Gosh, another week!

Actually I knew I hadn't blogged in a while but I simply have had NOTHING to show you or tell you......how dull is that!!

I've had my camera for a couple of weeks now and, apart from the day we went to Marwell Zoo, it has done nothing but RAIN ever since I bought it. I'm soooo disappointed because I was really looking forward to some lovely walks to try it out, so hence, no pictures to show you!

I've joined a photography forum and they are so helpful over there, I am a complete novice and the pictures they post up are amazing but they really don't seem to mind me asking dim wit questions. Beauty of internet....I can't see their gritted teeth LOL!

Anyway, with any luck, the rain will stop soon and I'll be able to get out and take some practice shots.

It was the big release of the Bubbly Funk May Kit today, I love preparing the kits, Caroline has such fabby stuff. I made a little mini book this month, I finished it a few days ago but couldn't post up a pic until now so here you go:



















I've been sleeping really badly recently but last night I slept for 9 and a half hours and woke up feeling fab this morning. I got lots of niggly things done and I feel much more relaxed about work now, thank goodness! Hopefully I'll get another good night tonight too!

Right, I'm not going to make any false promises but I am working on some smaller projects i.e. Emilys Art Journal so hopefully I'll be back soon with a bit more to show you.

Tut tut......no blogging for a week again!!!

Hmmmm, not good is it! I'm getting a bit slow at this blogging lark, let's hope I can rectify it over the coming weeks.

Main bit of news............I have finally bought my new baby.....a Nikon D80 and I'm chuffed to diddy bits with it, it's fab.

We went to Marwell Zoo on Friday, thought we'd have the day off after all the work we'd been doing and I took the new camera with me, here's some pics:
























I haven't been working quite so hard but there is still plenty to do unfortunately. I don't seem to be able to finish as early as I used to!!

I've been creative over the weekend but on something I can't reveal just yet, not long though......wooo!

I'm just in the process of making my first maze book so I'll show you that when I'm done and I also have a sample made up of my next "Make Me" project for the other blog. I'm not overly happy with it just now so I'll pop a pick on when I feel it's looking better.

April Madness!!!!!!

Really, really big sorry..........I've been such a bad blogger!!!!!

April is officially the month from hell for me, I have worked soooooooo hard for the WHOLE month and there is still more to do. I've been starting before 6 in the morning and I have been shattered by late afternoon.

Hence, no blogging, no crafting.....just lots of trying to rest the grey matter!!

I'm still busy but I had signed up to a couple of things and the time is ticking by. The main one was the lil' swap Kathy was organising on B.F. It was to make 6cm squares to a theme of every ones choice that ideally would fit in a Maze book or maybe in a frame for display.

Here's my efforts:

Hearts for Caroline


















Nature for Karen

















Teddies for Carol

















Defining Colour for Di

















Sea Life for moi


















Pastels for Kaz

















Flowers for Crisashy

















Indian for Beth

















The Seaside for Rosie

















Something soft for Lynne

















Seasons for Chris

















Pretty in Pastels for Kathy

















They were great fun to do, I just wish I'd been a little less tired recently but never mind.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel so today I have re-written my Crafting To Do list and I have one really important job to do........more details of that soon (wink wink)!! and then I will be back almost on track. I've purposely not signed up for any more swaps to give me a chance to catch up but I am way behind with Emily's Art Journal so I will try and do something about that soon.

On a more personal side of things, it was my mums 86th birthday bash last weekend (yup, I volunteered to organise)!! Here's a couple of pics of the day:

One of the birthday girl herself.....doesn't she look fab!

















and Tony insisted on taking one of me, so here I am next to bro stuffing my face LOL!



















Oooh, a lil message for Rosie......I know you've tagged me, I'll pop it on here asap hun!

Where did that week go???

Wow, what's going on, another week is just flying round.

Thought I'd share a few pics of Leonardslee Gardens with you. We went there last Sunday, it's only on our doorstep and I've never been before!!!














Hopefully a few more tomorrow peeps
xx

New Bubbly Funk Kit has been released!!

Woo hoo, Caroline has finally released the 1st Bubbly Funk kit today, it's all very exciting!!

I thoroughly enjoyed putting together the layouts for this kit, here they are:


















The kit come with complete instructions on how to put together the layouts and they are available here, very good value for money me thinks too.

I'm being pretty creative lately but my to do list isn't getting any shorter and work is just BUSY BUSY BUSY, but I'm getting there LOL!

Ciao for now peeps.

Decorated Notebook

I'm organising a Decorated Notebook swap on Bubbly Funk and I actually started and finished mine today. I managed to keep off the internet and settle down to some serious creativity LOL!

Here's the front and back covers.


















And a couple of close ups.


















The weather has been gorgeous and it should top 24 degrees tomorrow, I hope so. We've invited a couple of friends round for a barbeque so I'm looking forward to chillin out in the garden.

Take care peeps.

Pssssst......psssssst!

New blog on the top right, early days LOL but please drop in there and take a peek from time to time!!

A few more Chester pics

Here's a few more for you:


















Now I know some of the pictures are obvious, but, I stupidly didn't write down the names of the animals as I took pics of them, so if you know what any of them are please can you let me know in the comments.........Ta very muchly.

And a bit of creativity, this is one of the Scrapstars classes by Angelnorth (Joanne), fabby class......thanks hun. (And no, I didn't hand cut the title, it's been done on Joanne's robo)!

Been to Chester

Wow, what a fabulous place. The city is beautiful, the shopping fantastic and just up the road is an amazing zoo.

Well done Chester for keeping your City fab.

I tried some beady bits

Having never done anything with beads before I was really looking forward to having a go at one of Traceys kits.

It was a fabulous project to take on holiday with me as it isn't too big for the suitcase and you don't need loads of tools to make it either.

The necklace I made is called Victorian Lace and it is a beautiful shape. Here is my effort:


















Now, of course, you need to take a peek at Traceys blog to see how it should be done but I was really pleased with my first ever effort at jewellery making.

Now, low and behold, the Scrapstars cyber crop was last weekend and Bex (Smiffy) did a fantastic bag charm class so I just had to have a go at that too.

Here it is:


















I have to say though that the small jump rings were INCREDIBLY small for my "banana fingers" to cope with but I got there in the end.

Talking of the Cyber Crop, I did another class on the Sunday for an ATC so here is a quick peek of that too:


















I've been really creative lately but I won't bore you with the whole lot today, I'll upload a bit more tomorrow...........yey!!

Bye for now peeps.