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Welcome to 2021. I hope it will be a good one for us all and that the past year will just become a distant memory. 

If you have stuffed yourselves full today with the last turkey sandwiches , can't stand the thought of eating another Brussels Sprouts and there is nothing on the goggle box worth watching , then I have a little game for you to play.

Below you will see a grid filled with letters. All you have to do is find the words , all associated with Christmas Time that I have hidden inside.

They could be up, down, diagonal, across or might even be put in backwards. Yep, I know,sneaky of me but all in the name of fun. 

All you have to do is find 60 words.  Yes, I did say 60 but I have listed them all below for you. I am not that sneaky.

1.    Angel                         21.    Holly                      41.   Sheep                                

2.    Baubles                     22.    Icicles                     42.    Shepherds           

3.    Bells                          23.    Inn                          43.   Sled                                  

4.    Berries                       24.    Ivy                          44.  Sleighbells  

5.    Candles                    25.     Joy                           45.    Snow  

6.    Carols                        26.    Manger                    46.   Snowflakes 

7.    Chocolatelog             27.    Merry                       47.  Song 

8.    Christmas                    28.   Mincepies                48.   Stable

9.    Decorations                29.    Moose                       49.   Stockings

10.    Doves                        30.    New                          50.   Sweets

11.    Eggnog                       31.    Noel                        51.    Tag

12.    Elves                           32.    Northpole                52.    Tinsel

13.    Fairies                        33.    Nut                           53.    Toys

 14.   Fairylights                  34.    Pantomime              54.    Turkey                          

15.    Firtree                        35.    Peace                        55.    Wine

16.    Gifts.                           36.    Port                        56.    Winter

17.    Gnomes                       37.    Presents                   57.    Wisemen

18.    Gold                            38.    Reindeer                    58.    Wreath

19.    Goodtidings                39.    Robinredbreast            59.    Year

20.    Grotto                        40.    Santa                            60.    2021

This is just for fun so no prizes but I will show where they all are in a few days time.

You should be able to save the picture to your computer and print off.

n.b. I have spent the best part of the day playing in blogger trying to get the lines straight but the above is the best I can get. 

 Above all have fun

and be sober before you start. 

Hugs

Rudolph and Winners.

This is a gift swap that I did over Christmas. My swap partner was in America and this is what I sent .

The theme was to make a christmas ornament and as the group is a quilting group I decided to make a pieced Rudolph. I had a kit that I had bought several years ago and never used as the material for Rudolph was just plain grey calico so I salvaged the ribbons and the bell and made him well, more jolly looking. I used the outline pattern as my guide and material  pieced two squares up from scraps and embroidery locked the over lapping edges using my sewing machine.This is actually the second Rudolph I made  as I hadn't accounted for the seams splitting as I stuffed him!!  As time was of the essence I had to abandon the first one and go back to the drawing board with a more robust version which is below.

Once he had been safely packed and sent off to America I turned my attention back to the first one I had made and abandoned and reinforced the overlapping edges by hand stitching.  Where the split was too much I put a complete patch in.  I was a tad annoyed about  the splitting as I actually liked the placement of the pieced squares better but Hey Ho the plus was that I got to keep him and he is now happily hanging up in my Bay window instead. 

The answers to the Bumper Spot the difference have been published here.   Thankyou to everyone who came and played along.  There are a bumper number of winners from each of the 6 games played and here is the definitive list  who will be receiving a goodie bag in the New Year, just as soon as I can work out how to use  the Post Office's  click and drop on line service!!

Kath Buckle

Kate (Cullisocks)

Suze Woods

Viv Tomlinson

Carol Staples

Liz Cavill

Hazel (didos)

Karen Ladd

Glennis F.

K.T.Fit Kitty

Tina Z.

Val Wallis

Wilma

Donna T.

Alison C.

Margreet

Mac Mable

Denise Bryant.

Shartl

Becca Yahrling

Di Wray

Brenda W. (IN)

Alice P.

Hope I have kept track  of everyone correctly. Let me know if I have sent an email to you but not not listed you above. 

Just leaves me to wish you all a Very Happy New Year 

and lets all put 2020 behind us with a sigh of relief. 

 

Hugs 

Spot The difference Christmas Edition.

Hope you are all having as good a christmas as you possibly can in these strange times. Not the Christmas a lot of us had envisaged this year. 

So if you have eaten the leg and the turkey breast, played musical chairs with just two chairs, pulled your crackers, drunk the sherry and now wondering what to do with the rest of the day,  then come on over and join in the fun. 

Well I promised a bumper edition of Spot the Differences and here it is. 

A Christmas Whimsy Village drawn by myself from a lesson we did back in November in the Shac Shac with Barbara Gray.( A little birdie has told me that the one Babara drew has now been made into a stamp and can be purchased from Clarity.)   I have traced once and drawn twice so there will be variances between the two. You are therefore  not looking for thicker/thinner lines or shading as there is plenty of that Lol.  All the differences are either items that are on picture 1 and removed from picture 2 or have been added only to picture 2. 

Oh did I also mention that you are looking for 20 difference this time so sharpen your pencils, fresh elastic in your big girl bloomers and off we go.

 Game will stay open until 30th December so you have plenty of time to ponder. Please do not put your answers below in a comment but SEND me a seperate  email to the address in the side bar. Heading up Christmas Edition.  Open to all my current followers.  Goodie bags for the first correct answers. 

Answers to game No 5 have been published here.

Appendage. 

We had a total of 7 correct answers. Thankyou to everyone  who emailed me their lists.

Here is the definitive list of the spot the differences in the second image..

I actually managed to surpass myself and put in 21 differences that only became apparent when your answers came bowling in so anyone who got any 20 of the 21 was a winner. 

1.    Round window of the house with the two steps, glass is orientated.

2.    Smoke missing from  chimney. 

3.    Chimney missing from  house with the two steps.

4.    Star on tree is missing

5.    Sun  rays are missing .

6.    Tall house at back has stones missing from over the window.

7.    Lantern missing from archway . 

8.    One bird has flown off.

9.    Tall house has brickwork showing on the side above archway.

10.  Diamond window pane blacked out on bottom house.

11.  Chimney added to house with the canopy doorway.

12.  Window ledge missing from the house with the missing smoke. 

13.  Window below the central walkway is now curved instead of flat.

14.  Railing missing from the house with the added chimney. 

15.  The central walkway has a bridge support missing. 

16.  One of the flags flying on the bunting is black.

17.  Lights are now on in the windows.

18.  Roof that has the bunting attached to it now has a pattern on it.

19.  Panes missing from the window in the house with the canopy doorway.

20.  Drain pipe added to tiny house at front.

and the one I missed but you didn't.

21. Roofline on house with canopy doorway now grey.

Complete list of winners will be announced shortly.

Hugs

Stay Safe. 

Round Up.

Showing the last card made for the year which is for The Doc and has now been opened. 

The stamp is by Stampendous House Mouse Designs called ' Bearly Working' which  I thought was so apt (when I received from Mia in her last Birthday Bonanza.) as this is the view I invariably see when I look across the upstairs landing from my craft room across to The Doc's command centre  room.!! Coloured with my promarkers along with  bronze /silver gel pens. Sentiment a gold glitter sticker. 

Just leaves me to wish you all a Good Christmas albeit a very different one from what  most of us had envisaged having. 

As previously said there will be a special Bumper  Christmas Edition of the 'Spot The Difference' challenge going out tomorrow morning at 9am so when you have eaten your way through a leg and a breast of the Turkey, played musical chairs with just 2 chairs and pulled your crackers with your other half, come on over and see if you can spot  the 20 changes I have made to the drawn images.  Yes I did say 20.  I know you can do it. 

So until Tomorrow

Stay Safe and Well

and 

sharpen those  pencils.

Hugs

Spot The Difference No 5.

The news is not encouraging on all fronts so switch off your televisions/radios/mobiles and lets settle down for another Spot The difference. Are you ready?

Pencil, eraser, ruler, a clean hanky and some spare elastic for holding up our big girls bloomers and off we go. 

You are again looking for  another 10 differences on image two. Image is a digi by QKR Stampede  no 15912 'Windy Snowman'  (available from their site). Coloured using my promarkers and back liner pen. 

Please do not put your answers below in a comment but SEND me a seperate  email to the address in the side bar. Heading up Game No 5.  Open to all my current followers.  Goodie bags for the first correct answers. They are beginning to get stuffed full here. Answers to game No 4 have been published here. 

Because a lot of us will be in our own bubble this christmas with possibly just our other halves for company I will be posting up a Bumper Spot The Difference on Christmas Day. As this one will be using my own image I can change it up as much as I like. the skies the limit! lol.

Ok, off you go now and find those 10 elusive differences.  I have been a bit sneaky this time. 

Clue.

You may need to use your fingers and thumbs!

Appendage. 

We had a total of 5 correct answers. Thankyou to everyone  who emailed me their lists.

Here is the definitive list of the spot the differences in the second image..

1.    Extra piece of Holly.

2.    Eyes have circles added round them. 

3.    Mouth blacked out.

4.    Scarf has black solid bands on the ends .

5.    Patch on hat is now tartan pattern.

6.    5 extra spots of snow by the large snowflake under his raised up arm.

7.    Tiny speckles added round the back of his left hand.  . 

8.    Hat band is coloured in with extra black.

9.    Twine on broom coloured black.

And the sneaky one that caught a lot of you out. 

10.  Broom handle extended out past his body line.  

New bumper game starts 9am 25th Dec. 

Hugs

Stay Safe

and stay off the gin. 

Christmas Cats and that Elf.

This card for Grandson No2 has been received now so I can show it. He loves cats. They have 3 at home. 

The digi is by Card Making Downloads called 'Christmas Cats' set 2. Coloured using my Graph'it Pens and three different gel pens. The Merry Christmas is a  set by Britannia Dies. Cut several times and layered up for depth.  The cat in the middle is very much like one of their cats  'Miss Piggy' and I used to have an odd eyed White Persian.

 Ok, ok, so I gave in !!. 

Whilst that isolation pod is escape proof it is not sound proof and after putting up with 2 days of him alternately crying, yelling, pleading and telling me he had really, truly learn't his lesson and would be good from now on and do everything he was told I made him a mask!

I am seriously loosing the plot here!!!

I am taking him over  to Pixies Crafty Workshop #393  as I only used a 4" square snippet of material.

There will be another Spot The Difference on Wednesday 9am so make sure you have a clean hanky and elastic in case your Big girls bloomers should let you down. 

Hugs

Stay Home and be Safe. 

Spot The Difference no 4

 For us here in the UK great swathes of the country have just  had our christmas festivities scuppered well and truly by the Covid Virus  mutating at a rate of knots across the countryside with lockdown measures moved up to Tier 4 to try and combat it. 

So to take our minds of it all, lets' blow our noses, pull our big girls bloomers up and have ourselves a little fun. Are you ready for Spot The difference. No 4?

Come on then. The answers to game No 3 have now been published Here.

The image is again by QKR Stampede  digi 23802 'Old Lady Snowman. Available to buy from their site.  (BTW. I am not on any commission from them, I have purchased these images  to use as  1. there is a whole set of them, 2. the theme is christmassy and 3. they are nice and clear with out too much detail already on them to muddy the waters so to speak.)

My goodness I did give you a run for your money with the last game.  The sticking point was the sneaky extra christmas tree with only 3 people getting a full 10 out of 10 first time round. With a bit of a nudge from me some more of you got there in the end though.  

You have 10 differences to find.

Clue. 

 Where some of you might be thinking for example that the pink pinny is a different shade this is not what you should be looking for. It is only one image that I have taken before and after photos of and subtle differences have been added to the second one. Shading is not one of them. 

Go have yourself some Fun.

Please do not put your answers below in a comment but SEND me a seperate  email to the address in the side bar. Heading up Game No 4.  Open to all my current followers.  Goodie bags for the first correct answers. They are beginning to get stuffed full here. 

Hugs

Stay Safe

and don't go boss eyed.

Appendage. 

We had a total of 18 correct answers. Thankyou to everyone  who emailed me their lists.

Here is the definitive list of the spot the differences in the second image..

1.    Reading glasses have changed to sunglasses.

2.    Eyebrow added. 

3.    Extra teeth in mouth.

4.    Strand of hair added above bow on pinny.

5.    Bangle on her left arm has an extra bar.

6.    Heart added to pinny.

7.    Necklace added. 

8.    Extra line added on broom handle above hand.

9.    Extra bubble below edge of pinny.

10.  Pinny has an extra tie added to the bow. 

New game starts 9am 23rd Dec.