Saturday, Saturday!!

I used to think Saturdays were for chilling out, meeting friends and generally doing nothing at all, not this one. My house has been full of teenagers ALL DAY!!! so you can imagine............................ FOOD, DRINK, WOOHOO!! FOOD, DRINK, WOOHOO!!!! My head is about to burst and it is only 6 o'clock in the evening. They ARE about to start to get ready for a big night out so we are back to FOOD,DRINK, WOOHOO, FOOD, DRINK, WOOHOO!!!! and yes just when I will be in the best deep sleep ever......probably around 4 a.m. they will arrive home full of the joys and FOOD, DRINK, WOOHOO will start all over again. Oh to be a teenager again, when nights were for partying and days were for sleeping...........

In between the Mumm...! can we haves, I finished my card for LCI blog challenge, "Plum Crazy with stitching" using some lovely ps I had from another project , think it is Bobunny (not sure, had it so long) with bazill cs, inked up Martini Nikki which is one of my favourite from Kerry, coloured her with copics and added this great LCI sentiment. I cut some flowers from the ps and made a CHA CHA CHA Club poster for a giggle, I would like to think Kerry will be having one "Shaken not stirred!" to toast her trip to the US.

I added glossy accents to her shoes and glass, a swarovski crystal to her very glittery dress, (think I can just remember when I MAY have fitted into one like it!)

I have to share these pictures of Aster, I think she is thoroughly fed up she can't be a part of the makeup and dress up "shenanigans" and she really pushed her luck thinking it was O.K. to sit up at the table for some dinner!!!!!

How Cuuuuute is she!!

Well I am off to sit down, relax and chill before I am sure to be asked "Muuum..... can you drop us at the train station please!!!!!!!! Have a great weekend and keep safe Annette

GOOD LUCK

Well Kerry has finally set off for CHA, Good Luck, I am sure you will have a great time and return with many special stories to tell us. After spending many hours on my Cricut, cutting, sticking and stacking different items for Kerry I have renewed my passion for crafting, I have so many ideas swirling around in my head I feel as though it is about to burst!!!!! First off I made a Dog House Thank You card box the other week for a friend of my Mums, when Kerry saw it she asked me to make one to take to CHA, so here it is, I would like to enter this into Polka Doodles "No Place Like Home" challenge, hopefully I will follow all the steps correctly.

Recipe is as follows:
Selection of My Minds Eye cs, Bazzil green cs, ribbon, flowers and buttons from Hayley at Funky Farm Scrapbookbarn, Buttercup stamp from Kerry at Ladybugcraftsink, coloured with copic markers and loads of glitter.

 The Doghouse is filled with 6 notelets and envelopes, so hopefully it will be successful at CHA. Finally as I have a really busy weekend ahead, I decided to enter http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com "Plum Crazy with stitching" challenge, so I am off to put the finishing touches to it and will post it tomorrow. Thanks for dropping by, Annette

                   WOO HOO!!!! My blog has "Attitude"



Thank you Kerry, I always knew I had attitude, my blog is another matter!!!!!!! I will try to live up to this, although I don't think that will be very difficult!!!
 I am really enjoying helping Kerry with her preparations for CHA, it has made me spare up time to craft which I find really difficult on a day to day basis. It is amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it. I have three other projects on the go as well as Kerry's, unfortunately David has taken my camera today (just wait till I get him!) ATTITUDE!!!! WOOHOO!!!! so photos will have to wait till tomorrow. With the My blog has attitude award, you have to add 3 things that may be interesting about yourself, HMMMM! I think I am quite boring, I will try,

1. I walked at 8 months. All those years ago I was known as "The Wonder Child" It was front page of  the    local rag, pretty amazing YEY?!
2. I swam competitively all through my teenage years, "Junior Schools Champion" at 15. WOOHOO!!!
3.I am a "Sucker" for "Lame Ducks" over the years I have rescued various animals,dogs, cats, horses, sheep, anything that pulls at my heart strings, AHHHHHHH!!!!

 So there you go just a "normal" person really............... I will have to think about who I will pass the award onto, I don't really know very many people with blogs, so watch this space, you may one of them.
I will share a picture I took just after Christmas

I was thinking about my Dad one day, feeling quite melancholy, missing him as I do at certain times of the year, I looked out the window and saw these two crosses made by what was probably an airplane, I thanked my Dad for not one kiss but two, soppy I know.
Have a great day and pass on, if not a kiss, a smile to someone, it's infectious...........
Annette x

January- Already!!

Time always seems to be against me just now, between house, horses and dogs. I feel as though I have had no time for anything else although Kerry over at http://ladybugcraftsink is off to CHA at the end of the month with her range of stamps and goodies. To help her out with decorating her 15x15ft stand myself and a couple other friends are busy making flowers, vines, letters , ladybugs and lots of other delightful creations. I have used my cricut expression to cut these and have now decided after 2 years, it's the best craft tool I possess. I have only just figured how to use the cricut in conjunction with my PC, WOW!!!!! I really admire who ever created this marvelous machine. Below is just a few of the fantastic things my cricut has produced.

 It does not look very much in the picture, I can assure you there's lots there and Elaine has made over 100 ladybugs, so "Good Luck" Kerry.

I did manage to make a birthday card for my husband David. I just love bugaboo digital downloads and Gus is one of them, I used  my favourite easel card, ps is My Minds Eye, coloured with copics and finished with a lovely manly button, so happy birthday David (25th Jan) bit early, have to be organise!!

 So that's the end of another busy day, back to cricut cutting tomorrow. Annette

Time does fly!!!!

HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR.............
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and a joyful New Year, I feel as though I have not had a minute to myself. My family came to visit for New Year and we had a FANTASTIC time in our local, dancing and singing along to a friends band....... my brothers had not spent a Hogmanay in Scotland for over 20 years and they were not disappointed, vowing to make it a date next year. It did take me some time to get back to normal when they left as the house seemed so quiet! Anyway a New Year and many resolutions to keep, one being to make more time to craft!!!!!!
An old friend of my Mum's moved house just before Christmas, this was her first move since being married 60 years ago!!!! how brave of her especially as she is only 88yrs young!....... I really wanted to make her a  special New Home card, so armed with a load of unused stash (another resolutions, (NO CRAFT PURCHASES IN JANUARY!) I set to stamping, colouring, cutting, sticking, huffing and puffing!!
"VOILA!!"

Once again, pictures never do the real thing justice. I really love this image by Kerryhttp://ladybugcraftsink.com/
I resized the image of Buttercup in his little house as I wanted to use 4x4" cards in the box, each card, six in all with envelopes are stamped with resized Buttercup sniffing a flower, he(she) is just adorable. The ps is a selection of My Minds Eye spring papers, a little premature I know, I just love the patterns and colours. All sides of the box are embelished with ribbon, buttons and paper flowers. (purchased from Hayley http://www.funkyfarmscrapbookbarn.co.uk/catalog/) before January,(honest)

I thought it would be nice for Mums' friend to have some little notes to thank those who helped with her removal. I think I will enter this into Ladybug crafts "Anything goes" challenge. http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

So, it's the end of another snowie day, I have fullfilled the first part of my New Years resolution, it's time to rest the creative matter to live to create another day!!!!!

GOOD LUCK FOR THIS NEW YEAR
Annette