SALE TIME

I am a long time user of Craftwork Cards products, the yummo stuff they sell really got me started on card making, and of course the fab Julie Hickey works for them and creates luvverly stuff. Anyway they have a mega sale starting tomorrow, read on.....

Sale starts 4pm Friday 30th November with over 500 items in the SALE area, loads of them 75% off!

There is also FREE P&P from Friday 30th November, 4pm through to Monday 3rd December at 4pm

find them at www.craftworkcards.co.uk

Busy Week

Lordy, I have had a busy day. Work has gone bonkeroonie, it's all exciting stuff but it has this nasty habit of interfering with my crafting - the nerve!

AND if anyone else tells me they have bought all their Christmas presents, wrapped 'em and written all their Christmas cards, I'll strangle them with tinsel! They've probably already got their sprouts on too.

I am heading off to the temple of retail therapy - The Trafford Centre on Monday to buy a frock for a Christmas "do" and I have decided I want fab smoky eyeshadow like the Spice Girls in their latest video. Every time I have tried "smokey" I have ended up looking like "I've been in a scrap" so we'll see. I'll have a mooch along to the MAC counter in Selfridges, that can be a right laugh cos they have boys who look like girls on that counter sometimes (yikes!!!).

I'll see if I can buy some pressies too. I am faced with the annual conundrum of getting presents for my "I want suprises but all the ones you get me are going back to the shops cos I hate them" husband. He is my major cause of Christmas stress I can tell you.

I met a lovely lady today called Tara. She lives really nearby and makes cards, really lovely cards they are too. She has a bloggy too here go check it out.

Right I am teeing myself up for I'm a Celeb, I wonder who will win tomorrow , OH MAAAAN! I hope it ain't Janice but since I missed it last night she may have been kicked out already!

Ohhhh my head hurts......
Yesterday I had a very productive day using all of my new SU goodies for a mag project. Nearly done and in record time!

Last night I went to a "candle party", gosh I remember the days when my Friday nights were spent at the Hacienda club in Manchester, now I am just an old saddo! The candles were great and when the candle lady left I showed everyone my SU catalogue and told them all about it. They were very enthusiastic yey!

I drank lots of wine and now I feel soooooooo yucky, Alan has taken Alex out for a few hours so I am watching an old movie and surfing the web, perfect!

Stash City!!

Gosh I have been the "queen of parcels" this week. First I got a big box from Stampin' Up! containing my demo kit, then a pizza box from Artbase and another from my gorge friend Sarah Davies from Sarahscards! This girl has twin babies and is still running her shop!!!

Also I got 2 mags from the States, I am expecting some more mags from my cousin and a yummo treat from Ebay - where the heck I am gonna put that lot?

High Chair
Awwww I sold Alex's high chair today, well being 5 he doesn't have much need for one now hee hee! I must admit to feeling a bit emotional about it when I thought about all that pureed gunk I lovingly made for him when he was tiny.

As for the rest of the day I am boring everyone stupid with Stampin' Up and I sold my first catalogue to a girl at work.

I am all up and running and it doesn't matter if you don't have a demo in your area, I can send catalogues to you and you can order from me no probs! Don't all rush at once eh???

What I am Thinking?

OK it's like TV heroin and I am hooked, I knew if I watched it I would be hooked -arrrrrggggghhh. I am a bit of a snob TV wise and I do not hold with this Reality TV malarky , quite frankly it's a waste of life just watching it (don't even get me started with Big Brother)

I am Celeb.........you know what I am saying! Can you believe that Mark has been voted out?? I reckon the voters have thought "ohhh he is going to get it when he gets out, so let's not vote to keep him in and watch the fireworks" Boy did I squirm when he was being interviewed, he was looking as sick as a parrot. Not a good situation bit of a tricky one all round isn't it?

I don't tend to watch much TV but it's been a bit of a coach potato night for me today. I LOVE "How to look good naked", I want Kwok as my best friend right NOW!! He is such a sweetie he rocks! I look rubbish naked I am signing up right now for that programme!

Living and Dreaming Stampin' Up!

Ohh it is such an exciting time, I am just waiting for my SU demo kit to arrive meanwhile I have been making some cards using the Be Happy stamp set and Rich Regals colours. Having the 4 colour sets make life so easy to create colour schemes!

Nice Weekend

Well Alan got home nice and early on Friday night which was great. We had a bottle of Champagne (hic!) I have bored the pants off him with my Stampin' Up! news.

We had friends round for dinner last night which was lovely, and today we took Alex to a party. After that we had a very lazy afternoon watching the new Harry Potter DVD - isn't J.K Rowling just a genius, she is like the modern day Enid Blyton, a total phenomenon! Enid isn't popular anymore but I just loved "The Famous Five" and all the St Claire's and Mallory Towers books. I so wished I could got to boarding school, play lacrosse and have midnight feasts from my "tuck box". Ha ha talk about ideas above my station.

Got my hair cut in Knutsford yesterday in the most amazing Aveda salon with chairs that give you a massage when you get your hair washed!!! The reason I mention this is that I am watching Cranford on BBC which was based on Knutsford, that is where Elizabeth Gaskell lived! If you ever visit Cheshire , pop along to Knutsford, it is soooo lovely.

Stampin' Up! Day

Well today was the day - the new UK Stampin' Up! catalogue is on the web - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! V Excited. Been tidying my craft room again tonight and ripping up the hall stairs and landing carpet in readiness for our new carpet on Monday. We have lived with a HIDEOUS red patterned carpet for 6 years but to sell the house we need to "go neutral" great! We'll get to enjoy it for like 2-3 months and then have to move.

Right I am pooped with all the excitement of today, I am off for a glass of wine.

Stash Stress

OMG I wanted to show someone at work pics of my craft room today and so I showed him (yes a him) my blog (he's a computer geek just like me gawd love him) I have pics on here from Feb this year when my room was completed. I was so shocked to see how much more stuff I have acquired, it's awful. Of course I have all my Mum's craft stuff as well plus boxes of photos, it's a nightmare. I do have a friend who is just about to start crafting so she is getting a goodie box from me. I must NOT buy any more stash arrrgggghh!!!!

Well Stampin' Up! launches in the UK tomorrow I'll be checking the online catalogue tomorrow first thing - 1 more sleep to go!!!

Stampin' Up!

I have a new blog which will be devoted to all my Stampin' Up! activities check it out Stampin' Up! With Sam. Not much on here just yet but there will be soon I hope.

Stampin' Up ! launches this Thursday (2 more sleeps to go) and I have signed up to be a demonstrator , so soon I will be able to sell yummy stuff to anyone who is interested. Can't wait!!!

Waste of a day

OK our house is in serious need of a "de-clutter", the cellar is ram-jam full of books and other paraphernalia. We also have what we call "the baby mountain" which is a HUGE pile of Alex's stuff from 5 years ago.

I also have boxes of stuff from Mum and Dad's house and since we are going to put our house on the market very soon we sooooo need to de-clutter. Lots has gone to the charity shop but a neighbour mentioned that there was a "table top" sale today near where I live.

She had booked a table so I thought I would do the same to get rid of some of the junk. Well my neighbour is a total HOOT, I only met her on Monday, she lives down the road, she is a textile and design lecturer and she ROCKS, trust me to find someone arty to "play with" just as we are about to move (doh!)

ANy-hoo, I spent a couple of hours yesterday dragging stuff out of the cellar and boxing it up, god help my back tomorrow. I then dragged it all to the British Legion in Hartford eagerly awaiting lots of pounds and pennies for my packed table.

YEAH RIGHT, wise up Sam, most of my "stash" was books and I don't want to be a snob but most of the people that shuffled by my stall didn't look like they were culture vultures (if you know what I mean). The upshot was I took £10 and the flipping table was £6 . I had to drag all the stuff back to my car then haul it all back into the house arrrrrrrrrrrrghhh! I am off to the charity shop on Monday I can tell you.

Hubby is just back from a week long trip to China with work. Nice to have him (and his washing) home.

Back Home

Well Alex and I went up to Edinburgh for the weekend to be with Alan, what a great time we had. Poor Alan had to get up at the crack of dawn to go to Shanghai today. Alex stood at the gate at 8am wearing his little PJ's and waving, I think Alan was a bit choked up. He didn't want to go, but he was in business class, you know, I am very jealous!

This morning, Alex and I went to the most amazing "tourist attraction" in Edinburgh called Mary Kings Close. This is a place I heard about several years ago, the "story" was that there were lots of houses full of people with the plague, these houses were all "bricked up" and the people were left to die. Horrible eh?

Well the real story is that the "closes" or streets, were full of 8 storey tenement houses from the middle ages. New buildings were built in the 19th century and earlier on the same site, basically they "chopped" off the top storeys of these buildings, and so what remained became the foundations of the new buildings.

It was fab, Alex was a bit scared, of all the darks rooms we went into, but overall he loved it, check it out at http://www.realmarykingsclose.com/. It has to be seen to be believed.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH And!!!!! I got home tonight and found the latest issue of Quick and Crafty and my Xmas cards have made the front cover, I am very chuffed - thanks Lynn xx

I Made a Card!

Ohh blimey - I actually made a card!!! Here it is!

I cut the card out- the scalloped bit using my wishblade. The card base is made from "Kraft" card from Stampin' Up! Alan's cousin lives in the States and has a Stampin' Up! demo near hear, last year she was kind enough to buy me some yummy stuff and ship it over to me. I love the colour of this card and I am hoping to use it in some of my future mag projects. The chipboard letters are naked (ooohhhhhh!!!!) and embellished with green gems. Of course the patterned paper is Basic Grey all grunged up with a distress ink pad.

I am back up in Edinburgh with Alan and Alex, another 4 hour drive which I do NOT like. I am finally sitting in front of the TV with a glass of wine on the sofa which is FAB. Our lounge is being decorated which means I haven't been able to do this for the last week. I've been sitting at the table in the kitchen watching TV, not very comfy.

It's all finished as of today so I'll be moving furniture back in when I get home yey!!!