sunday makes while the beef roasts....

I have had a lovely relaxing day.
Just as well cause my cold had taken a snotty turn for the worst.
So while the beef is roasting and the yorkie batter is sitting waiting to be cooked.

While listening to Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter audio book,
I managed a few cards, some of which will be entered for challenges.

I am enjoying colouring with my whisper pens using the blender pen.
The results are much prettier than neat pen to card.

I will put a sentiment on it later in the top left corner when I decided what I am doing with this card.

It is to be entered in the ABC Challenge, this weeks theme is lace, and I only had thickish lace
so didn't want to put too much on the card, but like the wee bit in the corner.


The next two images are pink petticoats, cute wee birdies.
This one is not for a challenge, just liked how it turned out.

This one was for a challenge but I can't mind which one.... *sigh*



The last one is Sugar Nellie's Chef Hamish, first stamping of this new wee lad for me.
He is for the Sketch Saturday challenge.
Think I will also include him in A spoon full of sugar challenge which is pink and green together.
Again I am happier with the blending of the pens.
the background papers are funky hands paper blossom I think....

blog candy

Natalie is celebration a year of blogging....followed a link to her blog from Linda .
get well soon Linda {{{{{{{{{{{{{{ HUGS }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

how do you store your ribbons?

Was thinking about finding a better way to store my increasing ribbon stash.....
without crushing or leaving them tangled together.

How do you store yours?

Emma was showing off her ribbon storage here....
and then my order arrived today from crafty ribbons.

These are so cute, and because I didn't know if my mate Shirley was
having a boy or girl I got both....


they are very pretty, and beautiful colours , but this is one of my faves!!!

The camera dose not pick up on the vibrancy of the colours....it may never get used...
just taken out and admired now and again.....
sad I know but admit it, you do something just as sad!!!

The have beautiful textures and patterns,
if I am honest there are more wide ribbons in it than
I had hoped for but maybe it will make me think about different ways to use them.

Now how am I gonna store them? I had a plan for the narrow ones.....but the wider ribbons???

My stand of choice is Labrador!





but slight problem.....when she sits.....



she always has to get involved in anything we are doing!!!
life's never dull with a Poppy dog!

3 done....

did a wee bit crafting today in between life stuff!
I like this card, am planning on entering it into This Thursday Challenge is the spooky season!

This on I am not so sure of,
I am struggling to use the pens to colour in...
I love the stamps though. And it's for the buttons and bows challenge in Cute Card Thursday.

the third card...I am not sure of at all....see I have been quite open about not being keen on the forever friends revival....but I bought a wee stamp, and it's cute enough....


But it took three attempts to get it half way near me being happy with the end result of it coloured in....
I am not sure if I can say its just I am not used to the pens yet...
but the first one looked like transvestite bears...
now what these bears do in their own homes is fine by me,
live & let live I say....

But....it just looked wrong.

I need to go see Karen and see what I am doing wrong with these pens....

pink feathers

I found these lovely pink feathers online and I wanted to use them to add something to a page for Laura.
Pink Feathers are and will become very important to her family who miss this Angel very much.

I did this first page, but feel it is too fussy.
I am not sure if it is the backing paper which I love,
or the fact I have too many different shades on pink on it,
or have I used to many feathers??

The pictures of Laura are amazing!

This one I am more happy with.

It is very simple but Laura is stunning so it didn't need much.




I want to use the same pictures in a few different LO's to see what I get.

Oh I have 195 more shocking pink feathers if anyone wants some!!!

now leave for 5 mins!

No crafting done today....too busy with life stuff...
and energy levels not good and I have cold which is dragging me down.

Poppy has been having a problem with an itchy coat for a couple of days,
she is given flea stuff every month, there is no sign of any redness or of fleas or
beasties or anything to cause the irritation.

We popped into the vets and he had a wee look at Poppy who loves the vet!
She pulls you to get into the building, and jumps up when he calls her name....

He can't see anything but suggested we try a skin irritation releaving shampoo...

ok..... then he says,

thing is you need to do it 2 -3 times a week for a few weeks
and you need to leave it on for at least 5 minutes!!!

He has Labradors.....so he knows this is no easy task....

It's been cold here today, when she needs a bath due to rolling in dead animals we do it outside
with buckets of warm water, but decided standing outside with her and us portably soaking in while it was so cold was a bad idea!

This is her after we said you going for a bath?
she did some amazing spinning round and round the bed so we couldn't catch her....

then lay down so flat it made her hard to pick up!! Refusing to come off the bed!

but we got her....


so madam....do you have any plans for the weekend? Going out tonight?

the itchy bit seems to be her inside leg........and as I lathered up on her belly
she lifted her leg to show me where needed doing! LOL

the bottle said leave lather to soak for at least 5 -10 mins.....

it was just five mins before she decided she had been good long enough and was gonna jump out!
Managed to get hosed her off and got her all dried and fluffy.

She then spent ten mins running round the back garden going ballistic running through her digging patch and under shrubs......she is now sleeping ....

and so far ....no itchys!

for Laura's Cousin

I have made scrap pages before for my friend Bunty's niece Laura
who died a few months ago aged 24 , just days before she was due to marry her soul mate.
Laura died from genetic lung cancer, she was a very healthy, non smoker aerobics instructor
and her family are setting up a charity in her memory called Pink Mackenzie.

The pages I did for Bunty have been seen by family member's and Yvonne ,
Laura's cousin had left a lovely comment on my bebo page about them.

So I made these two pages for Yvonne







The more colourful one is for Yvonne's daughter Amy who was very close to Laura.


I have made them similar in layout to keep them linked and also used the large flowers with falling petals .

I love how they seem to blow away in the wind....

Amy just loves Laura's wee dog Jess.

Talking of dogs.......if you were a Labrador....

and you came in on a cold day.....
and found a pile of warm towels out of the tumble dryer waiting to be folded.....
what would you do???

Of course you would make a snuggly bed out of them!!!