Your travels exposed!

Hello everybody,

What a miserable week it has been, but the gardens have appreciated it!

I have made a travel themed ATC collection this time, based around the sketch at SSW2 62:
 and using a train stamp from The Stamping Boutique.

So here is the collection:

 These are also being entered into:

crafting by designs Summer Holidays

papertake weekly Build it up

613 avenue create#133 Moon/stars (I have used stars)

sweet stampin' Boys and their toys (boys like trains)

artistic inspirations #136 Anything Goes
scrapbook stamp society #71 Holidays
DigiChooseday Something Old (scrap paper pieces)
polkadoodle 2 or more patterned papers
TSB Stars and stripes
country view #30 On your travels

ATC #1 - materials used - Piece of starry blue scrap paper; Green stripy 'Mans World' papermania paper; TBS train image, coloured with promarkers; Flip-flops cut from scrap paper using Quick Cutz die.

ATC #2 - materials used - Starry Christmas papermania paper; Flocked felt stripe scrap; TBS train image coloured with promarkers; holographic star sequin.

ATC #3 - materials used - scrap starry paper square; stripy papermania paper; TSB train image coloured with promarkers; pale blue diamantes.

ATC #4 - materials used - scrap tiger stripe paper; papermania floral paper; TSB train image coloured with promarkers; three pearlescent stars from stash.

ATC #5 - materials used - dark blue striped scrap paper; papermania paper; TSB image coloured with promarkers; die-cut star using Quick-cutz die; two star sequins from stash.

Audio Book Corner

The Evidence Exposed by Elizabeth George

This is a book that consists of three short stories, about murder. The first story ‘The Evidence Exposed’ is a group of Americans who are studying ‘The Great Houses of Britain’ with much tension, attraction and intrigue between them. When one of the party dies everybody seems to have a motive, but Inspector Thomas Lynley (apparently he appears in the authors novels) uncovers a secondary motive.

This story was the shortest of the three, but I thought the most enjoyable. It gets your mind thinking, and when you have a long commute this can be very useful. The necessary information required to determine the killer is not given until the end of the story, keeping you speculating throughout.

The second story ‘I, Richard’ tells the story of the obsession Malcolm Cousins has with King Richard III and the lengths he will go to for a secret letter that will clear the Kings name. But will he go as far as murdering his best friend?

This one was the humorous one of the three and the story certainly does not end how Malcolm expects it to – although the reader may have an inkling.

The third and final story in this book is ‘The surprise of his life’ which shows how people can be driven to murder when their insecurities are played upon – and the devastating consequences it can have. Douglas Armstrong is happily married until he starts to visit a psychic before his prostate examinations. The fourth visit causes him to start feeling insecure and jealous within his relationship, and his mind turns to murder when he thinks his wife is being unfaithful.

The reader can quickly see what is likely to happen in this story, but you spend the whole time hoping that something will occur to prevent it happening. However, there is a twist at the end which was unexpected to me, although some may even manage to guess at this.

All in all a good collection of short-stories, but don’t rely on it for a very long journey as there are only three CDs.

Thank you for reading,

Hugz Tinz