Heavenly Crafts

Well, it's Easter Sunday morning and it is looking like a very mixed day weather wise here. the sun is shining over the front of our house, yet there are dark clouds looming ominously over the back garden....I reckon we are in for some heavy rain today. So what does Easter mean to you? Is is just a other day, part of a bank holiday that means you don't have to go in to work, a day when you can spend time with the family without worrying about everything you have to do, or is it something more than that?

For me, this is the day to remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to be thankful yet again for all that he has done for me, but for my children, it is a day for chocolate and Easter eggs.....and a trip to grandma's for tea! Looks like that trip will be made in the rain though. Mind you, today the children (and hubbie ;) ) will be disgusted with me as I want to get to mum's early enough to use some of those punches and stamps she bought at the NEC last week. She went home with some gorgeous Martha Stewart punches and a beautiful set of owl stamps and I am sure she is feeling the need to share today! So I have to pack a bag with ink pads and card, plus a couple of boxes or two so I can use the punches and get some stamped images to take back home with me! And with the wonders of modern technology, I will then be able to scan the images into my computer and print them off whenever I need them! Isn't technology great?!!!

But in the meantime, here is the second set of quickpages I promised you:

I hope you like them. You can download these quickpages here.

Whatever you are doing this Easter Sunday, I hope you have a truly blessed day. I'm off now to get ready for church and then need to rush back home to make Mum and Dad an Easter card. I know, I know, it's not as if I didn't know Easter was coming either!

Happy scrapping!

Well, yesterday was a busy day. One of my friends from University was up visiting, so we decided to go to Warwick Castle for the day. It was almost 11 am when we got there and, of course, I took my camera! I had a minor panic on the path from the car park to the castle when I thought my camera battery had run out, as I was trying to take some photos of a peacock on the wall above us but the camera would just not work...... it turned out that I hadn't even put the battery in! Talk about forgetful! I guess that was another one of those senior moments that are becoming all too familiar ;).

Anyhow, there were 5 of us altogether, my daughter and two of my sons, my friend Catherine, plus myself. Apart from the moanings and groanings from the elder of my boys, we had a wonderful day. The only moanings and groanings we had been expecting were from the dungeons but you would not believe how much an 18 year old can complain when he feels hard done to because he is carrying the heavier of the two backpacks we had with us! Anyway, fortunately for us (since we had to listen to his complaints), the backpack gradually became lighter throughout the day....

This is the view of the castle on the approach from the car park:

Once you get inside the castle grounds, you can actually go inside most of the rooms, and here is the dining room leading off the Great Hall:

This is a portrayal of life in Tudor times:

The castle is one of the largest complete castles I have been in and is in remarkable condition. They do carry out substantial renovation work, and it certainly pays off. This is the view of the inner courtyard:

More inside shots:

Everyone was dressed up in medieval costume, and speaking the way people would have spoken back then. We actually got to see the Trubuchet in action. This is like a huge catapult which was used in sieges to attack the town, and it was quite something to see it in action. This photo is of the Trebuchet just as the shot was about to be released:

There were several peacocks and a few peahens, and they came up really close, wihtout any apparent fear of us.

Later in the afternoon, the sun came out so it was lovely down by the river, although it was still cold. This the view from the Mill:

You wouldn't think we were only standing on a narrow platform above the mill wheel as the photograph is deceptive. There are actually fairly high walls up on the left and you can't really see the river that well unless you stand where we were. Looking the other way up the river, we could see the sun going down behind the castle walls.

Of course, my youngest couldn't resist the gift shop, and ended up buying this:

Well, as mentioned in my earlier post, the ADSDesigners bi-monthly blog train is released today and here are the previews for my share of this kit:

I split the file as it was slightly larger than the target of 40mb, but if you prefer just the one file to download, here it is.

And the others in the blog train are:

Happy scrapping!