Thursday, August 27, 2015

Little Treasures Card Making Kit

 We would like to show you a couple of samples from our Little Treasures Card Making Kit. This kits includes 8 brand new paper designs from our talented new paper designer Gemma. Along with some beautiful embelishments and sentiments.

Little Treasures Card Making Kit
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Christmas Samples

We have the Daisy Mae Christmas colour your own Art books on this show back by popular demand plus lots of our other favourite products!
Here are some great samples from the last Create and Craft show using the art books made by Clare, Hazel and Pops (thanks girls)
Have a lovely evening everyone

Christmas Samples
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Fabric Fat Quarters

We have some fabulous new fabric fat quarters, these are available in our retail shop or we can process telephone orders plus.
Beautiful quality cotton quilting fabrics from America,
they are only £3 each or 5 for £12

 Call us on 01472 815191 for more information.
Fabric Fat Quarters
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Our Whole Disney/Lego vacation on video! FINALLY finished!

Finally! I have configured, edited, reminisced, laughed, cried, and finalized our Disneyland.. Disney California Adventure... Legoland.. Beach. ULTIMATE Road Trip Vacation Videos!

  Let me tell you, if you see my kids and ask they about Disneyland they will not STOP talking about it! They had the vacation of a lifetime. And although we definitely plan to go back I am not sure the pure enjoyment of this vacation could ever be topped! 
So if you are interested in our adventures check out our videos! I took MONTHS planning this trip and every blog I read, every website I searched and every list I made was SOOOO worth it!
Enjoy!!!

The Treasure Hunt (ending with Downtown Disney)- Day 1-3
Disneyland - Day 4
Disney's California Adventure & Disneyland - Day 5
Legoland - Day 6
Disney's California Adventure - Day 7
Disneyland & Disney California Adventure - Day 8
Huntington Beach - Day 9
Road Trip Home - Day 10 & 11

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Thanks for stopping by!

Our Whole Disney/Lego vacation on video! FINALLY finished!
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Age of Sigmar Blood Warriors Painted

Not that I will be using them in Age of Sigmar, they will be Khorne's Chosen in games of Warhammer, Dragon Rampant, Saga and such like. These are damned impressive models, full of detail, which can take a while to paint, but I reckon they are worth the effort. I still find it hard to believe that these are plastic models in a starter set. In fact, I rate them higher than the new multi pose set, they are posed so nicely and fit together a dream without any awkward joins.

The palette is classic Khorne style - red, brass and black. For the hair and beards I chose something a little bit different - thinking that they are based on archetypal viking berserkers, I went with stereoptypical Nordic blonde. I'm a bit uncertain about this decision, the blonde braid keeps reminding me of Goldilocks, not sure that is a good thing!

The two main characters from the boxset are still to be painted and added to this unit, then I will probably take on the marauders. I am hoping to get enough Khorne troops together to play Dragon Rampant, which I believe is scheduled for release around xmas time. The perfect time for the guys in red to go frolicking in the snow. Age of Sigmar Blood Warriors Painted
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Medieval Miniatures On the Way

I started playing medieval gaming with Lion Rampant just this year. At the time I looked around at everything on offer and decided to collect a Wars of the Roses force, based on Perry Miniatures plastics. Partly this was because of the low cost, but mainly because I was unable to find what I really wanted - decent 14th or 15th century sculpts. How things have changed in just a few short months!

Claymore Castings produce some excellent stuff, their crossbow unit jumped to the top of my buying list - sadly I have been able to get just one pack to date as the company seem to have had some casting problems over the summer, hopefully now rectified. These are metal figures sold at a very reasonable £6.50 for a pack of four. I prefer plastic or resin models, but I will make exceptions for quality castings such as these. In the pipeline they have some very characterful spearmen previews, another must have for my collection.

 

 

Top of the plastics manufacturers to my mind are Perry Miniatures. Their English (Agincourt) army was very tempting, a complete Lion Rampant retinue in a box costing around £20, with some very nice sculpts, but I passed on it because I thought it would be too similar in gaming style to my Wars of the Roses force. But just a couple of days ago they released images on their facebook page of the French Agincourt army and this looks far more promising. More crossbows and spearmen to add to the collection. There's plenty of material here to make up foot troops galore, with the prospect of mounted troops further along the line? It's great to see some historical miniatures that can match the high quality of my fantasy collection. 2016 is shaping up to be a good year already.





Medieval Miniatures On the Way
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Lotus, Rose and Jade

Malifaux Oiran
The first three members of the shadowy Silver Serpent Society are finally painted and ready for action. The final member of the triad is Lotus, with her deadly bladed fans - the design is meant to represent cherry blossom, if you google Japanese fan you will see this is a common motif. They have been a real challenge to paint, so many tiny features, though I enjoyed the vibrant palette as a change from my usual earthy, realistic approach. I will most likely go back and repaint the bases as I am unhappy with them.  The three figures make up the Malifaux box set, the Oiran. For my own purposes they will be used in games of IHMN, as the more basic foot troops of the Serpent. Being martial artists, with silk robes and throwing blades, I reckon they will be quite a handful. These ladies have been on the slow boat from China, at an average of less than one completed per month, hopefully the next few will be a little quicker. Lotus, Rose and Jade
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