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Friday 31 December 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Dover

52 Walks with my Camera - Week 52

We travelled to Dover to visit our friends Julie and Graham, as we arrived the fog descended. My last walk for 2010 was taken in their grounds as they showed us all their animals.


Julie with Wizard

Wingsor Castle

Sandwingham 

Cluckingham Palace 

Jack

Reba

Graham and Rebel

Blizzard


... and Fluff

Many thanks to Julie and Graham for a great day. xxx

Log - 52 Walks with My Camera in 2010 so far: 1. Bexleyheath, 2. Woodbridge River Front, 3. Hall Place Greenhouses, 4. Chislehurst, 5. Bluewater, 6. Theatre Land,7. Leeds, 8. Orford, 9. Snape, 10. Chatham,11. Nottingham, 12. Twickenham, 13. Woodbridge. 14. Red House. 15. Debden House. 16. RAF Bentwaters. 17 Friston and Saxmundham. 18. Ufford. 19. Wickham Market. 20. Greenwich Royal Park. 21. Felixstowe. 22. Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square Gardens. 23. Garden. 24. St James' Park. 25. Hall Place Gardens. 26. Moot Hall - Aldeburgh. 27. Shere. 28. Beer. 29. Lyme Regis. 30. Seaton. 31. Butley Priory. 32. Tewin. 33. Southwold Quay. 34. Framlingham Town. 35. Chillisford. 36. Erith Yacht Club. 37. Nottingham - Jubilee Campus. 38. Salford. 29. Bury St.. Edmunds. 40 Spire House. 41. Manchester. 42. Nottingham. 43. Waterloo Station. 44. Felixstowe Ferry. 45. The South Bank. 46. Snape MAltings. 47. Tunstall Forest. 48. Woodbridge. 49. St Pancras Station. 50. Regent Street. 51. Covent Garden. 52. Dover.

Wednesday 29 December 2010

Covent Garden

52 Walks with my Camera 2010 - Week 51

Nearly at the end of my 52 walks, and this time I went to Covent Garden in the dark. We travelled to London yesterday to see Cinderella at The Royal Opera House. As we got to London early and had a walk around. The decorations and lights were beautiful.
















Log - 52 Walks with My Camera in 2010 so far: 1. Bexleyheath, 2. Woodbridge River Front, 3. Hall Place Greenhouses, 4. Chislehurst, 5. Bluewater, 6. Theatre Land,7. Leeds, 8. Orford, 9. Snape, 10. Chatham,11. Nottingham, 12. Twickenham, 13. Woodbridge. 14. Red House. 15. Debden House. 16. RAF Bentwaters. 17 Friston and Saxmundham. 18. Ufford. 19. Wickham Market. 20. Greenwich Royal Park. 21. Felixstowe. 22. Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square Gardens. 23. Garden. 24. St James' Park. 25. Hall Place Gardens. 26. Moot Hall - Aldeburgh. 27. Shere. 28. Beer. 29. Lyme Regis. 30. Seaton. 31. Butley Priory. 32. Tewin. 33. Southwold Quay. 34. Framlingham Town. 35. Chillisford. 36. Erith Yacht Club. 37. Nottingham - Jubilee Campus. 38. Salford. 29. Bury St.. Edmunds. 40 Spire House. 41. Manchester. 42. Nottingham. 43. Waterloo Station. 44. Felixstowe Ferry. 45. The South Bank. 46. Snape MAltings. 47. Tunstall Forest. 48. Woodbridge. 49. St Pancras Station. 50. Regent Street. 51. Covent Garden.

Audrey and Margaret

I made this layout at the Cardinal Colours Crop earlier this month and only yesterday managed to finish it off. It is scraplifted from the brilliant work of Gabrielle Pocllaco. I used the new Basic Grey Curio papers.  The collection pack was my prize for one of the Basic Grey Challenges last month.  The butterflies are from K and Co. and were part of my Christmas present from my brother. The blossoms are winter flowers and the lacing is black 1/8" suede effect thong both from Cardinal Colours.


The photograph is one we have recently discovered of my grandmother (Margaret Ellen Banks nee Ephgrave) with her niece by marriage (Audrey Edwards nee Mansell) circa 1930.

Regent Street, London

52 Walks with My Camera - week 50

Catching up with the last few walks for 2010. What with Christmas and doing JYC 2010, I have got a bit behind with blogging the walks, but determined to get them all blogged before next year (next week!).
Catherine and I walked from Tottenham Court Road to Trafalgar Square, starting with coffee and ending with an evening meal, visiting a lot of shops along the way! Pretty tricky to get good photos as it was so crowded.

The lights in Oxford Street (not really dark enough for these at the time).


Into Regent Street and we spent some time in Liberty (and all I we purchased was a few pencils!)






Back out onto Regent Street where it was now dark and better to see the lights.



We ended up in Trafalgar Square 



Log - 52 Walks with My Camera in 2010 so far: 1. Bexleyheath, 2. Woodbridge River Front, 3. Hall Place Greenhouses, 4. Chislehurst, 5. Bluewater, 6. Theatre Land,7. Leeds, 8. Orford, 9. Snape, 10. Chatham,11. Nottingham, 12. Twickenham, 13. Woodbridge. 14. Red House. 15. Debden House. 16. RAF Bentwaters. 17 Friston and Saxmundham. 18. Ufford. 19. Wickham Market. 20. Greenwich Royal Park. 21. Felixstowe. 22. Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square Gardens. 23. Garden. 24. St James' Park. 25. Hall Place Gardens. 26. Moot Hall - Aldeburgh. 27. Shere. 28. Beer. 29. Lyme Regis. 30. Seaton. 31. Butley Priory. 32. Tewin. 33. Southwold Quay. 34. Framlingham Town. 35. Chillisford. 36. Erith Yacht Club. 37. Nottingham - Jubilee Campus. 38. Salford. 29. Bury St.. Edmunds. 40 Spire House. 41. Manchester. 42. Nottingham. 43. Waterloo Station. 44. Felixstowe Ferry. 45. The South Bank. 46. Snape MAltings. 47. Tunstall Forest. 48. Woodbridge. 29. St Pancras Station. 50. Regent Street.

Saturday 25 December 2010

Wednesday 22 December 2010

More handmade greetings

I love receiving handmade cards. Following on from my post after our ,here are a few more cards I have been given over the last few days. Thanks to all who made and sent these cards and Merry Christmas. Hope you all enjoyed yours. xxx

Karen's beautiful Magnolia card arrived this morning.

I love he simplicity of this sizzix card made by Margaret

Sharon made this pretty circle tree card

Linda C made this 3D tree card

Ann (wise Brown Owl) made this owl card and the bird house full of chocolates


This is Rita's decoupage card
Deirdre's brayerd and stamped card
Thanks again my crafty friends, I have been very lucky. xxx

Saturday 18 December 2010

Cards and Gifts

It's taken me a week to catch up but here are some pictures of all the fantastic hand made cards and gifts I received at the Cardinal Colours Crop last weekend. We had a lovely day as we always do, good company good food, scrapbooking, card making and this time lots of gifts and cards were exchanged for Christmas too.

Anita made this delightful card including a charm and handmade embellishments.


Anita also knitted this wonderful scarf, in my favourite colours. This is me just before going out to my work Christmas meal last night.

Linda made this lovely card using her favourite stamp of this Christmas season, featuring her two new cats, Ariel and George.


Sue made this great card...

.... and this cute little rice doll tree decoration

This super shaker card was from Jill

Wendy made this pretty card.

Liz made this lovely card with some embossing detail.

Chris made this card and ....

... this amazingly beautiful hand made bead decoration.

Thanks to you all for a great crop and the beautiful collection of cards and gifts. xxx
Merry Christmas Girls.xxx