Christmas Breakup

Hi ladies, once again we had a lovely day for our Christmas breakup. Lots of yummy food (and no caramel!!!) and laughter, chatting and crafting.
Thank you for your company over the last year. Dilys and I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you in the New Year. Dates will be put up shortly, but it is the 3rd Sunday in the month, except maybe for December.
Thank you Shandell for the photos (pinched them of Facebook).

See you next year
Dilys & Linda

Simply Crafty 15th November 2015

Hi ladies, just a reminder that Simply Crafty is on the 15th November, 2015.
We look forward to seeing you there if you can make it. Can you let us know who is coming and who is not so that we can organise which room to book. Thank you, looking forward to seeing you.
Cheers,
Linda and Dilys

October Retreat

Well, we had another great time at the October retreat, there were 18 of us who enjoyed a great weekend, plenty to eat and drink (as per usual), lots of laughter and of course, plenty of scrapbooking, art journaling and more. It really is a wonderful way of getting together and having a “girls” weekend away doing what we all love to do.
Thank you for Kerrie for organising the weekend.
Bring on the next one in March 2016. Kerrie doesn’t have the dates yet, but as soon as we know, we will pass them on.
If you want to see the photos, head over to the Simply Craft Facebook page and there is few photos on there.
Reminder that the next Sunday Simply Crafty is on the 15th November, 2015 and we look forward to seeing you there.
Have a great month,
Linda and Dilys

20 September

Hi ladies, just a reminder Simply Craft is on 20th September, hopefully we will see you there.
The retreat is on 16/17th October and if you would like to go or would like more information, please contact littlemissscrappy@bigpond.com; or kerrieskilton@bigpond.com to find out about costs etc.
Look forward to seeing you on the 20th and/or 16/17th October for a fun filled weekend.

Also my apologies, I didn't upload the photos from Christmas in July as I accidently deleted them (sad face here).


Bye,
Linda and Dilys

Christmas in July -12th

Hi ladies, it's that time of year again and we will be holding our Christmas in July celebration, just bring something yummy for lunch and a secret Santa gift value of about $5. Looking forward to seeing you there. Cheers Linda and Dilys

Sunday 19th

Lovely day today ladies, only a few of us, Dilys, Danielle, Katie and Kylie and Chloe and Grace😊. Had an impromptu lesson of crochet with plastic shopping bags from Danielle and a quickie show and tell on Gellato pens and texture paste from Dilys. Tks for a lovely day ladies, see you next month.

Recipe for texture past

Hi ladies, found a wonderful blog with lots of hints and tips, espectially this one for those that use texture paste on their projects:

Homemade Smooth Texture Paste
1/4 cup Talcum Powder (I used Johnson's Baby Powder, Make it smell good too!!)
1 tablespoon White All purpose School Glue
1 tablespoon White Craft Paint
Some Water

Instructions: Combine talcum powder, glue, white paint with disposable chopsticks (or plastic spoon) in an airtight container, adding water to get it to the consistency you are looking for. You want a nice thick texture much like toothpaste. The mixture will keep perfectly for many months.


Another handy hint for Modge Podge = equal parts of craft glue to water.

Now I haven't tried these, but will have a go maybe on the weekend.

The blog that I found lots of hints and tutorials is http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.ca/, she has lots of lovely "busy" pages and some with instructions.

Hope you find this useful. Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.

Bye,
Linda

Announcing the safe arrival

Hi ladies, just to let you know, Shandell and Craig have had a beautiful baby boy, Clayton Tyler, on the 2nd April, weighing 7lb 2ozs.

Congratulations from all of us to the happy family.

February

Hi ladies, welcome to the new year of Simplycrafty. It was good to see everyone after the Christmas break, thank you all for coming.
We had a lovely day crafting, it's strange to see how we all seem to have diversified to different crafts over the years, from simply scrapbooking we have a whole range of crafts happening now, card making, sewing, project life to name a few oh, mustn't forget Bev and her school preparation😉.
Anyhow, there won't be any Simplycrafty in March, but there is the beautifully relaxing retreat, a great weekend of fun, laughter, eating and scrapping/crafting, and did I say eating and drinking? If you need further info about the retreat, let us know and we can get Kerri to give you the details.
Have a great month. If we don't see you at the retreat, we'll see you in April, hopefully.
Linda & Dilys

Happy New Year

Happy New Year ladies, hope you all had a merry Christmas and we wish you all the best for the New Year.
Please note, the dated for 2015 have been added to blog. If there is any blaringly obvious mistakes, please let us know.
We look forward to seeing you on the 8th February to start the year off with a good "crafty" day.
Please let us know if you will be there so that we can organise the full/half room in advance with the neighbourhood centre.
Thank you ladies for your continued support,
Dilys & Linda