Further to the “Book Exchange 2008“, we did another Round-Robin at stamp club but this time we didn’t get to chose our own themes. The titles were drawn out of a ‘hat’ and allocated to the name which had just been drawn as well. My theme was Kings and Queens and I had...
When I was a member of our local W.I. (for about 10 years), I discovered a competitive streak which I didn’t realise I had! Every year there is an agricultural show which encompasses two neighbouring counties, Flintshire and Denbighshire, and my local village had not been entering much. When...
***N.B. At the bottom of this post I’ve added something new – I’ve explained how I index and store my rubber stamps – a few people have asked me how so I’ve done my best to show the system which works for me!*** When we decided to join our house to the garage we thought it would...
My very first entry for a competition didn’t actually make it to the show! I had learnt this calligraphy technique and we were doing a ‘season’ so I produced Autumn, shown here. I hadn’t realised at that time that we were not allowed to openly refer to our own institute name...