Promarker Letraset Challenge

I've finished colouring my bootiful little owl in and have fixed it to a card, added a greeting and popped a little ribbon on (didnt have the right colour so I coloured it in with my promarker - the colour took straightaway and didnt come off in my hand or on the card - really pleased with how it came out)

Fleximarker giveaway

Oh my word - I have just been doing a bit of blog hopping - feel like a frog - lol!!!
I have come across a fabulous blog and my eyes nearly popped out of my head - this wonderful lady is giving away a whole set of fleximarkers - jaw droppingly wow wow wow - well why dont you enter - here is her linky Going Buggy

I have a friend coming over today Marcie and she is bringing her 2 girls with her - I am busy printing images and then having a tidy up - we are all going to sit around the table and colour said images and make cards.  My two already have the bug from me - I think its really important to explore your creative side - I still remember when I was a little girl - I always loved Christmas time when we could get the glue out and pots of glitter and get messy - but the joy and thrill of producing something that I could say - there I did that - I made this for you Mummy and Daddy. See I dont think I have ever really grown up I still like to play!

Be back later to show you some of the things that we make - TTFN - Have a good day!

Promarker - Letraset Owl Challenge

I have recently discovered Digi Stamps and Pro Markers! and wow I am totally loving settling down of an evening and having a spot of good old colouring in - takes me back to my childhood. I have tried rubber stamping but didnt get on that well with it (although I do love popping a flourish stamp onto paper flowers - it really zings them up) - So I decided to treat myself just after Christmas and it was a shopping basket checkout at Cowling and Wilcox and a week later - plop on the hall mat - here were my new treasures - anyway sitting at the pooter one evening and I found a lovely link on the Letraset Web Site... giving away this gorgeous owl stamp from SJ Dowsett - I recognised the name from the Scrapitude website where I used to hang out a couple of years ago - she is a very talented lady.  Her blog Little Musings is fab - pop and have a look.

Twit Twoooo!!!!!!

Anyway - not only I colour it in once - I enjoyed it so much I did 4 boooootiful little owls - Hope you like them - I am going to pop them in as an entry in the Letraset Challenge 

Wise Old Owl!!!

Owl be seeing you!

Funky Mr Owl!

Normality returns

Aaaaahhhh!!!! It is 5th of Feb - not sure where the last few months have gone but gone they have and its now time to chill(chill - huh - look at the bottom of todays entry) and enjoy the results of our labour. We have a finished kitchen (apart from the blinds and the chairs that I am going to upholster - I am waiting for the fabric to go half price - its the red gingham from Laura Ashley - It often does and I just need to be patient!!!)

Still here are a few piccies of the end result

Anyway - my passion for craft is starting to sneak back in and it came in the form of PROMARKERS - decided to treat myself and yum scrum I am loving it - its basically colouring for grown ups (Ssssssh!!! I won't tell if you don't I'm not really a grown up - I am sure I will get found out one day) .......anyway this has made me fall in love with my stamps again - they have sat unloved in a tall bank of storage drawers for what feels like half an eternity. I have also been to Staples and bought some yummy paper.

A decision has been made (Where is the drum roll???) I am going to give digi stamping a go. I have sat for the last few hours blog hopping and generally surfing tinternet for digi downloads. Have printed a few and tonight I am going to sit down with said print outs and beloved Promarkers and

C O L O U R !!!!! 

On my travels I found the following blogs/places that are lovely

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I think I deserve it - the snow came down in force overnight - today there was a white winter wonderland - a carpet of snow as far as the eye can see. Although totally beautiful - hubby works 90 miles away and he will come hell or high water make every endeavour to go to work tomorrow no matter what - we are told the main roads are not so bad but in the sleepy little village where we live - thick thick snow ...so..... We cleared our driveway, our neighbours drive way and then drove into the next village where Mum lives and we cleared hers..I am making it sounds as if it was work work work - to tell the truth it was interwoven with snowball fights, making snowmen with the children and enjoying watching them pull each other on their sleigh and making snow angels.

So back at home in the warmth - having just consumed - chicken and stuffing sandwiches alongside a lovely plate of salad and rounded off with a bowl full of bananas and ice-cream - yum scrum!!!

First post of 2012 - Extension Update

Well first of all - I must apologise - this is my first post of 2012 - well first one I have actually put some text in. There have been a few piccies captured here but nothing else. Wow the last few months have been hectic - our extension began in Oct and the Builders left about 3 days before Christmas.

I have found out that I dont cope well with mess. We had the new extension which is now a Kitchen/Family Room and then my old Kitchen and Craft Room were knocked into one large room. The Building Inspector had us take the floor up in the conservatory and put the new drains under there rather than go up the front garden and across to the side - said it was too long a run. So we had all the builders and the electrician, the plumber and the carpenter all here doing their own things.

We had to empty the old Kitchen and my Craft Room. The Convseratory had to have everything pushed to one side and everything covered with plastic. So we had things stacked up all over the house boxes and boxes and more boxed of my craft supplies - never realised just how much I have acquired over the years and to be honest I cant wait to get back and play with it all but I have a way to go yet before that can happen.  I had pots, pan, dished and oodles and oodles of food stacked up in my sons room and he slept in with me - hubby slept on our sofa - good job its very roomy and comfy - he was leaving home at 5 in the morning so sleeping there he didnt disturb anyone (he often gets up part way through the night if he cant settle and goes and lies on there - we have a quilted throw that I made which he keeps on the back and he or the children often snuggle in it)

Anyway..here a few piccies of the process

obviously here is the before shot...we took the whole wall out to a metre before the path (other side of the hedge) My 7 yr old daughter and I took the hedge out the night before the buidlers arrived.  I was doing it and she came out and wanted to help - she was amazing - dont know where she got her strength from but she wanted to help Mummy and help she did!

We wondered how far down the Building Inspector would make us dig and much of an impact it would have on our budget - we were advised the best thing to do was have a test dig for £40 and then the Inspector came and have a peek at it. Well we were already thinking at least 900mm - we had to go 1300 and ahve the conifers in the back garden removed - ending up pushing the budget up £1300. Here is Daddy, Daniel and Emily having a closer look

Course Mummy had to get in on the action too!

..and so the big day arrived - the children were so excited and wanted to watch

Here we are standing looking out of what was the front Lounge window - yes I know Emmie and I were not ready for the day yet - I am of course sporting a sexy nighty from M and S, think Em had just got out of the shower - Daniel was the only one dressed!

This used to be the side of the bungalow - we took the stone off and reused it at the front - apparently it stopped being made in the 1980's and I really wanted it to look as if it was meant to be there so we reused it on the front and then got a close match for the side. Anyway the piccie below is just before they broke through to the house - we have two openings double sliding doors into the lounge and then dont know if you can see the cut line at the back which goes into the new playroom/craftroom - along with the two veluxes - hoping for a nice bright room

Some time passed then we finally had walls front doors minus the glass and a roof minus the tiles - my oh my was it cold for a couple of nights as the builders had broken through to the extension but the tiles were not yet on.  The children and I came in from school went straight into my bedroom and put the electric blanket on along with the tv and thats pretty much where we stayed!

Looking out through the front doors

and towards the back

Fast forward about 2 1/2 months - the builders left a ccouple of days before Christmas and I finally managed to get the Christmas Tree up in there

Well to present day - the Builders and the Electrician were here this morning doing a couple of final bits and the floor fitters are here too hence the mess but hope you get a bit of an idea - I will post a few completely finished photos when it is finally done

Ignore the table - we had to put it somewhere when we emptied the Kitchen for the floor to be fitted

I have got the gate to paint yet and the little side return - I have painted the inside Culprinol Lavender and the outside Green - wasnt sure the neighbours would like looking at purple fencing - lol!

new tv needed!!!!