Spotlight on: Jo's 3d Keepsakes

It occurred to me that I have lots of friends and family who are incredibly talented! I thought that I should share with you their makes and so the 'Spotlight On...' was created! The first 'Spotlight On' goes to my Mother-in-Law, Joanne McClymont.

 My Mother-In-Law has been making cards for as long as I have known her, but she has developed her card-making into a small business, making papercrafted keepsakes.
These adorable little boxes are made to any specification, with a variety of things that can be displayed inside.
Jo uses a variety of techniques to produce the displayed items. She enjoys making figures out of fimo, papercrafting celebration cakes and sewing cushions to seat other element of the design.

As you can see, Jo puts in tremendous effort in making these beautiful keepsakes, adding embelishment, co-ordinating ribbon and name/message plates.

These Keepsakes are available for sale in several shops around the Clitheroe area of Lancashire, where they can be bought pre-made or to order.
For more details, please contact me via my contact page or comment below and I will pass any queries and well wishes on to her.

Louie's first Keepsake box. A bee hive with bumble bees for his Bee themed party.

Visitors

This weekend we had Grandma Jojo and Auntie Elle down to visit us. Yesterday we went into the city centre for a spot of shopping :) Mr Bee got the gorgeous babygrow in the pictures. Papa Bee got treated to high heaven and we had a lovely lunch in the John Lewis cafe.

Today, we have had a lazy day relaxing in the garden, playing with cars, bubbles and on the park.

 This weekend, Mr Bee has been saying a few more words! In the picture below, he is saying 'bubbles'.

Bubbles go 'POP'

 We saw lots of planes and helicopters over head today. This is Mr Bee demonstrating the baby sign for Helicopter!

 Then we were talking about trains, and this is Mr Bee signing train!

Big Love

Big Love

 Despite being rather overcast all day, it was quite hot. So we cracked open the milk lollies for Mr Bee and Elle.

Yumyum!

Mr Bee has also started saying 'again' and 'Elle' today, hopefully this will be the start of his speech coming to life!

Water play

We haven't been blogging for the past few days for a very good reason! The sun has been out and we have been basking in its goodness!

On Friday, Grandma Jojo and Elle arrived, so we have had a lovely weekend with them, enjoying the glorious weather, making the most of it whilst it is still here! So we decided to get the paddling pool out for Louie, to help keep him cool.
He was loving splashing around and playing with the duckies! I fished out our lovely Josephjoseph set that Mom got us for Christmas, as I knew it would be fab for water play! We made a shower with the colander and got up to all sorts with the measuring cups!

You don't need expensive toys to entertain a child!