A mixed bag ....

.... today, I've got all sorts of pictures to show and things to tell.

I'm back from a weekend away camping, it took a few days beforehand to organise the gear, and will take a few more to get it all packed away in the attic again.  I haven't crafted in a week and a half, must get back at it before we, sob sob, go back to school next week.

I was very happy to find out that my "Bon Voyage" Tilda card from a few weeks ago made the Top 5 on ABC Challenge - I got a blinkie for my sidebar (dances about a bit!).  I know I'm a saddo, but I really am happier to get a blinkie than a prize!!!

On my last post, I showed pictures of my desk after a book text flower-making session.  Inspired by my crafty friend Alicia, I decided to make a set of quite simple cards, and use the flowers on the front.  I wasn't going to ink and stitch, but it just didn't look right, so out came the applicator and needle, up went the timescale and here's what I ended up with:

I used some very old paper from a kit, cut the shapes using Nestabilities, the first time I've made shaped cards like this, great fun!!!  I made the leaves from my trusty Hero Arts set that I use all the time, and added some October Afternoon letters.  Here's a little close-up of one card:

We "harvested" our potatoes before we went away, one black plastic container yielded 25 spuds of varying sizes.  Haven't eaten them yet, maybe tomorrow.  Here they are:

And finally, here are a few pics from our camping weekend - we were away with the Mini Club, went for a drive up the mountains on Saturday, here are some of the cars just before a rainstorm hit:

And here's our little corner of the campsite, the Mini at the front is my baby!!

Now, enough dilly-dallying, back to the washing machine I go!!

Thanks for looking!

The fruits of ....

.... last weekend's labour!!!

I think I mentioned in a previous post that it was our parish fête at the weekend - I made red onion marmalade a few weekends ago, and "proper" marmalade last Thursday.  Friday afternoon was spent baking and making decorative bits for the jam jars.  I made bands to go around the onion marmalade jars, 'cos the stuff, although it tastes really good, just doesn't look that pretty!!  But the orange marmalade was so lovely and orangey and happy looking, I just did labels.  Here's the finished batches:

And the next pictures are the first "harvest" from our garden this year.  Strawberries - yummmmm!  We've got about a dozen plants in containers and pots, and three berries were ready yesterday.

Look at this beauty - it was delicious (cut democratically into four equal-sized pieces!!!)

Nothing else is near this stage, spuds growing massive amounts of greenery, but not flowering yet, tomatoes the same, rhubarb and apples really flourishing - the peppers and chilli peppers are not doing much but most look reasonably healthy.

Back to card-making - son asked to THREE parties this week - not good for my schedule.

Thanks for looking!