Todays words of wisdom

Footprints on the Heart

Some people come into our lives
and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us
to new understanding
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make
the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
leave footprints on our hearts
And we are never, ever the same.

Tagged

I haven't been tagged for a while so I thought I would start one off.

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1. If a movie was being made of your life who would you like to be cast to play yourself? and why?

2. You are spending a whole month on a dessert island for charity and you have to choose your favourite celebrity to spend the first two weeks with & your least favourite celebrity to spend the second two weeks with, who would they be & why?

3. What are your three favourite crafting products?

4. If you could invent something to do anything what do you think it would be?

5. What are the last three books that you read?

6. Qvc or create & Craft?

7. Docrafts or Dovecraft or DCWV?

8. What is your claim to fame?

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1. If a movie was being made of your life who would you like to be cast to play yourself? and why?
I would like to have Kylie play me as she never seems to age, and with another birthday just around the corner & the first wrinkle has just appeared.

2. You are spending a whole month on a dessert island for charity and you have to choose your favourite celebrity to spend the first two weeks with & your least favourite celebrity to spend the second two weeks with, who would they be & why?
My Favourite celebrity would be Ellen degeneress a very funny lady & she would make the time fly. Then onto the dreaded last two weeks I think my lest favourite celebrity is Jo Brand loud mouthed & obnoxious so called funny woman.

3. What are your three favourite crafting products?
Thats easy Prima flowers, rubber stamps & ribbon.

4. If you could invent something to do anything what do you think it would be?
Satellite tracking key fobs for my children's door keys, I swear we spend half our lives searching for their keys.

5. What are the last three books that you read?
Maeve Binchey ~ Quentins
Maeve Binchey ~ Night of rain & stars
Janet Evanovich ~ Lean mean thirteen

6. Qvc or create & Craft?
Qvc, but just to watch I seldom order from either as the postage is so high, but I dont like pushy stephanie on create & craft.

7. Docrafts or Dovecraft or DCWV?
Thats easy DCWV, the quality is superb and the glitter card stock is just so yummy.

8. What is your claim to fame?
When the queen came to visit the Met office in Bracknell I was 12 years old & when she did a walk about in the town centre I gave her a bunch of freesias.

The people I am tagging are:
Robyn ~ http://www.thepinkstamper.blogspot.com
Vikki ~ http://vixx-a-craftin.blogspot.com
Ruth ~ http://craftywanderings.blogspot.com
Nikki ~ http://nikkiscardsandnews.blogspot.com
Debs ~ http://meandlilg.blogspot.com

For those that have never been tagged it's easy, you just copy & paste the questions ( between the stars ) Twice onto your page, you answer the second set of questions.
You then need to make a list on the posting of the five people who you are going to tag. Lastly go onto their blogs and leave a comment to let them know to look at your blog as they have been tagged.

Sharing my craft space

I love looking around peoples craft spaces on Split coast stampers, some of them are absolutely amazing. So I thought I would share my space with you.















The really useful boxes contain cards ready for each occasion and the bottom are full of stamps, I have a large under bed storage box which is full & over flowing with more wood mounted rubber stamps















I just love ribbon so the storage racks that I bought from the closing down craft shop was ideal to hold the spools, the jars too the right are my old tea,coffee & sugar caddys, They were too good to throw away so I recycled them to hold the individual metres of ribbon.
Oh & the crisps,my guilty secret I am a crisp-a-holic.






















The shelves at the end of the room are fully of Stampin up stamp sets, I have been buying them for about 8 years from America, long before they arrived in the UK.
I love these stamps and the catalogues are just so inspirational.

















The messy bit, where i actually craft.... when i'm not blogging.





















These two Cd racks were a bargain at just £5 each, they are unpainted wood, that I do intend to paint with acrylics when time permits.
The Cd racks came from a shop in Norwich called Qd.









A better view of the two boats, I love the beach, especially beach huts and the boats just fitted in with the theme.























I needed to get organised so hubby put me up these shelves, I them spent a whole weekend organising everything and labeling every box, the small clear boxes on the top shelf are take away chinese containers.... I dont eat much take away so I picked some up at the pound shop.





















The paper rack for 12" papers came from a craft shop that was closing down, I was sad to see yet another craft shop disappear from the high st, but was really pleased with my purchase.

I hope you have enjoyed having a nosey around my space & maybe you now fancy sharing yours.

Definition

{Gratitude}

• "True gratitude is the ability to humbly see, feel, and even receive love. Gratitude is a form of returning love to God. Recognize His hand, tell Him so, express your love to Him." -Gene R. Cook

{Love}

• A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
• To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

Todays words of wisdom

Your mind not only wanders, it sometime leaves completely.

Cats

Last night we all went out as a family, which is a feat in itself with a teenager & a nearly teenager. We went into Norwich to the theatre to see the musical CATS. I have seen it before in the west end, so I had something to compere it too, but I can truthfully say it was every bit as magical as the first time I saw it & even the kids enjoyed it. Abi who is musical has played a couple of the pieces in school concerts so she was able to sing a long.

Todays words of wisdom

There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

A little naughty ~ But please dont be offended

There is a factory in Northern Minnesota which makes the Tickle Me Elmo Toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms.

Well, Lena is hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00AM

The next day at 8:45 AM there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door.

The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new employee.

He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule.
The Personnel Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the 2 men march down to the factory floor.

When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo's all over the factory floor and they're really beginning to pile up.

At the end of the line stood Lena surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo's.

She had a roll of plush red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles.

The 2 men watched in amazement as she cut a little piece of fabric, wrapped it around two marbles and began to carefully sew the little package between Elmo's legs.

The Personnel Manager burst into laughter.

After several minutes of hysterics he pulled himself together and approached Lena .

'I'm sorry,' he said to her, barely able to keep a straight face, 'but I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday...'

'Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles.

Pass this onto everybody that needs a little laughter.

Download links

Many of the fantastic comments I get through my blog & through personal e-mails ask where I buy my downloads from, so here goes for the links.

http://www.pinkpetticoat.co.uk
My current favourite, but be sure to check back every week or to sign up for a newsletter as Liz is a busy lady and has new downloads every couple of weeks.

http://www.tinkernco.co.uk
Both downloads & Cd's available from here, they are mostly pre coloured but the print quality is superb.

And the newest downloads are from
http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/Digital_Downloads.html
These are just so cute & Dotties boyfriend is being rolled out very soon, I have seen a sneaky peek of him.

Todays words of wisdom

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?

WOW - oh wow, I received another award!!!

Oh wow I have received another award, this time its from Ruth

Many Thanks Ruth


I would like to pass this award on too a very talented lady Kerry http://www.curlygirlyme.blogspot.com
Just check out her designs and you will understand why Kerry deserves this award.

YAY!!! Got an award!!

Got the Arte y Pico award from Vikki today. Thanks vikki :)

Apparently I have to post these rules, so here goes:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity,design,interesting material,and also contributes to the blogging community,no matter what language.

2. Each award has to give the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4. Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of Arte y Pico blog,so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5. To show these rules.

:)

This award goes to
Carole http://needmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com A lovely lady with beautiful cards.

Liz http://www.pinkpetticoat.blogspot.com Creator of those inspirational Pink Petticoat downloads, thanks Liz for the inspiration.

Robyn http://www.thepinkstamper.blogspot.com Another inspirational lady, Robyn has 5 children & still finds time to craft and blog every day, Robyn is a sister from sbs15.

Todays words of wisdom

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

More of Abi's cards

The children are all back to school today so i'm off to spend the afternoon having my hair cut & coloured, I love the hairdressers as they have all the glossy gossip magazines I can only justify buying when i'm ill.


Yesterday Abi made a few more cards using the Pink Petticoat downloads.
After matting & layering onto bazzill bling she used the DCWV glitter spring stack.

All of the cards use the Pink petticoat downloads

Todays words of wisdom

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Cards from the invader

Whilst I was making my cards this afternoon I had an invader / visitor to my craft room who was inspired to make these cards.
Abi & I watched the stencillo show on create & craft which was the inspiration for Abi's first card.

Pink petticoat image from the Too tweet download, the backing paper is from one of the making memories blocks.

This card is inspired by a card we made on the workshop with Wendy Stenton of WS designs, the card is made using the tag template and keep repeating until you have 5 adjoining tags.

Cards By Abi

Todays Pink petticoats

I managed to spend a couple of hours in my craft room this afternoon before I got invaded!!


From the pink petticoat download "Too Tweet" the backing card is from the dcwv spring glitter stack, which has some gorgeous sheets in it.

From the pink petticoat download site this download is called "Yoo Hoo" the backing paper is also a download from Tinker & co from the toffee bear cd. The matting & Layering is on Bazzill Bling.

From the pink petticoat download site this download is called "Yoo Hoo" the backing paper is also a download from Tinker & co from the toffee bear cd. The matting & Layering is on Bazzill Bling.

From the pink petticoat download "Garden Bugs" the backing card is from the dcwv spring glitter stack, which has some gorgeous sheets in it.

From the pink petticoat download site this download is called "Yoo Hoo" the backing paper is also a download from Tinker & co from the toffee bear cd. The matting & Layering is on Bazzill Bling.

Todays words of wisdom

Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.

No card making yesterday

I didn't get any card making done yesterday as we were over at my sister in laws helping her with a project in her garden, whilst we were working we had a little companion and quite a poseur he was too.


I just happened to have my camera handy whilst he hopped around the garden I managed to get about 20 shots of him, I though these pictures might come in handy when I start my Christmas cards.

PIF Blog candy

I have had a lovely package of blog candy from Shirley this morning in a lovely handmade wallet, but cannot get onto her blog to say a big thank you, so If anyone has Shirley's details please contact me or Shirley if you read this a big thank you.

Todays words of wisdom

By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

Want to add your signature automatically?

Do you want to add your signature automatically to all your posts so, if you are like me, you don't have to remember to add it each time? Here's what you gotta do:
Visit Allison on her blog, she has a tutorial on her blog
http://stampinwhenican.blogspot.com

Todays words of wisdom

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

yesterdays cards

Yesterdays cards, I managed to finish a couple more than the day before.At the weekend I printed off my Pink Petticoat downloads & sat downstairs too be sociable & watercoloured most of the images, so now I have a pile of images to make into cards, so watch this space to see what I achieve with them.

I am not quite happy with my first Sugar nellie card, I think I need to go back to bow & knot tieing school as I think that the knot is not quite right.
if anyone knows of a flat knot tutorial please pass it on.

Todays words of wisdom

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

Todays words of wisdom

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.

Yesterdays only card

I managed just one card yesterday one I needed to make, I had a headache all day so despite there being football on all evening I didn't feel like spending all of the evening in my craft room.


Made with the pink petticoat Turtel-y amazing download, coloured with watercolour pencils and matted & layered on Bazzill bling card, my current favourite.

Video exclusive: First-ever images of the world's only flying penguins

Skimming just feet above the waves, a colony of rare penguins takes to the air - proving they can FLY.

The incredible snap for a new BBC nature series, Miracles of Evolution, shows the birds zooming across the sea hunting for food.

They launch themselves down steep icy slopes with an upward curve to get the momentum to take off.

Then they flap their tiny wings to reach a steady cruising speed before eventually crashing back into the water.

Film maker Prof Alid Loyas said: "We could hardly believe our eyes. It was amazing."

"It's the perfect example of Darwin's theory of evolution working in reverse."

The flying penguins - filmed at King George's Island, 1,200 kilometres south of the Falklands - are just part of the TV crew's astonishing discoveries.

Todays words of wisdom

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth of the hole!