Even little monsters

Managed a bit of scrapping this morning, came up with this which I rather like!

Going Christmas shopping tomorrow to Bath, they had a new shopping centre open last week, so I am going with my mate Nicky to check it out. On the train (I hate trains), bit of shopping, spot of lunch and train back to pick up the twiglets from school. Be a bit different to my normal Thursday anyway!

I am a figment of your imagination

According to the woman who created the calendar (which don't get me wrong I love!) to download on the Scrapbook Inspirations website, there is no December 31st, my mum was born on December the 31st so she obviously doesn't exist which means I don't either. This has caused me great distress but I have looked in the mirror and I really do seem to be here.






So I have had to write in the 31st! Anyway here is a collage of the calendar that I finshed today, I just need to punch holes in it and string it together now, not sure whether to gift it or keep it! Some of the pages look a bit wonky, but thats the way I had to crop it, its all perfectly straight(ish) in real life!

An update on the visit to my gran: She didn't really know who we were and was just drifting in and out of sleep, so we sat with her for an hour and a half and I just held her hand. She can't hear anything and got distressed when I talked to her as she couldn't hear (and didn't really know who I was anyway) so I just sat with her. She has to leave her residential home now as she needs too much nursing care. I hope she goes soon, this is no life for her and shes had enough I know.

Things that make you go Oooo

The last issue of Scrapbook Inspirations came through my door this morning, I am so sad that it is finished because being a relatively new scrapper, I still always found stuff in it that interested me and inspired me. 2 things made me go oooo in this issue, one was the ATC spinner version of Journal your Christmas (which I am tempted to join this year) on page 32. And the other was the simple little print and share calendar on page 37. I downloaded the calendar straight away from http://www.scrapbookinspirationsmagazine.co.uk/ (the version without the months on) and got to work on my calendar.





Here is the month of May - don't ask me why May first, it just worked out like that. Quiteish weekend, did a bit of crafting but again can't show it yet, and its another cracking one, I seem to be a bit on a roll at the moment, it will all come crashing down on me i'm sure.

Happy Bonfire Night

We have just been outside to do sparklers. The dog couldn't have been less bothered, we were jumping at the loud bangs, the dog trotted out to the garden to join us and was quite happy watching procedures.

Good firework shot, bad bluring of child!

Jason doing his signature

Arty Farty

Pah!

Did a cracking lo this morning, really really like it, in fact I might be a little bit in love with it and might snog its face off! Why Pah? cos I can't show you it, its for my Guest Designer stint at Butterfly Crafts, and its not up til the 15th. It is however lovely to do something that is 'me' and it came together so well.

No Jason antics today, I have him on a shorter lease and it seems to suit him better and he is much better behaved for it!

I shouldn't be so horrid really, he did take me for another lesson today, I did 2 cracking (cracking is the word of the day) 3 point turns and didn't try to kill us once! Did stall on a juction twice in a row with a whopping big bus behind me though, still trying to get use to the new 'bite' on this car.

Not looking forward to tomorrow, we are going to visit my gran and I think this may be our 'goodbye' visit. She is 94 and has been in and out of hospital all year, my uncle rang me on Sunday and told me it might be an idea to come visit her within the week as she was "Fading fast" since that call she has be re-admitted to hospital again, so that is where we are going tomorrow. I've been warned that she will not be like I remember her and I don't think it will be a nice visit. Last time we visited her in hospital she looked bloody awful and I got no warning that time, can't imagine how she could look much worse than that! I've been expecting this for a couple of years now, and i'm ready for it, poor gran can hardly see or hear and has no real quality of life, she is in fact very bored and she wants to go. In her words "Our bodies aren't designed to go on this long" My gran is not an emotional woman, she never clucked or fussed around me, but she has been increasingly emotional and upset at all my visits this year, so I think it may be quite a harrowing time. To end on a bit of an up note, it will also as always be a bit comical as we will have to shout everything at the top of our lungs to be heard, everyone in the same ward will know our business by lunchtime tomorrow, whether they want to or not!

By Her Side

Been a bit of a busy bee today, first I finished off this Halloween lo from yesterday and then I very quickly whipped up this LO of Jessica when she was poorly in half term. Its a very simple LO but I LOVE it, crap photo as usual though! Wish I had a sewing machine as I fancied a small zig zag border on it really

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Not much else to report really. Last night I slept v well, Jason the wally got up an hour early by mistake today - believe it or not he forgot to change one of his watches back last week, and looked at that this morning and up he got, in his own words "I thought it was a bit dark!" tut.

Love

Its a very good job that I love Jason, because if I didn't it would have been 'bye bye' by now i'm afraid.

He is the worlds MOST impossible man to share a bed with. On Sunday he very kindly offered to sleep downstairs as I was in the grips of insomnia. This was LOVELY but has made me realise how much I would rather sleep alone.

Last night, it started with the fairly standard and frequent jolting in his sleep. Jason cleverly waits till I am just about to drop off before he goes into his enthusiastic interpertation of Riverdance, with his wee little legs going like the clappers at 5 min intervals, thats just enough amount of time between each recital for me to start to doze again, before I am once again snatched from an almost slumber. I let him off this 3 times before he got a swift kick.

Then came the snoring about 30 mins later. Snoring dosen't normally bother me as I wear earplugs, but he was going some last night and so after 10 mins of listening to it, he got another kick.

All was then quiet and just 2.5hrs after going to bed I fell asleep. I had lots of dreams last night, but one was rudely interupted by a Jason letting of a fart that was so loud the space/time continuim was ruptured! I woke with such a start, and a shout of "Christ what was that?" Jason sheepishly said sorry and as I was disturbed I stropped off to the loo. I got back to the bedroom to find that Jason has very librally sprayed AFTERSHAVE all around the room, I know he was only trying to help but christ on a bike, the SMELL! It was so strong that I am afraid I might have lost my temper at this point and the words "You are a f'ing moron" might have been shouted! We have spoken about inappropriate use of aftershave at night before believe it or not!

This is not a bad night for us, its a fairly standard night and I am not joking when I say, that if not seperate bedrooms in the future we may have to go down the seperate bed route, 4.5 years of this now and I don't know how much more I can bear. Its a good job that he is so fantastic when he is awake!

This little Lo I made today, its of a group of online friends that went on a scrapbook retreat, we all subscribe to Scarlet Lime kits and so the pic is of us all holding the LO's we made earlier that day!

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At last something to show!

So today at last I sat down to make. The first LO 'My Guy' I have been fiddling about with all week on and off and today I just added the buttons and the light blue border strip to finnish it off. The second I started a few days ago and gave up on, but I finished it today and really like it! Its such a faff photographing LO's in this weather, anything I take indoors looks crap, so nothing is photographing like it looks IRL, which is frankly peeing me off at the mo!

Also I am the guest designer over at http://butterfly-crafts.blogspot.com/ for November which is very exciting (and its quite an easy one! Phew!)

In other news, I have totally forgotten how to drive, as I haven't had a proper driving lesson in blummin yonks (Jason - take note!)

Today

Today I have woken:

starving hungry
refreshed
raring to go
determined to scrap
happy

So I am off to make a start and hopefully I will have something to share later on!!

3am-5.30am

Thats what I slept last night, yet another episode of insomnia and right after I am getting over a very bad cold. I am quite upset about it, only had 7.5 hrs sleep in 3 day and I feel like a zombie! Its unfortunate as my mum and dad are coming for lunch today, not seen them since late August and I know I am going to struggle, so are the kids as they have been at a sleep over and are normally HORRIBLE the day after a sleepover!

Here are some pics of the kids just before they went to their sleepover last night, Jessica's hair is going to be a nightmare this morning lol - straight in the shower when she gets home! The white bits in her hair is dry shampoo, I use it on my roots inbetween washes and until its brushed in is as grey as anything!

At least I now have some good photos to scrap, thats when I finally get over the cold, sleep and manage to eat properly. I am offically falling apart!