To dabble or not to dabble

Yesterday I received a dabble kit from Sandra at Gottacraft! nice stuff in it, Sandra, Thanks very much, mwah! Will try and remember to post a pic later, Also I plan to scrap today as the weather has been given a lousy forecast! typical BH weather! not slept again last night either! oh well! off to try and get some kip before the kidlingtons rise...

ta ra then well

L x

Yesterday was another beautiful day and with it came

The freckles!!!

This weekend must be a bit of a record for me... Its not often I manage to scrap 2 layouts in a weekend but 3!!! and I used some distress inks on each one and actually remembered to use my paper crimper too on the layout above...

Thanks for looking

L x

Phew, its been a busy few days and the weekend aint over yet!

On Friday night we went along to Dominic's Beavers, Cubs and Scouts camp fire and bbq at their Glenny Wood base...

The boys who use the camp are so lucky there is so much to do there and the space is well utilised, I know Ethan is bursting for a place to become available so he can start!

So here are a few pics of the night, then a few lo's I have made from some of the photos using the May Gotta Craft kit from the lovely Sandra....

Tessa and her friend Harriet, playing with the timer on my camera!

Tessa took this lovely photo of

Ethan in amongst the bluebells

Dominic had a few words to say on the night about

Easter Activities in the Beaver Troop

and decided to wear bunny ears too!

We didn't start the fire! and we have the evidence to prove it! lol, btw, Alun and I were singing that song to ourselves for the rest of the evening, when we weren't joining in with the singalong!

Dominic with Paul Drew, one of the Beaver leaders

This chap was called Andy,

he was great at crowd incitement!

I had to include this pic, we couldn't believe all the badges he had and the poncho style quilt was fabulous when you got a good look at it too....

My Guys!

The lady with the bunny ears below is Jo Drew, she is another of the Beaver leaders and as you can see, has a fantastic sense of humour too!

And now for the two layouts that I've done so far! I'm really pleased with how they have both turned out and wish you could see them IRL!  cos to me they always look better that way!

Thats it so far, thanks for looking

L x

ps. my friend Carin has some blog candy on her blog here 

So what's new?

hmmm let me think! i am taking 8 pills a day now. Eight! I can't believe it, hopefully it won't be for very long tho cos 2 of them are a short course for a week, 2 more are a 28 day course and then there are two that I have for my thyroid (yes thyroxine) and then 2 others that it's looking like they are gonna be for at least 6 months to a year before I can stop taking those! hey ho, such is life, I have finally bought and addressed some envelopes and will post them this morning to the ladies concerned...

in the mean time, I am feeling wobbly again so will go back to sleep

Thought i'd plop these pics in too, they are of the kids at Tessas' 4th b'day party, Ethan was a week old, Dominic was 3 months off being two and Tessa was a week off being 4! i vaguely recall having to have it early cos the wouldn't do parties over the Easter break.....

Thanks for looking

L X

Sometimes things just don't work out...

I got up and looked at the lo I did last night and realised once i'd slept on it..... that I didn't like it and the only thing I did like about it was the matting and eyelets with ribbon so now I've taken it off and binned the rest of the lo!... c'est la vie!

L x

May week 2 challenge

Is this one a boy?

this weeks challenge was set by Judith aka Material Girl and had to have 4 things included in the layout too

title should be in the form of a question - 10 points

Use green - 10 points

Doodling - 5 points

Something metal - 5 points

Thanks for looking 

L x

more melting...

Yesterday I did some more melting and made some red flowers this time and added gems to the centres! I plan on using them when I decorate the picture frame that Heather sent me for christmas amongst the other goodies that I got off her!

Thanks for looking

L x

It's not often I scrap lift but..

This one caught my eye, from Rachael Elliott on the sarahscards blog...

The pic is of Tessa just before her 2nd birthday.

ttfn

L x

Over the last few days...

I've managed to kick start my scrapping and done 2 lo's!!!

both using the May kit from Samuel Taylor and one of them included the north east/south west challenge that Heather and I try to do every week!

Also this week, the kit arrived from Gotta Craft and I think once Heather comes back from her weekend away then we'll get stuck into the next challenge using that kit too!!!

thanks for looking

L xx

Hmmm, Now how do I go about this then? Ah yes, I'll get by with a little help from my friends!

Some of you know that i've not had the best of health recently... So after a few blood tests and a visit to get the results from the Doc, I thought it was just me being me!

Then Friday evening, I had a phonecall from the receptionist telling me that Doctor wanted to see me for a double appointment to discuss the results of my recent tests..... Well goodness knows what went thru my head over the weekend!!! suffice to say, I worried and went thru a box or two of tissues too!

Now, I have the news, it appears my thyroxine levels are up the spout again! and also my Vitamin D and Calcium levels are virtually depleted too! which is a bit of a bugger cos I try to stay out of the sun cos I have a skin condition that is aggravated when I am in the sun!!! so I came out of the Docs after half an hour, (mind you, I had waited 50 minutes to get in to see him!) with 4 prescriptions!!! FOUR!!! ointments and pills galore, I shall positively rattle for the forseeable future!

Just want to say thanks to a few wonderful people who care and waited with me, allbeit miles away!! I won't embarrass you ladies by naming you but you know who you are and I love you to bits!!! And of course Mr Wonderful himself, who sat up and hugged and cuddled me and wiped away my tears too, Love you, Slim!

Not much has happened over the last few days unfortunately...

Apart from feeling pretty rough and spending too much time in bed surfing and looking at papers, 12x12 kinds! not the local rag! I dragged myself along to my local crop on Saturday and what did I do? nothing apart from make 3 flowers and have a coffee and some cake, which was very nice by the way!

ttfn

L x

I'm not gonna get all political but I will say this....

Advance warning! this post is picture heavy!!!

Whenever election time comes around I make a point of voting if only to remember those brave women who fought for us to have votes! The Pankhursts and their ilk! I would have loved to have met them!

Anyway duty duly done, we trotted off to the shops to get some sweets and then onwards to the lake grounds for half an hour of mayhem!

















Why can't I ever get a nice photo with them all looking the same way or smiling?






This is a good one!

Close up of the three stooges!

Alun's quote of the day!
They'll be waiting a long time for a bus

The only swan on the lake.....


Thanks for looking

L x