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Hello Everyone and welcome to my blog-hope you enjoy your visit. Happy Easter and I hope the sun is shining where you are as it is here at the moment. It definitely shone yesterday so we set off on a 'summer' bus that goes in and out of the caravan parks along the coast to the north of us. We decided to get off the bus at Primrose Valley and walk down the beautiful ravine there to the beach and along the beach to Filey. It was quite busy in Filey which was good to see, so we joined the holiday makers to enjoy a walk along the seafront. We had planned a much longer walk along the Brig which you can see in the distance behind this beach hut model This is just so cute and I would love it in my garden or one like it. Not sure Vic is skilled enough to make one but who knows. Further along the prom we met this very tall fisherman. I love these huge figures that seem to be popping up along the seafronts of North Yorkshire. As you can see at this time of the day the sky was blue with f...

Hope everyone is well and happy. Another week has flown by and I hope you have been enjoying crafting as much as I have this week. Sometimes everything seems to go really well and the bin is almost empty and other weeks it fills up really quickly and ideas don't come into my head at all. It is the last week in March and the last week that we will have the pleasure of Tracey as guest designer. It has been lovely to see what she made for us and I would like to say a huge thank you to her for being our first ever guest designer. Back to normal now after the excitement of Out of a Hat Creations first birthday and this week the theme is faces. This went into the hat a while ago and was one of Sandra's suggestion. This is my husband Vic, Daughter Linda and son in law Graham as no one has ever seen them before. I have always liked the 'pop art' pictures of Andy Warhol and have seen a few of them in real life. I thought I would play around in Paint Shop Pro and come up with a ...

Hello Everyone--it is still very cold here today and there is snow about still so I have been enjoying a crafty day I thought I had left it too late to enter the Tando creative Challenge  but there are still a few days left so do join in as the subject is Flowers so lots of choices for that. I knew I had time to do the challenge at Try it on Tuesday  as that has only just started--hope you go there and see the wonderful things that the DesignTeam have made--so inspiring for sure. This is what I have made to combine the 2 challenges. So what is it I hear you ask??? I asked Vic for a pair of his old jeans--he has loads that he says are for gardening. Well he sure doesn't need that many pairs so I chose the worst pair to recycle. The flash went off so the jeans look a lot paler in this picture than they really are. I had a loose leaf folder that was getting shabby--sorry I forgot to take a photo of it I was too excited about covering it. I cut off part of one of the jean's legs a...

Hello Everyone especially my new followers. Still very cold here with little flurries of snow but nothing to be worried about. This week at Every Inchie Monday the theme is map I saved a map of 'our house' location and used that. Not very exciting really but it does have a bit of the golf course on it so some nice greenery Hope your day is going well and thank you for popping in Love Chrissie xx

Hi Everyone and a warm welcome to my blog. Hello to Tracy and Wendy who are my latest followers-thank you for joining. Today is icy cold and very windy so I am staying in and doing some crafting and telly watching.Not good for my weight at all so I hope it gets warmer soon. At Craft-Room Challenges this time we are asked to make an 'In The Garden' project but not a card. I made a postcard to start with then wondered if that wouldn't be acceptable so I decided to use it for the front of a journal as it will be nice to do some 'garden pages' with photographs of our plants-if it is ever warm enough to go into the garden this year.:( I gave the book a rustic feel with 2 coats of matt emulsion in different colours and used some of the stamp set I used on the postcard. The stamp are all from sets by Joanna Sheen 'Back to Nature set' and 'Garden Flowers set'. I masked the middle image then embossed the leaves that I stamped at either side. Coloured everythi...

Hi All--dull here again today but no snow where we are-well not yet so we are keeping our fingers crossed. Vic has just been to Aldi and brought me a present  :) Here it is-a sturdy box to hold lots of bits and bobs and even paper or card in the bottom. I placed my ruler to show you the size of the box. It was only £3.99 so a bargain I reckon. Off now to fill it--not a problem :) Have a good day and thank you for popping by Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone and a warm welcome to my new followers. Always lovely to have everyone pop in and comments are a big encouragement. I can't believe that Out of a Hat Creations is a year old already. Time has just flown by and we are still enjoying crafting together and my husband is still pulling the themes from a hat which seems to work very well as we all contribute to the themes. This week is an exception as it is the Hatters birthday we are having a game. The game was originally Janet's idea and I played around with it a bit and came up with what we have for this week. The game is based on a spinning top and where it lands is the theme you use for this weeks project- for details of the spinner go to the Hatters . Hope lots of people will have fun with us for this special event. This is what I made because the spinner landed on shopping bag for me I knitted, crochet and sewed with a lot of old plastic bags from the supermarket and some black ones that we had thought were no ...