Who's a super saver?

Hi everyone just thought I would share the best deal I've had in ages I went to a big Sunday Market in Lincolnshire and bought all these lovely babies, the prices at the top are what I paid, the middle is the price he was charging and the bottom are an estimate from the web (if you can read them)a saving of about £20-70.

Aren't they lovely I also got some beads & findings for when all my stuff gets packed away at the end of the month ready to extend my home, just thought it would be nice to share them with you.

Challenge #165@ OSCC

Hello everyone seems like I've been away for ever although in fairness it was last year :) I hope you all had a lovely Christmas & great New Year I really enjoyed it the only thing that spoiled it was it didn't last long enough.
We have a new challenge at One Stop Craft Challenge the theme is On the Spot and we also have 2 lovely Sponsors Ribbon Girl & Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Shop Blurb

We are Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea and have always crafted (card making, scrapbooking, cake decorating, sewing, embroidery, soft toy making etc) and as well as keeping our own blogs up to date, we enter as many challenges as we can fit in and are also proud to be on various papercrafting Design Teams.

We were frustrated that we were increasingly unable to buy very small quantities of ribbon and lace and resented having to purchase a roll of 5 metres when we only needed one metre. Because we love ribbons, lace and all things sparkly and pretty, we decided to open our own online shop and make small quantities easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side in her spare time, such as the Ribbon Girl Blog and Design Team.

We specialise in supplying small quantities of ribbon, twine, vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, buttons, fancy pins, charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. We stock only the best quality products such as Divine Twine, Berisford, May Arts, Zva and only offer for sale goods that we would personally buy and use ourselves.

Shop Blurb

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

I am so excited I have been added as a guest of OSCC on Catch the Bug woo hoo
 
Here's my card I hope you like it.
 

For this card I have used First Edition Spring Fest papers, Bugaboo (Ruby Chocolate - Bathe in Chocolate) Black Pearls from Hobby House, Flowers, Ribbon, Charm & chain from stash, Promarkers.
This is where I am challenging my card:
http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ #58 Anything Goes
http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/ pink, pink & more pink
http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://www.phindysplacechallenge.blogspot.com/ #88  Tic-Tac-Toe
http://theribbonreelchallenge.blogspot.com/ #19 Pink Polka Dots

I FEEL REALLY BAD ABOUT THIS BUT MY COMPUTER CRASHED AS i GOT TO THE END OF ALL MY CHALLENGES & WIPED EVERYONE OFF could you please let me know when commenting who it is for so I can try to put this right.

Another day no card..... but really sad news

I got some really sad News at Christmas from our lovely Robin saying the following

Happy New Year and Thanks!


My Partner in Crafting Crime & Bows and Berries would like to thank all our followers for their support and inspiration in 2011...

unfortunately we will not be back with challenges in the new year but wish each and everyone of you the best in 2012!!!

Cheers!!
 
I'm really sad as I had made some lovely friends whilst being on their Design team & I really enjoyed the challenges. I would like to thank Robin & Jenny for giving me a great opportunity it's a great shame but maybe who knows they may return & hopefully with me by their side, please wish them both all the very best for 2012 and the DT's on both Teams also. Happy New year everyone see you all in a week or two when things settle down & get back to normal XXX

No cards............... Just a wish

I do not have any cards to share with you all today this is my busiest time of the year working in a food store ( working both Christmas Eve & New Years too) my darling is still working away so have so much to do on my own before he comes home, so I want to take this opportunity to wish all my friends in blogland, all my Crafting Buddies & all my lovely visitors from all over the Globe a really Wonderful Christmas may you all get what you ask for also to wish you a GREAT New Year 2012. I hope to see you all in the new year I would also like to thank you for all the lovely comments & support you have all shown me.

Bows & Berries Winners

Wow how time flies when your having fun it has gone so fast I hope you all had fun I know I did sneaking up on you all :) so here we go Drum roll please maestro:

For all the winners to claim their prizes all you have to do is send Robin an email with 'Blog Hop Winner' as your title along with your picks from the shop to bosenberries@gmail.com

The hop winners are as follows:

Gill's blog

Ruth Little

Yvonne's blog

Laura

Chunyuan's blog

Eemeli

Janet's ( my) blog

Chris America Real

Jocelyn's blog

Riliska

Kasia's blog

Linda

Robin's blog

Moments by Marla

Main Blog

Nannieflash

And extra special thanks to those who linked a card up with us!!

The Winner of the 10 digis is....

#7. Mags

Winners of the 2 digis are..

#3. NanaConnie

#1. Dawn D.

#4. Edwina

Top 3 are:

Amy Duff

Tip Top

Gail

who I would also like to offer two digis of their choice as well as the Bows and Berries Top 3 Badge Below!!

 

Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday season!!

Thank You Kate ..............

Well this is another late post Kate has given me this lovely award (thank you my friend) & basically because I wasn't sure who to give it to & I still don't know what I have done to deserve it basically! so these are the lovely people I am awarding it to:

Gill

Robin ( who has Kept me out of mischeif)

Nanna Connie

Stef

Lorraine

Julie

Tracey

I thought that was hard now I have to find seven things to bore you with :) just joking

1 I have just moved homes & am finding it hard to settle to anything.

2 I missed Scout Post yet again (even though all my cards were ready to post)

3 I don't like all this wind & rain

4 I love blogging & noseying around others blogs

6 I don't like being late & should really learn to use my phone for blogging

7 I love reading all my lovely comments from my friends.

There that wasn't quite so bad ( I love it when it's all about me ........... not)

Week #161 @ OSCC

Well it's been another busy week for me personally I could have done without it it all began with me breaking my fave mug, then the car broke down when we should have been taking the little ones to a panto, then I was hit really hard with the bug that's going round so I also missed my Christmas night out ( can't wait to hear the tales from this one ha ha) so that was my week-end up the Swanee I really hope you all had a better one.

Week #161 @ One Stop Craft Challenge is Traditional Christmas Colours which at this time of year is quite easy it doesn't have to be a card it could be a journal, layout or another sort of project, the lovely Sponsor is the lovely Robyn from Robyn's Fetish.

Shop Blurb...

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is

is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge will get....

5 digital stamps

or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice

Please do show your support and visit our lovely sponsor.

So here's my card I hope you like it I love this Ginger bread house enough to use it more than once:

For this card I have used the gingerbread house image from Robyn


Traditional Christmas papers by Paper Cellar, the date is from We R Memory Keepers, both Candy Cane & Star Dust Stickles with Diamond Dust so yes it's very touchy feely :) so there you go not a lot of products but it doesn't look so bad does it? Thank you for looking. 


I have entered the following challenges:
http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/ - Traditional colours (photo inspiration)