Happy Hallowe'en

Pumpkins we carved today
Bats in flight....





















Bat with a crescent moon and stars




















Skull and cross bones


















Dracula





















The kids dressed up to go trick a treating

Ethan was a vampire....





















Dominic was a werewolf....





















And Tessa was a witch...





















I decorated the living room window too!












Inside looking out












Night-time shot












Thanks for dropping by and see you again next week

L x

They're here....

I have taken delivery of a few goodies of late... I just wish I felt like scrapping!!! I can hear my paper and cardstock calling out to me and begging to be joined up with a few punches, ribbons and buttons... hmmm, time to root thru the photo files and see what I can come up with?

L x

Morning all............. I think...........

Today is a new day and I have been a bit naughty of late.... I have 2 new cricut carts coming, October 31st and Pumpkin Carving.... because I love Hallowe'en just as much as Christmas!!! and also some more TH stamps too.... yeah I know but whaddya gotta do! now some of you will know about the debacle of the crate paper story!!! yes i got 3 kits and it was only after I had ordered the 3rd kit that I realised that I didn't know what papers where in the second kit.... totally forgetting that in September the Sam Taylor kit was the same paper... so i have loads and loads of crate paper restoration range... but do you know what! I really like it and even bought the cuttlebug 5x7 Domino design embossing folder to go with it cos I think it will make great cards for guys!

Now you may be wondering how many cricut carts I have now? well I won't be saying just that it's more than 35 but less than 40... which is also, by the way, how old I will be in November.... yes Ladies and Gents... I will be 40 on November the 12th lol, not bothered who knows, age is just a number! right? yep and that's fine... but my sister Amanda will be 50 in January.... sorry sis! lol, I love her to bits and she and her husband have a new permanent addition to their house... Digger the dog, I have posted about him before but they used to look after him regularly when his owners went away but now he is theirs for good and I know she is really pleased too cos she has always been a softie at heart.

















Nothing much else has gone on in the house apart from a certain little lady breaking her netbook (Grrrrr!) not happy at all as you can imagine, she will have to wait a while for a replacement but at least she knows it! Kids have been off since last Thursday as they broke up for half term on Wednesday.... Amanda's funeral was yesterday and I had planned to go but life, the back and the kids decided that wasn't an option but I sat at 11am and lit a candle and said my own private goodbyes to a dear friend... some of us on uks clubbed together for flowers and a donation to her favourite charity which was the Asian Animal Foundation, apparently they do a lot for bears... which is typical of Amanda, she loved animals of all kinds and I hope she is at peace now, albeit far too soon.

Thanks for dropping by

Lisa x

Sad Times...

I had a phonecall yesterday from a friend on UKS telling me that a dear friend of ours passed away...

Amanda was a really lovely lady and good friend, she loved the same things that we all do in the twilight sg! I just wanted people to know how much we all loved her and shall miss her so very much...
























Rest In Peace Amanda xxx

beavers, cubs and stamps!

Wednesday night we had Ethans investiture as a Beaver then on Thursday we had Dominics investiture as a Cub and also a set of TH stamps arrived too!

Here Ethan is with Jo and Paul Drew, the Beaver leaders, he is so pleased to be an official member of the troop now





















Unfortunately the weather was so lousy on Thursday evening that Alun couldn't see where to point the camera as the ceremony was done outside in the dark.... And the only pic that came out any good... Dominic blinked!!!





















So here the stamps are, they only took 5 days to arrive!! how about that for service!!! they are a set called Creative Muse and they are brilliant!
























Thanks for dropping by

L x

WOYWW!!!!

Now you maybe you are thinking... what is Lisa up to lately, well the answer is not as much scrapping as I'd like! but I have been taking delivery of a few TH goodies of late then yesterday after I blogged, old GB came up the steps shoved a parcel thru my letter box and legged it! I got the TH tatty leaves and also the lovely rosette strip die too.... And I'm not sure if I mentioned the other week but I also got a TH box, which I have decided to keep my tools in til I get some distress embossing powders.... something for the christmas list there me thinks! and the scout badge is to remind me to sew it on Doms' top for tomorrow night as he is being invested at cubs but tonight is the night when Ethan is being invested at Beavers!!!

And the bag of buttons is for my friends 2 year old daughter as Alun has to go to the Bath office today and my friend has been seconded into keeping an eye on me til Alun comes back.... so I got her daughter a bag of buttons.... and I must take my camera with me to record the moment! or should that be the melting moment!!!


Thanks for dropping by

L xx

Finally finding the time!!!

The last week has been a good week in some respects but not so good in others....

I have taken delivery of some rather excellent stash! not sure which arrived when so I'll just show you!

So, I ordered some adirondack colour wash sprays, some TH alpha dies and some Banana Frog alphabet stamps too
The colours of the sprays are butterscotch, espresso, eggplant and denim.












The alphabet strips are upon a time and vintage market








And the BF stamps are steelfish outline upper and lowercase, which is actually the Banana Frog font!














Then my long awaited for TH stamps arrived from America and I love them even more than I thought I would!!!

















Ooh and I forgot to mention the other week that Mr Wonderful bought me the tattered florals bigz die the other week too, so I thought I could slip that in here and some folk may not notice;-)


















Then the stamps that I ordered from craftie-charlie arrived and they are great too!! 3 sets of inkadinkadoo inchies, they are Morphic Blocks, Butterflies and Flowers! I fancied the Birds and Swirls sets too but have decided to wait and see what happens as my birthday is approaching rapidly!







Then yesterday a parcel arrived that totally rocked me! A good few weeks back now, I signed up for an atc swap based on the twilight saga! Then I had a relapse with my back and decided it wouldn't be fair on the girls in the swap to continue and produce work that was not up to their standard, so thought it best to back out of the swap sadly and just admire their work from afar!!! The parcel was full of ATCs! from some wonderful ladies on UKS, Tigger2daMax organised the swap and put some in as did Looby Loo, Dragonfly Jane, Amanda-Mary, Meg Baby and Whisker Biscuit!!!













So it was soggy eyes time again!!!

Thank you so much to Maxine, Linda, Jane, Amanda, Beth and Dee! You ladies have such big hearts xxx

I nearly always forget something!!!

Here is a layout I did with the September kit from Sarahs Cards, the pics I used are of my fabulous father-in-law, John, when he was in his early 20s and playing in a band and also the Birthday card that Alun and I made between us for his dads 71st birthday! John loves planes and used to regularly go to air shows with his sons when they were younger so Happy Birthday again for last week John xxx


































And Thanks to you too for dropping by and catching up with my life.... I have finally received my appointment for the PMC at Frenchay too! Nov 16th! just after my birthday!!!

Take care

L x

Ooh and congrats to AllycatD and her DH on the safe arrival of their beautiful baby daughter! xxx