Tea and a book.....

Image- Tea and a book.

Afternoon Peeps!!!

I am late popping in today because Scott has been off today and I had icky physio this morning ( I really don't like physio, I find it really embarrassing !! being prodded,poked and maneuvered around and worst of all some of it hurts!!!) 

So after a that we took the little guy to Pizza Express for lunch for a treat. We LOVE pizza express but its a mega treat so we cashed in some tesco clubcard points in time for the holidays. Mo loved it! we go to the newark one which is around 30 mins away from our home because he loves sitting upstairs and watching all the boats go by. Today was especially exciting as 6 boats with people that all knew each other came in at the same time and some of them doubled up for 'parking' side by side, well Mo thought that was most excellent!! (plus he ate all of his lunch again which is always a bonus!!!) and he still loves the bambacinno he gets at the end of his meal! he thinks he ia real grown up when that comes! its so funny!!!

Anywho, onto my SMASH page!! I absolutely love this new image by Krista! It so reminded me of the mornings I sit there with my cuppa or chai latte thinking to myself ' mmmm...what shall I smash today?!'

I find it either comes in a big whoosh of one idea or a tonne of floaty little ideas that flutter around in my head like butterflies ( which is weird because I am petrified of butterflies!!!) so that is exactly what I smashed this afternoon!!!

We popped to pets at home and bought Poppy a new stag bone so she is happily playing throw, catch and chew the stag bone in the garden right now and Mo and Daddy are clening their bikes with toothbrushes and some bike cleany squirty stuff!!!! I love afternoons like this. The holidays feel like one big fun weekend! I love that!!

and here's me and the little guy at Pizza Express!!

I had to laugh at how wumpfy my dress looks at the back!!!!! this one has a puff ball kinda effect and it looks cute when I am standing up but sooooo weird when I sit down....oh well, if it wasn't wierd it wouldn't be me now would it?!!  romfl!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge 49...Set your creativity free!!!

 Image- Butterfly baby.

Afternoon Peeps!! 

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog!! but before I waffle on about it I just wanted to make sure you know where to find our challenges when you pop in the blog as we are posting more regularly over there now and if you don't know the link our little challenges might get lost!! he he he he!! all you need to do is clook for this little chick below! she can be found on the left hand side of our tool bar over on the challenge blog.

So, onto challenge wafflies!!! this weeks challenge is set by me and its is.....

"Set your creativity free!!"

so anything goes, 

using a 

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp!!

and we mean anything so set your creativity free!!!

Now for the details....

You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp 

This challenge is open until Wednesday, 14th August @ 12:00pm EST. The randomly chosen winner will be posted Thursday with the new challenge:)!

**And please turn off your word verification and turn on comment moderation. 

Phew!! so I used Butterfly baby because it it just way too cute and I adore it! I was in that mood!! a soft little bit of colouring and it was all done! I just felt the need to add some butterflies and a little sentiment onto the cloud!!

Right must dash! mo wants fish fingers and rice for tea so I am going to get on it like a hot cake before he changes his mind!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Mini calendars are too much fun!!!

Morning all!! I am a bit late in getting here today with a little teeny make for you to peek at, I was at work last night and had to catch a quick power nap before fetching Boo!!! I am being naughty like our Debs and not telling you which download these papers are from, I am just going to say they might be new and they definitely are very gorgeous!!

Now I have a thing for beermats... I have always had a thing for beermats and collect them ( sad Lou!! lol!!!) but luckily my mum's friend also works in a pub so she gets me extra ones for making little projects like this. I just cover them with papers and you have the perfect board to play with!!

I used 3 papers from the 'download that shall not be named'  (:) he he he!!!) for this make. I covered my beermat with a darker green paper and then sanded around the edges. Once I had done that I dabbed around the edges with some fresco snowflake paint  and added a little band of lace across the middle.

Then I adhered my calendar tab to the base and got busy cutting flowers and punching leaves!!! I wanted it to be ok for use all year round but that was easy to do because the papers are so funky you can't tell they might maybe be christmas ones....... ;)

Right , got to go fetch the Boo!

Thank you for popping in!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Passion for Promarkers challenge 209... Summertime Blues!!

promarkers used... Sandstone, cocoa and burnt sienna

pastel blue,denim blue and midnight blue

Papers- Beach Cottage from Pink Petticoat.

Sentiment- Tiny Seashore sentiments from Pink petticoat.

Morning Peeps!! I am a little late writing my bloggy post this morning as I was at work last night, I caught an hours snooze and then it was weight watchers (another half a pound off! wohoooo!!!) and then I treated Mo to a mini breakfast at our village cafe for some mummy and mo time so we have only just gotten home! It was so nice though and I love that he ate it all as he has been so off his food since being poorly.

Anywho!! Onto this week’s Passion for Promarkers challenge which has been set by Lisa from Team 1 and she has chosen ......

“summertime blues”.  

Lisa would like you to use blue & 1 other colour only (not including skin/hair colours).  Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our generous sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy stamps and the lucky winner will receive 1 stamp.

I was in an Edwin kinda mood and still had some of those delicious Pink Petticoat papers and sentiments sat on my desk so I got busy with those!! I was going for a vintage sepia photo kind of effect! he came out so cute!

Right, going to get me something to eat now! I am determined to get to my 10% goal for next week so there was no sneaky breakfast for mummy in the cafe!!! summerfruits on an oatcake for me I think!!

Have an awesome day and don't forget  to pop in on my gorgeous PFP teamies creations over on the challenge blog today, they are all gorgeous!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Kisses for my sweet.....

Stamp- Stamping Bella Kisses for my sweet.

Papers- Lilybee Designs Christmas Cheer.

Dies- Die namics Fishtail flags layers stax

Die namics Blueprints 1.

Peppermint divine twine.

Kraft Raffia.

Morning everyone!!

I hope you are all soaking up a fabulously sunny monday morning!! I have a chrimbly card make to share today!!  arghhhh christmas already?!! he he he he!! but seriously this stamp just reminded me so much of Scott's grandparents that I just had to get my holiday cards in swing!!

They are so cute!! I love it!!

I coloured them up with my promarkers and then set them aside while I made up my cardbase with these delicious Lilybee Designs Christmas Cheer papers. The little button is from my Die-namics blueprints 1 set, popped on top of a banner cut with my fishtail layers stax and I tied a little bow with the twine and glued in on top.

I used the awesome sketch by Donna over on the Deconstructed sketch blog for this card,its a totally gorgeous one to use....

Mo and I are picking Boo up today for a play, Mo will be most grateful of some cousin time after the weekend he had, poor chap :(

Thank you for popping in! 

huge hugs Lou xxx

what a week......

Hiyah peeps! here's a quick low down on how our week has been so far.....

Mo was a bit poorly on tuesday night while I was at work so scott was up all night with him... Mo was ok ish wednesday but kept saying he had a sore tummy... on wednesday night he got the bump on his left eye in the piccies above after being sick at 2am ( after seeing the out of hours Dr and being sent back home as he hadn't been vomitting....!!). And so the bump...he got that when he banged into his bedroom wall and left this mark on the wall......

Scott and I moved his bed a few nights ago so that he had lots of room to play on his bedroom floor during the holidays! he must of forgotten after being so sick and he went back into his room and plomped forwards into what he though was bed...only it wasn't there so he hit the wall instead. I actually think I cried more than him, bad mamma!! as you can see, poppy gave him a good check over the morning after to make sure he was ok!!!

Anywhoo, thursday night we spent in A&E after Mo woke up in terrible tummy pain and vomitting again...

Lots of pain meds and prodding and poking later and he was sent home with what the Dr felt was a undescended testicle causing him great pain and could we visit the GP to get a referral for a scan of his groin.

Friday....after a snooze Mo was in pain all morning and worse by the afternoon but we had a DR appointment so we went to that and she sent him straight up to the hospital. He was in terrible pain :( he wasn't allowed to eat or drink and had to have oodles of pain relief ( scott and I almost passed out at the amount of ibuprofen in the syringe...) but by 8:45pm he was like this....

its hard to see the icky horrible colour he was in this photo as the lights were off on the ward, but it broke my heart to see him like this. The complete breaker was when he had to have blood taken from his hand, oh my, that was bad, he was terrified and really screamed the treatment room down, it took 20 mins to do it.

He was his normal Mo self throughout though and when the DR asked him what his pain felt like when it was  bad Mo replied...

" like crocodiles are eating me"

He slept well though and on saturday morning he wanted to write a status update on my Ipad for the friends who had been asking after him. He wrote...

I had a good sleepies. Yesterday they takes some blood out my body out my hand and that was horrible and I really cried. The Dr says my winkleberry (testicle!) is ok but I have poorly limnods (lymph nodes) in my bottom tummy (groin). I hope they let me try some breakfasts today ( no food allowed yesterday,just a little soup at bedtime) I think I need some nibbles of something and daddy will come back to see me soon love mo xxxxxxxxxx

 after 5 Drs crowded round his bed, poked and prodded and totally freaked him out, being told he has swollen lymph nodes in his left groin area but there was nothing they could do surgically so we were allowed home as long as we return to the Dr as soon as he has anymore bad pain. He was tired and cranky but fairly well yesterday but picked up around 6pm and did not want to miss Grandad's retirement meal so this piccy below is pretty much how he spent the meal after managing to eat a little bit...

As I type he is out with Daddy collecting sticks so I think he is ok today. He has had one lot of calpol so seems to be doing ok with pain today so I hope that continues until his pediatric appointment in september!!! I hope you all had a calmer weekend than me!!

I am going to sleep soooo well tonight!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Little sisters and sandcastles....

 Image- Little sisters and sandcastles from Saturated Canary.

Papers- Beach Cottage from Pink Petticoat.

Sentiment- Tiny Seashore sentiments from Pink petticoat.

hiyah everyone!!

Its my turn to post again over on the Saturated canary challenge blog because our gorgeous Alby is off playing at CHA!! and I was in a summery mood this morning (....which is quite good as I was at work last night and haven't slept yet because its the school holidays and I have 2 gorgeous little peeps to play with!!!) 

So, after painting boo's nails and adding a little gem here and there ( ..pink on toes and blue on fingers!!!) and doing a smiley face on Mo's middle finger with 2 gems for eyes and a smile drawn in, I was deserted for skateboard practice outside. I sat in my crafty room and did a squidge of coloring while they played. Its so lovely to be able to do that. I coloured up the fabulous Little sisters and sandcastles image. Oh how I love this image! it so reminds me of the 2 children I used to be a nanny for! they go to lanzarote every year and they love the beach and I have a few pictures of them playing away in the sand! (...and I just know Claudia will of had a fabulous time breaking Hugo's best efforts at sandcastles when they were dinky!!!) but they adore each other so much so I just had to use the 'Shore do love you' sentiment from Pink Petticoat.

And oh my!! how about these awesome papers?!!! aren't they just gorgeous!!! I adore them! Mo as already stolen half the pile I printed out for ' Making stuffs'!!!!! 

Once I had finished trying to use as many of those gorgeous patterns as I could on my card I got to finishing off my image. I wanted it to look all distressed and like an old canvas photo so I dabbed some crackle accents all over it. I cannot get it to show up in the photo which is soooooo annoying but here is my best effort at playing to get it to show....

Right then, espresso is calling me big time so I am off to stoke up my Tassimo and sort that out....my head is starting to nod and I need to stay awake for the fresh fish man to deliver my fish! ( I LOVE fish and eat tonnes of it! so a £20 selection pack is just right!! yummo!! hope I don't eat it all tonight!! he he he he!!)

Thank you for popping in!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 114- Summer treats!!

Stamp- Beach Babe clear stamp set.

Morning Peeps!

I forgot to schedule this post so its a squidgy bit late coming to you all now I have just gotten home from work!!! its really muggy here today and the rain is gorgeously welcome but its not cooling it down ( though I am sure I heard my lawn saying ahhhhhh lovely rain!!!!)

so its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week we have a sweet summer theme for you this time with...

Summer Treats!  

You know those yummy treats of summer, like ice cream, watermelon and strawberries!  Make sure to use your Tiddly Inks image and create a new project.  You've got two weeks.  If you don't have a Tiddly Inks image holding a sweet treat use papers or embellishments to show off those summery yummies!  

I used the gorgeous beach babe stamp set for my make and teamed her up with some super fun and delicious papers that had lovely yummy treats on them!!

I have to dash! need to get Mo and Sophia off to school and then pick my mum up for our weight watchers weigh in morning....though I would so rather be sleeping after a busy night at work!! he he he he!!! 10am will have the sound of snoring in this house when I get back!!!

OOOOH and I almost forgot....bad Lou.. there's also a sale going on over on the Tiddly inks shop , a freebie and an announcement about new images!  You can find all that information HERE.

Thank you for popping in on me!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

A little bit of Tilda.....

Stamps- Tilda with cross necklace.

Barbed wired background.

Paper- Mini Lovely butterfly.

Pens- Promarkers.

Dies- Magnolia Doohickey Sweet Lovely Lace.

Joycrafts Heart.

Die-Namics Layered Rose.

Crochet trim.

Morning everyone! I hope you are all looking forward to a super lovely monday.

Its my turn to post over on the Dies to Die for blog and  I have a little share with one of the stunning new magnolia stamps this morning. I love her, she is just so adorable.

I stamped her up and then masked her off so I could stamp the background around her. then I popped on some chalk for the clouds and got to work on the base of the card. I really had to make myself cut this paper,it is just absolutely stunning. I added a little crochet trim and a length of the sweet lovely lace die to make it pop.

Once I had popped tilda over that I added a little joycrafts heart and made myself a rose with the smallest size of the layered rose dies cut 5 times on the strip of the paper I had left! waste not want not and all that!!! the little bow around it is some twine I found hanging around on my crafty desk!....there's a lot of random stuff hanging around on my crafty desk...I found half a twix left under a pile of paper the other day! not sure how long it had been there,it was still in the wrapper and still in date...and still tasted good with my cuppa!! romfl!!!!

Well I had better womble off! Mo has 2 days left at school ( yes...sigh!) but he was a lot better over the weekend so hopefully when he gets up he will be a happy chappy!!! and I have a Costa date with Scott at 9am! I love our mini dates! he went off to work at 6am so I am dropping Mo and his breakfast buddy Sophia off at school and then going straight into town for a tropical blended ice! 

Thank you for popping in hugs Lou xx

A bit patchy...!!!

Papers from Dreams come true papercraft factory.

Morning everyone!

I wanted to share one of the cards I made the the magazine feature I did a couple of weeks ago today. Our sunshine seems to be hiding today so I decided on this zingaliciously bright patchwork card!

I really enjoyed making this one and its such a fun way to use up a few scraps! I stuck them all on and the drew some doodley stitches around the edges of each piece.
Here's the instructions if you fancy having a quick go at one....

You will need:

5 different printed papers ( your scrap pieces would be awesome for this card)

plain cardstock cut at 5" x 10"

Instructions:

Score and fold your plain cardstock at 5", this will be your card base.

Cut your biggest piece of paper at 4 7/8" x4 7/8"  and distress the edges using the edge of your scissors.

Cut the other pieces at 1" x 4 5/8", 2 2/8" x 3 4/8",2 2/8" x 2 2/8", 1" x 2 2/8 and again distress all the edges with your scissors.

Adhere them all to your largest piece of paper in the same layout as shown in the picture.

Using a black pen, doodle some faux stitching around the edges of the patchwork pieces.

Today Poppy has 2 little buddies over to play, Monty and Ellie, as their mummy and daddy are having a big BBQ, not much fun for pawsy peeps so they are spending the day with us instead. 

Mo is busy constructing something lego-ey! I keep hearing rustles of his hands swooshing through the bricks so I am not sure what is getting made up there today!!! and Scott is busy hoovering the car out and giving it some TLC after its 2 trips to the garage this week to get bits sorted out on it! so me, I am going to have a womble on split coast stampers and see if there's a tutorial I fancy having a go at because I finally feel oodles better today. The sore throat is hanging on but is so much more easy to cope with without the sore ear so I just keep sucking sweets to stop it getting to dry!!

Have an awesome sunday peeps, huge hugs Lou xxx