Sunday 24 October 2010

CAROUSEL ... the Musical

Hi folks,
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Well, what a busy couple of weeks ..... I played Clarinet in the Orchestra pit in Bury St Edmunds for the Bury St Edmunds Amateur Dramatic Society production of the Musical 'Carousel'. Sight reading Monday evening for Dress rehearsal and then the show ran Tuesday to Saturday, plus a Saturday matinee. I wasn't able to help them Thursday evening because of my Stampers 10 and Saturday Matinee as I had another fun day running a Stampin' Up! Workshop for in Weeting, so, five performances of the same show and I can't get the tunes out of my head !!
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Friday and Saturday this week is Stampin' Up! Annual European Convention, this year being held at Addington Palace in Surrey. I so was pleased and proud to have been able to attend their 1st Euopean Convention in Germany last year. It doesn't seem possible that a year has flown by.
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Last week I was on a mission to finish my 250 swops for the event, which I'm pleased to say I achieved. As of today, it's now only 3 days before Angie and I leave and still quite a bit to do. I had a day off work last Friday and spent the whole day crafting with my dear friend Pat, who I refer to as my 'adopted' Mum and is also one of my Stampin' Up! downline. We always have so much news to catch up on and so much crafting to enjoy, that we don't want waste time to stop for lunch.
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I'm pleased to say that we finalised my design for my CMC swop (90 now all made just the photos to add) and also my Card Candy Swop (10 of these to make). The designs are scheduled to appear here on my blog over the weekend so I can keep the surprise for the other demonstrators receiving them this weekend. I have never done a Card Candy swop before and we had lots of fun creating some masterpieces. Pop back at the weekend to see these explained in more detail.
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Happy crafting
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Sandra

Friday 15 October 2010

SOUTH LOPHAM CRAFT FAIR

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This weekend I will be back to the village where I grew up for their Annual craft fair. Unfortunately I was unable to make last year as, due to the renovations, the venue and date were changed.
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Typically in the past there has been wood-turning, spinning wool, terrific plant and cake stalls together with lots of individual arts and crafts stalls.
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ST ANDREW's CHURCH, SOUTH LOPHAM
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Saturday 16th October, 10am-5pm
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Sunday 17th October, 11am-4pm
(not 10am as originally posted)
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Here is one the boxes we made at my last workshop, Boxes, Bags and Tags. I have made a few different variations but adapted the size to fit a small bottle of wine to make an ideal small gift. I'm hoping these will be popular Christmas gifts over the weekend.
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Everyone is falling in love with this new colour 'Cherry Cobbler'. Here the Stampin' Up! white Craft ink looks stunning against the dark card. Of course you can add Dazzling Diamonds to give it a bit of sparkle too. This is a great way to use up all your non-Stampin Up card to make space for the wonderful new selecton of colours.

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As always, time has run away with me and haven't had the time to make as much as I would like for the fair and tonight I have more candles to make. These have both been going down a storm at recent Workshops, everyone is so proud of what they have achieved.

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This weekend is always a good opportunity for me to spend 2 days actually crafting at the table and demonstrating. When it is quieter I may try and put together my 250 Make & Takes for the Stampin' Up! Convention in 3 weeks time. I then have 90 beer mat (mini scrapbook album pages) swops to make and 10 other Card Candy swops.
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Look forward to seeing you at the weekend if you are popping by.
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Sandra

Sunday 3 October 2010

HOSTESS GIFT

This is the swop that I made for High Wycombe training event in September using the new Hostess level 1 gift, Punch Potpourri. The colours on the photo are not too clear but this is using the NEW Pear Pizzazz and Early Expresso.


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.YOU COULD EARN THIS SET

**** FREE ****

My favourite Hostess gift as all four images have a corresponding punch. Simply stamp, punch and create.
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If you would like me to come and demonstrate a workshop in your home or local community venue, please contact me. Let me talk you through the benefits you could earn being a hostess or even have a 'virtual party' yourself. I can provide a catalogue and order forms for you and providing orders are a minimum of £150, you can earn a FREE hostess gift and minimum of £15 of FREE product of your choice to spend in the catalogue.
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Pop back later for some more ideas.
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Sandra

WHOOOOPPPPEEEEE !!!!

THE NEW CATALOGUE IS HERE !!!!
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Hi crafters
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For those of you who couldn't join me on Friday or Saturday, please click on link to browse through the new catty in a lovely page turning format, so you really think you have the real thing in your hands. Please let me know if you wish to purchase a copy, it's bigger and better than before !!
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There are some fab new things to point out to you all.
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Firstly, we now have CLEAR STAMPS. Many of you will realise these work out much cheaper. I know many crafters already have clear blocks but I really do like what I've seen of the new Stampin' Up! ones. They have a finger groove all the way round, nice ronded corners and light which make them very comfortable to use. Of course, being clear they help you position exactly where you want to.
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Secondly, the 14 NEW PUNCHES, turn to pages 104-106.
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Thirdly, well if I said there were 64 NEW RIBBONS you would just have to jump to pages 96-97.
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Last but not least, the wonderful 16 NEW CORE-COLOURS and 5 NEW IN-COLOURS. Turn to pages 80-85 to browse these.
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There are loads more fab items but I'm still browsing through myself.
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I have some lovely new samples to show you that have been under wraps as we were not allowed to show on our blogs until the official launch date. Pop back later and I will be adding some through the day.
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One happy crafter !!!!
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Sandra