Oops!

Just been told my me Muuver that my blog hasn't been updated LOL. Sorry Mum.

No problems ..... just been busy doing domestic stuff that I want done before I'm out of action again ie cleaning and filling freezer, all boring stuff.

I'm pleased to say Alfie has started to play again, he's still not quite his normal self but loads better than last week. Gangley's eye is looking a little better thank goodness. Mojo is being very tolerant of his new best friend who is his constant shadow LOL. Talking of his best friend Elmo  has been really good! garden is trashed but no damage indoors AND Saturday we had to both go out separately and Elmo had 45 minutes at home alone, well he did have the other dogs and he was just fine.

Sadly no photo's, camera is really messing around and chewing up batteries so until MR T sorts it out no photo's.

I've also been busy making all the cards I need for April and May and prepared 4 digi layouts that will become hybrid.

My son is finally getting is operation on Friday an ACL and cartilage repair, going to take 9 months before full fitness is restored but at least his knee should be good enough to do the nest coast to coast walk for Greyhound gap's kennel fund in September, this time it's the Scottish one. His wife Rachael became a newly qualified social worker this week and we're very proud of her for sticking at it through some tough times and even better she starts her new job next  month.

So here's my newly prepped LO's ready for scrapping Friday and crop on Saturday.

Love this photo of Ben that his other Grandma took

and Harvey taking part in his first Tag Rugby Festival

A photo of Ben from last years sports day

and finally my son Marc and Harvey at the Emirates to watch the footie.

Sue x

Round up

I would say we awoke to this but actually we haven't really been to sleep!

Where to start!

Lucky had her chemo and came home, everything fine. Saturday morning after a restless night she wouldn’t eat and was really off. Eric insisted I go to crop but promised to ring me if Lucky didn’t improve. By the time I got to crop he had sent me a text with a photo of her eating her brekkie, followed by another of her chilling out on the sofa. So I thought okay whatever the blip was is done but I came home early anyway as I still felt a bit uneasy about it and again she wouldn’t eat, had a miserable evening, followed by an awful night. Lucky basically shivered and shook, or puffed and panted. Her temperature was very high so we called the vets first thing as we really didn’t know if the chemo was causing the problems or the poly arthritis, so off she went to the vets. Not easy as we had 5 inches of snow over night.

So the vet is fairly sure it's a big flare up of the poly arthritis and nothing to do with the chemo. He's given her a massive steroids injection which should calm it down and make ducks feel more comfortable!

It seems the little man rather likes the snow and he and Alfie were roaring around the garden like mad things, whilst Mojo and Gangley took one look at it and decided they didn’t need to go out in that.

Eric took these photo’s yesterday, he has been playing around with the settings on the camera in a bid to try and pick up more detail on Cane, being black doesn’t make for good photo’s.

So whilst I was at crop (Thank you Janina had a lovely day) I did 2 hybrid layouts. Some of the stuff is printed direct onto the cardstock and other bits are printed, cut and layered. The first is one of the last photos of Jim. We had called the kids to let them know that Jim would be leaving soon and they both rushed over for a final farewell. I made them both promise no tears, as I didn’t want Jim upset, so behind the brave smiles is a lot of heartbreak! Second layout is the first time I’ve finished my yearly album with a review. 2011 was such a difficult year for us I felt it needed reviewing and putting to bed! Not great photo’s but light here is awful today.

Hoping Lucky might sleep for a while now so Eric and I can catch up on a few zzz’s!

Thank you

So  many lovely comments about Jim's story, thank you to everyone who took the time to read it and leave a comment. I have tried to visit you all but if I didn't I'm sorry BRAIN is still AWOL!

Friday evening we had the family come over to share my birthday cake, think it did us both good to have some company especially the boys. Eric managed to get the tree up so they could hang some bead men I had bought for them, sadly the tree is still awaiting the rest of the decorations, maybe tonight!

Still researching options for Lucky, not easy when your brain is in shutdown mode! considering how early we have apparently caught the bone cancer we are shocked at how lame she is already. Her vet is off this week, so we have a little breathing space to come up with a course of action.

Eric got this lovely photo of Lucky with our daughter Vikki and grandson Ben on Friday evening. Mum is in the background with Mojo and Alfie is on the right, Gangley was sitting on my lap and I was trying hard to stay out of the photo's, when you know you look rough it's not good to have a reminder of it LOl.

Went to crop Saturday (thank you for a lovely day Janina) it was good to go out for a few hours.

Made this LO about the hens digitally here

then printed it off separately and turned it into a hybrid here.

Hand has started to play up !!! few things I'm not happy with and are worrying me so good job we're  going to hospital Tuesday.

Bramford crop

had a super day at crop yesterday! and came away with twp prizes in the draws Janina did. Thank you Janina. Not so many people as usual, guess people are off on their holidays, anyway it meant there was lots of room to spread out LOL.

3 Layouts completed, although they are all hybrid, first was totally digi and just mounted onto cardtock. It is square in real life LOL.

This one was mostly digi but with photo and a few other bits cut out and added.

and this one I designed on PC but then printed each piece out separately and cut out and carried on as you would a paper LOl. Rubbish photo's as per usual

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Friday is scrap day!

I love Friday's and it's worth having to rush around all week doing boring chores to free up one day to scrap, chat and chill!

I have a long list of layouts I want/need to do before next op so have opted to them hybrid which is a mixture of digi and normal scrapping and so much quicker for me.

These two record the day when we finally managed to get the photo we need to launch the publicity for the coast to coast walk and the t-shirts that we had specially designed.

Papers and embellishments are from a free kit called Bike Boy.

Ruby had her two check up Tuesday and vet was pleased with her, so carry on as we are. She had a bad night with the heat and humidity Wednesday but other than that has been quite perky and looks adorable in her new collar.

Bramford crop tomorrow yay!

Weekly round up and stuff!

Where does the time go, can't believe over a week has past since I blogged!

Ruby is doing okay, she has a new pill from the vets which helps with her breathing and we've started her on the essiac tea together with some homoeopathic things that will hopefully boost her immune system and give her some extra time. It's quite hard keeping any weight on her now but she is keen to eat and walk and seems as happy as ever. This morning she and Jim chased a bunny (no they didn't catch it) and she was so excited when she came home and recovered quicker than poor old Jim who barely made it through the door before collapsing LOL. A couple of photo's of them lined up for sweeties. Think Gangley must be in amongst the legs because I remember her being there but blowed if I can spot her LOL. On the 2nd photo you can see Jim and Alfie are both missing a back leg, for different reasons.

Had a lovely birthday tea round son's Thursday eve and for his birthday present I made him a digi mini album all about the coast to coast walk.

Yesterday Dawn and I scrapped as usual and I did this hybrid page using a free kit called biker boy.

Dawn and I popped into town this morning for a mooch around and she spotted a dress in M & Co sale for £15 and persuaded me to try it on, fitted so well and looked so nice that I bought it,  lord knows where I think I'll wear it LOL. anyway it made my day finding something that looked good and was cheap LOL.

Tomorrow we're off to Mum's 70th birthday BBQ (birthday is actually Monday), looking forward to that, love meeting up with all the extended family which doesn't happen often these days as there are so many of us LOL....

Phew that was a long one, better not leave it so long me thinks LOL.

Scrap day!

Thank goodness it's Friday and scrap day! really needed to sit down and chill out.

First one I started last week and never got round to finishing it was based on a previous kit designed by Vanessa from Papermaze. I always do a yearly album and felt my 2011 album needed the first page to be of Christmas! those of you who know me will remember I spent Christmas in hospital and we finally celebrated Christmas on the 3rd January 2011 LOL.

Second one is hybrid, I enlarged the photo of Ben and then faded the transparency added my journalling and printed it off, then added the two colour photo's and a circle of brads, it was going to be stitching but chickened out as wrist has been a tad sore this week.

Bramford crop tomorrow woohoo and I have a kit so don't need to prep anything.

Jim is back to himself after his funny turn at the weekend but Ruby doesn't seem too good at all, even by her standards she is very quiet but is eating and going for walks as usual. We're doing our best to try and fatten her up but it's not working and she looks like a bag of bones! She'll be going back to vets next weeks when her anti biotics are finished!

Pleased to report apart from a stinking cold cold Marc is fully recovered from his adventures!

Otley crop

Had a super day at Otley crop and managed another hybrid layout plus a card LOl.

Photo's are of Eric, my Dad and the boys playing footie at Eric's birthday do.

I used a digi kit from Scrap Orchard called just for kicks ans this is how it started off, had a brainwave and decided to do the usual 12 x 12 but instead of wasting the rest of the paper (A3+) put my embellishments underneath it.

And then another brainwave phew two in 1 day! sprayed the embellishments with this stuff to make them look less home made LOl

Photo's printed separately as usual onto gloss photo paper

 and finished up with this.