Sunday 26 August 2012

Catch Up

 

I am struggling to find any time to write these blog posts, which is very odd as I do not go out to work ,I must have time management issues.

Any way since my last blog post we have had a wedding,my youngest son who's stag party I mentioned last time has married, and they made  a great couple

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we almost had a gate crasher

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I had made the bridal posy the evening before  and discovered this uninvited guest in the morning.

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And little Miss X wanted to be in the photo with her Aunty and Uncle.

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After the ceremony the family members came to our house for snacks before the afternoon/evening reception.

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this was taken early on before the hall was packed with over 100 guests.

 

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Everyone was asked to pose with a giant cut out of the happy couple,and post a photo and comments in the guest book.

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I took very few photos, but the reception was great and everyone had a wonderful time ,the evening ended with a live band.

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It was  almost three years to the day that my eldest son was married at the same registry office

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Last saturday

Before the ceremony as we were waiting to go in we were amused to see a local man taking his cats for a walk, no leads they just followed him and when he sat down outside the registry office  the cats stopped and settled down ,just like dogs would do.

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The wedding date clashed with the Ruby wedding  celebrations of my great friends ,hard to believe 40 years have passed since this photo was take of me as their bridesmaid.

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to mark the occasion I made a little tag book for them which could either be used for guests to sign or perhaps as a photo album.

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I also created more pages for the European  journal swap

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and I received pages from sandy in the monthly journal page swap.

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We had a few days dry so the fields were able to be cut

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And I managed to make this creation for the craft section of the local flower show.

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And guess what

I won Best in Show  and Best exhibit by a parish resident. I must admit I was a  little shocked , that my crazy Sizzix creation  beat all the other traditional craft items.

For the Best In show it was either me or

These beauties

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4 giant onions.

I am sure the person who grew them probably felt cheated that he was beaten by a collection of old fish tins.

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I have been asked to make a tutorial and I promise I will ,but I will not be able to do it for a couple of weeks.

6 comments:

  1. What a lovely looking wedding.xxxlove all those imagesxxlynda

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  2. great photos and so pleased you won with all those marvellous trophies..have a good week

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  3. Wow that fishtin floral bouquet is amazing! (The wedding pics are lovely too)No wonder you have not posted - you've been a busy woman!

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  4. WOW!!! How do you ever have time to blog. You are one very busy lady. Great craft for the flower show. It looks very complicated.
    Have a great day, Connie :)

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  5. Congratulations Mary on your son getting married! He is very handsome and his new bride is gorgeous. I wish them a beautiful, happy life together.
    You looked lovely as well, beautiful photos. I hope you had a lot of fun, you deserve a grand celebration.

    That tin flower arrangement is just incredible too. I don't know how you do it either. So much art goodness going on with you as well as weddings, granddaughter watching, art swaps. You are amazing.

    Hope you are having a nice end of summer.
    Take care,
    Denise

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  6. Congratulations on Best in Show AND the wedding! How wonderful! I've had fun sharing the photos of your winning arrangement. It's truly lovely! Thank you so much for all of the wonderful pictures and, as always, the inspiration. You rock! xox - Linda

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