New Kitchen Roof.

 Back at the end of October, we had a steady stream of Contractors & Builders,doing jobs around the place. I blogged about it here. We had the scaffolding put up around our Kitchen, so that the new roof could go on. Well I say new roof, but the old Slates were reused.

The first two pictures show the sorry state of the old roof. It has caused quite a few problems in the Kitchen, the worst being, that it has damaged my Kitchen Units. 

The Builders and Roofers, had to work with the weather and when it rained they couldn't work. It felt like the Antarctic, in the Kitchen while the Roof was off.

Its had all new Rafters, Battening and Insulation, Vents, Soffits and Guttering.

They finally finished the Roof, at the beginning of December and it was signed off by the Building Inspector. Then the Scaffolding came down.

I can't tell you how pleased and relieved we are, that it is now water tight.

I'm going to wait until after Christmas and then I'll redecorate in the Kitchen and in the Spring, when the weather warms up, I'll give the outside a lick of paint.

 

Scrapbooking ~ For Queen & Country ~ Part 6

 

These three layouts were from pictures that were taken at the Battle Camp, that all the Junior Soldiers have to do as part of their final training. As there were quite a few section photographs, I decided to make a booklet with them in. I used Bazzill Cardstock in Red & Blue. For the top and bottom of the booklet, I covered it with the Crown patterned, Papermania Portobella Road paper.  I used my Quickutz to make the tabs for the pages and used off cuts and die cuts from the Portobella range.

Once the pages were finished and the booklet completed, I used Butchers twine through the brads at the top, to hold the booklet together. This was then layered onto one of the Union Jack papers.

For the Bayonet Training, I again used the Crown Paper as my main page and layered up with off cuts of the other Portobella papers and the Portobella Road Design Die Cuts and a textured card. The lettering was from my stash.

Scrapbooking ~ For Queen & Country ~ Part 5

 This is a very special page, in Harry's Scrapbook. While Harry was at AFC, one of the Lads in his Room & Section died. He collapsed while doing the Cross Country Course and never recovered. His untimely death, not only profoundly affected all the Lads & Lasses at the College, but also, all the Parents. His Mum gave all the Lads in their room, a card to remember him by. Harry wanted it in his scrapbook.

I started off by making Poppies from Card, but they were too hard. So instead I made them from Tissue paper, to give them the softness and appearance of real Poppies. The centres are black card circles that I scored, with a brad in the very centre to hold everything together. I didn't have any black brads, so used Black embossing powder on some Silver brads, which worked really well. I layered the Poppies, over a self adhesive Lace that I already had in my stash and cut and layered the Angel wings from a Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Die and gently dry brushed the edges. I laid these either side of the card.

R.I.P Rory.

 

Scrapbooking ~ For Queen & Country ~ Part 4

The first two pages are of the Passing in Parade, after Harry had completed the first six weeks at A.F.C Harrogate. I've again used the card toppers that I brought from Ebay, to embellish the layouts and the Portobella Road Papers.

The bottom page, was of the Photographs taken after the Parade, when we were allowed up to the section Dorms to have a look at their Bed Spaces and the inside of their wardrobes. I have a tin of Dog Tags in my stash and used a couple of them on this page. I also made some little pull out journalling cards..

Scrapbooking ~ For Queen & Country ~ Part 3

 These two pages are of the first two official photographs, taken of Harry by the Army photographers. The First of him and the second is his section photograph.

I've continued to use the Papermania Portobella Road Papers. The Card stock is Bazzill Basics.

In the first picture I have made up flowers using Dovecraft Paper Blossoms, that I brought from Ebay, a pack of gems and self adhesive lace, that I had in my stash and the Portobello Road Buttons tied with Butchers twine, which is readily available on line in loads of different colours and some off cuts of the Portobella ribbons. The Chequered hearts were cut using my Quickutz dies.

For the second layout, I made pin wheels from card and paper and used brads for the centres. A couple of them sit on foam pads, to lift them up on the layout.

The Bunting & Pennants, were made from off cuts of the Papermania Portobella Road papers, waste not want not. They were hung on Butchers Twine and adhered to the layout with sticky dots. I've obscured the names of the Lads in the Photograph, but in the layout all their names are listed underneath. Harry is on the top row, second one in from the left, as you look at the picture.

Scrapbooking ~ For Queen & Country ~ Part 2

Some more pages for Harry's Scrapbook. The top page is of the day we dropped Harry off at the College. The Tab on the Crown can be lifted and it opens up with journalling underneath, about how we felt and the "Child Snatcher Room". Any other Parent, that has taken their Son or Daughter, to A.F.C, will know exactly what we are talking about. 

 

 The second page, is made with the very first photograph Harry sent me off his phone, of him in Uniform, with all his lovely locks cut off.

I have continued to use the Papermania Portobello Road Collection, but adding embellishment from my stash.  The Crown card topper in the top picture, was brought in a set from this ebay seller.

Cabin Storage & Reorganization..

Since I last showed you all my Cabin, I have had the over head lights fitted. I had been working by plug in lamps. Its so nice to be able to flick a switch now and have overhead lighting.
I have also been having a major reorganization in my Cabin, moving things around and getting lots of new storage set up. Its much more organised now,before and hopefully I'll be able to find what I want, without having to trawl through everything. I've brought some new drawer storage from Ikea and the drawers hold loads.  I'm still going through all my crafting stash and trying to find a home in here for it. I've managed to remove everything from the plastic storage stacker's, that I had in there and they are going to be reused in the Garage, so they have come in handy and won't be wasted. I still have another white table to put together. So will have a very large working space. The broken flaps table, is now being used for dirty stuff, like stamping, embossing and painting. Hopefully, I'll be completely sorted shortly and can get back to making minis and crafting.

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 I'll share some more pictures when its totally complete and sorted. Hope you've enjoyed the tour.