Bold and Beautiful

As you read this I'm probably just waking up on the last day of our weekend getaway :)

Yesterday was my turn for the challenge over at Rosie Dee's, so I chose 'Bold and Beautiful', so my layout is a creation of bold colours and my beautiful niece.I'm going to frame this for her as a birthday gift for her bedroomAgain I used Marieke designs of which you can purchase here

Hope you've had a great weekend, I'll update you on mine when I get a spare minute x

Fav Five Friday and theres more

Before I throw myself head first into the gorgeousness of my fav five on this great Friday morning, I'd like to share with you why its so great.

Today me and gorgeous fella are off for a whole long weekend of just the two of us :) yep just me and him, him and me from Friday to Monday. I surprised him with this on his birthday, we'll be staying in a cottage for just US woo hoo, so cannot wait, so I dare I will be non stop chatting about it the next time I blog.

So have a wonderful weekend tiddly peeps, and here's my fav five, I've gone a tad easter themed mission and found these all on Etsy (god I love it on there)

Tweet tweet - how adorable are these
Awww an ickle bunny house



Sooo bambi :)
How bold and bright are these
and of course Easter Eggs
Enjoy x

Muddy Boots

I have a new blog on the go Muddy Boots I'm going to be using it as an online diary for my allotment, trials and errors and of course the successes :) So if your in to growing your own pop on over and see how I get on :)

Last years tatties xxx

Neutral

Keeping it neutral for Rosies challenge this week

I kinda like this photo of Riley and I, all snuggled up.
I used all the neutral tones from the Basic Grey archaic papers and co-ordinating rub on's, cardstock and buttons were from stash.

I just love white space, I love concentrating on one area of the page rather than all of it, and considering I havent done a layout for a while I'm really pleased with how easy this one all fell together nicely - and quickly.

Bold

I used gorgeous bold colours on my Rosie Dee Challenge last week, I got them an age ago from Marieke Vermeulen's blog as a free download, I haven't really been able to use them as my printer didn't do them justice, but thanks to having purchased a superb laser printer, this is what I used my free download for.

You can purchase more of Marieke downloads from her gorgeous Etsy Store

The apples one is my current fav, and I'm intending on doing a gorgeous spring layout for a birthday present for a special little girl!

Coming to an Etsy Store near you very soon

A new range of mini photo frames with pretty edges :)

Will keep you posted once they are all on show

RD challenge

Its Rosies turn over on our challenge blog why dont you pop on over and see what she has in store for you to get your creative juices flowing, heres a sneak of mine

I've had a lovely weekend, sooo pleased Tel is home from working in Scotland but sad as he has to fly back up there tomorrow.

We went here there and everywhere yesterday from Pizza Hut to shopping to garden centres.

Whilst out I picked up a few items for my allotment (which is coming along great) and a couple bits of clothes which were all Mothers Day gifts, so I was very happy.

Jack woke me up at 6.30am by bouncing into the bedroom to wish me a Happy Mothers Day with a card he'd made at beavers, bless him. I had a lie in (sooo rare) but when I get the chance I never really take it, so it wasn't long till I was up and doing the normal bits of the morning.

Although a morning up the allotment certainly cleared out some cobwebs and the fresh air was fantastic - love it.

Planted all my onions today and then dug dug dug some more.

Hope your Mothers Day was a wonderful one too.

On a different note I'm not really a celebrity follower and Jade Goody wasn't really a favourite of mine, but she was a remarkable woman who has sadly died from something I'm sure all us women have worried about at some point. She was a mother too and my heart goes out to her family. Hopefully they'll be left to deal with their grief in privacy.

Just makes you want to hug your kids even more so xx

To all the Mums out there, hope you have a lovely Mothers Day :)

Five Fav Friday

I came across a few goodies this week and thought I'd save them for today to share them with you

This makes me want a girl :)

I sooo want a collection of these

Brilliant pressie idea lol

both from the same maker but sooo makes me want a baby again, just so I can buy one :)

dont worry that aint gonna happen here, I've done my bit for society lol

Thanks for popping by :)

pretty I think

A bespoke order which I'm pretty pleased with, also gave me some ideas for altered photo frames for Etsy Store

Dont you just love Basic Grey papers :) I do

The space is for a photo to be inserted by the recipient.

Paper Bowl Tutorial

I recently made a quick and simple paper bowl and thought I'd share how I did it.
All you are going to need is one sheet of 12x12 patterned paper (choose a good thick quality patterned paper so it stays quite sturdy), cropadile, string or ribbon and scoring board and tool.

Firstly cut your patterned paper to 9x9" and score 2" on all four sides Fold all score lines to where they meet Pinch the corners together and using your cropadile punch a 3/16 hole Tie the corner holes together with your chosen ribbon or string and hey presto a neat little paper bowl to hold some chocolates, pot pourri or little crafty bits.
I got the inspiration to make this from one of my crafting books.

Easy Craft Projects

A sneak peek of a project I'll be sending over to Easy Craft Projects Why dont you pop on over there and see all the great FREE downloads of crafty goodness you can get

Loving it

I so cannot wait for Kirsty's Patti Picklicious cd to be on sale, she recently had a free download of a few papers so I've made my nieces Megan's birthday card and a couple of tags with them.

I love how bright and cheery they are :)

RAK

This lovely lady who has been a stamping up demonstrator for a year now is offering a fantastic RAK, why dont you pop on over there and check out her yummy blog :)
x

RD Challenge

Pop on over to RosieDees Challenge at 6pm tonight to see the new challenge. Heres a sneak for ya ;)
x

Hamerton Zoo

We had a lovely morning at Hamerton Zoo today, couldn't believe it was only half hour away from home. They have some stunning animals there and some mighty weird ones too!

This is a Marabou Stork and they can eat small animals up to the size of a flamingo!!! Freaky looking or what!

Its a great place because its more of a breeding facility for rare and endangered animals too.

Look at this beautiful baby :) Everyone that knows me knows I adore elephants and tigers come a close second but I must admit if I had to pick a teeny tiny animal it would have to be a meerkat, aren't they just adorable, and how happy was I when I looked at today's photos and found these beauty's :) so pleased with how they turned outWe had a picnic and just some great family time in the fresh morning air :) Tel off to work in Scotland tomorrow so busy sorting all his stuff out :( x

Comic Relief

I loved watching comic relief last night about the Kilimanjaro walk and wow I don't think I could do that, so I was well impressed and I must admit tears did flow

At Jacks school today they wore red, so last night I stayed up sewing these little blighters onNow Jack doesn't really like to be different or stand out, but he was fine with me sewing these on and found it quite fun! Until taking his coat off in school got the better of him and he became quite upset, so some calming down and an excellent teacher managed to sort him out. I stayed for assembly and heard the kids sing the comic relief song which was fabby :)

I took myself off after to my allotment to see what needed to be done ready to start the season. I forgot how much I'd done getting ready for now, so much already dug and just under cover, so the ground is keeping nice and warm ;)
Still a few more weeks before I want to put anything down as there's still ground frosts about, so I'll hold off a little while longer.

Cooked a fabby dinner tonight (well I thought so and Tel actually agreed with me) so I've popped the recipe over on our weight journal blog

Have a great weekend, we've plans for the zoo tomorrow and then Tel is away for two weeks working in Scotland :( back next weekend briefly for Mothers Day though :)
Gonna miss him tons x

Yay

First week over and done with on our weight journal blog 'Heffalumps Express' go check out my progress for week one, I'm very happy with it :)

This picture kinda made me giggle and go awww too x

Great Offer

For those that were not aware, I am an Usborne book representative and I have to tell you about a fantastic offer throughout March, the starter kit which includes a fantastic selection of books this week currently stands at £10, and will rise by £5 each Monday until the end of March.
If you would like any further information about becoming a representative please email me here and I can answer all your questions and send you out the relevant paperwork and details.

Starter kit is increasing by £5 per week throughout March so on the 16th it will be £15, 23rd it will be £20 and the 30th it will be £25

Oh bowls...

Here's a sneak of my take on the challenge for our blog, its Rosies turn this week, pop on over and see what she wants you to do :)
I'm going to post a mini tutorial for this very soon, its the easiest thing I've ever made, but lovely, also :)

Great!

Had a great 'day' yesterday I didn't want the daytime to end :) the evening was a hoot too, myself and friends went to have food and catch a movie.

Food was great as always from The Park House and then after many a tear flowing of laughter we sat to watch this

Then to end the day of all good things, another 'great' happened but of a different kind! Two years I've being parking my car outside Cazz's house and last night it was broken into, I just hate the smashed glass and the fact someones done that to you, its even worse I feel because its not on a personal - I'll get you back level - its just pure chancers who think, lets see if she's got anything in her car attitude!
Now normally I never leave anything in the car but yesterday I needed the sat nav and guess what, yep, the morons took my new sat nav!
and of course it wouldn't be one of my stories without adding something else! it's not even my car, its my father in laws!!! :(

The police coming early this morning to fingerprint it, so have to make dash to Cazz's soon.
ttfn - a better day today :)

Finally

Last night I finally made a LO, I havent done one for so long, reasons unknown other than other stuff got in the way and little mojo for sticking photos to papers!

I purchased the gorgeous BG Archaic papers and I love them, I only have boys to scrap about and boys papers are few and far between I think, especially for boys as young as mine.

Riley really is a little tuff nut! Constantly on the go and wears me thin with his bundle of energy**loving the bugs rub ons :) - want more**

Jacks off to a birthday party tomorrow so I thought I'd make a quick card with the same papers

sadly Mummy didnt realise she'd left some pens out! so it looks like I'll be chucking another one of these together again ready for tomorrow!

Off to do girlie things today, coffee - food - cinema, near on a whole day off for me :)

Digi no no

I'm certainly no digi scrapper, but it is fun, I rustled this up for the banner on our weight journal blog
Think i'll be trying some more of these :)

Treat

A treat tonight, a night in with friends, glass of wine, cake and crafting :) Have a great weekend xx

Chunky Monkey

The boys had these waiting for them for after Jack got out of school todaySome chunky monkey white choc cherry cookies :) but guess what I managed to drag all the will power in the world and I havent snacked on a crumb, very proud of myself for that lol

Its done

Our first weigh in is done, check out our journey over here if anyone has any tried and tested recipes to share please do, you can email me them here we are going to add a links to all the recipes which we will be trying out.

On a crafting note I'm looking for shops that maybe interested in stocking some of my Etsy Shop items, so if anyone can help please contact me :) will be much appreciated and I'm sure if any links go ahead an ickle goodie bag would be on the way to the person who helped me :)

On another crafting note, I am selling a wooden bear die, I used this in my sizzix machine and is great for making full bodied bears, I only used this a handful of times but now no longer have the use for it. It cost me £50 but I am prepared to sell it for £35. If anyone is interested again please email me here

Thanks for popping by :)

First night

You know when you get those first night nerves, well no I havent joined an amateur dramatic society, but I dare say that would be less frightening! Tonight is the first weigh in for our weight journal blog we'll be adding tickers to our blog, I personally am going to set myself small goals so my tickers will be half a stone at a time.

So fingers crossed I dont pass out lol I may share it I may not but mostly certainly my progress will be shared.

On a crafting note, the last of the basic grey sultry cards
No other crafting done of late as I havent been feeling too good :( hopefully get back on the crafting wagon this week :)