Tomorrow is Tuesday....

Mr Wonderful is taking the day off to take me to hospital as I have to see a consultant about some long-term health issues... but in the meantime, I have sort of started a new hobby.... jewellery making!! I seem to be drawn towards earrings more than necklaces or bracelets but that's fine as my darling daughter likes to make bracelets!! she has sold a few already to school friends and has even learned how to do the knotting that is used for making shamballa bracelets! Unfortunately because of the problems I have with my hands I can't actually doing any crafting til about 4pm in the day as until then my fingers really hurt to move them so, as I get very tired now I spend most of the day napping off and on and come alive when my children come home from school...

I hope to start blogging again more often and maybe on Wednesday, I'll be back with WOYWW along with Julia and the rest of the woyww'ers.

Until then, bye for now

Lisa
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Today we are mostly filling forms out!

The boys have come home with the yearly school information form to be updated and I got a letter from the ME clinic with not one BUT two questionnaires in it!!... So I've been sat next to Mr Wonderful whilst he has asked the questions and done the writing... isn't he wonderful!! Wonderful by name and Wonderful by nature!!

Meanwhile the boys are suspiciously quiet downstairs... one is supposed to be researching David Livingstone and the old one is supposed to be tidying his bedroom!! this is the same room that was supposed to be tidied last weekend!! He sure can drag things out and we have taken away the dvd & cd players and next to go will be the wii and pc in the living room, in the hope that the other two will nag at him to do his room but when I asked him if he was bothered, his answer was short and not so sweet! "no!"

Where did this one come from???? the other two have relatively tidy rooms but his can be mistaken for a post nuclear fallout area!!! but saying that I love him to bits!! his blue eyes and blonde hair that is gradually going darker like his older sister's but youngest one looks very much like me with hair a very dark brown like his father...

Anyway darling daughter wants to be collected from her friends house then to go and collect another friend and bring them both back here....  Meanwhile... the boys have slipped quietly out of the front door!! little divils!

ttfn

L xx

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A digi lo with a difference.............

I fancied doing a layout of my newest addiction, Distress Stains!! Its been a while since I've done any lo's. The odd card here and there for birthdays but I felt that it was time to get back into scrapping in one way or another and even tho my hands are not as flexible as they used to be, I managed to put this layout together using various kits from serif craft artist. I'm not au fait with the digi thing but with a bit of help from Mr Wonderful I did it.

So thanks for looking

Lisa
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A card for a special friend

It was Krafty Karens birthday yesterday and I can now show the card I sent her.... now Karen knows I am by far not the worlds best card maker but having received a lovely new order of stamps from Fiona I had to use at least one of them:D and also some of the PaperArtsy stamps were used too:D

Then at the start of September is another friends birthday but I can't show that one just yet.... In the meantime we are waiting for the children to start back at school and for some items to arrive.... namely Spellies and a SplodgeAway mat......... 

Bye for now and I'll guess the missing items will arrive soon or maybe......

When pigs fly at this rate....

 Lisa
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Distress Stains...

as I said in my last post I fancied getting some more distress stains, I got them from CraftObsessions.co.uk

I like getting things from David and Brenda as they are always good value and good service too.
I have been thinking about getting some beads and findings as the jewellery side of crafting has always interested me.... Then my dearest daughter voiced a desire to try making some too... So Mr Wonderful bought a selection of beads and findings from ebay and Tessa made some shamballa bracelets and even her brothers liked them so she made them one each too!!  I haven't had a chance to play with them til last night as Tessa squirrelled them away in her room... anyway I bagged some beads that I liked the look of and this is what I made....(The chain is a silver small belcher chain link that I have had in my jewellery box for ages).

 

It's been a fair while since I've done any paper-crafting so i'm gonna try and do my best over the next few days...:D... And the kids go back to school on Sept 4th so i'll get more time to do this uninterrupted!

Thanks for dropping by and having a look at my blog
Lisa

 

A bit late in the day but what the heck............

I'm guessing most people have tried Distress Stains by now but it's taken me a while.... anyway I got the Picket Fence one as a place to start.... I tried it out on something lastnight.......... not saying what yet so don't try any arm-twisting!! ooh and I finally got some mod podge which led to a canvas finally being done but that's another story..... anyway... now I've tried the stains I want more!! I love the one I have and Have to have some more but what can I store them in.... well I thought and thought and looked around and my eye landed on this item that I bought from Rod @ creations-by-rod.co.uk but its looking a little forlorn with only one bottle in it (upside down) so that may be changed soon:D 

Anyway, wishing you all a good weekend 

Lisa x

Its been a wee while now but...

I thought I'd better post some news and ..... its good news too!! I am a big fan of Sue Wilson, the lady who demonstrates Creative Expressions products and also Spellbinders on C&C.... every time her blog has reached an extra 100 followers she pulls the name from the hat and a lucky person gets a prize..... and at the end of June.... yup!! it was me!! I was absolutely stunned as it was A who was blog reading and said... "Your name is on SW's blog!!"  So I had a look and was gob-smacked... so as instructed I emailed Sue with our addy and she sent me this box of goodies!!!

(I had to overlap the pics to get everything in as my camera battery went flat so these pics were taken with my phone...) So.... I sorted everything out and a few of the things she sent me were duplicates of  stuff I already had so we decided to put the Spellies on ebay and see what we get for them and maybe buy a set of spellies that I don't yet have.... There was 6 sets of stamps in the box too and some colourwash sprays, twinkling H2Os, which I've really wanted to try, zipper roses, stickers, stuff for making decoupage cards and some stencils too!! It was a crafters christmas come early!!!

So there you go....

Anyway, I hope by sharing what I got that you will get some luck your way too!! I donated some of the stickers to the cubs group that Ethan goes to and a set or 2 of stamps that are good for Christmas cards and Fathers days card so I hope they will find them useful.

Take care and bye for now

Lisa
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PS. Kids break up for school on Wed (DD) and Thursday (DSs 1&2) ooh and if you are thinking of some Summer reading.... I've just finished the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy.... I have read better and will be deleting it off my iTunes account asap!! ttfn, I'm off to see what the latest best seller is now!

Ok then..................

A few weeks ago now, I went to my docs and after a long conversation which resulted in me having blood tests, I went back for the results and another long conversation and the short of it is I finally have a diagnosis for all the crappy aches, pains and symptoms I have been getting for the past few years.... I have M.E....  now a few ladies already know of this and have been great, Giving advice and generally boosting me and I can't say enough thank yous to those lovely ladies, you all know who you are  

And now I am sat waiting for the duty doctor to ring me up and give me a script as I am having a flare up of my long term back problems at the moment. So forgive me if I don't post much for the next week or so.

Lisa

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Its been a while since I've done a paper/card layout

due to getting upset at some things that came my way.... but I am finished with the stuff that got to me and the people that I thought were friends...

Anyway here is a layout that I've been meaning to do for sometime using pics that were taken in April 2008. We attended a close friends 30th birthday party and yep it was a murder mystery night.... The theme was The Brie, The Bullet and The Black Cat.... I used some of the fabulous Authentique papers that I got in a kit from the wonderful Sandra at Gottacraft.

 Mr Wonderful was playing the dastardly gutter press Seamus O'Hack and I was Pia Fedora, the lover of the murder victim.... I was informed my character was to be spanish so I tried to think of someone spanish and Freda Kahlo came to mind... so out came the mascara and eyeliner on the night and I heavily embellished my eyebrows to make a monobrow, stuck a flower in my hair and bought a cigarette holder from ebay.... Mr Wonderful got his outfit from the charity shop and we vandalised it with red wine and cigarette ash!!! anyway, It was a thoroughly good night and great company too.

Thanks for dropping by

Lisa
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