Google Friend Connect Followers Gadget

Can anyone let me know if there is a simple way that I can get my Followers gadget back again?  I understand that Google have changed this from 1st March but although on my Dashboard I still have all my Followers listed, on my blog page there is only text saying that the gadget is configured incorrectly.  I am hopeless with anything technical like this and I know that other bloggers still have their followers showing under Google Friend Connect.

I would really appreciate any help you can give!  Thanks so much.

Taking A Little Break

No posts for weeks and then 3 in one day - what's going on?!  Well, we are going away for a few days on a little break and I thought I better post a few things before I go.

See you soon!

Thank you Laurie!

My sweet cyber friend Laurie from Indulge Your Shelf sent me this lovely collection of goodies:-

Sweet tiny tart tins, tickets, vintage label and other little art trinkets. Thank you so much Laurie, you are very kind and I will look forward to using them.

Tag Tuesday - Birds

A lovely subject this week, I think, and so nice with spring around the corner hopefully.  Here's my little birdie on a nest with eggs.  The heart shaped tag is covered with scraps of text and sheet music, then painted with light blue acrylic paint.  The edges were distress inked and then the images affixed, together with a couple of lovely spotted feathers, a little paper flower, scrap of old lace and raffia tie.

Pop along and see all the other beautiful tags on the Tag Tuesday blog.

Tag Tuesday - Hearts

I love hearts as any regular readers of my blog will know and with the month in mind, my theme this week is romantic.  I made my tag in the shape of a heart, backed with card for strength and with a patchwork paper background.  Onto this I added scraps of trim and a lovely vintage glass button.  I cut out a scrapbook paper flower which appealed to me and added some scrap lace and fabric "streamers" to the side of the tag.  It is finished with a velvet and lace ribbon.

Close up of lower part of the tag.

The tag without any background "noise".

Pop over to the Tag Tuesday blog to see other gorgeous heart tags.

A New Project ........

Gathering ...........  Interesting pieces of white fabric, preferably with cutwork or other pretty or distinctive features.

Pieced ..........   My selected pieces pinned together to form one cloth.

Tacked ........ Next step is embellishing the seams and embroidering prior to damp stretching - not done this before so have to take care to do it properly. 

I have signed up for the online class run by the very talented Karen Ruane.  I have only just found out about it through a link from another blog so I am a month behind but it doesn't matter as there is no time limit on the class or the blog resources.  There are lots of great videos to show each step of the course, which you can keep going back to as many times as you like.  Karen works mainly white on white and although it's not a requirement of the class, she does encourage students to give it a try as it's not as scary as it seems.  I will let you know whether this is true!  I have never worked white on white before and am a little trepidatious to say the least!

I will post more as I progress.

Tag Tuesday - Lace

This week's theme is Lace and as you know I love lace and use it most of the time in my projects.  I wanted to do something a little bit different this time and so went for a more sombre Victorian tone.

I used a piece of black lace over a manilla luggage tag.

To keep to the Victorian theme that was emerging, I used a piece of lovely black sequinned trim and a bead dongle that had come apart from a piece of bead fringing.  Just the job for my purpose!  

Top with a pretty image of a Victorian lady and a black satin rose and voila, one lace themed tag.

Pop over and enjoy all the other lovely tags on the  Tag Tuesday blog.