Bill & Bens Day Out !!!

Sunshine Sunshine, where art though sunshine !!!! I had the summer clothes looked out, (put the bikini back mind you) tried some on EEK! where did all this extra weight come from, must have been all the hearty soups and stews over the winter!! Set my little deckchair up, made my self a cup of tea ready to sit down and enjoy a bit of the sun when, BAA, BAA, BAA, BAA !! Now, I love my animals but sometimes ! Yes, the boys wanted OUT !!!!! Eilidh was more excited than them when they came out of their stable, they followed her everywhere, the only thing they didn't know what to do was EAT THE GRASS ! Now what do you do when sheep won't eat grass? I tried to convince Eilidh she would have to get down on all fours and pretend to munch the grass, you can imagine what she said *********************************** ! So the boys played for a while then they had their bottles and lay down to have a wee rest, SOOOOOOOOO CUTE.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE !! " Scottish girl gives birth to lambs !!! LOL

So Bill & Ben had their first day out, now they don't want to go back into their stables, if anyone knows how to solve the grass problem please let me know (Hayley ?!?)

I told you about the accident I had with Aria last weekend, well thankfully she is looking fine and no longer stiff, here she is with her best buddy enjoying the sun.

Aria is in the background and Dodge (apptly named) is the one with the beard ! he is not being frisky, biting her butt, he is just making sure she keeps her good looks by grooming her.

So hopefully no more dramas and I can get back to normal. David is going off on a golfing holiday with his friend to celebrate a belated joint 50th birthday, they have been saving hard for 2 years so have a great time you old codgers and remember to pack your Ralgex ! Thats one less to worry about for a week and the kids go back to school soon so things are certainly looking up on the impending crafting scene for me...................

I did manage to do a bit over the past couple of days. Hayley asked if I would send her some samples for her web site gallery, hope you like the ones I e-mailed you Hayley and heres a couple more.

How to make the lace flowers are a closely guarded secret, not the same as Hayleys and I may share the technique if I can be persuaded !!!

I decided to buy a rope for my clothes poles instead of using my wirly gig, I got into such a state when I tried to attach it, hence the twine surrounding the card and my wish is that I could have a maid to do the ironing because I don't look as glamorous as Nikki. The crochet flower is my own !!!!!!! All the ps and cs is from Hayley and the stamp is from Kerry and the crochet flowers are from Annette (HEE HEE)  talking of which, I used to crochet years ago and I mean years ago at one point everyone I knew, family, friends, dogs, yes dogs !! had something I had crocheted so when I saw stamping up had crochet flowers in there catalogue, I thought, I can do that so the impatient side of me said look out the crochet hooks and yarn and set to producing some lovely flowers. I started off a bit rusty and now I am churning them out like mad, (just kidding) well at least 100 a day !

Ok so it's slightly less !!!

Any way I started off saying I did not get the opportunity to enjoy the sun, it's shining at the moment so I am off to put the kettle on, pick up my favourite craft mag., and god help any one who even attempts to speak, phone, text or e-mail me except if it's to tell me where the latest craft deals can be found ! Can I just say thank you to everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday, I had a great day, and don't really feel that much older!?!?!? I KNOW I don't look it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Annette x

Who you gonna call !!!!!!!

118 !!!!!
Who do you call about having more hours added to a day...................... 118!!!!! couldn't help. I have been chasing my tail all week and still haven't managed to get everything done I wanted. It all started on Sunday when we took our young horse to her first show of the season. It rained from start to finish, it was very poorly organised, the gallery was full of screaming kids, now I don't mind screaming kids but Aria doesn't like them at all and did everything to make me take her home !!! I should have listened to her !!!! By the time she completed her class she was completely tuned to the moon and acting like a complete "NUT JOB" Outside the riding arena was a quogmyre of mud and we were all soaked to the skin. Hungry and totally fed up we decided to head home so we loaded the horses and just as we were saying our good buys Aria decided to jump over the front bar of the trailer OMG !!!! PANICK BIG TIME !!! We acalled for all the biggest, burliest men to come help, not quick enough for Aria, she then reared up to the point of no return and fell over backwards in the trailer OMG !!!! EVEN BIGGER PANICK !!!! I was by this time trembling like a jelly and my calm and sensible side kicked in. I quickly opened the back trailer ramp and was horrified to see Arias head come out the trailer first, it was originally the opposite way round............she scrambled to her feet and jumped out the trailer in complete amazement !!!! After checking her over I found she had only supperficial scratches, what a lucky baby horse she was. We reloaded her and very quickly headed home, thankfully she ate her dinner and seemed no worse for wear, more than I can say for me, not even the largest G&T stopped me shaking !!!!!! Since then I have been massaging her back, legs and shoulders every four hours after feeding the lambs !!!!! so you can imagine why I desperately want more hours in the day !!!!!!!

TODAY.... Eilidh my daughter has taken a break from studying for her Highers to take over the chores outside to let me catch up with the domestics (YUK, YUK, YUK) So using that wonderfull asset God gave all women (multy tasking) I have managed 4 washes, a pile of ironing, changed beds, cooked meals AND !!!!!! made 2 cards, YEEEEE!

This is my favourite horse stamp and sentiment, I feel it is quite suitable for a males card.

Now I have gone completely over the top with this card, I used the MME paper I bought at the SECC and the butterfly punch from SU. I also used my new sewing machine for the first time and got completely caried away !!!!! Well... I was having fun !!!!

So now I am off to have my dinner and do some more ironing !! I ordered some goodies from Hayley today and hopefully they will arrive tomorrow and if Eilidh is feeling generous I might have another wee play. Nearly forgot to say I DID NOT get ONE easter egg !!

Annette

BABY ! BABY ! BABY !!!!

 When I got my last dog, a Jack Russell called Aster I swore I would never have another dog as three was more than enough !!!!! WELL.................I did only say no more dogs, no mention of LAMBS !!! Eilidh and I heard a wee story about some lambs which had been rejected by there mother, sooooooooooooo you can imagine, we couldn't possibly let that happen, Bill and Ben arrived last Sunday!! Cute as buttons and so loving. Ben is the smallest and a bit shy, at least he was untill he realised that the two ladies with the bottles containing yummy white milk were really not too scary. Bill is the bolshy one and a bit slower, he was sniffing and nudging us from the first minute he laid eyes on us, it took him a bit longer to suss the feeding thing but when he finally did he was like a fiend sucking so fast he fell over himself. We have to feed them four times a day at the moment and they do not let us forget breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, they start to bleet so loudly even the horses can hear them out in the field. Ben loves to have a cuddle after he has fed, putting his tiny nose in the crook of Eilidh's neck making a lovely snoring sound of contentment. Billy loves his cuddles also, although he is inclined to be so contented he forgets to go to his toilet space and widdles on me, accidently of course. The farmer we got them from told us he also had piglets................... What do you think, should we rescue some cute little piggies ????  My husband David just looks at me and shakes his head when I come up with these things, knowing that there is no point in trying to talk me out of it, he did help to feed them last night and I could see he enjoyed his cuddle as much as Ben did. Think I will draw the line at anything bigger, although Highland cattle ARE very beautiful !!!!!

Bolshy Bill is no: 39 and Benny boo is no: 34

Eilidh concentrating and Bill ready to demolish his dinner !

Satisfaction guarenteed xxxxxx

So enough ooooing and aaaaing, because of these two sweety pies the birthday card challenge I set myself has come to a grinding halt and panick has now set in, my Mums birthday is on Monday and my sisters is Tuesday !!!!!!  the first horse show of the season is on Monday also and I have three horses to bath over the weekend, one of which is light grey, well dark muddy grey at the moment, so I am stressing to the max !!!! Oh yes we are also having family for Easter lunch on Sunday and taking Mum out for dinner Monday night, what WILL I be like come Tuesday morning, think I will just have to have a day in my craft room (between feeds of course) and get crafty and creative. Kerry http://ladybugcraftsink.blogspot.com/ gave me an early birthday present of beautiful DCWV (Linen Closet) cardstock and paper which I would like to use, so I will have to get cracking and come up with some nifty ideas, watch this space !!!!!!! Anyway it is very late and I am shattered, have a lovely Easter weekend and try not to eat too many chocolate eggs.

Annette