The Evidence...............

Here's what remains of my craft room............

It's alllll empty, a big removal man took it all away in a container today. At one point my see through plastic box with all my blank cards in was being loaded sideways into the container and was hanging open. ARGGGGHH! I had to look away - the guys labelled my craft boxes as "Art Work" so they obviously have taste. Mind you I don't think they had seen anything like it before even though I had boxed a lot up myself it took them aaaages.

I think I am going to be suffering from Craft Materials separation syndrome for the next week- any advice? (or will you just be telling me I am hopeless saddo??)

The packing continues tomorrow.........................

Packing Up....

A year ago, I finally got my perfect craft room. I had been in an unplastered grotty room for 4 years and after some hard work I got my room how I liked it, it was my haven, my own special place and I LOVED it. Now we are on the move, leaving our lovely house after 6 years, lots of hard work on the whole house, a house we thought we would be in for 20 years or more and on Wednesday we move out. It's a move that was agonised over, it took us ages to decide to move to Edinburgh and we have sold Mum and Dads house, the place I have called home for 40 years. Now they are gone and we have sold our "dream home" in Cheshire, it's time for the Currie's to go. My craft room is almost packed and will be relocated North of the border. So it will soon be a final goodbye to this house and a big hello to our new home and new life.............I sure am going to miss all my pals here, the school Alex has been to and my workplace. Wish us luck and I look forward to creating a lot more crafty stuff in my new craft room. Stay tuned, I will take lots of pics of the new room once I am settled!!!

All a bit strange............

Well it was my last day "in the office" today, this is really weird, I work with a group of just fab people, we have such a laugh, we all get on (most of the time) and all have a silly sense of humour, AND having been in the same team for 10 years, I just love em all.

So when we move , I will be working from home, I am a really sociable type of gal so it'll be really weird to be working on my own. I will still see my work chums but probably only once a month ( poo!)

So that's me finished work for a week or two, the packing guys arrive on Monday morning and we move up to Edinburgh on Wednesday - after almost a year of Alan being away I can hardly believe our new life is almost here.....................bring it on!!!

Ohhh hark at Me

Well I am finally "famous" ha ha not really. Well this month in Craftbusiness Magazine I have been "Profiled", I was interviewed a couple of months ago, about my crafting. Yeah Sam , What flippin' crafting ?? I hear you say. I know, I know, normal service will be resumed soon.....

Any-hoo, anyone who knows me will know I can talk the hind leg off a donkey, and send a glass eye to slepp, so I pity the lovely Beverley who interviewed me! I went off on so many tangents that I am impressed she managed to put together such a great piece of writing. The only downside is, ahem! the pics of the work around the article aren't actually mine. An easy mistake, and I would like to thank the real designer Maria McPherson, her stuff is lovely (but it isn't mine..)

Right then, off to make some thank you cards for Alex's school, end of an era tomorrow, his last day in his current primary school awwwwwww

My Mum

It is St Patricks Day today and it would have been my Mum's birthday. Had a bit of an up and down day really, have had lovely messages from a couple of her friends and shed some tears for her. The "firsts" after a death are always hard.....

On a positive note, on Thursday I will have only 2 nights apart from Alan until we move into our new house, which is great. Today was the last time I will be in the school playground for Alex in his current school. He goes into before and after school club for the rest of this week, so I got nice hugs from some of the other Mums.

Well I have to make some thank you cards for school this week so I may actually get to post something that I have made...................!!!! I can't wait to get settled and get some time to craft PROPERLY again. I'll be looking to make crafty friends up in Edinburgh!!!

I'm 'ere!

Lawks I ain't posted in a while eh? OK so what have I been up to?

1. Had big phone row with some council chap about carting away rubbish from Mum and Dad's house - all sorted now, but by GOSH I was irked (let's say I was a lady on the phone but I may have uttered the "f" word several times when I got off) Why can't people just have a little imagination and break the rules now and then?

2.Went to a Christening on Sunday, the vicar broke into spontaneous (very bad) singing, I am very proud I didn't guffaw out loud

3. Got quite tiddly on wine at said Christening

4. Got even more tiddly (erm wasted actually) at the neighbours house after the Christening

5. Woke up on Monday morning feeling........................wait for it......................absolutely fine. Can't figure it out, was walking about all day with this feeling of dread waiting for the hangover of hangovers and it didn't happen- result!

6. Finished a project for Quick and Crafty mag

7 Am halfway through a project for Crafts Beautiful mag

8. Have ebayed and packed half of my house away

So that's been my week, house stuff is all going well, we'll be moving sometime in the next month, can't believe I am going to be moving 250 miles from my home and all of my friends. One minute I am over the moon the next minute terrified. I guess it would all be easier if Mum and Dad were still around, then "here" would still be classed as home (big sigh)

I am really missing them both, BIG time, gosh I so wish they were still around so I could share all of this excitement with them, it makes my heart hurt just thinking about them............

Was I evil in a former life??

Boy what a day!! This morning I had to go to the solicitors to sign some papers about Mum and Dads house sale. Regular readers will know just how stressed I am about this ! Any-hoo, since my appointment was at 9:30am it meant I could take Alex to school instead of dropping him off at "before school club" So I had a nice relaxed start to the day (it didn't last) We arrived at school and I think "ay up, there seem to be a lot of kids LEAVING school rather than GOING IN?" - turns out the central heating was broken so they closed school for the day arrgggghhh!!!

SO I frantically try to ring other parents, I have 2 VERY kind chums who do me favours at times like this and I owe them BIG time. NO-one is picking up their phones, so I take Alex to the solicitors with me. Now yesterday all was tickety boo with both house sales and we were feeling upbeat -THAT didn't last long! A few probs have occurred which frankly aren't major but I was soooo stresssed this morning I did take it to heart and was on the verge of tears leaving the office. So I am trying to hold it together - I get back to the car and the remote will not open the doors - I just stood there and cried (what a goon!)

Finally I got the doors open - and drove home. Luckily my pal came to the rescue and had Alex for the afternoon so I could go to work and not have to waste a days holiday.

Please send me your good vibes folks....kinda need 'em right now xxxx

What a Day!!

So this morning, 8am, I am standing in the kitchen writing my to do list in my dressing gown, Alex is eating his breakfast in his jammies and my mobile rings. Hubby is at Manchester airport, flying to Paris at 9am and .........................wait for it..........................HE'S FORGOTTEN HIS PASSPORT ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!

So Alex and I get dressed in about 30 seconds (poor luv) jump into the car, me still with wet hair and drive to the airport- unbelievably we made it, they had left the flight open for him, he raced outside to grab the passport PHEW!!!

On the way to the airport my neighbour rings to tell me our house alarm is going off, her hubby resets it. Then she rings again, it's gone off again, her hubby resets it again. She then rings a third time and says "your day just got worse........................a magpie has fallen down your chimney and is covered in soot in your living room!!"

OH MY GOD!!! Her hubby was in a rush so had to leave the bird in the lounge. So I get home, look through the lounge window and a very black looking Magpie is sitting on the sofa (watching Tricia) ha ha made that last bit up!!!

So I go in and chuck a kagoul over it, open the window and it flew away. I thought I had got away with no damage till I saw soot marks on the ceiling and magpie doo-doo on the sofa.............................as if I haven't got enough to do. I give up!

I feel like a mole...........

Hubby and I have been holed up in our cellars all weekend trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff, I am pooped!! Still got lots to do, we haven't even tackled the rest of the house yet. EEEEKK!

Feeling a bit fed up that I haven't had time to craft in aaaages. All this house moving stuff is "doin' my head in"

I am sure it is boring the pants off you lot too!!

Had a lovely mothers day though,Alex made me a lovely card and bought one too, Alan got me two wee (ooohhh hark at me with me Scottish lingo) books on Edinburgh and I got a cuppa in bed and my breakfast made for me too!

I have just been on TV!!!

yep I was on the final of American Princess on ITV2 (second from the left in the crowd!!) My friend Richard was the producer and invited me and some other friends from Uni to the filming in June last year at the beautiful Sudely Castle!!!

It was a great experience and I chatted with Paul Burrell - it was such a thrill to see my fizzog on TV!!!!