Normal service

At last a normal Friday spent scrapping with Dawn!

A beautiful layout designed by Janina for Bramford crop using cosmo cricket cogs papers. Photo is of Harvey on his 5th birthday last month.

Papermaze crop tomorrow, hair coloured, airing cupboard done. Life is ok today LOL...

arrgh! 3 hospital appointments later

Sometimes life is just so arrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything I touch goes wrong at the moment! the house is a mess as we had a new boiler fitted and had to take everything out of the airing cupboard, who would have thought so much could have been shoved in there. So Mr T has a filthy cold and due to lack of pills I look and feel like an old girl (please don't say it I know) so not only is it all waiting to go back, I have a huge grey streak awaiting a colour job and neither of us have the energy for any of it. And as for my PC and printers well lets just say I could scream, talk about being difficult, I'll ask Mr T to sort it all when he feels better but until then arrrgh!!!

Anyway 3 hospital appointments since last post, hand is ok and is now on it's 3rd plaster cast and ulcer is starting heal, that's the good news, the bad bit is it's unlikely I will ever be able to go back on my RA pills and that just sucks! and even when cast comes off hand will still be useless due to ruptured tendons, I can't decide if it's hurry up and do the next op to fix them or oh god give me a break from hospital. LOL.

Have managed to make this little mini album, it's a digi kit called hoo loves you, just needs putting together.

Really looking forward to going out Saturday to crop and have even got stuff sorted.

Ruby continues to be happy and settled but has broken another nail, so I'll leave you with a few hound photo's from this week.

Ruby looking pretty and cute

3 in a bed

spot Mojo

and Mojo breaking his heart because his Dad went out to take Jim for a ride to the meadow and he got left behind LOl he went on the 2nd run so don't be worrying he missed out LOL.

and Gangley and Jim just because!

Scrapping

Spent Friday scrapping with Dawn and did this very simple Lo designed by Wendy McKee with a few changes LOL, I added the border digitally and the photo is of Ben an Harvey. I had forgotten it was still in my bag as it was part of a kit from Henley last year.

Then yesterday had a lovely day at Bramford crop and did this layout which is a hybrid. The papers are printed direct onto bazzill, then I've added the photo IRL and the embellishments were printed out but then cut (by Mr T) and added to it, the digital kit is called Little boy from Echo park papers and cost me a whole dollar to download....

One of the scars on my knuckle has been really red and angry for several days and last night it erupted oh yuck !!!! hoping it's just the stitches and not an infection, so I'm covering it in germolene and praying I don't end up having to go the the blasted hospital tomorrow!

Ruby or Ruby two shoes as she gets called is very happy and settled. Plans for re homing her have been put on the back burner until we get to the bottom of her problems with breaking nails.  can't say I'm disappointed because she is such the perfect house guest LOL...

Happy Birthday Jim

Today is Jim's 11th birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way did we ever dream or dare to hope that we would get to celebrate his 10th birthday last year after being diagnosed with the bone cancer in August 2009, and having to amputate his leg in October that year.

Yet here we are some 17 months on celebrating the big handsome fella reaching 11  

Jim is such a big happy fella and we truly do treasure every day with him.

So Happy Birthday big fella we love you loads xxxxx

So handsome

enjoying being mothered by Gangley (I think)

and tucking into his daily beef  bone.

Nothing can spoil the joy we feel today but have to admit hospital was a bit of a shocker yesterday when I was told there was nothing else I can take to replace the anti inflammatories I have had to stop because of the ulcer! have to keep everything crossed it starts to heal and doesn't need surgery. Apparently it is already bleeding and is very painful and blasted joints are so sore and stuff with out the medication. Hand is healing nicely though.

Sue x

A real layout

Spent Friday with Dawn scrapping and was surprised that I actually managed to do a real paper layout. Inking and cutting is a challenge and I so feel I should write a disclaimer on the back to remind me in future years why these Lo's are a bit below par LOL...

This is a class kit fro papermaze crop using Bo Bunny papers and was designed by Lou Collins. Photo's are of Vikki and Ben last December when we had all the snow.

Jim who will be 11 Tuesday has had a couple of off days, not wanting to go out for walks, so have gone into worry wort mode with him and Ruby has just come in from her walk minus another two nails and bleeding everywhere, think she may have to go back to the vets. I've never seen this nail condition before and they are so fragile.

Hand is much more comfortable in new cast and off to see Rheumatoligst Monday to see what he can offer to replace the anti inflammatories that have caused my ulcer.

Sue x

New cast

Today I went to the hospital and had that wretched cast removed, oh the sheer relief, new cast is much more comfortable. We also got to see the x rays of the 2 rods/pins that go from the top of the two knuckles through bone and are about 8/9 inches long, could also see quite clearly the bone graft. Anyway don't have to go back to that department again until 25th March yay !!!!!!!

Had a little play with a digi layout using a Dawn Inksip Template (mine was very loosely based on it way to advanced for me) and a kit she made available to UKS free last month. After I printed it out I added some gems and pearls so I guess it's really another hybrid layout LOL...would like to say digi is quicker but I am equally as slow at digi as I am at paper scrapping LOL.

Ruby had a bit of a disaster and broke a nail which required a trip to the vets, we thought her nails were odd and turns out she has some condition which makes them very weak, other than that she continues to be the perfect house guest.

Plans are a foot to celebrate Jim's 11th birthday next week, which basically means I have to make him a liver birthday cake yuck yuck yuck!

Going to have a normal Friday tomorrow with Dawn coming to scrap and chat woohoo !!!

papermaze crop

What a difference 48 hours can make!

Had a wonderful day at papermaze crop and so enjoyed catching up with my crafting friends and having a normal day LOL.

Hand, hip and tummy are all feeling much more comfortable today and one has stopped feeling soory for one's self LOL.

I do have to say a massive thank you to my bestest friend Dawn who takes such good care of me when we're out and is the only person in the world Eric trusts to look after me and to Carol who made me the most gorgeous card (actually I've had loads from all the girls several times over, maybe I should give them back and they can resend them each time I get myself into a pickle LOL).

Finally finished this LO which has been ongoing since first op in Oct LOL, couldn't manage to ink the flowers but still quite happy with it. The photo was taken in 2007 and is of me, Eric, Vik, Marc (son) and Ben. It's a papermaze kit using papers from Fancy Pants.

Then shock horror I finished off another layout, my first hybrid page, kit was designed by Janina for Bramford crop and had the most beautiful script and bird stamps, well stamping isn't possible at the moment and although people offered to do it for me I decided to have a go at creating it digitally. Then I added the photo and flowers and I am really chuffed with it. It does look so much more beautiful IRL. Photo is of me Eric and Ben all dressed up at Marc and Rachael's wedding last year. Photo's are rubbish but there is no light here today and dark and gloomy.

Finally some good news re Lucky her urine levels had dropped significantly when she went to the vets Friday! maybe we are finally on the right track and it is a thyroid problem.

Ruby continues to be the perfect house guest and Lucky is really enjoying her company, she has been quite lonely since little Rulu passed away as Rulu was her special friend.

So a few photo's of Ruby and co chilling out.....with Jim, then Jim Gangley and Alfie and lastly Ruby all stretched out.