Saturday, 14 March 2009

Oooh look!

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Ooh look! My Comic Relief ATC made it to the homepage of Advanced Artist Trading Cards UK - a Yahoo group run by Sharon McAllister http://groups.yahoo.com/group/advancedartisttradingcardsuk/
This is a fab group of very talented artists. Thanks Sharon!

Friday, 13 March 2009

Do something funny for money........

Well, it's Comic Relief Day here in the UK, a day when we're all supposed to do something funny for money. In other words, you can dress up be as silly as you like but it's ok because IT'S ALL FOR CHARITY :-) I made the above ATC in honour of the occasion. It's nowhere near as orange as it looks in the photo, more yellow and red. I used an image from Shelly's wonderful Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/pastportraits/pool/ (Is it just me or does anyone else have a slight pang of guilt when altering a lovely old photo? Sometimes I feel just a teeny weeny bit disrespectful - or is that just because I am English LOL ?!)
And just to prove I did something funny for money, here I am on the way to work in my pyjamas! We had a pyjamas and bad hair day at school today organised by the children. What a fab idea! The bad hair was no problem for me at all - every day is a bad hair day when you have enough hair for at least 3 people, and as for the pyjamas - what can I say? I'd spend every day in my PJs given half a chance. Erm, if I'm honest the 'Wild Thing' logo on my PJs is probably a bit of an overstatement.......................

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Oooer. Another blog award :-)

Ooooh, lovely. Another blog award :-))))) I just can't help it, I love getting these! Thanks so much to Tanya http://tanyawatts.blogspot.com/ for this virtual pat on the back. Have a look at Tanya's lovely blog. Not only does she get to play with Ranger products she also gets to demo with Tim! Thanks v much Tanya x





These are the guidelines that came with the badge:"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers."

In the grand scheme of things I'm fairly new to blogging. A year ago I had to ask my husband what a blog was, what it stood for........... but here I am blogging away with you all :-) and having a lot of fun on the way. I've made some great 'virtual friends' en route and I've seen a lot of fab art and have been inspired by many of you. I'd like to pass this award on to the following people who I amire much:

Dyan http://dyan-reaveley.blogspot.com/

Diana from Australia http://docobhthaigh.blogspot.com/

Shelly from USA http://papermischief.blogspot.com/

Sheila from the UK http://manicstamper.blogspot.com/

http://crimsoncat05.blogspot.com/

Hopefully I'll have something arty to share with you soon but just recently it's been work work work and more work. Seriously, all work and no play. Hmmmm, things will have to change round here, I'm getting twitchy.............
Byeeeeeeeeeee

P.S. Thank goodness google blogger is so well organised - I just accidentally quit from my post and found out that it had saved for me. Ahhhhhhh :-)

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Princess for a day

Oops. Running a little late as usual. It's my niece's birthday today and I had very good intentions of getting this made in time for the big day but........erm.........I didn't quite manage it! Anyway, happy birthday to Martha, and here she is as a princess for the day :-)
I used Crafty Individuals papers as well as one of their butterfly images and for the feet I used my new Claudine Hellmuth Dollypoppets stamps.
Byeeeee for now

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

More work in progress......

Well, here they are - reasons for being no.s 1 and 2. This is the work I did Dy's Workshop on Sunday and this took me most of the day, I am such a sloooow worker. But I had a lovely day with a great group of people :-))) I'd really like to say that my creative ideas come thick and fast...........but they don't LOL! These pages look quite empty at the moment but I want to leave plenty of space around the photos to journal so I can make regular jottings of all the little things I don't want to forget because they are growing up so fast. They won't thank me for sharing all their little details with you so I'll just share this as another work in progress. I'll add to it and embellish as I go along.
Anyway I'm sure you want to know what 'Bjorn Again' the ABBA tribute band were like. FAB FAB FAB! I left the concert with a hoarse voice that's for sure. I like to think of myself as a bit of an Indie chick but I can sing along to ABBA as good as the next person. Best laugh of the day came from my Mum who confessed that on the bus she was listening to ABBA on her i-pod, getting ready for the concert, and suddenly she realised she was singing along to Waterloo at the top of her voice ha ha ha ha ha LOL! Don't worry Mum, you can count on me for the sympathy vote!
Bye for now..........