Been a long time......

since I came on here and wrote anything at all. Just need to say a lot has gone on and not all of it do I want to post on the internet, but I have been ill and I am on the road to recovery now.

The saddest thing I have to post though is about one of my lovely ginger cats. Poor Tangle was run over and killed a week ago Thursday. My neighbours found him in their front garden and it was too late for us to do anything. It was nice to think he was trying to come home to us but we were all very very sad about his death and he will be very much missed.

On a brighter note, we have got a new arrival to the family in the form of Kizzy. A little female tortie who is around 8/9 months old who we got from the RSPCA in Brighton after they rescued her from a house with 70 animals, 30 of which were cats and kittens, just before Christmas. Even this is a sad story as the cat we originally reserved turned out to be FIV positive so could not be rehomed with us. Luckily they had the cat who is now our Kizzy who is gradually getting braver and coming out more and more. Cheshire is not too bothered about her but she is a bit of a hisser towards hime at the moment although hopefully that will all change.

Promise to share photos when she stays still long enough for us to take one!

Back to the vets!

That is where we went on Friday with Cheshire - seems he has some sort of urinary infection so today is being spent trying to get him to wee on some special cat litter so that we can get a sample otherwise he has to be admitted and they will get one from him at the vets.

Finally been doing some scrapping rather than just doing cards, used the Gottacraft March Kit (yes I am a bit behind!) but if you want to see the past kits or even get hold of the next one have a look on Sandra's site www.gottacraft.co.uk under kits. I got a really lovely photo of my brother and my two nieces from my mum last weekend and immediately they shouted SCRAP ME! So I have finally got around to it - just need to cut a title, stick it all together and do the journaling and I will be done and hopefully will upload tomorrow when DD is back at school.

Talking of which the holidays are just so silly this year - it is only 5 weeks and then they are off again and there is a bank holiday in between as well. Still she has been really good with me working and DH looking after her whilst I am there for the last week. We have also had some time to do her first two scrapbook pages and this afternoon the plan is to paint a mug which she got in a kit for Christmas. Lots of pics to be taken and uploaded this week and this is all before the UKS Cybercrop which starts on Friday evening!

Back from the Palace!

YES I DID IT!!! I drove to Ally Pally and got back again. Not half as bad as I thought so will be saving up to go again. What a great time as I met so many people from UKS and also Amanda from craft.co.uk - special mention as she gave me some goodies.
Sooooooo............ what did I get?

Papers - including some NEW coloured core cardstock which is available from www.capturethemagic.biz - it can be sanded, torned and scrumpled to give a different shade underneath - they also do this with a black face and colour underneath but thought I would have a play with these to start with. Great Value at just 55p per sheet too! Could not resist getting some papers where I have to colour them in myself as well as some Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants and Crate Paper to name a few!


Lots more goodies including some much longed for H2Os and some journalling stamps! A couple I wanted were out of stock so the lovely gentleman on Stamp In stand said to email him in a couple of days and he will get them sent to me!

And FINALLY how could I resist these wood buttons - especially the cat ones and being Welsh I just loved the little love spoons! These can be coloured with Sakura pens or paints - wonder if those H2Os will work on them!