Category: animals

  • Leap Year

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge poem for this time is chosen by me. This year is a leap year, so at the end of this month we get an extra day. “Leap years are years where an extra day is added to the end of the shortest month, February. This so-called intercalary day, February…

  • Laughter is the best medicine!

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    Jane Shaw
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    Laughter is the best medicine, it is thought this quote originally came from the Bible, Proverbs 17 – 22. Many others have said similar things. Anyway I digress. The Outlawz challenge for Oct 29th is the rhyme/song Kookaburra. Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,Merry merry king of the bush is he.Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,Gay…

  • Memories

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    It is ironic that the last few months I have been plagued by memories and feelings of getting old and life passing me by. For my September Outlawz challenge I had chosen the song Memory from Cats and had chosen an image from the sponsor SBLeigh. At first I wasn’t sure how to put them together, except for…

  • Bedtime

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    The current Sunday Song & Rhyme challenge is set by me and I chose the rhyme Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson. I liked this rhyme as a child and I am sure that I stitched it onto a pillow case. In winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite…

  • Mother’s Hug

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    The new Outlawz Sunday Song & Rhyme is a rhyme called Mother’s HugMother’s Hug Every baby, bird and bee,Every squirrel in the tree,Every butterfly and bug,Loves to feel their mother’s hug. Today, Sunday 14th May is Mother’s day in most of the world, Mother’s Day is March in the UK For the challenge we had…

  • Hedgehogs

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    As I am designing things for a local hedgehog rescue I had to join in the Outlawz Progressive challenge using an image called Hedgie from Anne’s Art. Sadly I didn’t have a lot of time, so produced this very quick card by colouring the image with coloured pencils and mounting on camouflage Hunkydory card and…

  • Love Birds

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    Created for Outlawz March progressive challenge. The image we had to use is a digital stamp called Love Birds from Sheep Ski Designs, I discovered they are based in Leeds. I left the image largely uncoloured then cut it with Creative Expressions Papercuts Entwined heart die, I used card with flowers and leaves for outer…

  • Holidays for 2023

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    Jane Shaw
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    These are the main bank holidays and celebration days for UK in 2023, occasions you may want a card or gift for. Source https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=9 on the site you can view holidays for other countries and religions. 1 Jan New Year’s Day2 Jan ‘New Year’s Day’ observed3 Jan 2nd January (substitute day) (Scotland)5 Jan Twelfth Night…

  • Can’t be done

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    Jane Shaw
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    For the last few weeks I have been trying to be more productive and not sit around feeling sorry for myself and a June challenge encouraged me to do a bit of crafting each day and record my results in my blogs 52 weeks to 52, this week is only week 4. Sadly this has…

  • How can I feel I am making progress.

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    Jane Shaw
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    How can I feel I am making progress? Instead of feeling that I am stuck in time and missing out on things and the world moves on without me. I see my daughter growing up and becoming independent and learning so much, she has taken a GCSE this year and has full GCSE’s next year…