Number 8

October ATC swap

Yes I am aware that it's November but I have only just finished my swap for October, really sorry Jan. The theme this month was your favourite fairytale and while I don't know if Pinocchino is my all time favourite it has to be up there.

Number 7

Apple Tree Creek Markets

We decided to take ourselves off this morning to have a look at the Apple Tree Creek Markets. It's about a 40 minute drive south and it's held next to the park. There would have been about 40 to 50 stalls and we had a wander around and bought a few basil plants from a man who showed us a plant that he called the radium plant (real name petty scurge if I remember correctly) and he told us it was used for getting rid of sun spots.

We also bought some scones, a turkish bread, fig jam, bananas, peaches and beautiful cherry tomatoes (we had some for lunch), oh and some onion marmalade. Plus we had a freshly squeezed mandarin juice.

All in all a productive morning.

Number 6

Number 5

Christmas tags

Well I've started on my Christmas stamping and I thought I would start off with something quick and easy. So tags it is. These are a cute way of personalising your present and they don't take very long to do. Although you can make them as basic or decorated as you like.

I've started off with the small size shipping tags (that way I don't have to cut or punch cardstock)and then I used the bauble and words from the Bo Bunny clear christmas stamp set (great value at $11.95).

The pink bauble tag is stamped using Jet Black Archival Ink and then I've used water colour pencils to colour it. The archival ink won't bleed when you put liquid near it so thats why I've used it.

The purple bauble is done the same except for a layer of kindy glitz over the top.

The Teddy is done in the same method except I used the coffee coloured ink pad.