Let It Snow - Photographs

Today my craft is photography.

Colourful umbrellas make great photos in snow!

We had masses of snow today - we woke up to loads and then it kept on coming for most of the day.

Luckily I've done most of my christmas shopping, but I did have to pop out (walking) with my boys to the supermarket.  They loved it of course and were snowball fighting all the way.

This was in our neighbour's garden:

..and this is the robin that my son made at school:

It looks like a giant robin is coming down our path! :-O

The snow is so lovely to look at, but it has its problems.  My husband has been stuck in Germany this weekend because his flight was cancelled :-(  He's hoping to come back on Wednesday now, fingers crossed.

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

Keep yourselves warm,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Wonderful ATG 700! (Glue Gun)

I finally bought some rolls of tape for my ATG Glue Gun.  I bought the gun ages ago when Helen from 'It's  All Fiddle Fart' (this is getting to be a habit Helen, hope you don't mind!) spoke so highly of it.  This really is a crafter's wonder product!  The rolls (10 of them) came today and I watched the YouTube video on how to put one in. It's not that difficult its just that you need to know which bits go where.

This is what the 'gun' looks like:

It really surprised me how big it was when it was delivered!  But its not heavy, just BIG!

Its true that when you get it set up though you want to glue everything in sight.  Its like the way men are with their drills, its a FUN tool! :-)

I used mine today to matt & layer some snow photos that I had taken in January:

I love the colour combination of black, red & white and when there has been snow red items seem to be extra noticeable - even recycling boxes!  (I also added a bit more contrast using online photo service, Picnik)

If you google 'ATG 700' you will find a few places that sell it and no, I'm not on commission - unfortunately!

My Birthday, Snow, Chatter...

Well! What a couple of days! I was hoping to come back home yesterday but yesterday evening the snow came down so thick in this part of the Midlands that the car wouldn't have made it! 

Fortunately it was lovely and sunny this morning so we made it back this afternoon when the snow had melted a bit.  This was the scene we woke up to though:

(My mother-in-law is of the old traditional sort though, she actually put washing out on that washing line later to dry!....)

The boys and my husband also made a pretty big snowman in that garden:

It was of course my birthday today, and I've had quite an enjoyable day but unfortunately not much crafting!  I must show you the card Ryan made me though:

Looks as though he made quite an effort!  I also love what he put on the back of the card!:

Quite the enterpreneur!

I have decided to save up my birthday money to watch (and maybe buy!) some of Tim Holtz's stuff next week on QVC, I lurrve his style!   

My mother-in-law also found an old sewing machine lying around so has let me have it!  It needs a new bobbin case before I can be let loose on it but hopefully soon...  (Wonder how you use one..?)

She also gave me loads of icing cake colourings and edible glitters from her cake making & decorating days (out of date for eating), wonder what I will do with that?... 

EDIT: Oops! Forgot to add the bit of crafting I did do which was this bit of doodling:

and these embellishments for cards or scrapbooks:

When I see the cost of embellishments in the shops I often think I should make my own.  This was me making a start. 

Panoramic Views

Today's craft should have been an easy one -  just print out a series of 4 photos and stick them together as one long panoramic view.  I say, should have been easy, but my printer ihas been really temperamental recently and keeps jamming!  Grrr! Technology!  Eventually it'll work for one picture and then frankly refuse to do the next!

Anyway, this is what I eventually came up with:

The landscape has turned out a bit too dark, it was taken when it had been snowng and camera's have difficulties with exposing correctly when there's snow.  The sky was a beautiful colour though and the moon was still visible - at 8 o'clock in the morning.   (I know its not technically great either, very higgledy piggledy, but its only for showing to my husband who's in China at the moment, in the warm, where there's been no snow)  For a better picture I should  have used a tripod really!...

This single one was lovely, the sun and sky behind my children's Victorian school bell tower:

(All pictures taken from my attic room window)