Kiwillow Reads and Crafts

Today's card uses the Zany Zebras stamp set by Stampin Up, Midnight Blue,  Magenta Madness and Whisper White card stock and the 2020-2022 In Colour Gems.  The twine is old Stampin Up from a few years ago. This card was made for my colleagues 40th Birthday.  He thought it was lovely. I really like this stamp set and will definitely use it for further projects. Happy Crafting Love Lesley xx 

To my beautiful friend Ellie. Wishing you a Happy Birthday Love you to bits you crazy lady Lesley xx 

Today's card uses the Stampin Up Flowers for Every Season Memories and More Card Pack, and matching envelopes.  I added a couple of gems from the 2020-2022 In Colour Enamel Dots. I love that this range is so versatile and the colours are beautiful. This card is for a colleague at work.  I hope she likes it. Happy crafting Love Lesley xx 

Any one who knows me knows I adore Nigel Slater.  He is pure comfort and joy.  I absolutely love his writing and I was surprised that I wasn't aware of this little gem of a book before.  (It was published in 2007). As stated from the book, Eating for England is Nigel Slater's personal portrait of the British and their food.  A celebration of the glories, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that make up that extraordinary thing that is the British table. This a collection of mini essays celebrating such delights as Faggots and Gravy, Murray Mints, Oxo Cubes, Fruit and Nut, Frys Five Centres, Boiled Brussels Sprouts , Quality Street, Colmans Mustard and Sarsons Vinegar to name but a few. This book is nostalgic, funny, and is a delight to read.  As usual when I read anything by Nigel, I hear his voice in my head, as if he is personally reading it to me. I loved this and gave it 5 stars. Happy reading Love Lesley xx  

This page was inspired by Ruth Trice of Artfulstamper on You Tube.  She is a fellow Stampin Up Demonstrator and she creates the most beautiful pieces of art using Stampin Up stamps. The stamps I used  are from a very old stamp set from Prima Marketing and I used Magenta Madness, Dafodil Delight and Pool Party Stampin Up inks. This page shows my two girl cats, Kiwi and Willow.  My cats are my babies and I have been blessed to be a cat Mummy the last twelves years with these two beauties. Wishing you well today and always love Lesley xxx 

 Happy 7th Wedding anniversary to my wonderful brother Richard and sister in law Rhea. I still remember your wonderful wedding in the beautiful Phillipines as if it was yesterday. I love you both very much. Love Lesley xx

So  readers, I am still in a reading funk. I only managed to read One book in July and that was Big Stone Gap as my previous blog post. Although this was a re read, I had forgotten quite abit of it.  I loved re-discovering the characters and the settings.  It is a lovely book and I can't wait to continue the rest of the Big Stone Gap series in the coming months. My goal for August is to finish the other books I have been attempting  over the last couple of months. I am probably three quarters through Clap when I Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, about half way through The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman and probably about 20% of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Everisto. My goal is to complete these three books in August I want to start a fresh in September and be ready to read more books going into the Autumn season. September is my birthday month and I see that as a new year for me, where I can re commit myself to reading abit more and reset my goals and asp...