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 Hello Everyone. I hope the new year will bring you peace and happiness and that our friendships will continue to grow through our blogs, Thank you to everyone who has visited Jumbled Crafts and for the warmth I feel from the comments. My daughter and son-in-law should have been arriving yesterday but the floods and gales in Cumbria and in Yorkshire have meant that part of the route from them to us wasn't passable and is due to get even worse over the next few days. Good news that my MIL is now home and that Vic's sister is up here from London to stay with her for a while. For my first project this year I am honoured to have been asked by Susi and Valerie to host their January challenge at Art Journal Journey . I was host there in March 2015 so this is an extra special treat for me. I never would have even started to do journaling at all if it hadn't been for their encouragement and now it is one of my favourite types of crafting. The theme I have chosen is Winter Wonderlan...

Hello Everyone from a sunny NE UK  coast. Such a change today from the weather of late but the forecast for tomorrow is back to rain so it says. Thank you for dropping by. This will be my last project for this month at Art Journal Journey as there are only just over 2 days left before the challenge ends and a new one will begin. As it is the last one for this year I would like to say thank you to Susi and Valerie for their challenges and also for their wonderful inspiration every day. They have amazingly creative minds and it is always good to see what they come up with for AJJ. Back in 2006 I had a yen to draw fairies and this is one of them so I used it to make this collage digitally. Have a great day Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. I hope you enjoyed the holiday and have now time to settle back into crafting. Thank you for finding time to call in. All your good wishes for my MIL seem to have worked some sort of magic as she has now been moved to our local hospital and there is even talk of her going to her own flat before too long.  This has made life a lot easier for us and I have time to craft again. At Art Journal Journey there is still the rest of December to do a collage with some journaling. I got a bit carried away and used a mop up page that seemed to give me ideas when I studied it carefully. It had the shape of a face with some hair so I used a white pencil to make an outline. It was great to be able to create a face with so few lines and it is something I have admired for ages when others do it. This left a big space at the bottom of the page so I stuck on something I made for another project that didn't work at all on that project but looks ok on this. Now for Every Inchie Monday ...

Do pop over to Try it on Tuesday where instead of a challenge we have chosen our the projects to be in the 2015 Spotlight. Hope you are one of them and even if you aren't everyone's entries are looked at and admired so do join us for 2016 each fortnight. Last  post from me for a few days so I made something special for all of you who visit Jumbled Crafts and make life so enjoyable. Thank you for your support and friendship Love and Christmas hugs Chrissie xx

Hi All. Hope your week went well and you are ready for this week with things in place for the holiday. We are still hospital visiting and keeping our fingers crossed so not the Christmas we would have planned but it will be different for sure. At Art Journal Journey the collages are still coming thick and fast with lovely words added to them which is what is asked for this month. I dug up a face I 'painted over' about 10 years ago then I tried various things I haven't been able to use since I got my laptop as Paint Shop Pro needed to be reinstalled, I wanted my old version which didn't like the new laptop at all. Still trying to make things work and I am enjoying testing them along the way. At Every Inchie Monday this week the theme is evolution. Now there's a big subject for a little inchie. I just found one of the many charts and made it very small and stuck it onto felt. I have now finished all pf my inchies for 2015 and stitched them together so will post a p...

Hi All. Thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts at this busy time of year and for your comments that always make me happy At the moment it is a very wet and dark day here but I am hoping it will fair up a bit for our walk along the seafront to MIL's flat. She is still in hospital but we are making sure everything is OK for when she comes home eventually. The hospitals are so full she is being moved about from ward to ward and maybe even to another hospital they said yesterday. It is keeping us on our toes for sure. At Art Journal Journey the theme is collage with some words added. I did a digital page with Paint Shop Pro brushes I made and a very altered face image I had in a folder from a long time ago Moo Mania and More start their new challenge today and the theme is Christmas. I am sure everyone has something to add for that theme and anything at all is allowed so long as it follows the theme. I needed to make some cards quickly as I haven't had time to make many at all thi...

Happy New Week to you all and thank you for your welcome visit to my blog. I need a bit of cheering up today as my mother-in-law was taken in to hospital again yesterday. We didn't find her this time, a care manager did as she had the number to the key safe so we didn't know much about it until later. It will mean lots of work for us today. Not a clue what state the flat is in or even if MIL has got anything with her in the hospital. We will make sure the flat is safe, collect some stuff then off to Scarborough to the hospital. Every Inchie Monday have loco as the theme this week. I have two as I lost one of them I made so made another one and the first one turned up lol. Both are on felt ready to stitch into my years inchies.  Haven't made anything else so I thought I would show you something really special. I wasn't going to open it until Christmas but I needed cheering up so opened it early. This beautiful box arrived from Valerie . She is such an inspiration as I a...