what!

oh I still have not got my black box[wi-fi router ]installed that is not me ,normally I have to get my stuff sorted straightaway,but I had just re-wired
everything and run cables around the hall and room when I had the brainwave to update my box,oh well might do it over the easter break when DS is off school
I have had lots of goodies in the post from over the pond what I had ordered so when I finishing playing around stroking them I might just get something done with them....... Oh don`t you just love it when packages arrive with new stash in!!

oh really What have I been up to ,well keep meaning to blog but something always comes up !!! Well I`m so ready for spring,just when I think it has arrived
it goes again.
Well I will be showing a little bit more later and sharing some info later !!!
But must dash............

Reveal Sketch #1

This is my take on the sketch,you know me always the rebel ,I just had to turn it
it fitted what I had in mind,the image is a real cutie from Heartwarming vintage Girlfriends journal booklet,love this pad, ink was chestnut roan,bazzil cardstock and a piece of journal paper from mm spiral paperie mocha and my trusty Beacon Adhesive, prima Hydrangea`s,pin wheel and brad

Oh I can now reveal my DST Secret, I`m happy to say I will be happily designing for Miss Hippy Chick ,now sarah`s sketches are just wonderful

and there is a scrapbook and card DST, I have a card team place and so looking

forward to getting to know the other girls

Well yesterday was a beautiful spring Day my hopes built only to be dashed by the cold windy day today and back to coat zipped up to throat again,oh knew it

was to good to be true,but oh blow the weather, I have had lots of packages coming through the post,I needed some retail therapy

My big dark and handsome piece arrived today oh yes its my new paper rack very heavy and took some moving,but oh another 30 shelves to fill with paper,my 7 G revolving stand arrived for my ATC`s, my bits and pieces from the atc store arrived ,love this gal ,she is so fast with shipping. Now I will have to wait on other papers arriving like my new G45 papers and my stuff from the scrappy gourmet. Oh still waiting on my New prima stuff to arrive ,oh say it in pearls and other pieces

Well going to have a look on-line,but look only I have spent alot of $ and alot of £ so must be well behaved today [yeah right she says]

thanks for stopping by

Award

This is a little ATc that I have finally[I think] finished up ,I used a mixture of Tim Holtz alchol inks and some pearl rubbings to achieve What I wanted, the pearls I kiaser craft and the lace is from my stash, I used glossy accents for her eyes I wanted it to look like she was alive,and I must say it does this ,her lace dress I just highlighted with some diamond stickles

I received this wonderful blog award from Vicki,thank you so much my friend
I have to pass this on to.......... but first you must go over to Vicki`s blog talk about bearing her sole ! ROFL!! she never ceases to amaze me..... never.....

oh right so i must pass this award on to

sheryl

my art keeps me sane

Vicki

Anne le Toux

Well I feel pretty jaded today,been cutting some wood for DS railway and then we went to the model railway centre, did a little stop at store for some sewing things I needed and general chores like washing windows,really has not done my stiff neck any good ,this came on last night and I hope I goes again.

Cannot believe the school half term is over with and its back down the school run road on Monday,oh well think its only 6 weeks then it will be Easter,what !!

I do hope spring is around the corner,I love watching all the new beginnings of spring flowers,lambs etc

take care............

Really

Well really I have been such a bad blogger,but I have been busy setting a forum up for my wonderful friends I have made worldwide at Krafty Timez Crafts,we all sort of got split by a store closure and I figured rather than try chase each other around different forums to set our own up,we are not store related so we can discuss anything,advertise anything and even invite store owners to let us have any discounts/shipping details they are having,I really would be happy for anyone worldwide to come join us over here,we are a very,very friendly group and well the girls talents are just amazing!...
This is a cigar box[I have a few] I altered,I wanted to keep the wood look so this got a really got coat of Glimmer mist in Coffee shop and I kept the attached label and rubbed Glimmer mist into it, the rest is just different papers and images from my stash and a few pieces got roughed up using my BG files to age it a little more,the lace got glimmer mist applied also, I like it,now to find a use for it lol!!............

This is the white stuff I have seen enough of this February to last a life time along with the very dangerous ice we have had to tread daily,this watering can I have had for ages,but I have my lavender heavily laden with snow,I altered it sort of!! I applied rub ons etc to this and it has stood out 2 years now and remains the same I was hoping it might start to rust etc seeing its galvinished but nope!!!...........

oh Sunday today and we are breadmaking and we are waiting for the first rise then more pummling and DS wants breadcakes so it probably will be loaf and cakes there is enough dough, Oh I just love the smell of fresh yeast,the quick packet stuff just does not do it for me at all,mind you I do like eating fresh yeast from the paper,takes me back to my childhood when I used to go to bakers for mum and we had to get 20z instead of one because I had eaten half of it by the time I had got home...........

Well I will go check on the bread and see what is what

bye 4 now.................

oh this was layout I created for call over at Creatively yours and I loved doing this layout,so much fun and I have not done a layout for quite some time

I have been so busy altering things or making cards, This is a photo of my grandparents wedding Day in 1927 [Double click for a close-up]

The big flower is just from some of them cheap ones from the shop we all stick in vases but I took it to pieces {I always buy white] and it all had a good spray with Glimmer mist- coffee shop,vintage music and papers from my stash, lace/key/hatpin from my stash, plenty of tim holtz distress inks- old paper/vintage photo,]/black soot,buttons my own stash, trying to think of all bits and pieces I used on this lol!

Well it is pretty cold here and we are expecting a bit more than a bucket of snow to fall anytime over next few days, Oh I so do not want this white stuff, not bad if I`m stayiing in but I need to go out tomorrow and do not like the school run with my little guy if its slippy at all, the other week I`m surpirsed nobody broke there necks on the ice I know I had a fast racing heart after my near miss

a few time looking at the ground

Happy weekend everyone

2 sketches 4 you sketch#18

Oh I just loved this sketch over at 2 sketches4you

so I just had to do this,I have been meaning to try the

sketches over here and life always seemed to get in the way

supplies : craft secrets girlfriends journal image,crafty secrets

radiant pad,pearls kaiser craft,ribbon my own stash

Oh I must wish my dear friend Jorunn a very ,Happy birthday today

and I do not know what it is but I feel rather tired today,its been so cold and maybe its that other year I have just clocked up,but whatever it is I think it will be an early night lol!!

I cannot believe that there is only 1 and a half weeks to go to half term already ,this year seems to be gathering a fast pace again,

back soon....

oh I have been tagged

Well today I have no big plans at all few chores but seeing its my Birthday I plan on having a lazyish! day,no celebration at all seeing it has fallen on a Monday and the school run , maybe do something at the end of the week,When you get older it somewhat does not bother you about the lack of cards or presents lol! But I must post this late tag[Sorry Vicki

I have been tagged by fellow cropstop member and dear friend, Vicki . so I thought I would do it

Here are the rules:

1. Navigate to where you keep your pictures, select the 6th folder, and the 6th picture in that folder

2. Post the picture on your blog with an explanation about the picture.

3. Tag 6 others to do the same, and let them know they have been tagged!

right so I have this layout as the 6th of the 6th folder on my file,now this was a challenge laid down to use white space, so this was my idea of white space,the Clematis is one of the many I have in my garden and love this one its such a wonderful shade of burgundy then mellows down to this beautiful pink frilly inner and last year it had a fair few blooms on it,and looking forward to even more on it this year !

so my taggers to tag are :-

Vicki

Liv

Sheryl

Tracey

Jorunn

Glee




So I will be hopping over to these blogs to tell them this news lol!!!

Well really its a gloomy Day and I`m so looking forward to spring
can`t be long can it now !?

I hope to get some crafty moments in today seeing its my lazy Day
andplenty of coffee oh yes cannot live without my daily fix,talking of coffee guess were I`m going, umh yeah coffee

later.......