Flower Arranging Course

I'm doing a 5 week free Flower Arranging Course with Rhiannon at our local adult education centre. It's in addition to the Italian Cooking Course Andy and I do with Giovanni at the same place.

I've never been any good at flower arranging so thought a free course was the ideal way to start. It's concentrating on using recycled and alternative methods of securing flowers so a is a bit different. Last week we used a shoe as a holder which worked well.




This week was tin cans which we used in 3 ways. I wasn't overly keen on the stick one (although I think it might have looked better with smaller twigs rather than the thicker bits I found.











The simpler ones with coloured or corrugated card wrapped round the tin worked a bit better.




I think I was a bit tired and lacking in inspiration this week cos I prefer the shoe from last week.





We need to find a teapot and teacup and saucer for next week so watch this space!

Now I really must stop blogging and go and tackle the kitchen.

Finally some Crafty Things

Here at last are some crafty things I made. This is actually why I set this blog up, but it was such a good way of sharing our fun on Honeymoon.

For Christmas I decided to make calendars for Mum and Dad, Linda and Dave, Gran, and Nan as a way of giving them some of the wedding photos. For Gran and Nan particularly they've got everything they need so something is personal is far nice.

I used a pad of Papermania paper I had lurking around, Anitas Calendar blocks and the faithful Bind-it-All. Gran's and Nan's had silver '2011' outline stickers on the front too.

I didn't make them overly complicated, and I'm not sure the colour combinations work in all of them (my printer was printing slightly funny colours which didn't help), but everyone was pleased with them.

This is the one I did for Mum and Dad. I personalised each of them so they had the right side of the family on them so this one is mainly my family.

What do you think?
I'm sure there must be a way to put the photos next to each other but it's escaping me at the moment!

I'm hopefully getting my craft Mojo back - I actually came up ideas for a few scrapbook pages so hopefully I'll get them made at the Newton Crop on Sunday.

5th December - Singapore to Home

 To very belatedly finish the story of our honeymoon we docked in Singapore on my birthday - 5th December and had a lovely day touring the sights including the National Orchid Garden, China Town,

Raffles

and the Merlion and new hotels and infinity pool at Marina Sands Resort. We didn't go in obviously - faaaaaarrrrrr to expensive and open to guests only - but it was an amazing sight to see - yes it really does look like a cruise ship on top of those sky scrappers!

We finished the day at the Changi Airport which is an attraction in itself. It wasn't totally uneventful with being told our flight didn't exist, and then being delayed to add to having Andy's case go missing, but it all worked out well in the end.

I had the strangest birthday treat - a Fish Spa! You put your feet into pools of water and little sucker fish come and feed off your feet! It tickles like crazy for a while but was actually very relaxing and my feet were sooooo soft afterwards.

All in all it was an amazing honeymoon - definitely a trip of a lifetime.