Overrun with Trick or Treaters!!!!!!!!!!!

OK quick tip, if you are gonna stick a lit pumpkin on your front step, don't try to make a casserole and feed your 4 year old, instead prepare for serious hordes of trick or treaters!!!

WOOOAAAAHHHHH I think someone must have parked a coachload at the end of our road, our house was INUNDATED with visits tonight. Good job I bought like shedloads of choccie in readiness though, was hoping to trough the leftovers..............not much left over I can tell you.

It was all very cute though and I felt really mean that I hadn't dressed little Alex up to open the door, bless him. Every time the bell rang he sprinted to the door to offer up the choccie basket. Bless his socks awwwwww.

Gee it's good to be back home again...........

Yes these are the words of John Denver and they are true. We have had a fabbo family half term holiday. Just back from Buckinghamshire after visiting friends in Great Missenden. What a gorgeous place, Roald Dahl lived there and there is a museum there devoted to his life and work. It was soooo interesting and hs made me determined to get a book about his life. I had no idea he wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Did a great tourist day in London, saw Downing Street for the first time and also went to the Tower of London which was really good.

Yesterday we went to Whipsnade Zoo and the best thing there was the hippos, saw them really close up and apparently they poo in their pool to mark their territory. YUCK

Back to work tomorrow - boo -hiss xxx

Waiting for Noah..........

Flippin 'eck (spot the Northern Lass) its been piddling down here all day. Most miserable.......

Never mind, my fab new custome made stamps arrived this morning just for meeeeee! Very chuffed with how they turned out, no time to play though cos off "darn Sarf" tomorrow to visit friends near London.

Also mega excited - Sarah has booked our hotel for the NEC in Nov - "girls on tour yey!!" She has been busy with another yummy kit on her website - check it out at www.sarahscardsltd.co.uk I am wishing her a sell out!

Off to Leoland at the crack of dawn.................hope it ain't raining darn Sarf

Hoots Mon

Just back from a fabbo long weekend in Glasgae..........did lots of fab things, went to S for Stamps and Craft Heaven - designed my own stamps which should arrive tomorrow and bought more stash!

Went to the newly reopened Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery with DH and DS, just fab. I am a real fan of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and they have an exhibit with loads of those designs - just yummy.

Talking of yummy I went for the best curry ever last night at Mother India, just delish!!! Back home for 36 hours and then orf to Legoland and London - these half term hols ain't all bad eh??

OHHHHH 3 Comments

Seems like my begging has paid off, my last post was read and commented on! Thanks gals your fivers are in the post!

Well I can report that my mojo is back and I am on top of all my projects and I am actually getting the time to just "play". Now I have been cruelly wrenched away from my stash and I am in Glasgow, not to worry I am sure I can fit in some trips to Memory Avenue and S for Stamps he hee heee!!

Looking forward to November cropping activity and the NEC. The last crop was cancelled because Sarah and I couldn't make it so we are on again for our monthly crop in Northwich and I am helping out on her Xmas Retreat (making tea - oh my lord where is the valium??) Then I am helping her out at the NEC and I am SOOOOO excited.

Yummy New Stuff

Ohhhh went over to Sarah's last night (of Sarahs Cards) and raided her new stock. She has taken delivery of lots of GORGEOUS, and I mean GORGEOUS new American Crafts 12x12 paper and it just made me swoon. It is just to die for and I got loads of it and I want more - greed is a terrible fing. The problem with Sarah is she just stocks ENTIRE ranges of papers and it just means I have to buy em'

On the same subject, I have developed an obsession with Stampin Up, a just gorgeous US company who have the lushest stamps on the planet. I have bought some off ebay but have made contact with a demonstrator who lives near my cousin in the US and I am gonna buy more when I can.

Talking of stamping I have discovered a yummy stamping blog called Stamping Mathilda, she is a lady based in the Netherlands I think, and she stamps like a dervish!! Her stuff is wonderful so check it out, cos I is in awe!!!!!

Photos!

Gosh well I finally uploaded a photo of Lil Ol' Me onto my blog - display this page and it'll keep the kids away from your PC hahahahahah. Did you all notice my fabbo new banner? It took me chuffin' ages, and I still can't figure out how to get rid of the original title which is still lurking underneath!

I hate photos of me, one time I joined a posh gym near Wilmslow and I had to have a pic taken for my gym pass. The girl took it really quick she said "ready?" I went "ay? what? ohhhh waaaahhh" and it was all over. You should have seen it, I almost wet my pants laughing, I truly looked like I was looking into the back of a spoon. The girl that took it was peeing herself too. So she goes "awwww don't worry no-one will ever see it, it's just for your card"

WRONG!!!! Each time I went to the gym the card got swiped through a machine and was displayed about A4 size on a bloody TV screen - invariably when there was a fit rich bloke just behind me.....................so that's why I don't go to the gym! Good excuse eh?

Confined to Barracks...............

Silly old me - I've managed to get myself an inner ear infection called "acute labyrinthitis", completely out of the blue, went to the docs yesterday and he has signed me off work with it. It makes me feel like I am on a boat, bit dizzy and sicky, as long as I don't pogo about I feel OK so for once I am taking it easy!

He gave me some microscopic pills which apparently you can't chew or swallow (it says so in BIG letters on the pack) instead you have to put them up under your top lip. They stop you feeling icky . Last night I DID feel icky so I stuck one of those suckers where I was supposed to and was SO SCARED I was gonna swallow one I sat up in bed like a big jessie holding it against my gum with my pinky. It did the trick though hurrah!!

I am such a hypocondriac though, I started reading up about it and apparently it can make you vom like a trooper and last for weeks. Now I am no big fan of "Up-Chucking" (who is??) so I hope that ain't gonna happen!

I'll keep you posted - even though the lack of comments on here make me feel like "Billy" (no-mates)

Back Home

Well I am back home and judging by the number of comments a bog fat none for ages it looks like I am "talking to myself". It'll be my own fault since I am a bit of a sporadic blogger.

I haven't "created" anything in ages and so on Friday and yesterday I spent hours making stuff for my 10 squillion deadlines. When I first started I was almost having a heart attack trying to figure out what to do, but I am dead proud of myself. I got stuff done for Quick & Crafty, Crafts Beautiful and some design team work done for the lovely Banana Frog!!

Don't know if I have mentioned it but Bev from Banana Frog has asked me to be on her design team - I am soooooo chuffed. She produces the most fabby acrylic stamps, it's great to see such talent in the UK and I am very very flattered to join them.

Still got loads more bits and pieces to do. A lovely chap from Xyron has sent me some goodies to play with including books for my Xyron Personal Cutter yey!!! AND more discs for my design runner, so I'll see what I can come up with.

My "craft" room is still in a right state and I am still occupying a small corner of DH's office at home. It's great but he caught me oohing and ahhing over some American Crafts ribbon I got from QVC on Friday. After looking at my 6 jars jam packed with ribbon he said "more ribbon ?????"...............men they just don't understand........

London Rocks!!

Well folks I am in London and having a fab time. Although I am officially here for work I have been made to feel very welcome and I am staying at a really nice hotel. Been here since Sunday and I flew down (oooh get me!!) to our head office. Our head office is larvelly!!

On Monday night I went on the London eye which was just peachy. Last night I went to see "The Producers" in the West End. A quick tip for theatre lovers - don't pay BIG ticket prices, if you haven't got your heart set on a particular show go to the TKTS booth in Leicester square on the day you want to go see summat cos most of them are half price. Anyway the big scoop is that I went on my own "what a big girl" how cool am I. OK so I stressed about how I was gonna get home on my own on the tube (so still a big ponce really) but I needn't have worried there were like 10,000 peeps on the tube last night so plenty of people about. My mother nearly had a conniption (spelling?) when I told her.

Tonight I am hoping to go see "Guys & Dolls" - apparently Patrick Swayze has bogged off on hols this week so he we be covered by his understudy - I was kind of hoping to see him since I swooned over him in Dirty Dancing in the 80's . Hey ho though it'll still be good.

Off home tomorrow night - it's been kinda blissful being a "chick about town" rather than " a drudge at home " LOL!!!

Till the next time........

Hop

Scrunched Up Stomach
Over the past few weeks I haven't had time to "create" and it has made me very grumpy and edgy. I have had to work 5 days a week when I usually work 4 so time has been limited and DH has been working away so by the time I have got Alex to bed I am fit for bed myself

The good news is I am off work next Friday so I'll have time to play -yey!!

Deep Blue Funk...........

Well readers - I have to admit to being in a bit of a deep blue funk right now

Working 5 days a week, with a wee one who has started school and precious little time to even do housework and the basics has meant my creativity has taken a back seat. In fact my creativity is basically so low on the list of priorities its actually in a trailer attached to the back of the car............

I have been watching the UKScrappers forum and reading all about Scrapcamp and all the lovely retreats and I am green with envy. My job is getting in the way of my papercrafting and it makes me sad and restless and quite stressed - what to do???

I have been extremely fortunate that my work appears in Quick and Crafty and this has been a spring board to other opportunities.........but at the moment I am struggling to fit them all in. If only I didn't have a "day job" I am sure I could really soar.

Hey ho...........no comedy from me today, what a moaner I am - someone come round and slap me!!

Trying to Be A Stamper

Well after another one of my loooong absences - I am back!

Lots of stuff has happened since I last wrote my blog but I won't bore you with the details. I want to write about rubber stamps.

I am a BIG fan of rubber stamps and associated stash but I just can't get my head round using them. I see a stamp in a shop and think "woooaaaaahhh I gotta have it" and then all the ideas I had for using it evaporate when I get home. It's bizarre.

So I have decided to "focus" and get myself into stamping, I was in Harrogate for the CraftWork Cards Papercraft Extravaganza and had a fab time last Sunday. I took my Mum and although we only had 2 hours to whizz round I still managed to spend money!! I visited the scrummy Craftwork Cards stall and bought loads of stuff. I chatted to Julie Hickey who said lovely things about my work and I blushed to the roots of my hair!!!

I also meandered over to the Art from The Heart stall,oohhhhhhhhhh just SCRUMMY. I have never really been into their Blonde Moments designs but once I saw what they had done with them I was in "lurve". I also watched a demo by one of their team using Distress Inks and PaperArtsy stamps - I was hooked! So I am hoping to get cracking with some stamping, as I write this I am watching my Tim Holtz DVD.............very inspiring. If I manage to do some stuff I'll get some pics and upload them.

My craft room hasn't progressed much either, I am useless!!! We have to track down a plasterer, so it could take a while.

Sarah and Kirsty have been having fun at the Emily Falconbridge workshop this weekend I am dying to see how they got on so I better hop on over to Kirstys Blog.............