FLAPJACK N GOSS DAY

MMMMMM!!! Today my little girl E and I made flapjacks - yummy scrummy flapjacks - took one lot to a close friend who was poorly and we had another lot for tea - leaves one last batch for tomorrow - lush!!

It has been quite a sociable day today I loaned my Big Shot to a friend this morning and naturally had a cuppa cha n a chat whilst I was showing her how to use it - picked Mum up at lunchtime and then went to see my friend above - had a couple of hours with her and then after collecting D from school called in at another friends to drop off a birthday pressie - so another cuppa and a goss. Very sociable!

Have made a couple of cards for a couple of yummy challenges on the tinternet and thats about it for me - I went back to work last night to catch up and ended up finishing at 1 this morning - I am pooped!! Here's my squares one for PaperTakeWeekly

and here is my spring card forthe Arty Girlz challenge

in fact heres another one too - once I got going I couldn't stop

This fabby award was given to me by Jane - a good friend of mine from Scrapitude - thank you so much mate - very kind of you - you have often made my day too when chatting on the forum - you have often been the one to answer my ramblings and never once made me feel daft - bless ya hun so heres my list of who I want to give the award to you and of course the first person has to be

Jane so here you are hun right back to you..

and then one lady I would really like to thank for taking me under her wing and helping me sort my blog out - a lady who certainly has bags of patience..................

Jay

then to the organisers on arty girlz ..

Chrissie
and
julie
for arranging the competition where I - believe it or not - yes me - I won some stamps - am still so darned excited about it and also thanks to

Sally who donated the prize - very kind of you hun



So thank you everyone - for making my day this week - huge hugs to you all

Hope I have done this right - have never done anything like it before

Check out my Slide Show!

caardvarks challenge

Had fun playing with this card - hmm making a card without using any patterned paper - interesting I thought - have never done it without ANY patterned before - a little tiny weeny bit but never none at all - so off I went to have a play - inks, stamps, flowers, paper tearing and oh yes more inks - I just love getting messy - anyway heres my result - off to try and upload it now

My Scrap Room

I thought I would load a couple of piccies of my scrap room before it all gets the lived in look - this is my sanctuary. Practically everything is from Ikea - my pc desk is from the Mickaels range and the desk I scrap on is one with trestle legs(my printer sats on here - tucked away nicely) and the top has a light box fitted which I have to say although I dont use it to trace things - the light that it sends up onto your work is great - easier on the peepers. My unit is from the Expedit range - the 5 box by 5 box one - with Lekman boxes and some baskets that I can't remember the name of . The smaller baskets on the top are from Tesco. The shelves are from the Lack range which complements the Expedit nicely.

Mothers Day

I have been spoilt today - woken at 0730 by dh and the children - breakfast in bed (the toast had been stamped with a love heart saying with love in the middle) - gorgeous cards and pressies - Daniel had made me a cross stitch bookmark at school and Emmie had helped Daddy make me a pot with a paper flower in it - I got flowers and a heart full of ferreo rochers - sad muppet that I am - as I am opening it I thought hmm wonder if I can use my alcy inks on that - bit of ribbon and Bobs your uncle. I also got a triple cd called the Power Of Love - it is full of fantastic songs...Heres some that are on the list

Damn I wish I was your lover

Sweet Talkin' Woman

White Wedding

You took the words right out of my mouth

Eye of the tiger

It is brilliant - deffo one for the car - that way I can listen to it lots putting me in a good mood for the day. I dont know if you can see from the piccie but one of the best things was a message from Daniel saying You Stole My Heart - Bless him

Arty Miss Circle Challenge

Have been playing tonight with my scraps of paper and have come up with this for the circles challenge over on Arty Miss http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - if I can figure out how to get this onto their site - as you can see I am not brilliant at the old technical side of things - but a wonderful lady called Jay from UKS has been helping me - so very kind - so Jay if you are reading this - thank you for taking me under your wing.

Have been busy today - had a really good sort out in my craft room - got some new shelves last weekend from Ikea to match my expedit unit so have been rehoming and labelling etc etc - very therapeutic and then tonight we went bowling - I actually got a few strikes which is very unusual for me - I am normally rubbish compared with dh and the children - they normally beat me hands down!!!

My lovely postie delivered some new stamps today and I have not had chance to play yet so I am going to go and see if I can upload my cards for the challenge and then I am off to have a dabble.