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first off let me wish everyone a merry christmas especially those that are missing loved ones at this time of year.


the lovely boo has finally got a blog and you can find it here ...nice to see you in the blogging world boo.


many thanks to my lovely friends for their fantastic crimbo pressies...you know who you are and how much i really appreciate them all.



finally catching up on my journal entries...i'm still way behind but at least i'm catching up...you can see more detailed pics on my slide.

things are quite here at the moment. i have andrews sister over on new years day and weve got lots of games planned so it should be fun.

8,9 and 10

finally got the chance to upload these but still havent done anymore!

we are now ready for the big day bar the cooking. were going to a panto at the manchester opera house tomorrow to see cinderella which should be good. weve had lots of visitors today dropping off pressies and another 3 lots are due in the morning.
wishing everyone a merry christmas

6 days to go!!!

and i am nowhere near ready! still making teachers pressies..tho i should finish those tonight...if i dont then i dont know when i will coz i am too busy tomorrow!
only done upto page 9 of my journal.. i cant believe i am so far behind, i wasnt last year. no i know i havent taken pics yet but i will when ive got some time ...yeah right time!
house is a wreck and i keep meeting myself coming backwards...oh well if its not done by sunday then forget it...asfter all ...what harm will it do!

behind as usual!

with my christmas journal. i managed to do 3 at weekend but now i am too busy making reindeer food for school and lets not mention the 3 events that we are doing next week!!

here some more of my journal....i know that 4 is missing...just cant get my head round that one at the moment.

sad times

jan finally lost her battle with cancer at weekend. jan's attitude to life and her fantastic sense of humour will be sorely missed. rest in peace jan.

pages 1 and 2 of my journal finshed...i am now back on track..wonder how long that will last lol. theres no date on them yet as i am still fiddling with how i want the dates on..at the moment little gingerbread men are fave but i dither so much it could be just a date stamp in the end!

its december already!!

wow that came around fast lol.
as usual for december its mad busy here. we put the tree up yesterday but ive still to dress the room! ive started shimelles journal and i'm just waiting for day 1 to dry and i'm part way through day 2. i'm also making a cookie advent sheet like teresa mcfaydens and i signed up for her 12 days of christmas, so its going to be a very busy month... and then theres all the activities going on at school that i help out with!

see you later of to do some more scrapping

poorly sick

weve both been sick since weekend. awful cold with an even worse cough, cant get tot he doctors till tomorrow even though i phoned for the appointment on monday! were waiting for tescos to deliver our shopping as we are not in a fit state to do it ourselves...dont you just love the internet.

zante...the cat.. went out last night and didnt come back. i was fretting about him all morning and then the lovely ginger phoned and ten minutes later he was back.....wooohoooo.

ive nearly finished cutting the pages for my christmas journal but i have finished the cover, which you can see below. jakey bought it for me for my birthday and i just love it...thanks girlie.

its that time of year again...

when shimelle opens up the christmas journal class..... you only have to pay once and then you get it every year!...fsb vslue for money.

i am so looking forward to it again, this will be my third year. i was going to do it on the 7gypsies atc holder but everyone seems to be doing that now so i am doing something else...watch this space!

i realised that i have never shown my first one that i finally finished last year so here it is.

this is an adress book that i made my sister for her birthday...sorry about the pants photo

told off...

for not updating my blog....its just been manic here the last few weeks as ive tried to declutter the house...and i nmst admit my mind has been elsewhere what with cancelling 3 appointments to have a tooth removed and the first appointment at the solicitors who are handling andrews medical case.

just a couple of things that ive made recently with more to follow if i mange to take a photo before i pack them up for christmas pressies before they leave this weekend!

i made this for my niece from an acrylic insert from staples

and this was a mixed media class that shimelle did for the birthday cybercrop on uks

willow grove cemetry

dates back to the mid 1800's but has been in decay fro some time. a lot of the heasdstones have fammen over and they are now going to be doing a lot of work on it to bring it up to scratch. it is such a shame as it was beautifull there, many of the graves were under the canopy of the tress and lots of the headstones were very ornate.
we were looking for the graves of 2 of my uncles who died in infancy but we did not find them so we will have to get in touch with the registrar at the main cemetry to see if we can trace the graves.

and finally...the clear album that i mentioned earlier

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clear album

christine middlecamp gave a blog class of a beautifull clear album that i could not resist. i didnt have all the elements so i just made do with what i had and a few brushes and overlays in photoshop. i used a wire photo album from paperchase as all the clear ones from the states were working out really expensive...though ive now orded a few bits from a fab etsy shop called artbar well ok maybe it was more than a few lol


so...heres the finished album

blogger is being a pain. i have been trying for a week to load the video of it that i made.

off to start a new post!

the lovely rena has had some of her doodles turned into stamps here and if you buy them direct from clevercut they have a special offer on till the end of the month. congratulations rena.

yay....the effer dares are now back up with a new home...see the link in my sidebar.

and i know i promised a pic of the clear album but it has rained most of the day and the light has been pants, so heres hoping for a brighter day tomorrow

thanks to....

sonja for taking me to the otherside of town to buy raena new school shoes. i couldnt find any in town to fit her and this was my last hope....i'm dreading next year as she already takes size 7h and the largest womens shoes are a 7g!

also thanks to ginger for driving over to let me borrow her gel a tins stamps that i was desperate for to finish my clear album. i'll post pics of it tomorrow when i can get some decent pics of it.

ive had a fab day today as we went with my friend gill over to stoke to see another old friend lesley from school. they wanted to arrange a party for my birthday later in the year but i managed to put them off and we are going for a girlie day out early next year to celebrate all our birthdays instead. i just cant face doing anything special for my birthday as we were supposed to be going to a friends wedding in florida.

digi

well i finally did my first one, thanks to the tutorial at the shabby shoppe i know i copied down to the last detail but i am so chuffed that it actually worked. onwards and upwards now lol

where to start?

my router died and although after a week i got a modem it was hell. the wires were strung 2foot high over the living room, i kept knocking it out, the dog kept knocking it out, the computer wouldnt recognise the usb and when it did the asdl line wasnt working....outlook express wouldnt let me have my emails and it was a total nightmare!

i missed all the cha stuff and all my friends. since geting back online i'm now on my second batch of tonsilitus and i feel awful and i got stung by a wasp last week, the holidays have started and my hormonal daughter is driving me crazy.

debbie has set up a blog for her shop oliviagracedesigns you can find the blog here where she is running a comp for one of her coffee totes...dont forget to mention me!

photo shoot!

i took raena out for a photo shoot today. she wasnt that keen at first but she soon got into it. we went to houldsworth mill and then did some more later when she was wearing her cowgirl outfit which she will be wearing at the plaza for the combined school play

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