Happy Birthday to me :D

And what a day to have a birthday on..the same day as the inauguration!!! Cool.
It was a normal(ish) day as i was at work. I did have a phone call and an invite out this morning from a friend asking me to skip school...I didn't do it when i was a student! LOL ( well much ;))
I have had some lovely gifts and we have having Chinese for tea ( partly due to no cooker!)
My new card for the slice arrived today so i am hoping to play later.
Have been playing around with the look of my blog..its not right yet ..so expect more changes soon.

Not a WONDEFUL week so far

Not dreadful though ..just frustrating! Cooker is NOT coming till 5th Feb !! That'll teach me to actually get ahead of myself! We have a microwave and i bought a deep fat fryer ( not keen on it i have to say ) We also have a small George Foreman grill but I am one of those people who like to SEE food cooking and stir..So i bought a portable induction hob and was going to make pasta on it tonight ...except i cannot get it to heat up....not sure what i am doing wrong..have read the manual over and over ..looks like i will have to send it back or get it replaced Grrr The joke is that i paid extra for a speedy delivery..typical.
In other news, Dex went to Wales to visit his mum who is 90 in March on Weds and is on his way back tonight.....trip cut short due to other family members being a pain...don't you LOVE families. Mine are FAB BTW ( as are MOST of Dex's!)
So a "bitty" week with not a lot done definitely no scrapping :(

I have finally started

On my kitchen!! We have lived here for YEARS and i have not decorated the kitchen ...what a slut! In my defence, the whole house desperately needed decorating when we first moved in. The walls were all a mess and garishly decorated. The kitchen is very small ( especially as there are five of us) and full to the brim of "stuff". So i am decorating in stages, so we can still use it and as i have to stop to go to work. The far wall needed re plastering but i have used this stuff from polycell that you smooth over and then sand..WHAT A MESS!! LOL anyway that bit is done and the cooker area..New cooker arriving tomorrow ( hopefully). I will do above the units and around the door tomorrow and that just leaves behind the fridge. BTW its Lemon tropics Colour (Above). I need to get something to hand from the ceiling for my pans to try and save as much space as possible. Then i am done.

I have done no scrapping this weekend :( AND i have the GORG scrapaGoGo kit for Feb to play with.....My last one with ScrapaGoGo. I have been with them for three years now and its time for me to say goodbye.

Yr 10 and 11 GCSE's tomorrow morning ..here we go again! So an early night.

A Mixed day

Do you ever get the feeling that someone is trying to tell you something ? LOL

Dan hardly slept all night ( back to school today) so was up really early. His taxi normally picks him up at 7.15am but it was a new driver and they got lost so were an hour late!

Dex and i went shopping and was going to get me an I phone on PAYG but too many bills needed to be paid and i thought that £350 + was just a little steep today. On the way to Norwich, there were really bad traffic delays due to a burst pipe. It took us an hour and a half to travel 3 miles!

We bought Meg some new trainers but one is too tight! That means she is now a size 6 ! I managed to buy some stuff for my kitchen walls to cover the bad paint work but am too tired to start tonight. Dex and I went to Captain America's for lunch..last time we went there, we had a phone call from Dan's primary school telling us to pick him up straight away...today Dex felt too hot and had to go wait outside while i finished my lunch. Nothing exciting in the sales either.

Nats was happy as i brought her some scrapping stash from Jerrold's.

We are both shattered so are having Chinese for tea. I promise to cook more and eat healthier when the new cooker comes ( hopefully next week).

I made a baby card for my niece( above) using hug wear and magnolia stamp ( from a swap last year). Sorry light is bad in here ATM.

A Thank you card

Made yesterday , using the silce for the frame, heart and flower. I DO love the slice :)

Popped into work this morning for some behaviour management training. I am always optimistic and hope i will learn something i don't know...sigh ..ahh well its good to be reminded occasionally :).

It is confirmed that both Dan and Meg go back to school tomorrow, so i am quite excited about having a day out. I go back on Weds.

We had a small amount of snow over night but it is lovely and sunny now ( if a bit cold) .

Scrapping again

It feels like ages! I managed to catch up on my "save the day" pages:D And then did this for the UKS Challenge " Scrap Like you mean it" using your fav colours..Mine are pastels especially lemon at the moment. The Stunning photograph of BIL Raymond and my niece Rosie Was taken by Nets best Friend Foss, who is an awesome photographer. Check her out

I did a prima class at ATDML retreat with Tracie and loved it so much , i have used some of the ideas here. I also used my FAB slice to make the flowers.....Check out the Why Slice? Web site for very exciting news..just after my birthday!! Cooooool eh?
Speaking of Birthdays, My Nephew, James,(top right) is 12 today :) :) Where has the time gone!

We have a new member of our family. Congratulation Donna and Mark on the birth of Caleb this week :)

Back to work tomorrow but just the morning for some in house training, then back properly on Weds.....Which is BRILLIANT coz, the children are back at school on Tuesday and Dex is off......Which means, that we have a whole day together ..That's not happened for years! We are off to get me an early Birthday present ;)

How Lazy!!

Have I been! Getting up late, doing nothing much and its wearing me out LOL!!
New Cooker coming on 12th ..ahh well..It gives me plenty of time to sort the kitchen out ..Not that i have started yet! Our Kitchen is REALLY small and the walls are awful, due to bad paintwork etc. It desperately needs doing and there's not that much wall to do ..Not sure how to decorate it as i want it to be sunny..probably a yellow colour..I can't afford to get it re plastered , so will probably either use lining paper or add something to the paint to add more texture..Any ideas?????
Am about to reclaim my scrapping space back as i haven't done anything over the holiday and i have a few Birthdays coming up, plus the 25th of Nov and Dec pages to do. Hopefully the Feb scrapaGoGo's kit will be arriving soon :D
Not been that impressed with the sales so far ( scrapbook) but i love the stuff at ATDML and they started their sale today :D ..Go Look
Just wanted to wish anyone reading this a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Hope its a good one for you

A belated Happy Christmas!!

Time just flew! Hope everyone had a wonderful time:)
Anyone who knows my family well, will KNOW that our Christmas will not have gone without the odd glitch LOL and of course that is true. SO RIP my cooker ..who died while cooking Christmas dinner!! ...You would think that sort of thing would only happen once in a lifetime wouldn't you ? ...No the exact same thing happened about 15 yrs ago and my darling mum cooked our dinner that time. This time I would like to thank my little sis ( with the BIG oven) xxxx.
New cooker ordered and hopefully arriving soon.
I am recovering from flu and am now starting to want to eat again..unfortunately wasn't off my food long enough to loose much weight though ;)
We had a wonderful evening yesterday playing games with little sis and family. I was both surprised at how good ( and competitive ) Meg was :).
No scrapping done at all ..as i had to tidy it all away ..i shall start to mess up the dinning room again soon though :)

December designs

For scrapaGoGo. I have also made loads of cards from this fab kit too.

Have just finished school for the holidays and am SO tired. It has been a week and a half ( thats an understatement) but I am looking forward to a bit of rest before I have to tidy away my craft room ( dining room) for Christmas.

A few more from the weekend

The first two I have used some hugware
The last one has vintage clipart on it. I still need to make another 20 (ish!!)

Some more

The last two are my favs. The labels are from here

They were printed out and embossed a few times, bunged in the freezer and then crackled. I also used my slice to make the flowers.

I made a few cards

The bejeweled Christmas trees are inspired by Marlene's Stunning tree card. I have a few more to show you tomorrow.

New Winter header

That's also a sneaky peek at ScrapaGoGo's Dec kit :)
I knew that this would happen, that thing would start to get manic. Too much to do and not enough time to do it! This is probably one of the last weekends before Christmas that i can scrap. You see i am using the dinning room table and will have to clear everything away ( and try to FIND the dinning room ) soon. I still have only made three Christmas cards, so need to get my act together!
Dan is playing football for his school tomorrow , but its in Lowestoft ( 30 + miles away!) So no lie in and an hour + trip :( ..Am i bad to hope its rained off? Yes!
Really sad to find that the pier is closing ..i LOVE that shop.
I am off to the clothes show with the school on Wednesday which will be nice in a mad, manic sort of way!
Right back to card making!

Well .....

Even after the weekend , i still feel shattered! Mind you, it was a really busy weekend. I spent a wonderful day at the Wyverstone Christmas Crop...I think it is the first time i have managed a Christmas one. We played games, had secret Santa and went out for a meal at a local pub. Brill..I am ashamed to say that i made ONE card!! And a bad one at that! LOL
Sunday i took the girls to the local garden center to get some Christmas cards and bits. we had lunch there too. Then we popped into Diss to get some food shopping ( although i slipped a couple of presents in my basket when they weren't looking) Because of my gadding about, i got very behind in the housework etc and the place STILL looks like a bomb has hit it.
Doesn't look like things will let up much this weekend as Dan has a football match on Sat and needs to be there by 10.30 ..in LOWESTOFT!! ( 35 miles away).
I have made a total of two Christmas cards so far, so need to get a move on.

Thursday and counting

The days to the weekend. I can not remember feeling so tired before!..I Really need an early night! School has been very busy even during break and lunchtimes. We have been doing the yr 11 mock exams all this week so that hasn't helped. I really ought to do my Materials GCSE LOL, I found all the questions ( i was a reader) really easy.
I have been using my Dec ScrapaGoGo kit this week and still have mountains left. Need to make some Christmas cards at the weekend though.
Sorry its boring .

So two in one day!

My November ScrapaGoGo Layouts

Sorry!

I am ALWAYS nagging other people to keep up their blogs ..then go and abandon mine!!
Partly because its so busy at the moment ( home and work) and partly as face book takes up so much time..feeding animals, sewing crops and going to work LOL Too many applications!
I have been doing stuff ion the "Real" world too. Spend a WONDERFUL weekend last week weekend at Stoke by Nayland leisure club/Hotel at the ATDML retreat. Met up with lots of Friends and made lots more..It all went far too quickly. Two of the Lo's i did are above. One from the FAB Tracie Hudson's class...I love painting and will do this again. Then one from the kit I found on my table when i arrived. I still have loads of tweaking to do and finishing off some of my other classes and will photograph them when done.
It was Nets Birthday on 19Th...So Happy Birthday from my blog :)
We have had loads of snow this weekend and the children actually went out in it...wonders never cease! Photos are of Meg and Nats having a snowball fight outside the house..Meg won of course!

Hummmpph

The weekend went too fast!! Car alarm kindly went off at 4am . Dex and I flew down the stairs to stop it! It is back at the garage tomorrow.

Managed to finish my Advent calender..inspired by the fab Gail ..(Efemera). I used all hugwear images and LOADS of glitter LOL. Not Great photos as the light has gone now .

Still waiting for my SLICE to arrive ..should be sometime this week :)

REALLY looking forward to the retreat on Friday...........sigh. I have to take loads of photos for Dex as he wants to spend his 50th Birthday there :)

Yayyyyyy Friday

Its been a stressful week :) I am trying hard to curb Dan's dreadful swearing ( He is 15 and has ADHD, ASD, OCD, Tourettes and Learning difficulties and i know all that doesn't help) We are starting with two words I'd like him NOT to use and if he can managed four clear days out of the week, he can go to youth club ( where they probably swear like troopers!) on Tuesday. He hasn't managed one day so far :( ( we are on track for today though so it COULD be possible)
Hardly ANY scrapping this week but i have started to make an Advent baking tray :) ...no pics yet. I am also blatantly copying Marlene's STUNNINGLY beautiful Christmas card ...it is my fav one so far :)
The year 10 and 11's are starting to stress about end of term tests and mock exams in a few weeks. Also loads of coursework to get in on time. I had to calm one poor yr 10 boy down today
:( Yesterday we the first lot of the injections for the yr8 girls ( for cervical cancer) ..loads of panic, tears and stress. They all seem fine today though thank goodness.
My car is playing up again LOL ..Its a joke!! The central locking alarm keeps going off as my car ( a Ford) does NOT like the cold and damp! ( neither do i!!). Its been to the garage last week and the guy thought he'd fixed it...guess what ..he hasn't. It does SEEM to be behaving ATM ( must be coz i said I'd get its wires cut! ;))

ohhhhh No!

I am at the end of my half term Hol :( I don't want to go to work tomorrow..usually I do am I am ready..Must be the cold, dark days. Had a busy day tidying and washing ( all boring stuff).
I have decided to make a journal for December similar to the one I made for July. Its such a busy month that it would be a shame not to keep a journal ..I can't commit to a big Christmas book but this should be okay. So far, i have covered the front of the journal ( in tomatoe red velvet :))
I also quite like the idea of the baking tray avent calenders Andrea, Yizz and Karen have made some fab ones. Dex picked me up a couple of trays from Asda for 89p ( he was a bit upset when he found out that I wouldn't be making biscuits on them ! LOL