DURRRRRRRRRR.............

So DH went out for his "boys" afternoon yesterday "won't be a late one hun he says, since we are starting at 1:30 pm" yeah right, he rolled in at 1:30am this morning...............I am not impressed.

Anyway DH asked me to go and get a wireless router for his dad's laptop from PC World yesterday, so I did and installed it etc, works great, I am working wirelessly as I type. The downside is, the idea was that FIL would not have all the trailing wires leading from the back of the modem which is connected to the TV box wotsit. ERRRRR but wait a min, old PC brainbox here forgot that a wireless router has to be connected to one PC or laptop to work so in fact he now has even more wires and boxes to contend with. Haven broken the news to DH who is still snoring............oh dear.

Have been getting some great pics of scraprooms since I posted on UKS about it. Can't wait to get home and get to grips with my evil sander later today. I've got loads of deadlines in Jan and I NEED to be in the room to create!! (hark at me)

I'll let you know when the proverbial hits the fan about the router.

Glasgow

I am up with DH and DS in Glasgow for a couple of days, went out to a lovely place called Cafe Mao with 6 other couples last night - the yummiest food and the BEST company. My head should hurt this morning but I think I have been spared.

Gonna try to fit in some stash shopping today, fingers crossed, might head off to Flawless Designs in Stirling. My appetite for stash has returned yey!!

Can't wait to move into my new craft room but things are on hold for a couple of days, have appealed to bods on UKS to give me some colour and design ideas for decorating and furnishing. I'll keep you posted.

Changing Rooms

OOHHHH my arms hurt, I was sanding the beams in my craft room yesterday - I am sooooooo desperate to get in there I have gone all DIY. You should have seen me , I started with a piddly little sander which was taking ages till hubby brought up a "dobbin" big band sander, which basically dragged me across the beam - it's a beast. Being a right wimp with no muscles I only lasted half an hour with it and was exhausted. Bet the neighbours were glad though it makes a hell of a racket.

So the room is still ongoing I am dreaming of my expedit shelving from IKEA, knowing my luck it'll be out of stock as soon as my room is finished - arrrgggghhh!!!

Off to Glasgow this afternoon for a couple of days yey!!

OH OH I am sooooo chuffed my blog is heading up the Crafty Blog charts.........check it out!

Trafford Centre

I must be mental (well I think we all know I am) but I decided to brave the Trafford Centre yesterday to get a handbag with my John Lewis voucher and a case for my iPod, it was MOBBED, all the car parks were full but we managed to squeeze into a space.

Bagged myself a half price handbag which I had my eye on before Xmas - yey!

The January issue of Quick and Crafty arrived in the post today and one of my cards made the front cover, I am sooooooooooo chuffed. I have used the most delish American Crafts "play" papers and Aunty Sarahs bloomers - check the papers out here at SarahsCards website.

The other good news is that my craft room has been replastered and is drying out nicely, I am off up the stairs to strip the wooden beams. All I need to do now is choose my colour scheme, I have been drooling over the IKEA catalogue choosing my storage. Most of the DIY projects in our house tend to take ages, but I want to be in and creating in my new room by the new year.

Boxing Day

Mornin! It's 6:25am and I can't sleep so I thought I would blog instead. In fact I have been awake since 4:30 am!!! I'll be knackered later I bet.

Been surfing t'interwe for iPod bits and bobs, think I need to buy a case since I am so flippin accident prone. Talking of which I brought down hubbys stereo into the kitchen on Saturday night and dropped one of the speakers, thought I had got away with it cos I was giggling nervously once I realised that it worked. I confessed and on checking it, one of the "doo-dads" inside was wrecked................oops!

Anway sitting here in new jim-jams courtesy of my Mum, had some great pressies, including the most divine cashmere scarf from my cousin Hil (she spoils me rotten).

The little fella got a whole pile of pressies and this was the first Christmas he was totally aware of what is going on bless him.

Anyway, must go - got about 19,800 itunes to download (hee hee)

ipod Big 'un

ooohhh I got an 80gb iPod for Christmas yey!!!!!! Courtesy of hubby bless him

Just have to buy loooooaaaads more iTunes to fill it -apparently it fits about 20,000 tracks -COOL.

Happy Christmas one and all!!!

My head hurts..............

Wel it's Christmas Eve and I am all sorted apart from pressie wrapping. Got a bit of a sore head, our friends were round for our annual Christmas meal and get together last night, so we were quaffing Champers (hark at me!)

Anyway, been dying to blog about the fact that Julie Hickey from Craftwork Cards has asked me to be a guest artist on their new recipe cards -check out their new concept here. I was actually asked when I was at the NEC with Sarah back in November, I stopped by their stall and Julie asked me if I would be interested so of course after thinking for about a nanosecond I said YES! I am extremely flattered to be asked, especially since when I started card making about 3 years ago I was very inspired by Julie and her work - she is cardmaking royalty for goodness sake!

2006 has been a great year for me and I am very flattered that so many people like Sarah and Bev have also got me on their design teams, I just hope I can do 'em proud. If any of you lovely people are reading this, thank you so much for the opportunities you have given me

Well must dash got pressies to wrap

Christmas is Coming!!

Blimey, well AT last I think I am all sorted for Christmas PHEW!

Hubby and I are back home and yesterday we took our little fella to see Santa on the Santa Express in Llangollen.

It was soooooooooo cool, like stepping back in time, we got on a steam train and had our own compartment, it was just like Harry Potter or Mallory Towers (Enid Blyton) . I read all those books when I was little and just so wanted to be posh and go to boarding school and have a tuck box, a truck with initials on it, play lacrosse and have midnight feasts. Jolly Hockeysticks!

Anyway back to Santa, he came along the train which sat still for about 40 mins before we set off! He gave all the kids a pressie. We travelled along the line to Lapland station, which was all very festive and back home again. It was a great treat for the afternoon.

Done all my housework, hubby has been dispatched to Sainsburys ( I couldn't face another trip) and I think I will have a snooze this afternoon.

Proof positive of how much running round and forgetting to eat I have been doing , I have lost about 8 pounds!! YEY!!!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!

Sweden

Hej Da! I am in Sweden with work and it is pigging freezing. I have been used to 10 degrees and rain and it is -2 and very frosty

I am more knackered than I have ever been in my life, exhausted in fact, I need to get back to my hotel and sleep for a week zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Still there is a nice spa in the hotel with lovely pool etc, I think I will hang out in there for a bit (literally hang out ha ha ha as I will be wearing a swimsuit) then early bed. Sweden is nice but our hotel sucks, my room is nice but the lighting is dreary, not good in a country which is dark most of the year!

Any-hoo, I shall stop whining and I am home tomorrow yey!!!

The Spirit of Christmas Returns

Gosh my Christmas paddy last night was funny, it went along the lines of "RIGHT - that's IT!! I ain't doing Christmas next year , I am running away to hide" Hubby laughed at my strop.

However this morning we went to our son's nativity play and he was playing one of the angels and it just melted my heart. It was all so sweet, bless 'em. There were LOADS of kids in the production, the teachers must have been so stressed ( I think one of them was swigging gin beforehand ha ha!!!)

Anyway I am back in love with Christmas again, I am off to the Trafford Centre tomorrow to start and finish my shopping.............no doubt I'll be in a foul mood after that!!!

Don't Mention the C Word

If anyone else tells me they are "all sorted for Christmas" I shall kill them. The mere mention of the C word is making me hysterical. Who are these people who buy all their pressies and have them wrapped in August - are they put on earth to make December a misery for me? Is it me or does December just flash by at warp speed - I mean what the heck is it doing being December 13th all of a sudden?

The good news is that alllll my Xmas cards and shop orders are done - my craft table is bare and I ain't touching paper till 2007 I swear!! I am eternally grateful to Lynn and Melissa at Aceville for their support. My creative juices are gone and I can give no more in 2006.........gosh wot a diva eh??

Any-hoo I am off to Sweden with work on Sunday for 3 nights so even less time to get pressies. If you know me, expect a last minute gift from a petrol station - how does charcoal briquettes sound? You never know when barbie season will roll around again ...........

Will I ever be glam?

Well it's my works "do" tomorrow night at Tatton Park in Knutsford Cheshire. Every year they host a couple of weeks of swanky parties in a massive marquee with a fab theme. I haven't been before but last year hubby went and thought it was brill.

Soooooooooo tonight I was due to do the whole laydee beauty routine, face pack, manicure, pedicure etc and you know what? I am too knackered, so I ain't gonna be no posh spice tomorrow. My toenails look like they belong to a velociraptor ( I can't spell dinosaur names) the "holiday skin" tan I have been applying looks like Vicky Pollard applied it and my hands are in a right state

Lets hope it's dark in that there marquee.........................................

My Crafty Space

OK folks try not to faint, but there are pics on my blog!!!

Thought I would show you my craft space, I am currently residing in a small corner of hubbys attic office as seen here..................

However my "real" craft room is "under construction". This was my hidey hole but since we live in an old house and the plaster is caving in on the wall I have decided to have it plastered. It's in a poorly state at the mo - but check out the carpet ha ha ha!!!

The plasterer has promised to come before Xmas and I can't wait (yeah well we'll see if he arrives eh?) I am intending to paint it pink and green and have white furniture from IKEA and I will just be in HEAVEN!!!

200 cards b4 Xmas???

Ha ha do you think I am gonna acheive this? 200 cards and 2 mag projects, back to my "leaving it to the last minute"tendencies..................eeeeeeeeeeeek!

I wish I could be an organised Christmas person, my mate at work has all her pressies bought and wrapped by the end of Nov and I could kill her!!!! She's the sort of person who buys stuff in August (arrrrrrrrrrghhhh !)

I have just bought a copy of Creative Scrapbooking mag, and it just gets more gorgeous every month. Lianna Mawer from LittleSilver Hat (ribbons v yummy) has had 2 yummy layouts published and I bet she is thrilled, so well done to her.

The other brillo news is that Rochelle has re-opened her shop One Purple Cow and I am sooooo chuffed.

Fab news #3 is that I am now number 63 in the crafty blog chart hee hee!! SO thanks for reading.

Well the housework is calling so I had better "do one"