Futurity Show Results Due Soon

It was the Futurity Show at the weekend and as we did not enter any alpacas in the halter show, we are waiting to find out how we got on in the Fleece Show and the Craft Show. We had two fleeces entered and five craft items.
Lovely weather today brilliant sunshine and blue sky, the alpacas are soaking it up. The expectant mums are resting and there are some looking very plump now, I am sure that I could see Caramel's tummy twitching, she is due early April so not long now !!

Christine Mega Tip No 1

Have been busy getting fleeces skirted ready to send off to the show, you need to take time to look over all the fleece, very carefully. Took the parcel to the post office and now have my fingers crossed, firstly that the parcel arrives ok and then for good news with the results.

This is a "Christine Mega Tip" from one of her recent TV appearances. If you don't have the Sentiment Stamp that you want, or one the correct size, print off your own using your computer with a font and colour of your choice and then die cut with Spellbinders. This is so useful, used the idea for a Mother's Day Card Tag as in the photo. This is a work in progress, so far, but I just love the flexibility of not being "stuck" with the stamps that you have to hand, I was so pleased with how my tag came out. Sorry photo not very clear. Thanks to Christine for sharing this tip.

Mother's Day Card with printed tag

Art & Crafting

Just found out in time for the record button that Sue was on C&C today. Even got my email read out and the "Thank You" card was shown. Again more inspiration and tips. After die cutting one of the Lattice dies found a lovely shape was left in the card for an apeture. There is always a use for what could be seen as the "scrap" pieces, I especially like the tiny butterflies "scrap" pieces off the butterfly circles die.

More spinning again this afternoon, I have to finish the fawn skein ready for the craft show.

Will be updating the web site shortly with new alpacas for sale, sort of "pick your own" selection, young females sired by Australian pedigree studs hope that you can drop by soon.

Pink Spinning

Spent the afternoon spinning, finishing off the natural dyed yarn in pinks and lilacs. Then plying up some natural dark fawn. No chance for any papercrafting today, but I do want to make some tags, now I have the embossing folders and the raspberry plate I can get started.

You can get an idea of the colours from the photograph. Lovely evening sunshine and bird song.

Papercrafting

I don't know where I have found the time, but I have got some Spellbinders dies and just had to have a play. Love the fun

Need to practise my faux glue pearls, could do better.
Thank you Spellbinders.

Snowdrops & fieldfares

Got all the paddock cleaning finished before the rain started. The snowdrops are still about and the fieldfares are here. It is 10.7 degrees at present.

Pancakes Birthday

Hi, it is Pancakes birthday today. She was born on Shrove Tuesday, her dam was pregnant for Australian summer when we bought her. A lovely female alpaca she has provided us with two cria and number three is due later this year. We have repeated a successful pairing of Pancake and Regency, our Comissario male, that produced an excellent female, Honeysuckle, with plenty of fine fleece.
It is a perfect sunny day today, started with a good frost, which meant that as the ground warmed up it became too difficult to finish the paddock cleaning, just means more for tomorrow, but that's another day !!
Have been busy dyeing and spinning some yarn using cochineal lots of pinks, mauves and damson colours. Will try to get a picture when all is completed, and making some fancy tags.