A little birdie!

Well today has been quite a nice Day ,I had a walk in the garden and whilst my
daffodils are dying down,my tulips have grown so quick, and one has flowered
beautiful,must remember to take a picture of it tomorrow,I forgot now the name
it was Black something!!!!!!!
I have been sat watching my blackie[blackbird] and his hen busy building the nest
a total work of art it has taken them 2 days,but Iam amazed at blackie choice of lodgings and this has put paid to some of my DIY projects,down the side of my conservatory
the glass blew out during the storms and it never got put back in right ,well I chocked it with a piece of wood about 24 x 18" against the glass and fence,well the
nest has been built on here right under the ivy at a wierd angle,We have to pass everytime we go out. But blackie is not bothered at all by us. Might see if I can manage a picture of the nest from a pair of ladders,but dont want to disturb them
at all
I love this time of year when you see all the birds collecting the pieces for their nests and the amount they carry in the bill
I know why blackie is here,becuase he comes in and pinches the dogs dinner,loves the dog biscuits and it is funny watching him,also he knows were the pigen corn is stored
so ,he not daft at all
This is a picture of my big finished clothspin in all Foof-a-la papers red black cream collection,just adore these paper, the little birdie well is re cycled it is from Vicki Christman and just had to use it,I do have this set of stamps from Crafty secrets and love working with them,umgh I have also used it on a layout but that cannot be shown for now.................
My little man is still un well,but two days now everything is "Why" oh its funny trying the end the whys because when you think you have done it all of a sudden another "but why" comes .......................

Been bloggin

Oh came across a fab vintage place Called Ruby street Designs you will find a link on my favourite places to the right
Well needless to say I ended up ordering some wonderful items,The store owner Kris
ships international,very friendly helpful lady,nothing is to much trouble, and new designs are been added next month[april] from some fab designers.
Iam so happy I found this place and if you get chance you vintage lovers hop on over and pay Kris a visit you will not be disappointed in the treasures to be found here!!
Today started out sunny,but well the good old British weather ended in rain,now thats a surpise!!! Just hope we do not get the summer that last year just rained and rained and rained on us. Iam looking forward to getting in the garden but a little weary on planting because last year most of it was wrecked with all the water that landed. I have photos from one day plant pots were just passing by the conservatory and floating by

Iam nearly done with all the re-installing of my programmes,so with a bit of luck might get a sketch or something uploaded soon................

until the next time..........

Getting on!

Well I`am getting things done on the lappy ,lots still to install and had to do Invoice design again for others halfs business, that was wonderful having to re do this then do all the paperwork for the month end .
It has been a sunny day ,alittle on the crisp side though,But Iam shattered I think I managed about 1 hours sleep last night I just could not switch off for some reason
DS went back to school today,so a little respite for me but today none to busy sorting things out and doing post office run with packages
Oh well I will blog later in the week and go do something like re load another programme.......................

wow what a few days !!!!!

Oh what a few days can do with no connection to the internet.We live in a crazy
world and when my laptop died on me suddenly[poor thing] I was left in a state of
feeling sucidal,I mean no connection to my favourite daily visits,no contact with friends and not been able to access my mail.
I have techy issues with my Tower and Iam still in the throws of sortin it and I really must keep plugin away to resolve the issues.
But what a carry on just trying to get a laptop with the spec I wanted and visits to stores,well I just dont want to talk about it. Finally with my new baby home I have connected to my wireless router,set my security,broke my neck to visit my daily sites.
Now I have to re install alot of programmes and my wireless printer and I think Iam going to make a list of what I have to do[honest you do not realise just what you have on your computer when something fatal happens] thank the good lord my hard drive is okay on the sorta dead one so I will be able to get info onto a stick to find some data I had not backed up. Then need to work this vista Os out,been using os xp for so long!!!!!!!!
oh well Iam goin to dash see what else I can get installed before I retire for the night

see you soon................ oh and e-mail anyone just to check my connections
and if you have e-mailed re send because it is sorta stuck on my poor old machine for moment...............

Oh Sketch No3 is a little late but here!!

Well Sketch No 3 is here just plain card with a simple twist
I`am having fun,one more week and its back to school for my little Guy
The weather has not been nice today and I really have created nothing
in a few days,But did get lots of new stash from over the pond,some awesome
Acrylic stamps from Crafty secrets!! oh I have played with these already
and they have been used on a project, but I cannot show it yet,but I will
later Iam very impressed with the image quality of these stamps and
the small detail even shows so well

I have lots running in my head I want to do and will get started soon
The online crop at KT Crafts was fun as always and I got quite a bit done
in one day!!!!!!! I will show some of the challeneges I completed later
like Vicki`s Post it note cover and Time capsule, White space challenge
Brittany`s what black & White and round all over

WANNA PLAY

Well here is my Card that I made for the challenge thrown by Vicki Chrisman,yes real daffodils froom the garden you can see the other girls cards over at Vicki`s blog http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/ There is some wonderful varitions

on the cards.

I was so excited when I got mine in the mail to see what I had! Tell you I was not disappointed.My card I wanted a clean,crisp finish to it,but I have forgotten to tell you we could only use the things in the envelope and Could NOT add anything else,we could add ink,glitter etc

I used the Vintage papers and image from crafty Secret heartwarming

vintage collection from the envelope

I just loved this image with the 2 rabbits and the little fellow with his rosy cheeks I just had to set this on a jaunty angle to make it look like they were about to pop off the card and I just inked the edges of the images and the matting piece behind. I added a little piece of Red ribbon fixed by a red Brad to make it look like a tag. and two clear button down the side of mat

I just inked around the card edges,not wanting to detract from this wonderful image in any way

Then I just had to put the beautiful lace on and I think the hardest part was trying to tie a bow with less 3" of lace left[well just just have to have a bow at Easter.

Thank you Vicki for allowing me to play I LOVED IT!

I think Vicki is throwing another one soon so if you want to be part ,get on over to her Blog

The envelope made me Laugh Vicki must have had fun, it was stamped acorss the front[not samll either]:

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes

Art is knowing which ones to keep"

I thought this was so funny because there was no room for mistakes within this envelope, I had no mistakes to cover up this time!!

seeing its the first day of spring Iam also showing the photo of the Doddllebug chipboard House I made a few weeks ago,seeing it has chicks on thought it was fitting for this post

Easter is nearly

Well I cannot believe have fast Easter is approaching,dont you

just love it when its here so soon this year,Anyone planning anything

special!? Us well nothing fantastic, just the big Lunch and Eggs after for my son. Reminds me when I was little we used to boil them and then paint them and once dry we used to go roll them down a hill at my grandfathers home in the Country ohh it takes me back,living in a Town
when school was out I was on the Bus or the fastest method of transport

to my granfather house in the Country I still go through to see my Aunt and just love the place,it was always trouble for my mother & father trying to get me back home,I would miss the bus on purpose and would do anything to be late back. Mind you I remember one year my tricks did not pay of I had to catch a bus,now trying to get these in the country aint no fun I had a total of 4 buses on and off changing on route just to get back to town and ohh what an earful I got when I got home. I would do it all again today though................