3d exploding boxes

today i made 3 3d exploding boxes after seeing a blog with some on. anyway i found them really easy to make and i must say i really enjoy making them too.

i have been off work for 2 days and i seem to have wasted them again, i have all good intentions to get loads done but on the day before i go back to work i realise i have done nothing, i then cram in as much as possible before i go to bed.

here is one of the boxes i made today, it won't be the last either.

scrap place

well i am joining the gogo crowd and blogging my scrap area. its in my living room as i like to still feel part of the family when i scrap, obviously my thinking will change when my son eventually moves out and i get his room, lol.

here is the view of my space from the hallway.

it takes up one wall but i could take over the whole room if i had my way, who needs a living room anyway.

here are some ikea drawers i use to store alphas in.

here are my shelves of buttons and primas.

here are my jars full of my gorgeous ribbons.

here is my cake stand full of my paints.

here is my chest of drawers that hold all my cardstock.

here is my cutting area with my beloved cricut.
here is my stickles storage.i hope you liked the little tour of my scrapping space.

busy doing nothing.........

i have had a week off work and all i managed was a couple of lo's and a perpetual calendar.
i am in 2 christmas swaps and seem to spend all my spare time either trying to choose the right gifts or browsing and buying from the online shops.
i still need to get a couple of gifts and make something for my swappees then its just the wrapping and sending off, then wait until christmas to recieve mine, its so exciting, roll on christmas. i hope my swappees like their gifts.
i am at work all weekend until monday night so no scrapping for me until tuesday when i will be making my swappees their gifts.

homemade believe book

after the thread on ukscrappers kept coming to the top after getting lost among the other threads i thought i would put the instructions on here so they dont get lost again, hope they come in handy for lots of people.

here is how i made it:

type your word, lets say xmas, using rockwell bold font, using 550 as font size and print out onto paper.get some mountboard or similar, longest bit should be 13 inches long and about 6 inches high.cut the letters out. place the s at the end of the longest card and draw round it lightly, trim the width of card so its the same size of the s, now cut the s out but only cutting out the first half of the s, repeat this with the a,m and x, make sure you trim so they are all the same width.now lay the word out making sure there are even spaces for each letter, now cut the excess card from the other end where thew holes will be, holepunch, place bookrings in and away you go.hope you all can follow this.have fun,jackie

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.