Nursing a cold!

Well I have been full of a fluey cold since Thursday so haven't felt up to doing much - I even missed church this morning as my nose and throat were so bad that I didn't think that it would be fair to everyone else especially as half the congregation are over 70.  The upside of this was that I had a lovely long time to play with Alex today so we set out to make a habitat for his dinosaurs by decorating the inside of a box.

Here is the completed box with the dinosaurs inside...not a bad effort for a nearly 5 year old (with a little help from Mum). More detail may be added later when more of the paint has dried - patience not being Alex's strong point!

He also decided he wanted to make a pattern from glitter glue and felt-tip pens. I just love the look of concentration on his face!  We did venture out to an indoor playarea, and while my head did not like it one bit, Alex had a great time running, climbing, sliding and generally letting off steam!

Crafting wise it has been a successful few days, once I got past the lack of Mojo caused by a bad headcold!  It is Cazzy's turn to set the challenge over at Quirky Crafts and she has chosen a Quirky Love Story with a recipe (Valentines/love with ribbon and a dangling charm). We have a sponsor, Robyn's fetish, who provided the DT with some fun Digital images. Mine was the very cute 'Bearly Luv' and I decided to decorate a white chocolate bar for Tim.  I first stamped lots of different hearts (I have a set of clear hearts, not sure where from though, sorry) in distress ink (fired brick) onto parchment patterned paper, then wrapped the ribbon round, attached the charm with jump rings to make it dangle, and finished it off with the Bearly Luv image coloured in promarker pens. I am also entering this into PTW 'Anything goes with a heart', Simon says stamp 'love is in the air', Delightful challenges 'love' and Delicious Doodles 'All loved up',

I also made Tim's valentines card this week using Crafty Individuals Heart stamp (gold embossed) and script stamp (in tea bag distress ink) and inkadinkado swirl stamps (in fired brick distress ink), stamped onto cream card, then mounted onto gold and then finally red card, and finished off with gems. I am entering this into Try it on Tuesday 'Cards for a true love', Tuesday Throwdown 'Be my valentine', Crafty Creations 'Swirly Whirly', Stampavie 'love', The Pixie Cottage 'red', DYSU 'love', Paperplay 'love letters' and Fussy & Fancy 'With all my heart'.

I couldn't let a weekend go by without joining in with Less is More!  This challenge was one layer card with Stripes.  What a challenge!!! I don't have anything remotely stripey so  I tried all sorts of things that looked awful and ended up in the bin before coming up with this. I masked the strip across the middle and used shabby shutters distress ink with cut and dry foam to colour it in relatively evenly.  I then used the edge of the distress ink pad to make my stripes before stamping the Lavinia Poppy stamp and the Hero arts bird stamp and colouring them with promarker pens. I hope that this is striped enough to count! I am also entering this into Fluorishes Timeless Tuesday 'fly away with me', Pixie Dust '2 or more images', Sew many challenges 'Birthday'.  That's all from me for me now. Hopefully we will be a lurgy free household soon!  Have a great week everyone.
Love,
Caro
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