NEC Stash!!!

Had a lovely day at the NEC on Sat (hello everyone who was there).

Here's a piccie of what I got. Was on a tight budget because of the boiler blowing up :(.

But still did OK I think! Looking forward to playing with my flock and mask. The alpha stamps were just 1.99 each! And I lurve the xmas Inkadinkado ones.

Another DT creation

This canvas is for Gus' study and is of his new Godson, Oliver. This is a DT piece so if you want to see destructions see my post on Silly Monkey Crafts blog. I'm really pleased with this one - especially as Gus actually wants to hang it on the wall - high praise indeed from my greatest critic!

More DT work

Another wee project for Silly Monkey from me here.

Leo is sooooooooooooo cute, isn't he???

Crop fodder

OK, didn't quite finish this at the crop as there were some things I needed, but only too me a few mins to finish putting it together. Bit bored of the Disney album so doing some more work on my 2005 USA album. Sorry the photo isn't great....

Hope you likes it :)

ATCs

Didn't feel like scrapping today, so I made a few ATCs instead. The Gusmeister has gone to his mates for the weekend so I could craft away to my hearts content.

Unfortunately, had to go into town this morning, and had a total nightmare trying to find a suit to fit me! It would appear that 'Petite' doesn't mean petite; it means slightly shorter than the average supermodel (either that or I have deformedly short arms....). But enough of that, here is some pretty stuff!

These Basic Grey 'Love' ones and the Egyptian 'Horus' ones are available for trade.

This one is for a swap I am doing with Rosie ((waves to Rosie, hello!)), on the theme of 'wings' :).
Tis late, off to bed for me. Night night bloggers x.

Rabid???

According to my Boss, I'm one "rabid crafter"!

Now did he mean "avid" or was I inadvertantly foaming at the mouth?

I lurve CJs!

I just love CJs, and with the one I am hosting coming to an end (one more entry to do) I couldn't wait to join another. This one is hosted by Ruth (aka Roo, aka Phoenix Tears) who was in my teamie CJ and did a fab LO in my book, so am hoping this will be a good one.
I love seeing other people's work in the CJs and also like that they are sometimes outside my comfort zone, which makes me craft in ways I wouldn't normally. One such that comes to mind is '7 Deadly Sins' which I did for my newbie CJ - I chose Wrath, and my LO focussed on a photo of my eyes photoshopped red, and then I inked the whole thing the death!!! Not very 'me' but tons of fun! Am also hoping to meet some interesting folks along the journey.
Enough rambling about the virtues of CJs - here is mine for you to see. The theme is....you guessed it......Disney (think I may be obsessed...........)

2 posts in one day - whatever next?

Wanted to show you my altered clock which I did today (I used paint and stuff and got all messy). I love it but the bloody mechanism doesn't work (which I am not best pleased about cos the damn thing was expensive!).

Will email the company I got it from at the NEC, in the meantime it will have to just look pretty. Which is a shame as it's purpose is to stop me scrapping for 8 hrs before I realise the time....

On the plus side Mum liked her album :D.

Off to eat lasagne and easter eggs.* Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

(*not on the same plate, obviously).

A few days off (yay!)

First time off work since Xmas, and am doing not a lot (which is in fact the point). After a mammoth scrapping session yesterday I finally completed my Mum's b'day pressie - an 8x8 album of their Egypt holiday last year. Only 14 LOs but those of you who know how slowly I scrap will understand the sense of achievement!

Also decided to have a little play with my new tote I bought at the show. Seeing as R, P and I all now have identical bags, I felt it wise to personalise it before we head of to SAG. (I know it's 3 months yet, but if I don't do these things when the mood takes me they never get done). Here is said creation - mearly a bit of felt and some beads but as I don't sew it took me about an hour!


Oh, and Ruth, I have a confession....

Ellison had a sale....


I spent £35 and broke my stash diet big time....(((hangs head in shame))). In my defense they had dies for £2.50!!!!!!!!!! Who has that much willpower???

Shopping!

Wasn't feeling too well yesterday but determined to go to the NEC, I finally got there at 1pm..

Not as much scrapbooking stuff as I would have liked, but still managed to come away with a decent haul of stuff. Especially glad to get hold of the new BG 'Archaic' and am looking forward to making my altered clock for my scraproom! Not been doing lot of scrapping lately, which probably accounts for the very lax blogging too.! Have now booked my classes for S-A-G and getting very excited now (despite the somewhat trying nature of the whole process - they seriously need some better web designers).

All loved up

Gus took me out for Valentine's last night, he had a lovely hotel room (they upgraded us to a Suite!) and a very pleasant meal. It was lovely to be able to get all dressed up, I so rarely get to wear a dress and heels! Here we are looking happy (if a little tired - blimey I need something for those eye-bags!!!).

Tonight I finished another Disney page - will this album ever be finished????

A challenge from Alix

Alix and I went to the garden centre (where there is also a Hobbycraft) today, and she MADE me buy this MM Ruby paper kit between us. Alix challenged me to create a LO with the kit before the end of the day - so here it is (love a challenge me!). Am actually really chuffed with it, and proves to me that I really should buy kits cos I am rubbish at matching embellies but can do lovely LOs when it is all done for me!

Hope you like it Alix! xxx

Would also appear I have been tagged by Em.

A: The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B: Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C: At the end of the post, the player then tags 3 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 Years Ago: I was 22, doing a MA in History of Ceramic Design.

Things on my to-do list today: Scrap.

What I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire: Buy a NY brownstone, a luxury suite at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort, and a private jet - and retire!

3 of my bad habits: nibbling my quicks when I am nervous; speaking my mind even when not appropriate; talking over people.

3 places I have lived: Birmingham, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Malvern.

5 jobs that I have had: Library Asst, Police Analyst, Web Developer, New Media Co-ordinator, Adcopy Controller.

5 Things people don't know about me: 1) I am terrified of wasps; 2) In 2004 I was Young Education Marketer of the Year; 3) Following a deeply scary '80s perm I had the nickname Mrs Mangle for a while; 4) My dream is to go into space; 5) My favourite film of all time is Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rebecca'.

I'll tag - Amy, Alix and Ruth x

Free stash!!!

Got home from work today to find an unexpected parcel! Even more exciting, when I opened it up it is full of lovely stash!!! I won a Scrapbook Magazine Giveaway for loads of Christmas stash (OK timing not great (Xmas in Feb!), but on the plus side it is all stuff I will use). Am a bit cross with Mr Postie though, who screwed the packet up to get it in the letterbox, so the paper and cardstock will only be good for scraps. Grrrr.

Thought you might like to see the Valentine's card I made for the Gusmeister too :). He is presently in the good books as he has booked a meal and overnight stay in a hotel for Valentine's Day - isn't he a sweetie! Love u Gusmeister xxx

My Cj is home :)

My lovely Nutters Team CJ has come home and am sooooo chuffed with it! Everyone did a lovely page, around the theme of my birth year - and here they are:

My page

Suzy B's page

Lisa's page

Amy's page (Gus approves!)

Alix's Page

Emma's page

Mell's Page

Roo's Page

Gem's Page

Thank you all so much x

CJ'ing

If you're in my Disney CJ you might want to LOOK AWAY NOW! For everyone else, here's what I have been mostly doing this week. I loved doing the HSM one but took ages to do all those doodles!!!

Aw, cute bunny

Done some more pages for my bunny album. Just one empty page now, am short of a topic. Sure something will come to me (probably in the middle of the night as usual!).

Sweeney Todd a tad disappointing. Beautifully filmed (quite Burton-esque) but I didn't think much of Sondheim's songs and it couldn't seem to decide if it was a black comedy or a tragedy.... But Johnny was gorgeous as ever, so who cares frankly!

Stash!!!

Don't you just love it when stash arrives??? Not one, but two lots of loveliness arrived on my doorstep this morning. I saw these papers at Alix's recently and HAD to have them! And the stamps were on sale so they crept into my basket too..... Yummy aren't they? And it was all within budget so didn't break the old stash diet ;).

The Hambly Rub On's are a RAK from the lovely Cleo Evans who has been RAKing things on her bloggie all week. Isn't she a sweetie? Lush aren't they!

Also here is my recent LO for the Florida album (still not finished) , which am well chuffed with :).

In other news, SuzyB has given me an Excellent Blog Award! LOL! Bless ya and your warped sense of humour Suze.

Am passing this on to my pals Alix, Ruth and Paula whose blogs I lurk around regularly :).

Worked out how to do links - did you see that? (((Feels all clever, even though the process consists of clicking one button......))) ;)

Sweeney Todd later tonight, can't wait for that!!! Johnny Depp, serial murder and singing - film perfection!

Finished it!

My xmas mini book that is! Here it is! Cute ain't it? Used my Kelly Panacci papers and embellies, and some random other bits and bobs. Snowflake on the cover was rescued from an xmas card from my Mum (I am sure purchased with recycling in mind - bless her).