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!

GIVE AWAY and NEW THINGS!!!!!!!

Cause I have just been on the blog of the lovely Brenda Pinnick!!!! As lot of you may know by now I am a fan and I am very excited cause she has some WONDERFUL new items coming up on QVC later this year and if you go to her blog you can see what she has on offer! I especially love the new Keeper Album kit which means you can scrap different sizes all within one album!

Her new paper are in my fave colours too of pink and purples and the chipboad some beautiful swirls, so I will be in heaven. Just need to work out how to pay for it all now LOL!

AND as if you needed any more encouragement you can even take part in a GIVE AWAY - just drop by her blog and find out how!

Oh yes of course you need to know where to find it all - well it is at http://brendapinnick.typepad.com/brenda_pinnick_news_ideas/. Tell her I sent you!
and can anyone tell me how to do the links on here please :)

Apologies

once again cause I have been a bad blogger! Things around here not been so great lately - poor Tangle had to have the emergency vet out last Sunday as he had a blocked bladder. Had to have an operation to set him right again and a stay at the vet's until Thursday so I will leave it to your imagination what the bill was like - typically of course we had just taken out insurance on him! It is like they know!

THEN I got sick too - lost my voice so has meant not talking (no comments please!) and also had a dreadful cough and generally feeling rotten so after a second trip to the doctors I now seem to be on the mend.

Work over the next few months is going to be on an album that I need to get ready for a special occasion in December - it is my parent's 40th wedding anniversary! I have chosen the album and the papers but the hard part has been getting photos together. My brother did a raid when they were on their hols earlier this year but could not find everything I needed so I am going to have to work with what I have now! First of all I need to tidy up this craft room............ think I will wait until I am fully recovered though LOL!!!

New template!!

I have to say firstly sorry I know this is not perfect! But thanks to the lovely Toni I have been pointed to a site where I can get this super funky background and there are LOTS more to choose from too so there will be more changes on here I guess LOL. Just got to get the colours right so it is easier to read so bear with me as I will be away for a few days now.

BUT if in the meantime you are inspired then look in the top left hand corner and there is a link for you to brighten your blog too!

I am BACK scrapping at last!!!!

Yes I am back!!!! After doing the intensive training at work and trying to keep that New Year's Resolution by making my own cards I have finally got the scrappy habit once again. It was tough I have to confess, I went along to a Scrapaholic's group in Bromley run by the lovely Pat and that kick started me but found it tough going! Still the lovely Helen was there next to me ripping away and filling me with inspiration! So what have I been up to then........

Well first of all I have finally got my DH onto a LO! Here he is the other week in the garden really chilled out. Been using my stash up so this is from a Doodlebug kit from Gottacraft that I have used some of but knew that I would end up using more for him.




Last month's Gottacraft kit was the lovely Crate Paper Blue Hills so these have just proved to be soo perfect for some lovely summery girlie LOs of DD and her cousins:

Birdie on this one is by the Artistic Stamper and has be lightly stamped and then I went over it with Sakara Souffle pen:
Finally I go back to the very beginning as it were with the kit that I got at the Scrapaholics crop. The techinique was Glossy Accents which I have used on the swirls kindly provided by using Pat's Big Shot and dies at the crop. Lots of butterflies (and the flowers!) from an Autumn Leaves set by Rhonna Farrer which have been coloured using H2Os. Lettering from a QVC kit by Brenda Pinnick!

MORE cards!!!

Sorry still no LOs forthcoming here! A couple of these cards are some I did a while back and never posted and the 5 one is for a birthday party DD is going to tomorrow and done with a Hanglar and Stanglar stamped image I was kindly sent! Did do another card with the H&S stamps but only just realised I never took a pic of it :(. The fairy cards are from QVC simply AGGGES ago LOL!

Still here are three others for you to look at!

New Job!!!

Just realised I have not posted on here to say I have a new job! Working for the same company as DH but it actually came through an agency LOL - when they asked if I had heard of the company I just laughed my socks off.

So apologies as there is now less time for crafting and less time for blogging too BUT will try and ensure I post on here every couple of weeks or so. Been doing so many cards lately I seem to have forgotten how to scrap, but certain I will get back into again soon - first of all got to sort out my crafty area. But in the words of Arnie - I WILL be back LOL!!!