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!