lexie's life...

Inside of Valentines card.....

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Very over the top !!! but its for my Micky !!!!

Micks Valentine Card also Febs. Challenge card for Crafty Cow !!!

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My Card for Micky , must admit made in a hurry and a bit over the top!!!!

Micks 65th card

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Happy Birthday my Darling Micky , your officially a old age pensioner !!!!!
He really liked the card I made for him and I was pleased with it to !

Rupert at 18 years old

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A truly Gorgous young man , well I think sooo !

Rupert at 18 !!!

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I can't believe my baby boy is 18 , and Typical hates any fuss and having his photos taken , hence the serious p****d off look , but Iam soo pleased with this double paged spread . My Gorgous young man November 2009....

Dollie in her Trendy Hat !!

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Dec / Jan 2010 its been so cold I brought Dulcie a nice warm hat , and being Dollie she loved it and wore in indoors and out for days . There is a bit of ' secret journalling !

sleepy head Dulcie

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August 2009 , Dulcie looking very sweet and having a pajama day !

sleepy head Dollie , august 2009

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Had to scrap these photos of Dollie , they came out very pink but that was the reflexion on light in her room , they are very natural photos of her.

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Two little dancers

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Dancing girls in pink . JAN 2010

sweet little dancing girl

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Dancer in Pink . Jan 2010

Dancer card

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SWEET DANCER IN BLUE ! JAN . 2010

Ballet card

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SWEET LITTLE DANCER ! Jan 2010

Yet more seaside cards

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more seaside cards

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Jan 2010

Seaside cards

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Using Crafty individual papers

baby card

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Made for baby Owen , Jan 2010

friends card

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Another card I have made , Jan 2010

cards

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Another card I have made , Jan 2010

Jan crafty cow challenge

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This is the card I Have made for the Crafty Cow Challenge Jan.2010

January card challenge

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Topic Children Jan.2010

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Children

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This is one of the cards I made for the forums January Challenge

Cards

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Sent this to Jane to say have a happy holiday . Jan 2010

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January 2010 snow, snow ,Robins and Cards !!!

cards

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Made his one again coloured with copic markers

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My garden and going for a walk , Dec 2009

snow

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jan 2010 yucky horrible white stuff !!!

cards

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I made this card , is coloured with copic pens .

Cards

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I sent this card to Lou on the crafty cow forum as part of the card swap the theme was ' friendship ' , hope she liked it ! Jan 2010

cards

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Sent This card to some one on the Crafty Cow forum !

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Children cards Jan Challenge

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Rupe relaxing .

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Rupe having a chill ! Dec 2009

Rupe ...Christmas 2009

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My handsome son , as usual avoiding looking at the camera ! Christmas 2009.Opening some of his presents !

Micky and Baxter !!

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Micky and his bestest mate Baxter the Cat ....they love each other to bits! Funny considering Micky hates Cats and I had to beg to get on , I don't geta look in Bax loves his dad !

Dollie

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Nice photo of Dulcie posing !!! She loves to wear make up and loves clothes .....wear did she get that from ....she also likes shopping . shoes but has'nt got her mothers passion for Handbags or craft stash ..... well not yet any way ...plenty of time to change that !!!

\Serious Dulcie ! Cristmas 2009

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My Little Girl all grown up , wearing one of her many new clothes she had for Christmas !

John Mcinroe , Carol and lexie

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Our lovely Waiter John McInroe

Doing 'Titanic '

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Micky and I doing Titanic !

Turkey 2009

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The four of us on a boat trip , we had a great time

lexie and Micky Turkey 2009

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I like t5his photo of Micky and I , taken just after we boarded t5he boat for a evening boat trip , we had a really lovely evening , lots of dancing and fun !

Me in my mask !!!!

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Masked Ball on sat. evening it was a lovely party, I brought the plain Pink shiny Mask and decorated it with los of jewels !

Topview of my Box

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This is a top view of my box I made for the November Challenge !!

November Challenge

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This is my effort for the November Crafty Cow Challenge .....
I loved doing it !

The Forest

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Another view from the forest

A better view of the sculptured sleepers

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So peaceful in the forest

Sleepers

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Each sleeper was individually sculptured

Stone Rowing Boats

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These Sone Rowing boats were part of the Sculpure Trail

More in the forest

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Loved the Forest.

The Forest of Dean

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The forest was beautiful , really enjoyed our walk .

Looking up at the sky

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The trees were beautiful

Forest of Dean

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You can see Roger and Micky , Trudi is the one in the hoodie! We went for a walk in the Forest , it was so beautiful , the walk had a Sculpture trail , some were easy to find and easy to understand others werw down right werid or do I just not understand sculpture

Dollie Doo looking sweet !!!!

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Dulcie all dressed for a party at school

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Kathryns card

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This is a card I made for Kathryn birthday, hope she likes it5 .I love making frames and ripping and tearing a technique I use in my scrap books to .

Gold Gliery shoes ....

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Like her Mum Dollie loves SHOES , tonigh she was wearing Gold Glitery shoes , don't they look lovely !!!!!!
A girl can never have enogh SHOES ........

Dollies nigh out ....

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Already to go to cjs in he town , She had a little bit of make up on and of course her lippy ! hair straightened and ready for he off !!.... I think she looks beautiful , but hen Iam biased I am her mum !!!

Dulcies night out .....

2009-10-08T14:06:00.000-07:00

Tonight Dulcie was going out wih alo of her friends from church , i was a birthday celebration for a couple of the girls. Dulcie being Dulcie was a bit nervous but she had no need o be .... She looked lovely in her fav get up of he moment , shorts and leggings , she looks lovely .

BRENTWOOD OWL

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This is anoher card I made using Brentwood owl Happy Halloween , I have used disco black embossing powders , black card and used new gorgous colours of glimmer mists , ribbon ....hope you like him.

SPING FOLD CARD , CRAFTY COW CHALLENGE

2009-10-08T13:59:00.000-07:00

This is he card I 've made for the CRAFTY COW challenge for october .Any card but had o have a dtfferant fold not just a bog standard card, I cheaed and nmade this wih a template but now I've done it don' need template,.The stamp is a Brenwood Owl , Haloween and I 've embossed him with disco black , I Glimmer misted wih he new Tattered Angels in the mos gorgous colours .All from The Craft Barn , hope you all like his card.

Crafty cow swap card

2009-10-08T13:51:00.000-07:00

This was a nightmare had to be made of ' recycled ' stuff so I cut a picture from a scrap book magazine , then Santa was from a magazine , a ad for a craft show some old used buttons , some blue ribbon cut from the sweaer I was wearing , the hanger things ! and he red wool was from a very old , long since gone sweater ,and a piece of old card to mount santa on and a new bit of card stock ....phew nightmare give me lovely 'proper ' craft stuff any day !

PUTTING FACES TO NAMES !!!

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TODAY HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME MEETING UP WITH JANE , JACKIE AND DEBBIE
FROM THE CRAFTY COW FORUM , WHICH INVOLVED SHOPPING, CHATTING COFFEE
AND CAKE .....WHAT MORE CAN A GIRL ASK FOR ??? HAD A LOVELY TIME .

Ian's birthday card

2009-09-28T02:12:00.000-07:00

I've made this card for my dad , I've used Tattered Angels Glimmer mist sprays , which were sprayed onto srunched copy paper and then ironed flat .I stamped and embossed usind a copper embossing powder and matted onto copper miri card , the Happy Birthday was done on the same paper .Iam sure he'll like it.

Same stamp differant card ....

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This card was made using the 'Rock Chic ' Stamp as before but layed , using Basic Grey papers from the Lemonade range , this paper is taken from a 6x6 collection book Ive decorated wih ribbon and the image was clear embossed the pink ink is from a embossing pen .

Birthday cards

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I made this card using Inkadinkadoo ' Rock chic ' clear stamp its embossed using disco black powder , I've cuttle bugged embossed the purple card and some dark purple Happy Birthday ribbon, i've layed on mirri card and embellished with ribbon ,

September swap ....

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This lovely card is from Jane ( Poppy tree ) to me its Crafty Individual stamps and I really love it .Thanks Jane .

Her lovely face .....

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Our lovely Dulcie .....

This is how she looked....

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Actually this photo was taken on Sunday morning before Dulcie went to church same outfit as the party but her hair was straight and she had make up on but we were running late and she was getting stressed so we did'nt ake a photo ....typical Dulcie , bu just o show you what she wore !

High heels ..... not mine !!!

2009-09-28T01:48:00.000-07:00

Anoher photo of Dulcies ' Heels ' .She got these for Beths 16th birthday bash .

Dulcies First ' High Heels '

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Dulcie was going to her friends 16th birthday party and has been desperate for some ' Heels ' so on friday we made a mad dash to New look , and after a bit of comprimise we found these lovely shoes , heels Not to high after all she was going to have to dance , walk and strut so we brought these . She looked gorgous and felt very pleased wih herself ...... I can't believe MY BABY will be 16 in feb , how can that be ????

demo cards

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Sweet little Elephant card

More demo cards

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12th & 13th sept

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Some of the cards I made using Little Claire stamps

Demo cards 12th &13th sept

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lexie to Poppytree

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This is the card I have made for my swap , Poppy tree so I hope she likes it .Iam very fond of Craftty Individual Stamps and papers , so this is what I have used .The photo is very slightly blurred the stamped image I with a kalaidoscope pad which gives a stunning effect.

Crafty Cow Sept Challenge

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This is my effort for the Crafty Cow sept challenge . I have used a peice of glossy card which has been sprayed with ' Tattered Angels ' glimmer mist sprays , 3 colours , lilac , apale blue and iritdescent gold ,I heat embossed embossing pen image with detailed clear powder. The stamp is a ' LITTLE CLAIRE STAMP ' . Finished with lavender ribbon and Peel offs of Happy Christmas and some snow flakes . Hope you like it.

lovely Dulcie ... sept 09.

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A lovely photo of my gorgous girl .

Dulcies new hair...

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A chin length bob and she can have it natural , curly or blowed and straightened .

Dulcies new hair cut 03.09.09

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On thursday Dulcie had her hair cut into a style she could manage I think it looks gorgous, she likes it too.She had Kate our hairdresser in stiches some of the things she was saying.

Carol and Dollie

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Carol and Dollie .August bank holiday .

Mick with hair......!!!!!

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No darling I love you without hair more ..... Micky and THE WIG !!!!!
August bank holiday , BBQ at Carol & John's, we had a real laugh ...

Tatty head....

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Love this one a real tatty head !!!

SLEEPY DULCIE

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Dulcie doing her fav thing , being in bed wih the computer !!!

LOVELY DULCIE

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Thought these photos of Dulcie were rather nice........

SUNRISE & SUNSET

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A page I did of a beauiful sunset and a beautiful sunrise , taken at the Misty Mountain Reserve in south africa.

THESE ARE SOME PHOTOTS OF DULCIE TAKEN THE OTHER MORNING

reddish hair ...

2009-08-27T06:57:00.000-07:00

Thought some one might like to have a look at me with red and blonde hilights , I really like it and hopefully the red will stay a bit of a time...

Cape of Good Hope ...

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The top photo is of Carol and I and the bottom one is of Mick and I .

Cape of Good Hope

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We had been before but went with Carol and John .This is part of a double page spread.

Abe Thomas and the ol' boy !

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This is the 2nd page of a double page spread , we had seen Abe Thomas before a fantastic trumpetter and his band all exstreamly enertaining.The ol'boy was a fantastic jazz musician and entertained us for a long time , turns out he is the same age as Mick! What a truly lovely guy.

Entertainment.....!!!!

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Music , Dance and Laughter.......
We loved the TWO GUYS playing in Essenwood Market in Durban , they are great.The guy with the whiten face is one of a trio who ,do mime and dance and are exstreamly entertaining.The group of brightly coloured clohed guys who sing and dance and are brillient hese are at the Waterfront in Cape Town.

Friends and fun !

2009-08-27T06:40:00.000-07:00

This page is of photos taken on holiday in Cape Town, Carol and John at the restaurant in Camps Bay.The photo of Micky is taken at the waterfront.

More altered calender

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I 've had these feathers and clear acitate butterflies for ages and new one day I 'd use them ....... Hope you like the results .

crafty dieters class cards and altered calender

2009-08-24T01:32:00.000-07:00

These cards are for a class I am taking tonight monday 24th August. Making these frames is a brillient way of using all those scap pieces of paper up , the background has been glimmer misted useing ' Tattered Angels ' Sea Glass , Periwinkle and Timeless Lilac . The stamps are inkadinkadoo set and these are samped using archival ink purple and embossed with clear powder.The 2nd card is stamped on vellum using a kelidiscope ink pad.
The Clown card is a Kadoodle stamp , on a cut out circle and circles embossing folder ( Cuttlebug ) and 'fun ' is also from a cuttlebug folder, stars are cut out .
This is my altered calender that I ' ve really enjoyed making I let my ' creative juices ' run wild and this creation appeared !!! lots of gluing ,stamping . beads ,feathers , glimmer misting , craft wire and this is the result .You can do what you like with the plain wooden calenders .

aug2009 Rupert Charlie

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My gorgous boy , Rupe aged 17 ( hates having his photo taken ) ....... one thing to say tough !

August swap from craftypat

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This is a beautiful slider card in my fav colour PINK !!!!
A Huge THANK YOU Pat , I LOVE IT.

V&A waterfront

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V&A Waterfront at Cape Town is great we spent many hours wandering around and Chatting to people.

bruise...

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THIS IS ONE OF THE BRUISES MY LOVELY DAUGHTER HAS GIVEN ME ...OUCH ITS REALLY SORE , FULL SET OF TEETH MARKS ....

baxter

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But he has got a lovely little face ....

daftlazy cat

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My cat has a hard life .....