thankful.....

I must admit. I am still a bit frazzled after the other days falling out with the person who used to be my brother.
my brother will always lie and steal, all I can do is keep him at arms length.....and accept my parents will always see him as they do!
But after reading Emma's post, and you know what .....life is short, and life is hard.
But it can be beautiful and loving and wonderful too.
I am thankful for more than I sad about.

I am thankful for my for family who do love me,
I am thankful for friends....and that includes you!
my lovely friend Bunty offered to be a ref for us for the adoption assessment.....
she scares social workers! hahaha but she paid me a huge compliment....
she has a wonderful son who I adore who has extra needs,
and she said she would trust me with him....and that means so much!


here's the sarcastic bit......
two people at work asked me to make them cards for someone.
I made this one for Sandra's inlaws.

















and the other one, was one of the chalk dye smudgies with flowers on it,
using a stamp that my lovely Emma lent me!
I needed to print a bit with the person's name on it.
My lap top is sick, and kept freezing.
my xyron machine's last sticky pad for card was useless,
the computer upstairs doesn't have my print master soft wear in it.
Could I find the cd's to load into the computer .....
But I got it made.
I didn't take a picture of it.

Then I called the women who i made it for,
you can collect it next time you are in the dept.
and she said
"is it a nice card?, is it pretty? will i like it? Did you make a good job of it?"
no....i made it really awful ,,,just for you!
Did I tell you I specialise in crap cards??
I must not be so sarcastic!
I must also not get so hung up on people like this....
and next time she asks for card....
I will be washing my hair!
I am not in a bad mood honest!!!!
I am just a bit grumpy....thankful but grumpy


much love xxx

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!!