Excited!

God my sleeping is out of control, about 5am I dropped off this morning to be awake again by 7.45am! Gotta get this sorted out!

To console myself I have booked us spur of the moment (and too much expense really!) to see Les Miserable this afternoon at the Bristol Hippodrome. I LOVE Les Miserable and this will be my 5th time seeing it, 3rd time at the Hippodrome and twice in the West End.

Apparently the staging has been completely reworked and is stunning - no revolving stage anymore but lots of techno gizmo foolery stuff! Can't wait! We are in the upper circle and 2nd from top row so not sure how much we will see, but I have had bad seats before and its never too bad (touch wood) NO NO NO!! No touch wood, silly girl!

In scrap related news here is what I did this week for Paper Proposals Its an ATC inspired by an advert (surf washing capules in my case)

This is coloured in with water colour pencils, stamped, outlined and glittered. Go on over and take a look at the challenge and join in!

Birthday Post

Good evening, I've had a lovely birthday, despite being up with the lark again. I have turned into an old woman these past few months and I consider myself lucky if I am still asleep at 6.30am but 5.30am is not unusual.

I got a sewing machine and an ATG from Jason. Jessica bought me a necklace with her own money (bless her) and I got 2 massive bars of chocolate! My mum bought me the Echo Park Walk in the Park collection (which I like a lot more than the summer one) and a border punch and some glitter liner.

I have been sewing like a woman possessed and I am afraid that everything I post in the next month or so will be sewed to within an inch of its life. This is what I made today with my birthday goodies!

I thought I would show you a corner of my craft space which is getting more and more 'techno' everyday and I couldn't scrap without it! My craft robo, laptop and new pride and joy, sewing machine!

For lunch today we went to Chiquitos, they do an amazingly good lunch time deal of 3 courses for 8.95, bargain! So we stuffed ourselfs and it was lovely! Tonight we have a party feast courtesy of Iceland (I make no apologies for that, I LOVE their duck rolls and battered prawns) if we can manage it as I am still stuffed. I also have 4 ciders of various unusual flavours to share with Jason, and we are all going to get very competitive on the Wii, in fact there is TOO much noise coming from the living room already, Jess and Jason are already getting lairy, so I best go and join in!

Work in Progress

Uggg I am so cross with myself for saying in yesterdays post that nothing was going to stop me from running on Thursday. Just for the record 'touch wood' doesn't work!



I woke up today with a sore throat and sore throats are normally a sign for me that I am going to be ill, sure enough about 11am today, the dizziness started and I feel generally gotty. Trying to work through it though as I always feel worse if I sit and do nothing.



This is a sneek peak (because I haven't finished it yet!) of what I have been working on today






Its for the bedroom, to go on the wall and requires a fair bit of stitching, I have half the stitching done and will prob finish the rest off this evening. These are our bedroom colours of light pink and sagey greens (with lots of white as a background)

I now have to drag my poorly self to the high street to pick up Jessica from Holiday Camp and Joe from swimming (in same place luckily) but I think I will treat us to the bus back, Jess will be knackered from doing activities all day, and I think the 25 min walk to get there will be enough for me also.

Isn't she lovely

Well sometimes!!

God its been hard work this crafting lark today, loads of time to do it, but nothing happening when I tried. This is the end result, which I do actually like, although I messed up the journaling by forgetting 3 words and then having to change what I was going to say to make it kinda fit! Ah well!



We have finally got up all the flat pack, the new curtains and the new matching duvet set, so our bedroom looks really nice now, although its not entirely finished its so much better than the junk room its been for the last 2 years.

There was a price to be paid and that was that I was as stiff as a board for a few days, everything that could ache ached! I was in so much discomfort and as a consequence I couldn't run for a couple of sechuduled days (and that narked me off!) So I ran on Monday AND today as well, both 30 min runs and on both days I covered 4.15km. Its really important to me that I finish this program on my birthday on Thursday and as I now only have one more run to go and I am doing it on Thursday then not much can go wrong (touch wood, touch wood).

After the program ends I am going to continue with 3 30min runs a week and hopefully before too long I will be able to cover 5km in that time. Then I will just keep getting my time down on the 5km, when I get it down to about 28 mins (if thats even possible), I will start to train to 10k.

Sketchy Thursday Challenge and some bargains!

I've been playing crafts this afternoon (unusal for a Saturday) I was really feeling the urge but did not have the mojo, so I went sketch snooping and found this challenge at Sketchy Thursday

and thought I would play along. Even with a great sketch it didn't come easy! Anyhow here is the sketch:

And here is my take on it (we had to use Yellow and a hand made embelishment)

Today we popped into The Range to look at a lightshade (we didn't find one we liked) but I did notice these little beauties and they are fab at £3.99 each, and they cut really well too!

An apple for teacher

Uggghh I feel grotty this morning, in bed at 12.30am and awake at 5am, not fair! I am sooo tired. Yesterday was another day of flat packing, Jason and I did the large wardrobe, it was tricky because I was so stiff and achey from the day before and my wrist was really hurting too. However it is now 95% done, we just need to attach another 2 doors. Today we have the big chest of drawers to assemble - deep joy.





I made this cute little card this week for paper proposals The challenge this week is to use the blog colours to make a card. I used the Craft Robo's Print and Cut feature on this to make the apple, and 'Thank You' is also cut on the Robo. Pop on over and have a go!

My Flat Pack Hell

I feel like I have been run over by a train!

6.30am - out running for 28 mins, covering 4.08km

7.00am - showering, making a cup of tea, finishing off teacher/friend leaving cards (inserts)

8.15am - walking the dog to the fields, popping to the shop

8.50am - back home - commence housework

8.55am - Argos arrive with our new bedroom furniture (2 hours early but hey!)

9.15am - finish housework and start on the flat pack

11.30am - finish first set of drawers (I made a few mistakes alright!!! lol)

11.35am - start second set of drawers - by now I am aching all over and so I am slow, even though I know what I am doing this time!

1.25pm - finsh the drawers and make me some lunch.

Spent the rest of the afternoon, hobbling about, picking up Jess and feeling like I have been in a fight with something that fights better than me!

Jason has just got home from work and has kindly suggested fish and chips for tea (yay) so I can continue to take it easy now.

That Flat Packing is HARD physical work!! (can't believe they took me 4 hrs, really didn't think I was working slow, but they have those metal slidy door mechanism that require a lot of work and instead of nice little nails to hammer the back bit in place I had screws! SCREWS - it took forever!)

These came yesterday (I really wanted to do a 'oooooo look at the pretty colours pic, but I am lets just say a better scrapper than I am a photographer!) They are for my sewing machine that I will receive in 1 week when I turn 35!! Can't wait to have a play!!

Yet more cards!

A couple more cards to show you today.

First this one that is for Jessica's teacher tomorrow (when she breaks up), she took another one in today as she has two teachers and that was this ones last day - I will show you that card on Friday. In the meantime heres the other one. I made this as I didn't like what I made yesterday!

The teapot and the sentiment was cut on the good ole Robo.

And this one is for a friend of Jessica's who is leaving the school for good tomorrow (Jess never gives me much notice) I can't take any credit for this design. It is a card kit file for the Robo, the only bits I added was the crepe paper ribbon and the sentiment.

Keep on running

Lots to do today, had to take Skittle to the vets for her booster, the vet thinks she has a skin allergy, that could be down to pollen or could be an allergy to fleas (she doens't have any but apparently just coming into contact with one could be enough) I think and hope its the pollen as she does not normally pull her hair out. In fact shes only done it once before - this time last year, so pollen would seem to be the culprit.

Then we had to go to the cattery and pay our deposit. Then a trip into town to buy some chocolates for Jessicas teachers.



Then I made 2 cards this one and another I can't show you yet - this one is a bit rubbishy but I like the other one, which I will show you on Friday!

I ran again today, the run itself was ok, comfortable breathing etc but EVERYTHING was conspiring against me and I think I just ran so well because I was so bloody CROSS!

1. Could not get my contact lense in so had to wear glasses
2. Jason told me that my running shoe had dog muck on and that he had "washed it off" what he meant was "I LITERALLY shoved it under a running tap and got it as wet as I possibly could"! I was honestly squelching around and it was so uncomfortable. Seriously I could have wrung the shoe out - what goes through mens heads sometimes?
3. My running podcast had mysteriously dissapeared from my iphone so I had to take my chances with my entire song list and hope I didn't get a ballad
4. My brand new sports water bottle had a faulty valve and I could only get the tiniest of trickles of water out of it.
5. I slipped and almost landed on my arse, but managed to correct myself
6. My foot bleed and I runined a pair of socks.

Ah well, at least I ran, I only have 4 runs left now before I become a graduate of C25k and that is likely to be on my birthday next Thursday.

Tonight I am off for a meal with my mate Nicky, so that will be nice.

Scrapping under the Influence

I should be very ashamed of myself (but I'm not!) Today I was just settling down to a bit of crafting, after doing all the housework and sorting some of the bedroom mess up upstairs (we are awaiting new bedroom furiture and its all a tip at the mo) when I got an email off a mate. Basically she was having a sickie after being a bit fed up at work and wondered if I wanted a lunchtime drink.

Me? Drinks at lunchtime? Yes please!!! So off we trotted to our favourite pub the ship for a cheeky glass of vino (which turned into a bottle each -oops). At chucking out time I was glad to go as I could see a colony of flying ants appearing from a patio crack, and if you read my blog you know that I am PHOBIC of the buggers. I rang Jason to pick me up and he said that he had seen the flying ants whilst picking up Jess from school and was already on the way to the pub - he was going to bustle me into the car apparently and then tell me of his ant spotting so I didn't panic (isn't he lovely?)

So although I am a bottle of wine for the worse I feel quite alright, and for the first time ever under the influence fancied a bit of scrapping, so I did! Here is he result - not bad eh? (although I may wake up tomorrow and regret it lol) This was my quickest lo ever at 30 mins! maybe I should always scrap 3 sheets? Ok maybe not!





Yesterday we took Bruno on a long walk by the river, at one point we wanted to cross and Bruno flatly refused to walk along the lock plank and had to be carried! So cute! The little 'song' on the journaling tag is from the musical 'annie' and I sing it to him all the time! (the dog not Jason!)

We booked a holiday over the weekend. 7 nights at Haven Devon Cliffs in a lovely caravan (we booked privately through a private owner, so we know what we are getting) I am so excited, I love holidaying with the sproggies, they appreciate it so much and its always so relaxed and I enjoy treating them and 'never saying no' If we get nice weather it will be so relaxed, its apparently a huge site and I envisage afternoons at the outside pool sipping rose whilst the kids splash about - heaven!