BLOG CANDY WINNERS AND ATC's

HELLO EVERYONE,

Well here we are with our winner's of the fabulous blog candy kindly donated by a very generous lady, Joan.... see her link under our blog candy sponsors..and why not check out some more of her lovely stamps.

I asked my DGS Marley to do the honours by pulling the names out of the hat......well my mixing bowl actually...... a bargain buy from a charity shop, all of £2 .....can you believe it :)

That chef is me...lol.

And the first out of the bowl is the winner of that FAB plate of Hermines stamps.... lucky you.

Our second name out is .... the winner of 3 twinchie stamps

And our 3rd winner also gets 3 twinchie stamps and she is ......all the way from Australia .....

Very well done to all 3.

Please send me your snail addy and I will pass it on to Joan she will send out your prizes ....ENJOY and if you want to show us something you create then email me a pic.

And as it's New Year I will send everyone else an ATC for taking part and if I don't already have your snail mail I will contact you. x

Please excuse the unpainted walls but my builder still hasn't come back to put a lintel in and then finish plastering and so I cant paint the kitchen. ... 5months of excuses...lol.

Some more of our KEY challenge ATC's

Thank you Chris love that grungy look x

Thank you to Karen, you really must see these in real life, love those words. x

Thank you Paula very girly and blingy all the way from Brunei x Paula has just set herself a blog up you can find her on the right...please pop over and make her welcome she has been doing our ATC challenges for more than a year now.

Pauls has also recruited her friend Tina also living in Brunei...welcome Tina we will meet and see her winter ATC's

I am sure there was something else I was gona tell ya BUT I cannot remember what it was...lol...the pills are not working.... Ah! I am back... I have remembered.... We ladies have our very 1st MALE stripper..oooops! sorry I mean SWAPPER..he is Nigel and you can find him over HERE.

Think thats it for now will be back again soon with some more KEY ATC's.

Don't forget our monthly challenge this month it's ZETTIOLOGY all details if you wish to join in are in the post below.

Happy Friday.

love Chriss x

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S

Wishing you all a Wonderful Christmas.

Q. What do vampires put on their Christmas turkey?

A. Grave-y.

Q. What did the ghost say to Santa Claus?

A. I'll have a boo Christmas without you.

Q. What do you call a snowman party?

A. A Snowball!

Q. What did the Gingerbread Man put on his bed?

A. A cookie sheet!

Q. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a shark?

A. Frost bite!

A native Mexican plant, poinsettias were named after Joel R. Poinsett, U.S. ambassador to Mexico who brought the plant to Americain1828.

Poinsettias were likely used by Mexican Franciscans in their 17th century Christmas celebrations.

One legend has it that a young Mexican boy, on his way to visit the village Nativity scene, realized he had no gift for the Christ child.

He gathered pretty green branches from along the road and brought them to the church. Though the other children mocked him, when the leaves were laid at the manger, a beautiful star-shaped flower appeared on each branch.

The bright red petals, often mistaken for flowers, are actually the upper leaves of the plant.

We learn something new every day

Interesting Christmas Card Facts from Woodlands junior school....

In 1846 1000 cards, with the same design as the first Christmas cards, were sold to the public at 1 shilling each by Felix Summerly's Treasure House in Bond street.

Postmen in Victorian England were popularly called "robins" because their uniforms were red.
Victorian Christmas cards often showed a robin delivering Christmas mail.

In the nineteenth century, the British Post Office used to deliver cards on Christmas morning.
The first Christmas stamp was released in Canada in 1898.

Want more interesting Christmas facts then please do visit HERE Woodlands junior school where I am sure you will learn something new....

for instance I didn't know we had a 'Stirup Sunday' at least I didn't know it had a name.... do you know what this tradition is?

With 2 days to go and maybe you are running around like a headless chicken and the kids are bored... now thats a surprise...lol.... why not send them to visit this link there is so much to do...

dress a snowman

dress a tree and more

and my fave for the girls dress a dolls house

http://www.allthingschristmas.com/web/kidzone/games/dollhouse/decorate.html

Hope that you all have a great day ....

I will be back to show you the very last in the Halloween ATC's and the start of the Key ATC's (key swaps all went out yesterday)

New Years Day we have our first ATC challenge of 2010 and a great one it is too....

It will be challengeing me as I have never had a go at this before....

come meet our lovely ATC designer from the Netherlands.

take care and thanks for popping by.

Much Christmas luv to you all.

Chriss x

Bad Hair Day 2 and BLOG CANDY.

Thursday has come around very quickly, it will soon be the weekend where does the time go?
Some more BHD ATC's for you to look at.
This one is from Sheila...like the black heat embossing Sheila it reminds me of the Zodiac sign of the goat. thanks x



The next 2 you have seen before as I used them as the examples for this challenge.

As I still cannot find all my crafting stuff I had to do a bit of recycling on the next 3..A bit of fun...not Quite sure they have the X Factor though...lol.

What do you think to Simon's Scowl? lol

I think I have found a real bad hair day with this Character but once again I have forgotten where I found him.. sorry to the owner.



Still some other BHD ATC's to follow...keep checking.

Don't forget the free blog candy rubber stamps on the post below....you have to be in it to win it.

Have a great day.

Chriss x