good and bad, happy & sad

The lovely lovely Emma gave me this!!!!! when I went round to see her and her lovely sproggies yesterday....NO I won't swap them for Poppy!!! Emma stop asking!!!
Anyway, it was a lovely day,


Andrew got his job, the one he and his office work mates all had to apply for to stay in the same job at the same place.....don't start me on this!
Spent time with Emma and kids....Poppy loved Jake & Belle!
Viewed a lovely house with my mate who has MS and needs disabled housing....which she is accepting and moving into once work has been done to make it suit her needs!
Had a great laugh with pal who came round in the evening.....

then

I fell out with my brother who has lied to both me and Andrew and cost me £200 and is happy he is getting away with that and a few other things....
my mum is going to , as always see his side of the story, and tell me to grow up......

but you know what,
I cant get involved in this with him again, as hard as it is.

I know my dad will be stuck in the middle,

I am 36....but I feel like a teenager all over again.

I hope your day was better ending than mine.

under construction......

last night while crafting away the sliver shelf that I have on my craft desk fell into the gap at the side of the table, sending the little box of sparkles and gems go flying EVERYWHERE!
The new paper stackers I had bought had been just balancing and no more.....
and the no more had gone!
SO my lovely hubby once again rose to the challenge, and made me a bigger table top to stop this happening again!

And added a shelf underneath and a wee shelf above!

This is after I asked this week, could we take down the pine hi-fi unit that had been too big for the living room, and could he make it fit by cutting say....3 inches off the back of it???


He did a great job! his weeks leave was used sawing and plaining and all sorts of manly stuff!
I think he liked it!


And of course Poppy helped........













This is it tidied!


you should have seen it before!

thanks Sammi & everyone else too

what a lovely surprise to wake up to this from Sammi!
I have really enjoyed blogging since I started on this craft circle
and met some lovely girls who have inspired me with their crafts and their welcoming friendships!
thanks Everyone xxx

so for that very reason,
I am gonna give this award to the following people....








I am sure most of them have at some point already had it from someone but it is sent with much love !

Emma
Chrissy
Vanessa
Sammi
Jennifer
Debz
Gill
Bob

smudges and flutterbys.

Last Tuesday at card class we used chalks to smudge onto embossed images
and they apply to pearly card.
Stamped with chalk inks round the heart shape.

I loved the effect !












I have used same idea to make several cards this week,


























including some baby cards with embossed footprints.

















I love the matt effect of the chalks.

fighting with fairy dust

Thank you to Emma & Chrissy for this!

I will pass it on just shortly.....I only have few people to pass it on to.



After looking at Chrissy's Friday fable, I decided to use up the last glittery fairy I had been saving to make a New Home card for my friend Alison.
I picked the background, the toadstool photo was made into a fairy house, I made the little flowers I wanted to use, so far so good!
I thought finding the fairy after my tidy up would be simple......I have been keeping her for ages for just this card!

could I find it?

nope!

So I have stuff, I will make fairy,....

The glittery sheet I used looked pretty, I got most of the loose stuff on it in my eye!
I made wings out of velum....it so wouldn't stick to the body, her legs fell off!
I tell you I have never had this problems before!
What started as a relaxing job was winding me up.
The pink ribbon I had planned to use, was tucked into a wee tub with gems and tiny buttons....
and as I lifted the ribbon the box was launched and the contents scattered EVERYWHERE!!!


I gave up!



So the best I could do was two little fairy stickers..........

am not so happy with result!

tag

a tag

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was working in a nursing home, doing IVF,
had two lovely doggies called Tilly & Gizmo.
We were decorating our house and spending a lot of time with nieces and nephews
as a holiday home by the sea!

5 Things on my to do list today -

1. brush dog
   
2. hover
3. put away shopping Andrew bought.
   
4. go to card class tonight
5. tidy garden from dog holes and poo.
6. GET A LIFE! when did i get this old?!?!?

Snacks I enjoy -

• strawberries
• chocolate
• salsa and dotiros
• home made banana or carrot cake
  
• fruit salad and yogurt
  

Things I would do if I were a billionaire - 4 of the copied from Gill!!!

• Give to charity
• Buy my beach house
• get a bigger house and adopt lots of kids!
  
• Go and visit all my far away friends with all my kids! REVENGE!
  
• Not let it go to my head!

Places I have lived -

• Germany
• Liverpool
• Edinburgh
• Inverness
• Moray
  

People I want to know more about-
Anybody who I meet I like to get to know people in general.

the picture is of our local beach that Andrew took.











Whoever hasn't done it! I'm a bit slow doing mine so am probably the last!
If you haven't done it yet then I tag you - let me know though so I can have a nose!!

a bit too much ?

I made a few cards today, including two get well cards, one here is for a work mate for us all to sign, I don't know her that well, and I am worried the card is a bit messy with a bit too much on it.
I am still in my pink and green phase, I don't have many stamps yet, and only have one stamp set that dose get well cards, but no one getting any of them knows anyone else!
they are hobby art stamps from the Rainy Day Set.



The other one can't be shown here, in case a certain sick person is reading it and she hasn't got the card.....so...er....here's a picture of Poppy,

who has dug a hole, and lay in it with her squeeky ball and for some reason a small but heavy concrete dog!













Anyway.................

Emma, has a great blog candy on just now, to celebrate her getting 10k hits! so she offered a voucher from poppicrafts and the lovely Michelle donated it! I have just been to her site and bought some lovely , lovely brads!
oh....and question for anybody.....how do you add on the blog layout a list of blogs I like to visit, showing when they post a new blog?

much love to you

Teen xxx