a bit late posting today as treatments started early. now I have a break till after lunch, which is very welcome.

This week I am playing as guest designer over at Just For Fun where the challenge this week is vintage men. I made an easel card. I stamped a blank postcard with vintage London images (stamps from Artemio) after distressing with antique linen and vintage photo. I stamped the sandwich man image- from Scrollswork -with Adirondack espresso onto glossy card, and then decoupaged him onto the London background. I used some steampunk paper as a background. The clocks and inside image are from Graphics 45. I fixed the image inside with large brads which look like cuff-links. I haven't added a sentiment yet, as I don't know to whom I will be giving the card.

That's all for today, hope to see you again tomorrow for Jason's latest adventures in Belgium. Take care and thanks for visiting!

Post Surprises and a Tag

This week I have had 3 nice surprises in the post, from Donna, Katie and Narda, who often sends such good jokes.
Donna sent me some Valentine images and embellies, packed in a beautiful mail-art envelope. The images are especially welcome just now, as my printer is back home....One of the images has been used for my Tag Tuesday Tag.

The postcard is from katie

Here is my surprise from Narda, lots of bling, and two more cows for my collection:

And here is the tag I made for Tag Tuesday. I painted the tag with black acrylic paint, before adding the image from Donna, some lace, beads and flowers.

Yesterday was the coldest day we have had since thirty years. I had to go out to have some copies made and post a letter, but I was glad to get back here again. In the evening it started to snow, and now everything is white. It's supposed to be getting a bit warmer tomorrow, and then colder again on Thursday, sounds great!

Have a great day you all, take care amd thanks a lot for visiting!

Just a few Twinchies....

Hi everybody, good morning from the deep-freeze! There's no end to the freezing weather just yet, when I leave the house I look like an Eskimo! The session with the chiropractor was hard, first I got pulled, and then hung from a contraption fixed to the ceiling, ouch!! Strange feeling. I offered to sign a confession to avoid further torture, but he says he enjoys it! Glad one of us does, but I hope it will help in the long run!
I just have three twichies to show today, I made another six, but can only find three, so I will have to look for the others later. Now I have to decide which 6 I send to Laura for the Gingersnaps challenge.

So, that was all for today. Thanks for visiting, have a good day, and take care of yourselves!

Twinchies and Journal Pages

Good morning you all, hope you have all had a great weekend, and are now fighting fit for the week ahead. I took a break from blogging over the weekend, which was really necessary, as my treatment here made me very tired last week. To crown it all, I had a session with the chiropractor on Friday, where he pulled lots of bones back into their right places and spaces, which will help in the long run, but right now it is literally a pain in the ass and a lot of other places....I have the next session today, so I am wondering how I will feel after it. The weather is still extremely cold, not really my cup of tea!

I did a little stamping class with some ladies yesterday, we made lots of cards - which they do not want to show! and it was a pleasant time. Apart from that, I managed to finish some journal pages and make the twinchies for the Gingersnaps swap, so was pleased that I got so much done. The twinchies have been made from scraps, with the addition of some small embellishments and lace.

Hope you all have a good day, have fun, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Postcard Challenge Week 5

Today is week 5 of Darcy's Postcard Challenge, and our destination this week is France. Here is the continuation of the story:

Auntie Cissie had to rest and eat for 5 days to recover her strength after learning about Jason’s arrest, although she was happy that they let him go after 2 hours. She made him promise never to go to China again. Jason had the *Made in Taiwan* stamps on his vases painted over and replaced with some Chinese signs by a friend of his, who knows some Chinese letters as he does tattoos.

This week Cissie is with Thelma on a bus tour of France. They were able to start eating on the boat to keep up their strength, and were delighted with all the food and restaurants in France. Cissie has dug out some remnants of French learned long ago at school, and impresses her friends with her *Bong jewer Mon-sewer* when they arrive at their hotel in Paris. She still confuses some words and phrases, and astonishes the waiters by asking for *Caffay oh late, par avion*. But to make up for it, she writes *S’il vous plate* on the post cards to make sure they go by air-mail....In case you can't read Auntie Cissie's writing, here is the text:
*Dear Jason, Thelma and I are having a wonderful week in France. So much beauty to see! We had boullabaisse in Marseilles, Escargots in Albi - which they served in such cute snail shells, what an idea!! and plenty of coffee and cakes. There are cafés and patisseries on every corner. The Eiffel Tower is not bad, but there was no revolving restaurant! I have bought you a T-shirt just like mine; you will love it! Love, Auntie Cissie xx

Have a good day you all, take care, and thanks for visiting!

Calendar Challenge February

Yesterday I suddenly remembered that it is February already, so had to get cracking on my Feb pages which I am linking up to the challenge at the *Kathryn Wheel*.

February is mostly a rainy and grey month, hence the colours I chose for my pages, although today was clear and sunny, just extremely cold, and with an east wind which was trying to blow our skin off! The background has been painted with acrylics, and then trees etc have been collaged over the painted stems to give more depth. I used a mixture of ovals and oblongs for the days - to be honest, I didn't have enough of one sort! As I have no possibilty to do die-cuts here, I had to improvise, but I don't think it looks bad. For the 14th I used a red heart; guess why! I added day 29 after I had taken the pics, but it is on there now! I am also entering this into Paint Party Friday. Yes, it is only Thursday today, but I will not be able to paint anything else by tomorrow!

I took this photo at 7.15 yesterday morning as the first light was coming over the hills.

I have got another strenuous day to get through, I am really looking forward to the weekend, as I am extremely tired. My internet USB stick is having phases where it is more of a stuck than a stick, which means it takes ages to get online, and I am not really patient at the best of times!

Have a good day you all, take care, have fun and thanks for visiting!

More Tags

Good morning everyone! Brrrrrrrrrrrrr, it's really cold here, with icy winds blowing us lots of *fresh* air from Siberia, so we all need caps and scarves and gloves to go out. Hope this cold spell doesn't last too long! I was extremely tired yesterday after treatment, so spent most of the afternoon sleeping. But I did manage two little tags in the evening. I haven't got such a heavy day today, so hope to get more done!

Have a good day you all, take care, and thanks for coming by!