Pink petticoat ~ Cards

Over the last 4 weeks I have not spent very much time in my craft room, but I made up for it today. I had printed of some sheets of pink petticoat images and had been watercolouring them when time permitted, so as you can imagine I had quite a little pile of images to mount & make up into cards.

Kitten Mayhem

Cats Leave Pawprints On your Heart....

This little girl not only left paw prints on our hearts but also all over us... and we have the scars to prove it!!!!

After the initial mayhem Talulah Mae caused by her arrival she is now settling in well as you can see, it does give a new slant on the concept of bunk beds.
Our black cat Sassy initially didn't approve of Talulah's intrusion into the family, but now as you can see they are always together, he has even taking to washing her.
Bayleigh boo our beautiful tabby still doesn't care too much for her company, but he doesn't make life hard for her, he just avoids her.

Good Karma

Good karma is slowly being restored to our household, Dan has just had his last A level exam, he is doing 4 A levels in Maths, further maths, IT & chemistry. The further maths has been a real trial as it was a group of just 5 students and was self taught, but much to my relief he found one of the further maths papers the easiest he had done, I breathe a deep sigh of relief because he wanted to drop the subject half way through the year, but I managed to persuade him to sit the exam as a low grade was better than quitting & would mean extra UCAS points. So fingers crossed and a long wait until August 14th.

I have a day off today as I am working tomorrow so the house is tidy & I am off to the craft room, so I will see you all later & I might even finish a card or two to upload now the good karma is returning.

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A beautiful Norfolk sunset

A beautiful Norfolk sunset ~ taken on the Acle straight.

So excited

I am so excited we have booked our holiday, the downside is it's not until October, I know it will come around so quickly.
We are going to Corfu, well actually Sidari in Northern corfu, I have never been too Greece so I am really looking forward it. I have recently read a book by Maeve Binchey called The night of Rain & Stars. The book whilst being fictional was based on a real village & village life & the descriptions of the surrounding area and people was based on the authors experiences in Greece, this really whetted my appetite for greece.
So with 19 weeks to go I have already started making my lists.

Castle Carvery Caister A family night out

Jimbo & Harvey in the arcades at Great Yarmouth

Harvey in the ball pool at the castle carvery Caister.

Harvey had just woken up & wondered if Daddy had left him any dinner

I love this picture of Harvey in the ball pond, it's a bit arty.

Abi can spend hours on the 2p machines in the arcade with just a couple of pounds.

Dan on the other hand can spend £'s on the time crisis machine in just minutes.

Where did May go?

Where did may go?
I looked at my blog the other day & realised that I had only posted a couple of times during May & even worse I only managed to make a single card in my busiest birthday month.
May seemed to pass in a flash, at the beginning we had some sad news my daughter-in-laws dad died two days after they had been up to visit us. We then travelled down for the funeral & whilst away we had lots to keep us busy with family visits & a new granddaughter to cuddle.
We got back from the funeral & I realised that there were just 3 days before Abi's 13th birthday & I still had her card to make, which is the only card that I got finished during May, of course that was closely followed by the arrival of our new kitten Tallulah Mae & the chaos a new arrival causes, thankfully she has settled well with the other animals & her stomach has also settled down.
The following weekend we had my step - son & his family visiting so we all went out for a belated birthday meal & into Great Yarmouth for a walk along the front & an hour in the arcades. Half term disappeared with its customary bad weather & the jobs in the garden still remain un-finished & whilst all this has dominated our May Dan has been revising for his A levels, I wish him all the luck in the world, he deserves to do well as he & his girlfriend have worked really hard.

I've been given an award

This award came from sara http://saz1984.blogspot.com
Many thanks Sara

Introducing our newest addition.

Talulah Mae



I have always wanted a grey cat, we already have two cats & a Yorkshire terrier dog, so Talulah Mae is the newest addition to our family.
She arrived last night on Abi's 13th birthday.
Someone we know told as a few weeks ago that her sisters cat had a litter of kittens and some of them were grey. Last night her son knocked and asked if we still wanted a grey kitten, 10 minutes later he was back with this tiny bundle in his arms. We had no kitten food, so paul had to go out & get some.
She has settled well with the dog & my tabby cat Bayleigh Boo, but my black cat Sassy keeps hissing at her.
The only problem is I think she was a bit young to leave home as she has a very runny bottom & is not yet cleaning herself properly, so i have spent the day wiping a runny bum, I thought those days were over!! I have now given her chicken & boiled rice.
She is so cute, I just hope everything settles back down soon.

Abi's Birthday card my first board book card

I have seen lots of the kits around on american web sites, but the postage was prohibitive so I decided to make my own using 500gsm card which was 90pence for an A2 sheet, the ws design template letters, acrylic paints, glamour dust, 12 x 12" papers in co-ordinating colours and scraps of ribbon. The glittery flowers are from the k & co range sweet berry.

1. cut a strip of card the height of each letter template, you need 1 strip for each letter.
2. draw the letter on the right hand side of the piece of card, and cut around the outside edge of the letter.
3. line up the letters to form the name whilst holding them all in place turn them over & mark a line on the reverse. Cut each piece so they form the basic book shape.
4. using the off cuts if possible draw around each of the letters again that you need for the book, then paint these with a co-ordinating acrylic paint & leave to dry.
5. whilst they are drying cover each page with 12 x 12 backing paper both on the back & front then decorate the pages with your chosen embellishments.
6. When the acrylic paint is dry stipple a co-ordinating colour lightly over the top, sprinkle ultra fine glitter whilst the paint is still wet.
7. To assemble stick painted letters onto the pages, when dry line up all of the pages & punch 3 holes using the cropodile or similar.
8. Thread through the three holes an easy bind ring ( available at stationers ) & tie various colours and lengths of ribbon through the binder rings.

Abi is a teenager

Well Abi became a teenager yesterday


I cant believe that its already been 13 years, it seems like just yesterday.
She had a lovely day excepting the two visits to PC World to return her birthday present, not once but twice. She had a laptop and both had dead pixels on the screen.
The third one seemed okay, wont boot up properley and seems like somebody else had already used it has a password already installed on it. so they can have that one back as well on Tuesday & I will choose a completely different brand.
So she is practicing on the Wii fit
She did have a nice surprise last night to end her birthday a new kitten arrived.

Does this ring any bells?

A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in
their
pyjamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all
around the front yard.

The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house and
there was no sign of the dog. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even
bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded
against one wall.

In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the
family
room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing.

In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the
counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a
broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was
spread by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of
clothes,
looking for his wife.
He was worried she might be ill, or that something serious had happened.

He was met with a small trickle of water as he made his way out the
bathroom
door.

As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys
strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste
had
been smeared over the mirror and walls.

As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in
her pyjamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how
his
day went.

He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?"

She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from
work and you ask me what in the world I do all day?"


"Yes," was his incredulous reply.

She answered, "Well, today I didn't do it."

Send this page to another woman.

Priceless

Race for Life 4th May 2008

Sunday May 4th 2008
11am

Tina & Abi race for life to raise funds for Cancer research at the Royal Norfolk Show Ground.

Just warming up

Getting ready to move onto the starting area, the whole scene is very emotional & quite overwhelming.

yayyyy!!
we did it in just under 50 minutes, not bad for the first time.

Proudly showing off our medals

Abi with Her dad he was very proud as were we all.

With Sympathy

The two with sympathy cards that I needed to make, I always think that these are the hardest of cards to make despite being of the simplest design.