Wot no pictures?

Yep no pictures uploaded yet - soz kids.

It's my little boys 4th Birthday today and I am stuck at work whilst he is in nursery. We sent him off with a giant squidy cake from Costco this morning, that will probably feed the whole darn nursery. It's full of really groovy ingredients like hydrogenated fats and food colouring that'll have 'em all bouncing off the walls! Let's hope it wears off by tea-time!

Got looooaddddssss of cardmaking stuff to do and I really must get down to itttt! Gotta make cards for mag and for people who kinda actually just want to buy a card to actually send or give it to someone ( weird huh?)

My good friend Sarah has just posted a 10% off everthing sale to celebrate her IVF - check it out a www.sarahscardsltd.co.uk - Good luck to her - keeping everything crossed for you xxx

Another thing I might do is pester other half to go on the Emily Falconbridge workshop in September...............fingers crossed

Sold some of my surplus to requirements rubber stamps on Ebay last night, I just LOVE watching the bids go up it's addictive - sad but true.

I have a new addiction - Stampin Up! It's a US, Aus, and Canadian stamp company, you can only buy via their demonstrators, its a bit like Tupperware for Crafters. I just ADORE their stamps and have some of their catalogues I WANT SOME REALLY LOTS!!! I'll keep you posted.

Anyway that's all for today byeeeee

Back to Work

Well it's been a whole 9 days since I last posted so in order to fool you all I have changed the tempate to create a "smokescreen" yey like that worked!!!

I have dragged my sorry carcass back into work this morning after the Bank Holiday. What the heck though, there is only so much sunbathing one can do. Talking of which, what the hell happened to Summer? I want my money back, I want to be whining about how "flippin hot" it is, I want to be on the verge of fainting on the way home from work 'cos my car is so hot.

Well the big news with me is that my new scrap room project is underway. I have moved into a corner of hubbys office, no doubt so he can roll his eyes at the amount of stuff I have (those pizza boxes have been turning up with amazing frequency lately). The room needs to be re-plastered but first I have to rip out the hideouse 70's built in cupboards. I drooled my way around IKEA looking for new furniture at the weekend, I can't wait to show you the finished article, I will post a before pic soon!!

I have got a real "de-junk" head on me at the moment, I don't know what it is, but I can't stop rooting through all my cupboards and bagging stuff up to chuck, sell or give to Charidy. Perhaps it's because opening drawers and cupboards in our house has become a bit of an extreme sport ha ha !! Next stop ebay to sell about 40 squillion back copies of old mags. Don't you just love ebay, its sooooo cool, I spend about 9 years taking photos, weighing stuff , uploading to turbo lister and then no-one bids!! I've got some rubber stamps up for sale at the mo, and each time a bid goes in I get really excited, it's like "someone has bid £1.76 !!!! How cool is that". I really must get a life!

And guess what I have left everything too late as per and now have more deadlines looming - I have also been invited to join a design team if I come up with the goods, so will let you know how I get on.

Bye for now

I'm here!

Gosh, how much effort does it taketo write a couple of paragraphs about what I do?

Obviously far too much for me to handle!!

I had a great time at the audition last Saturday, not just your average X factor 2 min thing, but a 1 hour "master class" with a proper professional musical director. It was fab and great fun, but they are only choosing 15 people from the whole of the UK so I am not handing in my notice just yet!

Anyway just back from a 21st party.............................off to bed now

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How Rubbish am I??

Well I've been a bit lax ain't I, bet you've all been gagging to find out more about my thrilling life - yeah right...........

Well back from hols, back at work and another deadline looms - hey ho!This time I ain't gonna get stressed cos it's only one and I had 3 just before I went on hols.

Whilst I was on holiday I got an email telling me I have an audition on Saturday for BBC Radio 2 Search for A Musical Theatre Star

ok ...................I'll hang on whilst you wet yourselves laughing

AHEM!! Well it's worth a go, the rest of 'em will all be about 18, stick thin, with voices like Julie Andrews, then I'll arrive with my zimmer and a voice like Hilda Ogden. Never mind - positive thinking and all that. I looked at a video clip on the t'internet of the auditions in London and I nearly ran for the hills I can tell you!

Today hubby is stuck in Athens on business and couldn't get home due to the plane thing. He rang me from the poolside bar on the roof of his hotel drinking beer and my sympathy quickly evaporated!!

Got home today and my latest project is on the front cover of Quick and Crafty Mag - I am soooooo chuffed, they are so nice to me and I love them for it. So if Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks I am pants at singing - at least I have my mega stardom as a card maker to fall back on teee heee!

Well better go and exercise my tonsils - I'll tell you all about the rejection and humiliation later this week - wish me luck!

Back in Glasgae

We left Kishorn this morning boo-hiss...back in Glasgow tonight and will be on our merry way back down South tomorrow.

Had a lovely day yesterday, went for a drive over "The Pass of the Cattle" over to Applecross Bay for a bit of a potter about. Took some arty pics in the walled garden of Applecross Estate and looked for "beach glass" on the shores. Last year when we were there a group of lads went skinny dipping. We were walking along the beach and saw a whole load of clothes and trainers being washed up.Next minute a group of 8 lads came running up stark naked and in search of their clothes.I nearly had a stroke but.........couldn't reach.................. he ahahahahahahah (old jokes are the best)

On the way home we stopped off for a spot of luncheon at The House of Bruar, kind of a Highlands Harrods with lots of Cashmere and yummy food. It' s got a sale on ha ha flippin ha, the prices have been reduced from "oh my God I need a stretcher!" to "call the bank manager to get the forms for a 2nd mortgage" needless to say I didn't buy owt!

Spent a blissful couple of hours watching telly tonight, back to normal again.

Back home to my own bed tomorrow, then work on Monday ya boo sucks.......

Idyllic.com

Ohhh it's so nice here and today is our last day. Last night we all went to Plockton by boat for dinner, the scenery is just beautiful up here and really "big" big Mountains and big Lochs.

We went to a fab restaurant called "Off the Rails" which is on the station, gorgeous food and lots of it.We arrived after a long walk up the hill from the harbour I was puffing and wheezing like a fat old pensioner by the time we got there. So we sat outside for a wee aperitif getting dive bombed by midges. Midges are rubbish and get in your eyebrows and completely do your head in!! We bid a hasty retreat inside and all was fine.

The journey back was great, almost in the dark and I sat up the front of the boat again. We then all piled into the small boat to get to shore, 6 adults and 2 kids, thank god I was inebriated cos I would have been peeing myself with fright, it all seemed a bit precarious to me!

Weather ain't brill but we are all having a quiet day around the house, I am writing this in the conservatory which has the most incredible views. Back down to Glasgow tomorrow, I haven't seen TV for almost a week - and survived!

Bye for now xx

Sailor Sam

Well here I am on the boat the other day - ain't I looking gorgeous!

OK so I have a stinking cold and the weather has turned fron "pants" to "really big pants" if I hear you are all basking in the sun down there I shall weep! However I am still having a fabby time.

Last night we went to a Ceilidh (pronounced Kaylee) for a wee dance. Gosh it was fab, the band are all students who audition and their talent just blows you away. Mind you not much of a telly signal up here so they've bags of time to practice. We had a good time and did a dance called "strip the willow" which takes about 3 hours from start to finish!

I had some great news yesterday, I have an audition for a talent search held by the BBC for a musical theatre performer. I've done loads of musical theatre since I was a kid and so this is my last ditch attempt at Fame. I'll be pushing my zimmer frame into the audition room wearing my legwarmers! Wish me luck!

Yesterday I also managed to get some time to myself and made some cards, so the stash didn't travel up here in vain. Alan is just about to go fishing so maybe I'll get chance to get something done later. Must dash I have a Haggis to catch..........