Christmas Doone

Welcome back to a Christmas creation on my blog. The nights are certainly drawing in now and by the time I get home from work it is pitch black, so no evening allotmenting for me now! However, I have been working late anyway, so I am not actually getting home any earlier to get extra crafting one either yet lol.

I did have a play with an unusual Christmas colour scheme last night though and came up with this card:

I used Core d'inations card, pearlescent paper and glitter card for the elements on this card. The Stocking die is a Marianne Creatables, the tag die came free with a magazine, the snowflake circle die is from Sizzix and the embossing folder is a partridge in a pear tree, and I think is a papermania one. Both the ribbon and the bow are papermania also. The little bells were just in my stash.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:

countryview #32 Add some texture

The Card Concept #42 Colour Inspiration: (Freestyle Collage?)

polkadoodles Add sparkle, bling or glitter
Simply Create Too #97 Baby it's cold outside
atlantic hearts sketch #131 - Tag for the sentiment area

SOS #225 Go Paperless!
creative corner No stamp
Winter WonderlandJingle Bells

Audio Book Review

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

This is a very long romance novel based in between Somerset and Devon in the 17^th Century. Although this is a long story, there are several side-stories other than the main romance. The story is written from the perspective of the main male of the story; a farmer called John Ridd, and is a story about his love for Lorna Doone and the things that happened to the pair of them, separately and together.

The Doone’s are a local gang of thieves who come from blue-bloodstock and so are looked up to by the people they steal from. They are also feared by most people due to their size and aggression, and the fact that they have killed many people, including John’s father. So when John falls in love with their ‘queen’ it all seems doomed to failure. However, John manages to rescue Lorna, and angers the Captain of the Doones, with some consequences. Along the way we see what farm-life was like, meet another highwayman of good repute who is close to the Ridd family, discover a gold mine, and meet high society in London.

A very good story that has the potential to get bogged down in the romance, but prevents this by the use of several side-stories, with plenty of action and drama. Well worth listening to!