Dementia UK November Knitting Challenge (Part 1)

Hello Everyone - I hope you are all okay and if not I wish you are feeling more yourself soon.

This is a bit of a personal one for me and like a lot you also...

In mid October I kept seeing the ads on social media for the November Knitting Fundraising Challenge with Dementia UK and then I was tagged to the same advert by a friend. 

After a long think and finding the right pattern out I decided to signed up to do the fundraiser and knitting challenge with dementia UK.  It's been awhile since I have done any knitting but thought this would be a great way to get back into doing so. 

I was going to post this on the 1st of the month but I couldn't find my knitting needles. So I've treated myself to my very own set not the hand me downs that I also have and can not find at the moment. 

https://amzn.eu/d/aMMUsPx  I'm not getting any commission from the link you see for the needles. 

I'm also waiting for my fundraising pack too. So when I get that I'll post a snap on my social media. 

So why you ask...... Well this my personal experience.

My immediate family had to witness an elderly cousin of ours, called Beryl, completely forget who we were. I, myself had the experience first hand more times than the rest. I will never forget that day when our Beryl came into my place of work came to me for help and then I ended up serving her. My cousin Beryl, told me she had no clue who I was and she ended up getting really upset because she couldn't remember who I was. I ended up saying sorry and that I may of mistaken her for someone else. This actually left me quite upset too. My mum later discovered our Beryl had Dementia. Beryl is sadly now no longer with us. 

A dear friend of mine (and my family), that has been a major part of my life has Frontotemporal Dementia. Something I had never heard off till she told us years ago. I have so many happy and wonderful memories of her. She has helped shaped who I am today. Recently I've been told she also no longer recognise people she knows. Angel hugs my love... 

I'm also doing this for all my friends and the extended family who have or had love ones who have or had this horrid disease. 

What am I knitting... 

I'm knitting an Knitting By Post Pattern, Raspberry and Moose - I am also not getting any commission when you click on the link. 

Here is My Just Giving Page, Please if you are able to donate this will be very much  appreciated by Dementia UK and myself. Any donates will help Dementia UK but will also motivated me to complete the pattern.

My Social Media

FB: Little Miss Crafting Bee

IG:  Little Miss Crafting Bee

Wish me luck and please if you can donate whatever you can to this great cause. 

Lastly a link to Dementia UK

Why I have been absent

Hello Everyone - I hope you all are well and keeping safe.

I know it has been a long while since I have written or posted anything or has often has I use too. 

Why or what has happened, last year I witness a traumatic event when a immediately family member got seriously ill and was took into hospital. I've never been apart for long periods of time from this family member before. I thank God every day that this family member is still with us..

I've been trying to recover from what I had witness. I went thorough what felt like hell at times, these past 13 months and I believe I am nearly past the worse of it.  I have always been a carer for this family member, but since June last year this has gone up a notch or too.

In my darkest hours of this time I re found my faith and I feel more calmer in my life and compete.  I have and I guess I am also still, finding my way and learning the new me. While mourning the old ways of life. 

So now you know why I haven't been about much... 

Thank you for stopping by and Thank you for you're loyalty if you are a returning follower. 

Until next time stay safe.

Blessings 

Em aka Busybee 

January Treats!

Hello Everyone  - Long time no see, I hope you all had a peaceful holiday and so far new year as been kind to you. I also hope you are well and if not I wish you a speedy recovery. 

I have been a wee bit naughty and bought a few new bits and yes I even got two boxes of Hunkydory Christmas Boxes. I'm a sucker for all things Christmas, pictures below are of what was in the two boxes.

Towards the end of 2022 I knew I wanted to do a order of some new essentials, I kept looking and adding to my online basket. At times I wasn't sure if I was going to do a order and, then on the 2nd of January 2023 I decided too. I paid for next day delivery, something I rarely do.. 

Down below is a list of what I ordered and below that again is the pictures.

1: For the love of stamp - Paw some pups

2: For the love of stamp - Paw fect pups 

3: Free gift - Puppy Love

4: StazOn Ink Pad - Jet Black 

5: StazOn Ink Pad - Gothic Purple

6: For the love of stamp - cosmic cat

7: A3 cutting mat ( been wanting to upgrade my 12x12 mat for a while now)

8: A3 Silicone Mega craft mat

9: Premier Craft Tools - stamping press and extras (been wanting one for a while now)

10: Woodware stamp - Freddie Fox

11: Woodware stamp  - potted poinsettias 

12: Watering can die.

Has you can see above are the essentials, and below is what I would say is not so essential. But I am planning to do mix media, I also fell in love with a few stamps. Plus I wasn't going to say no to the free gift was I. In the past I've missed out and have regretted so.

I also did a small order with The Works, a few Christmas/ New Year gifts and some must haves. The Christmas/New Year gifts I can not share as well I've not sent them yet.  What I can share is the two 8x8 scrapbooks and air dry clay. 

The air dry clay I have never used, but have wanted to.

Over the course of the year and possibly beyond I will use January Treats as a tag. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my latest post. 

Until next time

Blessings 

Em aka Busybee 

Second Quarter

Hello All - it has been a while since my last post. I believe that was back in February/March time.

What have I been upto? Well in April I was busy trying to finish the journalling in my December Daily. Also it was my one of my aunts birthday.

By this time I wasn't really in the mood to do any card making. But luckily I have a stash of cards made up already just in case anything like this happens.

My crafting mojo hadn't completely gone. I was and still are enjoying making notebooks. I decided to make one for her in her favourite colours Pink and rose gold, plus she love art deco.
Below is what I made her.

In May I have a few birthdays, the first one is in the first week of the month. I made him a F1 theme card.

The next four I made was for family.  The pink card below is for my another aunt who's birthday is on the 1st of June and the blue one is for her husband my uncle..

The giraffes below was made for my Godmother.

The card below was for a family friend he's more like family. 

I honestly can not take the credit for the card base design that is Sam from mixed up crafts..

Thank you for read my post.

Stay safe

Blessing to you all

BusyBee, x 

Being Swamped

Oh no I was meant to post this on the 19th of February, better late than never..

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I know in the past I have written about how I need to destash. Well I have literally got to the point where I need to destash. 

Since last year I have been shopping a lot online (like alot of us) for craft and planner stuff. I have been trying to work out why? 

I think I may know why - when I find I'm stressed out or feeling low, depressed. I shop when I'm depressed mainly. 

So I have decided to beat this addiction and beat the depression.. 

How am I doing to do this? 

Well I'm going to do and have started. Craft my way through my stash, if I come across anything I don't like or want anymore. I'll recycle it or see if any my crafty friends would like it. 

So today is 19th of February 2021 and my last order arrived. It was from hobbycraft and all was in my order was this.. 

Over the coming weeks I will post how I am getting on. 

Please wish me luck.

Until next time, stay Safe 

Busybee 

New Sizzix Charity Dies

A few weeks ago I had a email from Sizzix, to say about they have new releases on their website.. 

I fought with myself to not have a look, and then I got a email about the new charity dies #donatetomake..

Oh my days I could not resist them. I have been also trying to organise a lockdown swap with a group of crafty friends. Another good reason to order them. Right?

So last week I ordered the two special charity dies and on Tuesday they arrived.. 

Also what comes they them is a Thank you card, I somehow received two of them. 

This is what the Thank you card says. 

So here in the UK the Sizzix charity dies are £10 each. £6 from the sale of each of the two dies will be spilt equally between two charities and they are, Action Against Hunger and  Trussell Trust . I'm thinking each country may have different charity's. I please don't hold me to it either. 

I will be sharing what I do with these dies very soon. Please watch this space. 

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I am back!

Hello Everyone!

So sorry I have not posted anything in the last 12 months.

My ipad died in September of last year 2019 and my phone was slowly packing up also. 

I now still do not have a new ipad or laptop... But I do have a new phone, so hopefully I will be posting as and when. I need to get my blogging  mojo back. 

Xbox One Controller Birthday Card and others

In January there was a five birthday's and three of them were male. The first one was on the 8th, he loves video games - I knew he has a Xbox One. I decided to make him the card above. I did not use a die for the controller, instead I drawer and hand cut all the parts of the Xbox controller....

By the way there is a theme going on...

The day after was the next birthday and I totally missed it... I hope he can forgive me?

Next two birthdays was around the 11th and the 15th the first one was for a neighbour and the second one was for a friends teenage daughter. Both cards are below

Last but not lease my brother. He is also a gamer, loves video games, loves his Xbox One and he also loves travelling too. I just knew I had to make him a travel theme controller.

He also loves our dog. We have a Welsh Cardigan Corgi so I could not resist to put a corgi on the card too.


After that I had a few days free - well I thought I did. Then I learnt a friend was leaving were I work.   I just knew could not let him go without giving him a Good Luck card, could I now.  I was thinking black cat (because to me black cats are lucky) and clover's / shamrock. This is what I came up with.

I think it is nearly the same concept of card I did my brother a while back.. Oops, oh well I like it tho, I hope he does too.

I am going to leave you now until next time...

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First of all I like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Secondly I would like to say sorry for the lack of post last year. It was partly to do with a family situation, and also the fact I had trouble with the tablet I use to write this on...

Hopefully I have sorted the problem out, so full steam ahead

New Friend

Hello all -  I'm still alive.....

If you are wondering where I have been. Well the answer is, I had trouble with my newish iPad (He was new to me anyhow ). I learnt I could write posts easy on the iPad. But couldn't upload photos, maybe my brother new of a way but didn't want to share and I couldn't go back to my old nexus7 as it was slowly dying. (Its still dying)


Until the other day when my Godmother said I could have her kindle fire.  Has she was upgrading to the latest version.  At first I was a little unsure about it, as I always thought the kindle is just for books. How wrong am I?


Today my Godmother pop around for coffee and a chat with my mum, she also dropped off the kindle.


I've decided from now on this is what I will be using from now on to blog...


See you soon 

Happy New Year

Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year!

See you in the New Year.

Small Easter Haul

Today I decided to go into town do a bit of retail therapy. I roughly knew what I wanted to get, some foam and cardstock, plus some other bits too..

Before you start to wonder where I am going to put it all too. I honestly can say I have projects for most of this. Yes there is one or two things I'm not sure about what I'm going to do with. But I do know I will find projects at some point to use them up.

So this is what I got!

The first shop I stopped off at was The Works.

The paper grass I got for an Easter project and the foam eggs are actually for a Mother's Day project

The next shop i went to was Poundland. Only got a few bits.

Next and last stop before home was wilkos.

In the coming weeks I'll hopefully be using up what I got, and if I do I will be using the tag 'easter haul - 2017... 

Dino Christmas!

I believe it is safe for me to share this now.

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I'm writing this in November, but I won't be sharing this till about two days after Christmas day... Just playing! save.

Today is the 13th of November and I decided to make my dino nutty friend. Her Christmas card and sort out what I'm going to send.

This is the little card I made.

Isn't he super cute!

About a year ago I made some plain note cards and card holder.. (I guess that is what it is called right?)

I made the above after having the idea of making these up for friends. This is the only one I made and I fell in love with it.. I planned to make more but never got round to it.

 Maybe next year I will only time will tell!

The last thing I sent was this dino pattern and yarn..

I got the kit free from 'Lets Knit magazine' a while ago.

I knew I would never use the pattern..

Please let me know what you think?

Autumn loaded envelope swap

In the middle of October my dino nutty friend and I decided to do a Autumn theme loaded envelope swap.

Either one of us has done one before.
 I've been watching video on YouTube how to make/do the loaded envelope.

Honestly more I look at how to make them, I realise there isn't any rules. Okay mainly the loaded envelope is made from gift/treat bags. But really you can make them from gift bags to envelopes you make it how you want it! Anyway it's what I have seen online..

So here is my Autumn loaded envelope.
(My first one)

Here's how the front looks. 

Here is some of the goodies I have sent.

The leaves came of TheWorks and the pinecone came from Wilkos . The gold yarn I got a few years ago in my local craft shop and the eyelash yarn I got free from a magazine. The ombre 

effect twine is from Lawn Fawn, I bought it from Seven Hill crafts 

I used my new xcut die the wreath to get this autumn feeling wreath.

The card above is full of goodies. I used my new washi tape from bon bon kawaii. I made the autumn/Halloween embellishment after being inspired by Yenny which you can find her on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook storytaleshop .

I love these pumpkins, I got from Poundland. 

I just knew I had to send one of these.

In the picture above is some random die cuts, washi tapes and some pinwheels I have made. The envelope with the rosette on are diecut pieces to make rosettes or banners.

Last but not lease leaf stickers and autumn/woodland animals washi tapes are all from Bon Bons Kawaii .

If you would like to see better pictures of the washi tapes and stickers above please hop over to my Instagram @busybeecraftz link is at the top of the page.

Hopefully the next post will be the one my friend sends..

Birthday Flipbook

The first week of October is one of my friend's birthday.. Last year I sent her my first attempt of a pocket letter, which I shouldn't confess wasn't great..

This year I wanted to send her a flipbook.

 Which is all the craze at the moment in the world of crafting, snail mail.. I should confess I have been practising..

My friend loves the colour of turquoise / blue

 and dinos. 

The first thing I made was her birthday card...

I love how this turned out, so flaming cute!

Then I made a dinosaur bookmark and the flipbook.

This is how it turn out.

The front page had a pocket for the birthday card I sent and a tag flap housing the Dino paper clip..

                           

Inside on the first page I was another pocket, with paper I used to make the Flipbook and some Halloween embellishments I made inspired by Yenny @storytaleshop on Instagram..

The little envelopes on the pockets had some washi tape samples

Above is some of the embellishments I made , these are the ones I sent.

Middle page I sent some different colour beads. The next page I put some happy Dino stickers on and attached a tag flap with what I'm up to on!

Below are the goodies I sent her

Last year I sent her some dino stamped pictures and kept some for myself. But I never used them so I popped them into the Flipbook too. With some flowers I diecutted myself

Above is some of the other goodies I sent, one side had gems and the other side I sent some brown and gold Dino stickers.. I got those years ago at the Dorchester Poundland..

You can get a better look on my YouTube channel.

Please let me know what you think?

Friday Haul

So today was my day off and I had to go and do the food shop.  The first stop was to my local Morrison's store and then on to Sainsburys. 

I find every time I go to Sainsburys I can never leave with out getting some sort of craft or stationary items.

So this is what I got from Sainsburys...

First item is A5 neon card the pack contains 10 sheets...

Second item is A4 Coloured card this pack also contains 10 sheets

Last item is oh my goodness I love this item A4 glitter card contains 10 sheets... I'm going to use these to finish making Christmas cards..

After Sainsburys I went home, put the shopping away and then I had a little rest. 

Before I went back out this time into town.  

In town I went to 'The Work's', Whsmiths, Tkmaxx, Poundland and wilkos...

This is what I got and where..

I found these large pink and purple paperclips at Whsmiths.. 99p each pack instead off 3.99

Then I went into 'The Works' and got a few bits and pieces. Actually I should have shares in the company..

After 'The Work's' I went into Tkmaxx I didn't get anythink there, I also went into both the Poundland stores in my town.  I got a few bits that I can't show due to Christmas.

Last stop was wilkos I went to get some gloss paint and while I was there I had a look at the Halloween section I want to get some black cat ears, for if I have to dress up for work. By the way I do not celebrate Halloween...

The only things I got was Dino's and more glitter card! 

After wilkos I came home..