long time, no blog

its been ages since i last put a new post on here, well i have been busy workwise afterall.

well since i last blogged i have done the ukscrappers cybercrop which was extremely good fun and kept me very busy over 3 days, my sister stayed over that weekend and we got loads done, everyone left us alone to get on with it, we made a right mess but had fun.

i have finished my teams cj and recieved mine back, wow the work that has gone into it is amazing, thanks to all members of the cropodile chicks, you rock.

i have made and sold 2 baby albums to my work colleagues.

i have done various layouts of grandchildren, etc. my scrapping slowed down in june tremendously due to not being too well, that is now sorted and am planning up on catching up on all the stuff i have fallen behind on like the a-z journal, scrap your day journal and the overlooked challenge journal, wow so much to do its just as well i am off work till the 16th july then isnt it.

best bit of news is its my birthday on 6th july and my oh has shared the cost of a 120 pack of prisma pencils with my oldest ds as my present, they are wonderful, so is my oh and ds, the pencils are the best, i love the way they blend nicely and its great for colouring my lovely stamps i have bought recently from the marketplace on ukscrappers and good old ebay.

well here are a few things i have done recently, thought i had better ad some pics seen as it is a scrapping blog.

from top to bottom the lo's are.

a 8x8 lo ofmy grand daughter

a 12x12 lo made for a wekly challenge on ukscrappers, lo is of me, twin sister and older sister on a day out to london zoo.

and last but not least is a lo i done today using some of the scrapagogo june kit, how i love these kits, i look forward to the middle of each month, waiting for the postie to give me my yellow box of goodies.

well thats it for now but i promise i won't leave it so long next time.

here is a lo i done in 15 minutes, i love the photo of my dear daughter and grand daughter who loves cuddling and having her photo taken with her auntie

not good, bad blogger

well after what seems like ages since i even came on here a lot has happened.
first my older sister was rushed into hospital with a bleed on her brain, operated on and she is now recovering at home, thank god.
then 3 weeks ago i had the most excruciating pain i could ever imagine, i thought i was having a heart attack. ds called for an ambulance as he could see how much pain i was in even though i have a very high pain threshold. luckily it wasnt my heart but gall stones, yes , gall stones, how something so little could cause that much pain i will never know. anyway i came away from the hospital with an arm full of pills to take, 15 a day. i had a blood test and have to have a scan, still waiting for that, good old nhs.
last night i had another attack, so bad it made me throw up. i was in agony for over 4 hours, when i phoned the dr he said just to take paracetamol as the painkillers prescribed to me would make me sick again.
woke up this morning feeling like crap and it felt like i had been punched in the stomach loads of times.

i have managed to do some scrapping in the last few weeks but i am trying to get organised for the ukscrappers cybercrop starting on the 25th april, still got loads to do, scrapping wise, trying to catch up on the overlooked challenge and the a-z book as well as doing the weekly challenges and the daily challenges for the cc. on top of this lot i have been doing 14 hour days at work due to the fact that the kids i care for are on holidays from school til monday.

boxframed 3d layout

here is a 3d layout of my grand daughter, i then put it in a boxframe, the lo is 9x9. i painted the frame and put pp and embellies on it. i am doing one of my twin grandsons, these are going in my craft room once it is painted.

late night/ early morning

last night at about 11pm i decided to make a mini book that folded out to make 2 big pages, i tried to sleep but i couldnt stop thinking about it so i stayed up till 2.20am to get it finished, thinking i could get a bit of a lie-in, that wasnt the case, i woke up at 6.15 this morning, ohh well.

here is the finished book and open pages.

i have a slideshow

wow, i am getting all cheery as i sussed out how to put a slideshow on here, it took me ages to work out how to do it and at one stage it was in the wrong place so i had to work out how to move it which i did, feel free to have a look.

mothers day, peace at last, bliss

well i cant believe its march already, i had a great day today, mothers day, i spent most of the time in my scraproom, chilling out and getting a bit of peace for a change.
here are some piccies of a 6x8 baby album i made today, have added some ribbons to the wires though, its for a friend at work whos dd will be 1 very soon.