Pleased to say....

I am pleased to say the bracelet and tin for my niece were a hit, she loved them both very much. I actually saw my Great Nephew for the second time tonight, he has really grown and so lovely.

The last time I saw him he was very young and my first cuddle with him was over shadowed by the terrible sciatic pain I suffered before my surgery in June this year.

This time I was able to enjoy a lovely cuddle!

Finished this today....

This was finished on Friday, after making 6 in one day! I decided I wanted a bracelet for myself, so here it is. I have always wanted a charm bracelet. Now I have one.

Below is a tin I have made for my Niece's birthday (today) I had to wait for the paint on the lid to dry. So I was able to finish it this morning. I just hope she likes it and the bracelet I made her.
Another view of her tin. I am pleased with the finished results. Its the first time I have ever done painting onto the lid. That is all for today so far, though I will be busy going out to visit later this evening.
It makes me feel old to realise that my niece's and nephews are all hitting double figures.
My children are the babies of our family!

Busy time....

Here is one of the first things I did this week, I had an ATC swap with fellow forum member MotherDuck. This is the return one I have made for her including a matching envelope.

http://forum.cardmakingandpapercraft.com/

I have also joined in my first ever Bookmark swap, I decided on an oriental theme.

The Dragon is embossed onto red card.
This one below has a really nice sticker image on it. I am quite pleased with the finished look of these. On the forum I am also running a Christmas Topper Swap. We each make 5 toppers for cards then everyone will send them to me, So I can swap them around and send 5 different ones back out. Below are my first three. Of course they match all the Christmas cards I have been making this year.
Topper 2 below.Topper 3This card is for my Niece, its her birthday tomorrow. Again here are the lovely Fairies.

Below is the final finished Bracelet made for a new Mum. The final item I added was the little silver cup with baby on it. I think its the great final touch.
The two black and silver bracelets are for another forum friend (Bubbles). She asked for two black and silver bracelets. They have worked out much better than I thought they would.

Below are two bracelets made for a fellow Mum at my sons school. She asked for them first thing Friday morning. I had everything done and made from scratch by 2.45pm. These are the first ones I have made in one whole colour.
This one was also part of the order. I amazed myself by making these and a bracelet for myself before 3pm! I still have to take a picture of my bracelet.Finally, I sat making this one late last night, that's part of the reason why I was still awake gone midnight.... This one is for my Niece for her birthday tomorrow, 7th October this is a surprise for her.So even though I have had to battle with terrible back pain and headaches I still managed to make things to keep me occupied. I love crafting... if only there were more hours to a day!

Loading all I did Friday....

I was going to sit here and load all the things I have done today.... ( Friday) as It's now Saturday morning I think it can wait until a later hour today.... though I am really pleased with all I did. Considering I had one of my really bad heads again. I went to be d about 5.30pm and slept for a couple of hours.

This bracelet was made on Thursday I made it for my sister in-law. She was thrilled with it.

I will up load the rest later today (Saturday)

Off to bed now, good night all.

Feeling Terrible......

Just a quick one today, I have been crafty this morning but I am unable to sit here for long today. For some reason maybe stress, I have the worst headache a person would want, its so close to being a migraine.

I will put it down to worry and stress, someone I care about has let me down again, it makes me wonder why I bother. So I have felt very stressed and worried that something has happened to them. Unless they get in touch with me I will never know whats gone on.

I have just had an hour asleep in bed, but it's not helped my head one tiny bit.

I know sitting here will never help me.

So its time for me to give up... be it in pain or not!

I found this and thought how sweet

I think this says it all really!
Its just so sweet.

Even though I am not feeling 100% right now, I have turned to my crafting to lift myself up.

I had some orders for bracelets, but I wanted to make something a little different.

This is the first time I have made a multi coloured bracelet.

I was not sure, but now its made I am happy with it.

Again here is another pink bracelet, this is for a forum friend to give to her daughter.

Below is an altered tin that is a gift tin for the pink bracelet.
The side of the tin below.

The one below is another gift tin for a different customer, she asked for it to be purple.

I just hope everyone likes the items I have done for them.

I love the little flower pot on this one.

Once again without my crafting I know I would be feeling sorry for myself....