I know I know, long time no blog as normal!

Life is a bit mad right now as things have changed a few times with hubbies work situation and we have gone from him not having enough work to far too much! We really cant complain, he has been working in the same pub for 15 years under different managers / owners and it has always been a little unstable and unpredictable (bit like myself lol). After the 3rd manager in as many months walked out on Mothers day we thought  he would be out of work or struggling on few hours again....

... but this time he is now running the pub himself, well I say he is I think that should say WE are!! I never wanted to be a landlady!!!!!!!!!! but I love him and will support him in any way I can, right now that means pulling pints, locking up, chucking out, cooking food for the bar, and generally dealing with drunk people... and on one occasion in the last few weeks calling an ambulance (nothing to do with the food I made!)

This has left little time for anything else as i am still working full time, so the craft room is a bit quiet at the mo. I did have time this weekend to make a page for Karen at total papercrafts with this months beautiful
Graphic 45 olde curiosity shoppe kit!!!!

hop over to the blog for details of the kit and to see what Karen did with the same papers xx

TTFN and promise to be back soon x

Challenge Layout

Layout for scrapology challenge blog in March... G is for glitter... this layout is "stickled" to within an inch of its life!!!!!

Halloween book

I know its nearly valentines day but I am obviously a bit behind with the seasonal projects!!

Just finished this little book of Halloween with picks from a year or two back at the lovely Stephs house, a great party and so much effort put in to make it a fab night.

The book is based on a design idea by the fantastically talented Karen at Total papercrafts xx

Started the book yesterday at a crop day run by Linda and Lynn from Scrapology - I could only make it for half a day but was great to just sit and create for a bit... and i did actually manage to get some work done and not just sit chatting !!!

then finished of at home today with supervision from Syd!

Tidy at last... well kind of :O)

At last the tidy up is finished and I know it still looks a bit of a mess but I know where everything is and yes I need it all :O)

I did manage to part with a few bits and bobs and have put these on ebay, here if you want a peek.. and it might help to pay the vet bill for Johnny... £237 and there was nothing wrong with him!!!

All I can say is such a lot of stuff in such a small space.... will have to work on Chris letting me takeover more of the house!

Time for a tidy up!

Well as its been a bit snowy and I couldn't get out yesterday I thought that I would have a bit of a craft room tidy!!!!!!

I wish i hadn't stated.... it is now a complete mess with stuff everywhere... they do say that it has to get worse before it gets better... lets hope they are right.

Happy New Year 2012

Happy new Year !!!

First layout of the year finished, and has a very Winters feel :O) Inspiration from the Scrapology challenge for December F is for Filter Paper.... i used the filter paper to make the leaves on the layout, painted with my fave pearl paint that makes everything shine xxxx

Birthday Card

Hi there all, just thought that I would show you a card I made yesterday.

I used bits an bobs that I had in the craft stash and just scraps, the little squares are made by inking a piece of white card with a few different distress inks and then sponging over with pearl paint ( I used the one in the total papercrafts December kit... it is lush!) then when the pain was dry i cut into 1.5" squares and embossed with a few different texture folders and just loved the result.

really easy to make and with stuff you probably have... bargain