Start of freebie kit "Seashells"

Good morning :)
Well, it is here where I am. Sunny and blue skies , Sunday and I'm actually off work for the weekend. (which only happens once a month )
Yesterday we headed down to the beach for the First Light festival . My Fitbit told me I had walked over 14.000 steps when we got home and I could feel it ! I was actually glad to be back home and sitting down felt like heaven :) Coming off nightshift yesterday morning and only a few hours sleep meant I didn't have the greatest amount of energy. But I sure slept well last night .

As I didn't get anything done in here yesterday , it means today is cleaning /laundry day. I'm glad I woke up early and was able to get a lot already done while it was still cooler outside. Now it's getting warmer and UK houses don't come with air conditioning. All we have are fans to keep us cooler when it gets hot in summer. Mine will surely be on later because I'm menopausal hot stuff anyway :)

I showed a picture of the started Crochet basket in my last post …

...this is what it looks like now. I added a white macramé border at the top.

And Granny's dish cloths are the best :) Small enough to fit into the handbag and work on during my lunch breaks at work.

And this doesn't fit into my handbag anymore. I'm knitting a jumper in pastel colours to go with my new pale lilac jeans. I'm using Paintbox  chunky pots , a variegated yarn. It's great because you get all those colours in one ball and don't need to change colours to get the stripes.

Do you hunt for free patterns like I do? I'm on an app called Readly where you can get all sorts of magazines. Obviously my favourites are all sorts of art and craft mags. Then I take screenshots of the patterns and instructions on my tablet. I also get patterns and ideas from Pinterest and various blogs.If there is no download option taking screenshots works just as well.  
I ended up with numerous folders with pics categorised by Macramé, Knitting, Crochet,Recipes , Painting etc.... Problem: Screenshots were saved as png files and they can use up quite a bit of space.
So what I'm doing now is to create my own little e-books. It's dead simple !
Open Microsoft Word , create a new document , insert pictures (those screenshots) , then save as pdf file. And voila , you have a pdf  e-book with your patterns which takes up a very small amount of space on your computer. If you want to print out instructions just type in which page (s) you want to print. And if I want to take it with me without printing, the files can easily be copied to a tablet or even my phone. You can even create an index for the first page , so you know what is actually in that pdf file/e-book.

OK. I didn't get time for more paintings this time , so I will get straight to the new freebie kit now.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/u1t0agxtg37yykd/sr_seashells1.zip/file

http://www.mediafire.com/file/m7n55miosnuy4hl/sr_seashells3.zip/file

More parts coming and please ignore the "Magickal Scraps " logo on the previews. That used to be my old store and doesn't exist anymore. 

Have a nice Sunday and stay crafty 

Hugs Snowy 

Last Sweet Violets part

Good morning ...
on this sunny lovely Sunday :)
We had a spell of rainy days and strong winds here , but today it's nice before the rain returns tomorrow for 3 more days. At least that  is what the weather forecast tells me today. We shall see whether they are correct.
I'm not too bothered about it because I will be starting my nightshifts tomorrow. So I will be asleep during the days anyway, and by the time my shifts are done and I'm off for a few the weather should be nice again :)
Hopefully it will be! I need to do some work in my little garden corner. But the rain is certainly helping and doing those plants good. I don't need to water them every day and they are thriving. So do the weeds though :)

I have decorated my hallway and love the new wallpaper ! The gold toned leaves really pop out from the charcoal grey background. And due to the white furniture it's not looking too dark.
This was a real bargain. Each roll used to be £ 15.00, but I was lucky and got them in the sale for just £ 1.00 a piece.
Apart from doorframes , bannisters at the stairs and the stairs themselves, my little home is done for a few years. I will tackle those in July when I have leave coming up.

I made this macramé hanging for one of the walls in my brand-new hallway. The colour theme is grey, green and gold (added white for the furniture, skirting boards, bannister, doorframes) and I have green and gold leaf decoration around. So this moss green, grey and white macramé fits right in with the colour scheme.

As an added useful deco item I am also crocheting a storage basket. This is still work in progress, as you can see. I will post another pic of the finished basket when it's done.

Yesterday I also took the time to work on a loose floral watercolour challenge.
This is "Sweet peas"

 "Yarrow"

and "Greater quacking Grass"
My plan is to make a nice collection of botanical loose paintings , scan and enhance them digitally , and make them into png files for my scrap kits.

Right.... freebie time. Here is the last part of "Sweet Violets"

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tr09e3gtrhkhozl/sr_sweetviolets5.zip/file

For the next freebie kit I have decided to put up "Seashells"
Half of this used to be a freebie in my store years ago , the other half was a store kit to buy.
Well, I gave the lot a little make-over and decided to make it the next freebie kit. So if you downloaded this as freebie years ago , you will now get the added store part free as well. For those who missed it back then , it will be a whole new kit. It never had a complete preview either as it was published in parts. So now I made a kit preview as well.

So this is starting next post ….
until then ...
...as always , stay creative :)

Hugs Snowy