I Can Barely Contain...

...myself... well, my excitement... because.. it is THIS WEEK that I get to go and see Ellen, take classes with THE Wonderful Wendy Vecchi AND... I get my chops around several hundredweight of Cheesy Chester Cheeto's again! Mwhahaha.... I shall be positively glowing orange by the time I get back. Anyways... tis 3 days til I go... I think I had better start thinking about packing. Don't worry, I have been writing lists for the last three weeks... I have to have lists you see, otherwise I will forget something and be halfway over the Atlantic by the time I remember... somehow I don't think that the Pilot would be happy if I asked him to turn around and go back for me lol





Anyways... back to my adventures last week. First of all... I want to say that I was truly gutted that my mate Minxy got sick and ended up in hospital and couldn't make it to Dina Wakley's class at LB Crafts. Gillian and I both really missed her - I had been so excited to see her because we only see each other a couple of times a year... and I so wanted to be able to have a playdate with her... speedy recovery wishes are heading her way. So... I haven't done a class for a yonk and a half and being as my Mojo had been AWOL for a week and was only just home, it was perfectly timed... Dina oozes creativity, inspiration and talent... she is a marvellous teacher, so if you get chance to take a class with her, do it! Really... everyone needs to do a Dina class!




Yesterday I showed the blue and orange pages of a cool little fabric covered book that we made... so here's the rest of it... oh and to say I had a ball would be an understatement. I was totally out of my comfort zone... you know how I like to overembellish everything I make? Well, this kind of crafting sort of sated my need for this because of the amount of layers in each page... like seven or eight on each one... and it is still flat but looks dimensional... am I making sense? Probably not but I am sure that you will catch the gist of what I am trying to say lol



Dina had pre-sewed the covers (phew, my sewing talents are non-existant) so all we had to do was decorate them... we covered them with torn pages and hand cut circles... am loving all the little pops of colour... which carries on through the book.



Right... tis time for me to get a wiggle on... I have lists to write and projects to finish before I head off... did I mention I am going away? Oh I did? LOL Thanks for looking... TTFN

Hels x