SOMETHING LOVELY.....

Taken in the sunshine yesterday.... with Uncle T-Bag x

... AND A CARD!

Made this for someone special's birthday.. sshhh!

BRILLIANT BLOG CANDY!!

My namesake is celebrating and has got some amazing blog candy up for grabs.. you HAVE to see this. Go check out Debbie's blog.!! x

I MADE A THING!

Quite chuffed with this one... First, take an old laundry tablet box...

Then take some very pretty paper (I used Pink Petticoat's 'Flourishes' in Pebble, both negative and positive) and a lot of glue, some ribbon, flowers, pearls, hinges and a nice sentiment.....

... and you get this:

I painted the whole thing a very pale white-with-a-hint-of-blue and left it to dry. Then I tore the papers up and then sort of papier-macheted it all over, set in the hinges (Poppicrafts, of course!), inked around the edges to get that 'distressed' look; then added ribbon and stuff. I quite like it.

I made it to keep some cards in at work. TFL xx

OOH! AN AWARD!!

Look at this!!:

It's called the Lumus Thorn Elves award and it's for making folks smile - which is always a good thing. I got it from a lovely lady called Mandi - check out her stuff, she's hugely talented - so THANK YOU very much xxx.

I have to give it to five other people (eek!), so I'll come back later when I've narrowed it down a bit!! xxx

HAPPY EASTER!

Two really simple Easter cards, using Pink Petticoat papers and the free Pink Chick Kit download. Very quick to make but I think they're really effective. TFL xx

COUPLA BIRTHDAY BABES...

.. for twin girls who are six this week. Hope they like them - inside I made a teeny envelope and put a cheque in it (their Mum has no more room for any more stuff - know how she feels!) xx

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES....

... well, out of the mouth of MY babe, actually.
On the way to drop her off this morning, she yells "Yay, it's Easter tomorrow!! Lots of chocolate!!"
Me: " It's not all about chocolate, you know"
Lil G: "Yes, Mum, I KNOW!!"
Me: "Go on then, what IS Easter all about?"
Lil G: "It's when they put Jesus up on the cross"
Me: "Yes. Then what happened?"
Lil G: "They put a tea-towel round his bum.." (I'm in bits, laughing)
..."And then he came back to life!! Amazing!! Maybe they didn't pin him up properly".......
(Now I'm crying and in a lot of pain around the ribs).

So there you have it. For thousands of years, we've all believed it was a miracle, when all the time it was down to dodgy nails.....

Happy Easter xxx

TIME FOR A CHANGE...

... came home from a long day on site and just felt like a change... What do you think? x

40TH BIRTHDAY BASH... IT'S ALL OVER...

.. and it went very well, from what I remember. I had a magic glass! It got filled at the start of the night and never emptied! How cool is that??

Anyway, I wanted to share with you that one of the highlights of the weekend was that I eventually got to meet the very talented Tracey! It was brilliant to finally meet her in person and we had a great laugh - I'll tell you the saga of the false eyelashes one day! - and sat up till all hours making sand boxes to hold down the helium balloons.

She also brought Lil G and me some fantastic cards:

This one was for me... How fab is that??? And this one is for Lil G:

and it's full of brilliant images for her to colour. She's thrilled to bits, as am I. It was so good to finally meet her in person. She's had a really tough time just lately and I hope she knows that I'm always there for her and how much I value our friendship.

So, it's now the Easter hols, so off to get a load of stuff for Lil G to make/colour/paint, etc! x

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Hello all, and especially all the mums out there... I hope we all have a great day!!

I made these cards for my Mum and her best friend who is like my other Mum! The flowery papers are from Summer Driggs' 'Happy Mother's Day' collection, while the chocolate one is made using papers from the DCWV 'Sweet' collection. I hope they like them.

Off to cook dinner now :( xxxx

LOTS OF LOVELY EMBELLIES!

See? I have been busy, really... just couldn't show you for a little while. All of these are made with lots of lovely embellies from Poppicrafts. Hope you like them! x

BIRTHDAYS, MYSTERIES AND CARDAGE...

Hello all! Just taken five minutes to say hello and let you know what's been going on here at the Loony Bin that I call chez moi...

My very beautiful baby girl was 6 yesterday! Can't believe it!! I thought I'd be such a terrible mother that I'd leave her somewhere, like the supermarket or something. But no, it seems I've done an okay job cos she's here, safe, well and 6 years old!

So we took 17 of them - 6-yr old terrorists, that is - to the bowling alley on Sunday morning... still got the headache.

And this is the card I made for her. You can't really see the vast amount of GlamourDust I used, but it's purple (of course, is there any other colour??) and it's an image from Pink Petticoat. She was really chuffed with it, but even more chuffed with the one she found under the fairy door yesterday morning (remember the fairy door, where the fairies let themselves in?).

She came running into our room cos she'd found this:

Now I didn't make it... and Georgia didn't make it... and Fidgit couldn't have made it.... and it didn't come through the letterbox, so it must have been from the fairies (no, I really didn't make this - my guess is Daddy did it but it might have been the fairies...).
Hugs xxx

O M G!! A CARD!!! NO... REALLY?

Yep. I haven't been idle, but I can't show you the rest just yet. So you'll have to make do with this one. I was asked to make it for my mortgage broker's mum - yep, really!! Hopefully, he'll waive the broker charge LOL!!! xx

ANYONE SEEN ME MARBLES?

It's like a loony bin round here at the moment! No cardage to display, I'm afraid, right now... sorry. I plan to rectify that this weekend, hopefully.
Parties - who'd have 'em??
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed the countdown at the bottom of the page for Lil G's birthday, which is coming up on St Paddy's Day. So someone had the brilliantly bright idea of taking twenty (yes TWENTY!) 6-year-olds bowling for her birthday party..... Now who would come up with a stupid idea like that????? Yep..... me.
Of course, it only occurred to me AFTER we started planning the 40th birthday bash at the end of the month that her birthday was before our party and I needed to sort something out a bit sharpish!! Seemed like a good plan at the time... ho hum.
Oh, and the black & white birthday bash - another great idea. I want to take Lil G out shopping to find a beautiful black/white party dress...... SHE wants to go wearing what she wore for Halloween. Marvellous, innit?
And to top it all off, it's hubby's birthday NEXT WEEK. Bugger.
So how are things with all of you?

xxxxx

BELATED (VERY!) 40TH PARTY INVITATIONS...

Well it's been a long time coming but we (my oldest schoolfriend and I) are at last celebrating our 40th birthdays!! Yes, it was last year, but we figured that providing we party before either of us turns 41, it didn't matter!

So I made these. They have RSVP cards and directions in the wallet. The papers are Pink Petticoat Little Swirls. TFL x

A VALENTINE CARD

Yet more Pink Petticoat papers! And the very clever hinges are from the super-duper Poppicrafts - where else? x

SOME NEW BABY CARDS...

.. with my new Stampdendous "Baby's Bath" stamp, Pink Petticoat papers and Poppicrafts embellies. TFL xxx

A LITTLE BIT OF CARDAGE...

Thought I'd share a bit of cardage with you... Papers are Pink Petticoat and embellies are from the brilliant Poppicrafts. TFL x

SOUP LADLES, SNOW AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS

Now there's a title for a post, eh? How you all doing? Not too snowed in, I hope (although it would mean no work and lots of crafting LOL!). We got told the BIG snow would be happening at 2 pm today but so far it's been a bit disappointing up here... ho hum.

Been back to the Chinese Clinic and had another go with the needles (got brave with the hands, but still can't do the feet - eeuuwww!) and got beaten up with the soup ladle again. Works brilliantly and if you've ever suffered with aches and pains and never considered this treatment, go for it. My friend has been seeing a physio for 6 months now and has a shoulder injury. She booked into to see an acupunture chap and feels better after one session than she has for 6 months! Doesn't work for everyone, but I firmly believe in it - nothing against physios, either! Last one I saw was a bit of a dish!!

Now then. It's my Mummy's birthday tomorrow, so I made her this:

It's that "when I get old I shall wear purple" poem by Jenny Joseph - brilliant!

My clever little baby-waby made this:




She stamped it herself, punched out the tag, chose the ribbon and stuck the sparkles on - all by her purdy little self - cool, eh?

Hugs xxx