Thanks Cheri

I am sobbing while writing this, the reason for this is I have had to move something on namely Blogging for Bliss from Pass the book by the lovely Cheri. It is an amazing book with so much information, and some really gorgeous blogs to visit when you get some time. Thanks Cheri for letting me join in. The book has now been passed on to my lovely friend Mel. Mel you will love it, and you will be like me when you have to pass it on.

Do I have pixies?

I think I have Pixies at the bottom of my garden,

This just turned up at the bottom of my garden over night,

One minute it was not their and the next morning here it is, it is huge much bigger than a mushroom.

What does everyone think do I have secret pixies at the bottom of my garden?

Happy Halloween

Hope everyone has had a fab Halloween xxx

Sugar Nelli

 I made this card today to try and rekindle my craft mojo. I am getting their but it is going to take time, I know this. Thanks everyone again for all your kind words and thoughts. Plus a very deep felt thank you to Cheri  for my lovely card thanks very much honey.

The card is made with the adorable sugar Nellie stamp is she not just soo cute.

I have coloured her in with my copic markers, the papers used are from K& Co and the flowers and lace are from my stash.

Shimelle PPP

To solve my craft mojo I have signed up to Shimelle's latest class, and to be honest I need all the help I can get. I love paper whether it be patterned or plain. The problem with me is I am one of those crafter's who has a habit of buying craft supplied especially paper just to look at it and enjoy, instead of doing what you should do and use it on layouts and cards. I am hoping Shimelle is going to help me get back on track before I sink under my supplies of paper never to be seen again.

A Scottish Rose

Anyone who knows me, knows I have been absent for some time. I will be back to normal as soon as I can, but I am feeling so sad at the moment and have lost my craft Mojo as very recently and suddenly I lost my mum to heart failure. I used to live with my mum so I have taken it quite hard and have not managed to bounce back yet. I will as soon as I am able be haunting all your lovely blogs again. I have missed everyone so much. So bear with me.  I have included this poem that my sister in law wrote for my mum's remembrance I think it is so beautiful and describes my mum to a tee.

Sassy Biker Chick

This is a card I made in a hurry as one of my dear friends is moving away for a new adventure with her fiance and she loves bikes, so please excuse the photos they were just taken on my phone.

The iamge I used is from Kenny K Downlaoads Biker Girl she is so sassy, I have coloured her in with my copics.

with of course some added sparkle from stickkles, The flowers and ribbons are from Angel Crafts.

 

Lili Of The Valley Challenge

This is my card for the Lili of the Valley chaallenge this week. I made this with an 8 x 8 blank. The little image is just so cute.

The papers are Milton and Co, flowers are from wildorchidcrafts.

The ribbons are from Angel Crafts and I have coloured this image with my promarkers.

Baileys Cheesecake

What do you think I did with these items?
I made a lovely

Baileys cheesecake with my DOH loved have a look over at Deb Thanks Deb my DOH never liked cheesecake before now he wants it all the time x

Great Post

Yay it has arrived and what an amazing book thanks Amy looking forward to reading it, been away from home a while so not able to post about this till now. I was lucky enough to be the next lucky individual to receive this package after joining Pass the book started by the lovely Sian.

Lilly of The Valley

I just got these stamps from lili of the valley and I have fallen in love with them soo much they are soo cute.

The cute images are coloured in with my pro markers and the ribbons are from Angel Crafts and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Kindness

I have found through my life that people are so kind not just people I class as friends and family but also can refer to complete strangers. My partner and I were walking our cute susie dog through the caravan park when this lovely man calls out from his van, asking us to just come over to where he was for a minute. When we reached him he gave us this lovely book and told us it was from his wife who had scene us every day walking our little dog. His wife was sleeping but she had left instructions with her husband that if he was to see us that he was to give us the book, The book is so sad it is all about a lady and her son trying to cope with life after her husband dies and leaves her a widow to bring up their son alone. To help with this she buys a dog a king charles spaniel. The story is how she learns to cope and love life again. What a lovely book and what a love couple.

7 today

This is a card I made for my niece Natasha who turned a big 7 today. I used a Mo Manning design and coloured her in with Promarkers.

The flowers are from an old Hot of Press kit and they are so cute. 

The pearl brads are  and are from Dear Lizzy + American Crafts from Angel Crafts  and the so, so cute rub on birdies are from Heidi Grace

I would like to enter this card into the Pro Marker Challege which was to contain anything to do with park life.

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post. I am fine just be glad when the crutches have gone. On a happier not here is a card I made for one of my lovely craftswap.co.uk forum pals, where I am a member of a birthday card list. That I have been doing for years and have met some lovely talented ladies.

The image is another lovely one from whiffofjoy.com and coloured in with copic markers,

The flower and little bitty butterfly are Angel Crafts and of course the flowers are blinged up with a wee bit of sparkle  using stickles.

A+E late at night

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have been waiting for an operation on my knee. Well I have had it. I thought all was going well and left my ward for home, Once at home 2 hours later I was back in my local hospitol in A+E waiting to see a surgeon, as my leg would not stop bleeding, but he just patched me up again gave me pain killers and a set on crutches. Have you ever tried to use crutches when you have almost no co-ordination, let me tell you it is not easy. Anyway I am getting used to them now, but if you see me you would laugh I am such a sight.

  

Thank You card

This is a card I made for the lovely people from the caravan Park where I keep my caravan for all the help they have given me with choosing and setting up. I love the place. I made the card using a lovely Whiff of Joy stamp. and coloured her in with my pro markers. The flowers and ribbons are all from Angel Crafts. The gorgeous papers are from K & Co and I have blinged this all up with extra pearls and diamond stickles. I am going to enter this card into the challenge set by I love Pro Markers which is to do a card using pearls
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Gone But not Forgotten

We have had some very sad news lately. My father in law died suddenly on the 15th May. he was a lovely man and I have so many happy memories of times that we have all spent together. He will be sadly missed but not forgotten.

Stamps of Life - Love is like a Butterfly

This is my challenge for I Love Promarkers I used stamps from Stamps for Life and promarkers, and for the extra touch of bling stardust stickles.

Whiff Of Joy - Anything but square

This is my challenge for the Whiff of Joy - Anything but square challenge  - I used a Whiff of Joy previous Summer stamp set, and coloured the gorgeous image with my Copic Markers.

Whiff Of Joy Challenge April 3, originally uploaded by craftandstash.

All the ribbons flowers and butterflies are from a subscription ribbon kit called A touch of Prima from Angel Crafts those butterflies are so cute and of course they just loved being blinged up with a touch of diamond stickles. 

Whiff Of Joy Challenge April 3, originally uploaded by craftandstash.

Does anyone recognise the green ribbon and the gorgeous flower? it was given to me by the lovely Susanne 

over at  Snaps and snippetts which I was lucky enough to win through the Friendship Blogg hop. 

Whiff Of Joy Challenge April 3, originally uploaded by craftandstash.

One Little Word

If you are a follower of the fabulous Ali Edwards you will of heard about One Little Word . This is one word to help to describe your year ahead. I have thought about this so many times whilst following Ali's blog but there has never been a more appropriate  time or descriptive word that describes everything that is going on in my life at the moment and that word for me is CHANGE.

What does change mean? How will it help me in 2011?

Change priorities - Think about my future;

Change my living space - Make my living space more workable;

Become more independent - I can change for me;

Do more exploring - Get out and enjoy life

Concentrate on changing lifestyle habits - Change to more exercise and eating foods that are good for me.

 

Here's to a major change in 2011 - To a new and improved life to live

I'm Back

Well I'm back sorry for the very long absence but a lot of circumstances have caused this disruption, so first of all I must apologise to all my friends out their in blogg world I am trying to visit all your bloggs in turn, but if I have not reached you yet please bear with me and normal service will be resumed as soon as humanly possible. I must say a big thank you to all my amazing blogg friends that sent me well wishes and special thoughts through my absence I love you all so dearly.