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!!!!

Windy

Blimey it is VERY windy here tonight, glad that Alan was able to fly back home from Edinburgh which was VERY VERY windy.

Trying hard to sell lots of crafty stuff on UKS ahead of our move, but email me if you are not a UKS member and want to know what I am flogging.

I am also on ebay selling lots of vinyl LP's - gosh that is an old term

My liitle brother Marcus, died 10 years ago and I am selling his old Doors, Bob Dylan and Echo and The Bunnymen Lp's on ebay too.

All this moving out and clearing out, stirs so many memories...............

More Stuff to Shift

Sorry !!! I have been buried under a pile of things I know not what to do with (is that proper English?) and aside from that, I was rudely awoken at 12:50am by the earthquake. GOD I ALMOST WET MYSELF, I am home alone and I was convinced someone had broken in, I was terrified. We have a Victorian wash jug and bowl on a chest of drawers in our bedroom and it was rattling very loud when the earthquake struck! I got such a fright! My heart was pounding.

Anyway I think it was a rather "quaint, polite" earthquake, kind of "oops, frightfully sorry, I have damaged a few chimneys and a few of you are now on the streets in your jammies, must dash toodlepip"

HA HA!! Being English we shall all be talking about it for years to come and probably getting counselling for the shock.

ANY-HOO nuff said, you might think this is my blog but it's a little offshoot of Ebay for the next few weeks tee-hee

I have a couple of the rolling carts for sale - well 4 in total actually £10 each if anyone is interested I live in Cheshire about 15 mins drive from junction 19 of the M6 ( I will reveal my address to serious buyers, don't want to be "papped" on my own doorstep now do I?)

ALSO I have the whole of 2007 Creating Keepsakes magazines £15 the lot - post a comment or email me via the link on this blog if you are interested.

Oh I have discovered the joy of Russell Brand's stand up show this week, downloaded from iTunes, I laughed my head off (plonk!) on the way into work yesterday and today, he is terribly rude but damn funny ( and just a teensy bit gorgeous too!)

Anyway I am off to find more stuff to sell. OH I have lots of baby equipment for sale too, which I ain't gonna bang on about here cos this is a crafty bloggy , (scant evidence of that recently I know, but I don't want to get ousted from Crafty Blogs, since that is the only way I can gauge just how massive my fan base is heee heee heeee!) If you are interested and can pick up - let me know.

Later!!!!!

Questions about my storage

I have had a couple of questions about the storage in my craft room. Whoever you are Bixie Sparkles, I want that name LOL!!

Anyway my rolling cart things are from Costco, I am not sure if they still do them, but I will be selling a couple of them in the next few weeks, if anyone lives near Cheshire and can pick up and are interested let me know.

The clear plastic trays are from Display Dynamics, I can't remember where I got them but they came through the post, Google them and you'll be sure to find them.

SOLD!

Wow, who needs ebay? Thanks to the blog shopper who snapped up the bumper pack of embellies, they shall be winging their way to you this week. If you'll bear with me I have about another 500 things to sell, ha ha just kidding!

Well, emotionally I am SPENT! I have just finished watching "In Pursuit of Happyness" (yes that's the way they spell it) with Will Smith. I LOVE Will Smith, and in this film he is so good. Alan watched it on a plane about a year ago and said it was fantastic. All I can say is I have cried so much I now have eyes like a frog, I wept buckets. I knew very little about the film apart from it is the tale of a single Dad and his little boy, who end up homeless. Very sad and it was only at the end I realised it is a true story, yes sireeee. I won't spoil the ending but if you have SKY you HAVE to watch it, and have tissues, perhaps a whole box.

We have a new lady in our team at work who is based in the USA, she is also (spookily) from the USA, hee hee. Today she sends me an email with the phrase "well that's a fine howdy do!" It just cracked me up, I have quite a few friends in the States (ohhh hark at me) and I love their sense of humour - they just make me laugh. So Karen, hun, I love ya!!!

Clear Out Time

Well I am having a pre move clear out and I have a BIG collection of embellishment to shift. If you are interested I am asking for £40 for the lot and that includes postage. Let me know if you would like to purchase.Lots of goodies from Elsie, Foof-a-la, MAMBI, Rob and Bob studio, Junkitz, K&Co , KI Memories, SEI and a nifty flourish template too.

Hoots Mon!

So just back from Edinburgh, had a nice time and caught up with some very good friends for a few beers in Glasgow on Staurday night. We laughed soooo much I thought my sides would split. They are all Glaswegian and quite frankly I love their accents so much they could read a bus timetable and I would fall about laughing.

Anyway, Saturday morning the three of us drove back to Edinburgh with FIL to have a second house viewing. I had seen it briefly and had tried really hard to feel like "OK this is the nicest house EVER but I am SO not gonna like it cos we are like so NOT gonna get it". So this 2nd viewing was so exciting for me since now I could like it LOTS and not run the risk of getting broken hearted. HAH! the best laid plans................

So we rock up and meet the owners, who are lovely and we come armed with a tape measure since most of our house won't fit in the new one, so we need to decide what to chuck out and what to keep. We have 3 cellars (which are bursting at the seams, and a garage) New house has a total of errrrm ah yes no cellars and no garage. Check in later to find out how bad my IBS has got!!! Put it this way, going into our cellars at the moment sends me into a panic attack!

OK I digress, so I am walking round the house feeling all free with my love of it and imagining where we are going to put our (fewer) possessions. We are in the master bedroom, I look at Alex, he is as white as a sheet clutching his stomach, and he says " I think I am sick" AAAAAAARGGGGGHH, he is about to throw up IN THE NEW HOUSE. Quick as a flash Alan lifts him into the ensuite bathroom, he coughs, retches onces and NOTHING! By this point (did I mention just HOW vomit phobic I am ??) I am beside myself. I am thinking "OH God, he is gonna puke in the new house with the owners sitting downstairs".

Well pardon my French , but the little bugger was fine, totally fine!!!. Which was nice, but now I am watching him like a hawk and desperate to get out of the house just in case he does it for real next time. We finish the viewing with me angrily whispering "let's get out of here" to Alan, who is mad at me cos I am soooo stressed about the whole episode. We head back to the kitchen where the owners very kindly offer us a brew, which I declined on behalf of the 4 of us, much to their bemusement. It must have seemed so rude, but I was panicking!!! GAH! what a mare!

I need a lie down after that tale I can tell you................

Busy Busy........!!!

What a week! The flurry of activity on the house front has been exhausting, but it will be worth it I am certain. Alex is on half term so we travelled up to Edinburgh last night. Haven't done any crafting AT ALL just been so busy sorting stuff out. We have a cellar which consists of three rooms and they are all stuffed to the gunnells. The house we are moving to has a total of ...........NO cellar at all. EEEKKK! Every time I go down to our cellar I feel like having hysterics, lord knows what I am going to do with it all. Added to that we have brought back the last bits and pieces from Mum and Dads house.

If anyone knows of a good cause for baby toys/equipment / books in Cheshire, please let me know. We've been to the charity shop so often I think they think we are moving in.

I was planning on going to "Stitches" the trade show on Monday at the NEC with Sarah but I have to get on with de-junking the house....................ugh!

EVERYTHING IS PEACHY!!!!!!!

WE DID IT, WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been awake since 3:30am worrying and convincing myself we weren't going to get it, but we have and I am soooooooooooooo happy!!!

YEY!!!!!!!! The good luck fairy is being kind to us at last!

About to pass out with stress and anticipation..........................nuff said..............back soon. All I can say is wish us lots of luck ...............please!

No Fingernails Left

Blimey am I stressed, lot's going on with our potential house purchase and selling. I am on the edge of my seat arrggghhhh!!! Let's just say there are things happening which end this week which could spell happiness or misery......................and let's face it, with my track record eh???

Any-hoo, I did something very rash at the weekend..............I bought an iPhone and gosh do I LOVE IT (gadget gal strikes again!)

ALSO taaaaaa daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! My Stampin' Up! cards are on the front cover of Crafts Beautiful March edition, I am soooooo happy!!