: About Me

Hi I'm Tracey I'm 42 and have a wonderful partner, and a stunningly beautiful 21 year old daughter. I have loads of interests. I have loads of opinions. Where do I start. Well my main interest is Crafts, of all varieties. I love all papercrafts, I do some patchwork and quilting, some felting. I teach cardmaking and scrpbooking, I demonstrate the same, and I write card making projects for a Uk magazine Making Cards Magazine.
I have my blog

I love reading and read about 3 books a day. I have my own blog
http://rattytattysblog.blogspot.com/
where I list projects and run a montly competition.
So thats a bit about me

My passion is ...

Craft

I know too much about ...

EVERYTHING

My parents always told me ...

shut up

My childhood ambition ...

to be excentric

My favorite memory ...

anytime spent with my nan Doris

Why I write ...

I've written since I was in primary school, I don't know why. its just a big part of me

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read so much stuff . I love fantasy novels. I read anything that takes my fancy. I read about 3 books a week

My first job ...

a very unsucessful paper round on a knackered bike. I lasted 1 day

My best moment ...

The birth of my daughter, even though I wasn't awake at the time

My inspiration ...

I am inspired by everything. I'm either inspired because I love or like it or inspired to rally against something. I can find inspiration anywhere

Hobbies & Games > Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts Stretching your crafting horizons

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When you 1st develop an interest in Crafts it will probably be in one medium, Jewelery making or Scrap-booking for instance. Sometimes we get stuck in this rut thinking of ourselves as Scrappers, beaders. altered artists or cardmakers. However as you can transfer a lot of the skills you learn in new craft or use the finished articles to embellish another its definitely worth stretching your horizons. You can make fabric embellishments for you cards or scrapbooks and fabric pendants for your jewelery making. You can bead your cards altered art or scrapbook pages. I am planning to use a ladd...

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