Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #363 - results

Another busy week here, with an outing for us to the local surgery for flu jabs, all the capers of Halloween, and the grand finale on Friday was a huge mix-up with Sainsbury's and our grocery order.  Their fault, not mine. As I type this on Saturday I'm waiting for them to finally arrive with a freshly picked order, but apparently they now have a broken down van to deal with and can't make the chosen time slot - so it could be some while yet! Before dark we hope, sigh. Ocado - I'm coming baaaaack to you.

Rant over, so let's get going with this fortnight's picks:

Our lovely Sandra made this brilliant card for her Grandson Nathan. Love the design using little snippets and all the more as, if you look closely, Sandra has cleverly used the waste from the die cut balloons and their strings to fill in the background a bit. Love it!

I chose this darling card as the idea is new to me - and possibly to you.  Jules, who originally started off the Snippets Playground all those years ago, made this beautiful 'scrapling' which is basically made from the small strip you have left over after cutting a card from a sheet of A4. I have a shed load of white strips of card here and it never occurred to me to make dinky little tent shaped cards or bookmarks using them. Do hop over to read more at Jules' blog HERE.

You might want to have a cup of coffee or something to settle down with if you hop over to Vinita's blog HERE, where she's showing this absolutely fabulous Book Box Card to celebrate Diwali. It's gorgeous, uses loads of snippets, even has a shaker element to it and Vinita has tons of wonderful step-by-step photos in her blog post.

When I worked in London I made a great friend who is Hindu and she used to bring the most wonderful savouries and sweetmeats into the office to share at Diwali. We're still in touch but she lived and still lives well North of London and of course we're down in Hampshire. Sometimes I wonder however we managed that daily hoof into the City, at the mercy of British Transport etc., for so many years without ending up in a Funny Farm!

So, that's my picks from Challenge 363 and I do hope they've given you some inspiration for ways in which you can use up some of those snippets.

I do actively look for new and innovative ways to use up your snippets - although I confess that often my own snippets makes will show minimal use of snippets, with exceptions such as the current challenge and all those butterflies of course.

We had 54 entries and no new Playmates this time round.

Time now for the prize draw which is for the wonderful Lawn Fawn 'Manatee-rific' set of stamps with matching dies - along with a Lawn Fawn 'Bayou Backdrop' set of dies. And the winner is:

Vicky

Well done Vicky! Your first Playground win, and what a win as well! I'm so pleased for you. Please send me your address, with your full name at the top as well so I can copy and paste or just write straight from the email onto the envelope - for speed and ease. It's also confirmation that you still would like the prize of course and I'll post your prize once I hear from you. Please put Playground Winner or similar in the subject line of your email in case it drops into my junk mail. Email address is on RH sidebar as always.

Remember folks, there's still almost another week to run on Challenge #364 - you can find it HERE. The prize is a Memory Box 'Budding Tree' die and a Memory Box 'Mini Butterflies' die.

I thought I'd have a photo of Dudley to share - wearing his cute little bandana - taken at Halloween. Sadly, Len, who took it, says it's too dark - such a shame as he really looked so cute in real life! We'll have to do an action replay asap.

Dudley's coat is already looking really lovely - and his latest trick is to pirouette round and round on his hind legs, holding his front legs out sideways (just like a little ballet dancer) to help him to keep his balance! I'll try and take a short video the next time it's dry enough for us to be in the garden, which is when he dances best as that's 'treats' time! Watch out for Rudolf Nureyev appearing here soon!

He's fast asleep right now under my desk with his head gently resting against one of my feet. We've had very high winds and rain here since the early hours of the morning which has made for interesting 'toilet trips'. Someone here will scamper outside for a quick wee but is determinedly hanging onto 'the rest' - and it ain't Len or myself!   Hmm, we're keeping a close eye on him just in case he tries to 'perform' indoors rather than risk being blown away! It would be a surprise if he does but we're not taking the risk - it took me weeks to recover from the 'Avon Lady Special' performance he did last November whilst he was being toilet trained.

Edit: The grocery order arrived on Saturday, only 15 minutes after our original chosen time band, long saga with issues with the delivery, but we're now all sorted out! And, little Dudley is a brilliant ice breaker - even the burliest delivery driver almost breaks down and whimpers when he sees him! :) And to be fair, it's not the delivery guys at fault with all this - it's their IT system, rubbish 'pickers' and also carelessness at the Sainsbury's end as the stuff is loaded/thrown into delivery crates.

Love from Parsnip, a wave from Dudley - and of course hugs as always from me,