Our new baby.....

Well here I am after a very busy ...sleepless  week, This is what has kept me from my craft table. 
My lovely new stash that I bought at the Dome last Sunday has not even been opened yet, I cannot believe it!!!
Monday we went with our youngest daughter to collect our Golden Wedding present that she had bought us. I know our G/W was last month but our present wasn't ready till Monday.
Meet the New Addition to our family.......our baby Miniature Dachshund weighing in at 1.75kg, Well we think thats right...he wouldn't stop wriggling about! We weighed him in a shoulder bag with  the luggage scales :o)
He may be tiny but he has massive character....and appetite , he was smaller than his brother but boy! he can eat ok now, he has nobody to push him out the way I guess!

Our Gorgeous little boy is an absolute Joy, he even came toilet trained! can you believe that at 8weeks old, he is just amazing!!! Oh! these proud mothers....ha-ha   No doubt you will see him again at some point. 

Hopefully I will get some crafting done...in small doses) we had 3nights of crying and screeching for his mum and siblings every single minute of the night without letting up, I was demented and got so upset, I have spend most afternoons asleep with him cuddled into me...I think we were both equally exhausted.....lol  .. but he slept through last night so hopefully we have cracked it. He certainly looks settled today and follows us around everywhere :o) 
See you soon xx

My own Stencil

Good Evening everyone,
This is the result of playing around with inks and making my own Stencils, I decided to do some Die cuts and use them as Stencils today. 

Sorry my photo is a bit rubbish but its now got too dark to take pics. I have had my Photo lights on and tried every other trick I can think of ..this was the best ;o~
 Added a better picture below ...

 I added lots of Sparkle to the trees and snow but sadly its not showing up good.
I will add it to the ATCAS ..Stencil Challenge again......did I say I like stencils....lol 
Catch you tomorrow as having a night watching TV with Hubby...and a bag of Thorntons toffee xx
Huge Hugs and Happy weekend everyone, Hopefully I am off to Stamp Magic at Doncaster on Sunday :o))
xxxxxx

Water lover....

Hi Sweet Peeps,
Just a quick post today as Mondays are always a busy shopping day for us and I am way behind today. A morning of nothing done in particular ...do you have days like that? Well here is another very CAS card but I had fun doing the watercolour background, trouble is then I didn't quite know what to do with it ....lol  Jemima Puddle Duck came to the rescue, but not sure it works at all! I think its needing something else but what :o~ or maybe just needs starting again :o( 
 I am entering it into Simon Says Stamp..Watercolours

Well thats it, a bite to eat and off to town...I hate Mondays :o( 

CAS stencilling

Hello everyone, well here I am with another CAS card...getting to be a habit that I enjoy!  I think I am needing things that are not too Tasking at present so one of my all time favourite challenge blogs is serving my need very well.
                                    ATCAS... code word "Stencils"  well that suits me just fine too as I love Stencils :o)  
The stencil is from Imagination Crafts, I bought loads at Harrowgate show in March, so I might enjoy making another card to enter before it closes.

 I inked it with kaleidacolor Blue breeze inks, I then added Gelly roll "Clear star" to the petals although it doesn't show very good at all on pics :o(  but in fact it looks so pretty in the flesh.

Well thats it for now, I am going to sit and craft after I get my Beef Casserole in the oven, Hubbies ulcer seems to be healing a bit and he is looking somewhat better, So his smaller more often meals seems to be doing him good....I will be a stone heavier though as I am eating every two hours with him....lol
Hugs for now xx 
Just noticed I seem to have a dirty mark on my card pic ..not sure if its card or screen...need to check!

CAS and cuddly...

Well at long last I got to have a little play,
 The ATCAS Challenge code word is "Cuddly"  and as I am not back into full crafting mode I felt I might just cope with a CAS card.Sorry for the horrid green background..ha-ha just realised how horrid it looks, must get my head around taking photo's. :o(   I will never be a photographer...lol
 Anyway as I love this challenge it was a perfect place to start my cards again and  It made a nice break after changing the water in all my flowers I can tell you....lol   My house is like a garden :o)  It took me all morning to sort them out, (no complaints mind you)  now lots of Thank you cards to make so a busy weekend.

 off to my bed, as I am bushed, Catch you tomorrow and see what you have been up too in my absence xx

Been AWOL...

Hi everyone, 
Sorry I have been missing so long! what a busy busy month we had, Grandsons wedding was gorgeous! a fabulous day 8from start to finish.
Then we had our Golden wedding on the 26th,  again we had a lovely day...although we had a bad start to it :o(  We decided to go on a short 5day coach trip at the last minute, so booked it Wed. at 4pm and at  1-30am in the morning Den collapsed with  dangerously Low blood pressure! it was a very scary time for a while. ( Holiday cancelled and Doc out to visit him. Anniversary morning we discovered he had a small bleed from stomach ulcer, so  lots of meds and a quiet family day for our Anniversary  but a wonderful day all the same. Thank you to Sue Brindley and Irene Frudd for the beautiful cards and to everyone that sent Best wishes on facebook.  We went out for a family meal last night  which was lovely, so we are partied out so to speak. Now to get Den well and strong as he is feeling quite rough at present.

sorry Photo heavy............. 
3 gorgeous grandsons... Amanda's Boys

 

 

Matt and Anna    (Amanda's middle son)

Amanda and me

 

Our Youngest grandson Levi (Helen's Son) andCatherine

Our youngest daughter Helen & Grandaughter Holly

And finally our Golden Wedding xx

We made it!!! The little caravan we bought as our present to ourselves...we have enjoyed our trips in her over the past weeks xx

 

Lots more came after this Photo was taken ..my house is now bursting with flowers...lol

I will leave you with a picture of Den's Girls as he calls us 

xxxxxx

Hearts of Gold

Happy weekend everyone, 
Just popping by with a card to enter the ATCAS Challenge
The code word this time is "Luxury" well you can decide what you think of when the word pops into your mind. I decided on Gold!  and what nicer way to show it off than with Hearts..hearts of gold!... In this crazy world we need more of those for sure.  I know if the world only had Crafters in it what a very sweet place it would be to live.

Also I am entering it into Simon Says Stamp...Anything goes

 So one card for Two of my favourite Challenges :o)

Well here it is! hope you like it. Sorry it was a little hard to photograph with the bright glaring sun xx 
Bye for now, hope to squeeze some more play time soon xxxx