Swanning around with my feathery friend

Down at the ponds I regularly visit the swan pair. I have shown them in some of my previous posts but recently I noticed that Mrs Swan appears to have flown away again. I'm not worried as she has come and gone in the past and even appeared with their 2 nearly fully grown cygnets last year.

What I have noticed is how friendly he has become. Now I say he but of course who am I to know which one has gone on holiday? For the purposes of this post I shall call him a he 😄

He has become quite tame and when you call to him he comes over.

I was also most surprised to hear that he makes a sort of low honking sound....I always thought that swans were mute? He most certainly isn't.

 Far from the old wives' tale about them flapping wings and breaking arms ( have you ever honestly known anyone who that has happened to?)

 he is really friendly.

"Good morning Jane" (or at least  I think he said that to me) "would you like me to pose for some photos."

He even showed me the drops of water on his gorgeous feathers

He took a bow

 and then off he sailed again

I thought his gorgeous feathers deserved to feature on my challenge card...a CAS Valentine's card I have made for Dotty's tearooms, which has sold well. The image is a digi from the Graphic Fairy. The stamped sentiment is an old Simon's Says stamp. The die cuts are Memory Box and Whimsy.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Noor have a heart

Memory Box It's all about love;clean and simple the stitched frame and heart are both MB

Simon Says Stamp Monday young at heart

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday cute

Craft Heaven 3/3 love is all around

                             Uniko anything goes I have also gone for the optional love twist.
                                                        

Paper creator love is in the air  

Creative Moments anything goes

Deep Ocean hearts

 Ribbon Girl 1/3 any card

Happy Little stampers anything goes with a die

Allsorts 1/3 hearts and/or flowers

Pile it On 1/3 Hearts on fire

Tomorrow is the Day of Love and yes I am a soppy romantic, I make no apologies for it. I am meeting my Hb when he finishes work, for a meal and we will be also celebrating 37 years of the day we got engaged. Gosh where did those years go...I'm still only 20 something aren't I?  Also in the context of celebrations I thought you would all like to know that my dear friend Karen's Mum is making a slow but steady improvement. She defied all the predictions at the hospital and hung on to life. Such wonderful news. Karen and I would like to thank for you all the lovely good wishes you left on my post last week.

Enjoy the new week ahead, the sunshine is back here this morning after such a cold, dreary weekend's weather. I'm taking some more cards down to Dotty's later and I will say hello to Mr Swan as I pass.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all you kind, supportive comments.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

More Gelli plate fun

Hi I'm only here with a couple of sneak peeks today as I am making my debut over at the Country View Craft shop projects blog today. I made some ATCs using some more of my fun Gelli plate prints.

You can see them in full here

It would be lovely if you can pop on over and cheer me on 😉

If you missed my post showing how I used my Gelli plate to make the background prints do have a look at this post here

And just to give you a smile this morning.....my gorgeous daffs are waving to you from their pot.

I'm heading down to Colchester in the morning to a card making workshop...with none other that Jo Firth-Young  creator of the JOFY  PaperArtsy stamps...very exciting.

Back soon, 

Bye for now,

 Jane x

Wonky veg

Yes you read the title correctly and I just had to share what I found in the supermarket on Tuesday.

How hilarious is this packet.

 Yes wonky veg. I was just looking for a packet of onions and picked them up.

I looked and looked

trying to find a wonky onion....and there isn't one in there. The only "problem" with the onions is that they are a bit on the small side. Mad isn't it. Well I know how to solve that....just use two instead of one. The packet weighed the same 1kg and were half the price of my usual packet. I had no hesitation buying them  and feeling smug with my savings  I decided to treat myself this pretty little pot of my favourite Tete a Tete daffodils.  

 Looking at the bulbs they looked just like my wonky onions...

 better make sure that I don't accidental eat them......LOL!

The sun was streaming in as I took these photos....a real whiff of spring.

and my other pot of daffs is still in flower...I have had 12 flowers in 2 flushes from this little pot...such a bargain.

My card today was inspired by thoughts of spring....it's one I have made for Dotty's

Lots of spring coloured snippets of inky card used for my die cuts...topped off with a VI stamped butterfly and one of my oldest and favourite sentiment stamps...it's even wooden!

 Nothing wonky here though 😌 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #267/8 everything on my card is a snippet!

Butterfly challenge P for paper piercing and/or the colour fern I have chosen just the colour fern.

Cute card Thursday 1/3 Lace or frills I have gone for frills...lots on my card

Penny Black and more 1/3 favourite stamp This thinking of you stamp is one of my favourite sentiment stamps but I have another you can see here too...my Visible Image butterfly.

Creative Moments anything goes

Happy Little stampers anything goes with dies

So remember to look out for these wonky veg....they need a good home and with the money you save  you can put it towards buying some potted  bulbs and watch them bloom. Like my wonky onions they will be beautiful on the inside. 

Thanks for visiting me today and I would like to warmly welcome my 2 newest followers. It's lovely that you have joined my creative journey here. Enjoy the ride! Thanks everyone for all your sweet comments always. Sadly the weather today has turned freezing again...brrr...keep snug.

I am back at 6.30am tomorrow morning as I am sharing some sneak peeks of my debut project for the Country View Crafts shop blog...yes Susan has let me loose over there...beware 😉

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x