The day after all the snow

The stampin up party was cancelled last night but the heavy snow forecast for late afternoon actually arrived as sleet, so now most of the snow has gone and what remains is frozen solid and the paths are very very icy. Camera batteries finally finished charging up last night, although Mr T did inform me I could have used them at any time arrgh! so I've taken a photo of the day after all the snow LOL.



Finally got round to finishing this layout off yesterday. It's a kit from Otley crop by Vanessa. I've decided that this year I really have to make an effort to scan all my pre digital photo's and start using them. This photo isn't great but is a whole lot better than the original LOL.



Alfie loved the snow yesterday and spent most of the day out playing in it, just coming in to dry off for a few minutes, Gangley quite likes it as well but gets cold very quickly. The greyhounds are not amused at all but Lucky did venture out and have a little play with Alfie. Sandy declined her early morning walk for the 2nd morning running, she really struggles to walk over the icy ground and it hurts her paws so she stayed indoors snuggled up indoors. Smart dog!

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We have woke up to 2-3 inches of snow this morning with heavier snow forecast this afternoon. Dawn and I are supposed to be going to a Stampin up party tonight in Ipswich so hoping it doesn't get too bad.

Alfie has been in the garden playing around, he loves the snow unlike the greyhounds who just say no siree not for us, so thinking there was some potential scrapping shots I ventured outside with my camera only to discover the batteries have died. Hope they charge up before the snow disappears!

Tag you're it week 43

So Carol has persuaded me to take part in this weeks challenge over on Tag you're it. Michele from Purple Onion Stamps has set the challenge and kindly donated a set of beautiful stamps to the lucky winner.

I have to say these girls are very talented and my entry is very basic in comparison LOL so here it is



I enjoyed making it and ended up making several, so now I have a batch of cards and tags made up for future use. What have you started me on Carol LOL.

Hospital again !!!

I've been to the hospital this morning AGAIN !!! and they're happy with the progress of my hand BUT said it will be 6 months at least before I get the full feeling back and a further six months before I get the full use of the hand back!!!!!! but at least we don't have to go back anymore unless I'm worried.

Had a good day scrapping with Dawn yesterday and did this layout fof Ben. Vikki takes him every December into town for his Christmas photo. I've kept the layout very simple as I wanted the main focus to be the lovely photo. I've used Basic Grey scraps and I promise you it is all straight must have taken the photo wonky honest.



Anyone who knows me will tell you I hate working in a mess and yet twice in the last week my desk has ended up looking like this.



Disgraceful I know but I needed to make a Granny card for Dawn and new baby card for her daughter and partner and then decided to make a batch of cards up out of scraps and so it just got messier and messier.







Just a few of the cards I made from scraps.
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It's a boy thing

Since Dawn started scrapping I normally only scrap with her on a Thursday and at crop BUT yesterday I had this idea for a layout for the Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge IT's A BOY THING and just had to do it straight away LOL.



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The photo is of Ben on his 3rd birthday last month, I think he got a tad fed up with us all taking photo's so picked up his camera and started taking photo's of us. I've used Scenic Route paper and chipboard, the title is a combination of American thickers, Jenni Bowlins letters and some I made myself. The candles were cut from the paper and given a gloss finish and the balloons were cut freehand.

So onto to baby news, I've passed on all the messages of congratulations to Granny Dawn and yes she will bring photo's to crop. Mother and son are doing very well and finally came home from hospital last night after little Jude had to spend 48 hours on the lamp as he had become jaundiced. Dawn has informed me she will take a break from Granny duties on Thursday to scrap...

What a week

It's been a funny old week, Eric spent Tuesday getting Vikki's car ready for the MOT and boy was it cold outside but on Thursday it passed with just a new tyre needed.

Wednesday poor Sandy woo had to have a tooth out, we have been battling a gum infection since November and had really thought it was working but last weekend her mouth swelled up yet again and this time the tooth just had to come out, she actually ended up having another 3 teeth out, poor Sandy woo doesn't have many teeth left now, she was quite discomforted when she finally came home and really out of sorts on Thursday but seems much now now.

Thursday was my usual scrap day with Dawn, so after a cuppa and a bit of yapping we settled down to scrap, only to be interrupted with a phone call fro her daughter's partner Pete. Pete said they were on the way to hospital as Tanya was in labour, well Dawn took a lot of convincing as the baby wasn't due until the 17th Feb but a short time later she received a text complete with a photo and is now the very very proud firt time Gran to little Jude weighing in at 5lbs 8ozs and 3 weeks and 5 days early. So not a lot of scrapping actually got done as we were far to busy shouting and screaming and celebrating.

After I'd packed Dawn off to the hospital to meet her Grandson, I eventually finished this layout of Dawn and me at my birthday meal



I've used Basic Grey Ambrosia papers and cut some of the butterflies out for embellishments and then embossed them with UTEE. I'm quite pleased with it, especially as I've actually managed to leave some white space for a change.

Saturday Dawn and I went to town for a wander round. I bought a igloo bed for Gangley in the hope she could be persuaded to sleep in it at night time but NO she slept on the bed again last night, so will have to come up with some subterfuge to get her in it LOL. I also bought a gorgeous little outfit for Jude, we were all sure Tanya was having a girl so it's took some time getting used to blue and not pink...he is absolutely gorgeous and Dawn is totally smitten and BROKE!

Award

So Carol from Krafty Pieces has sent me this award



In order to get this award you need to:

1). Post a link of the person who gave you this award.
2). Nominate 5 other people and give a link to their sites
3). Let your nominators know that they got an award from you.
4). Put a logo of the award on the blog.


So here goes

1. Jane is my team leader over on UKS, I first (met) Jane when we were on the Design Collective forum and have come to really value her friendship. Jane is all that is good, decent and kind about a person.

2, Sharon again met through the Design Collective forum. Sharon has talent running through her veins and I adore the things she makes.

3.Goes to Janina, apart from being very good at this scrapping stuff she gave into continued pressure after hosting a brilliant NSD and now runs a monthly crop for us. Now if she could just figure out how to loads pictures onto her blog we could all see her creations LOL..

4. Okay I'm going global now with Nikki. Nikki one of my team members on UKS and is an UK girl now living in Canada. Nikki's blog is lovely and keeps all her UK based family upto date on her life and the antics of the Bobster.

5. Now I'm going to be brave and nominate this lady Leah Killian, I'VE NEVER MET HER BUT FOLLOW HER BLOG DAILY AND FIND MYSELF PRAYING THAT HER BABY WILL STAY SAFELY TUCKED AWAY, THAT SHE'LL COPE WITH HER HUSBAND AWAY ON DUTY AND MANAGE THE MOVE AT 6 MONTHS PREGNANT. apart FROM THAT HER WORK IS TOTALLY AMAZING. i LOVE HER STYLE!!! Just hope he doesn't mind a complete stranger sending her this LOL. Go see her blog it's
amazing.

So I think I did all of the above.

Just have to show you this photo of Alfie Bear and Gangley. Yes they look like little angels don't they BUT don't be fooled they are monsters LOL I took the photo when after hours of playing with each other they finally took a time out and the rest of us got some peace and quiet.



The weather here is foul and for the first time ever the hounds didn't get their early morning walk as the rain was torrential, so now of course they are bouncing off the walls and the house looks like a kindergarten with toys everywhere LOL.

Having not bought much in the way of stash for ages I've gone a little overboard today and ordered 3 packs of basic grey as it's all reduced on docrafts with matching buttons of course and some twinkling H20's. I figure the H20's will save me money in the long run as I can cut out lots of things on the cricut and paint them to just the right colour. Sounds good in theory doesn't it.