Peace, whats that???

Today I looked after some of the kids from work as there is no holiday club this week, it was quite good and we had some fun icing cakes despite the weather being grim!

Been making fathers day cards today, need to get charley making hers tomorrow, I like to be organised, Ill post piccies tomorrow, no idea where the camera is.

Im also working on a mini book for Steve's mum, she hasnt been well lately so I thought it would cheer her up to have a mini album of Charley, so i got lots of pics printed out and am putting that together now!

Right off to watch the F word, yes I know it was on last night but i also love The Apprentice and as they are on at the same time one had to be taped to be watched tonight!!!! F Word is tonights fest, I lurveeeeeeeeeee Gordon Ramsey, Im reading his 'Humble Pie' at the minute and have just read another of his, cant for the life of me think of the title.

Right F Word calls and tomorrow I AM going to start some revision for my management exam!!!!!!!!!

Neglectful blogger!

Its been a while since I last blogged, sorry! Ive been enjoying my free time since handing in my dissertation, I should really be studying and revising for my exam but Im not in the mood!

Sunday, Steve's uncle came over with his german friend, Bodo is so receptive to what is going on and sensed that at 8pm it was time to go so that Charley could go to bed! We did have a lovely afternoon with them and I was really pleased with the dinner I cooked, nothing special just a chicken chasseur with rice and veg and a lemon meringue pie, simple home cooking that went down a treat!

Yesterday my brother came over in the morning and did some painting with Charley, then a quick trip to tesco's, what fun!!!! We took Charley to Farnborough Leisure Centre in the afternoon to the jungle gym and she had such fun for an hour before it closed! Its great now she has gotten over her biting, we can actually sit and chat rather than chase round the whole time behind her.

We stopped at the Monkey Puzzle for tea and that was an experience. Steve and I both ordered exactly what we had the last time (smothered chicken for me and steak and ale pie for him!) When the food came out mine was perfect, his looked like it had stood for about 2 hours before they served it and the gravy was all congealed and yucky! He sent it back and the second one came out (after charley and I had finished out food!) dry and hard (overcooked this time!). Anyway after complaining they refunded the cost of his meal and gave us free puddings, chocolate fudge cake and profiteroles!!! Yum Yum, now I pigged out of course cos it was free, but really must go back on my diet, I did so well acouple of months back and now have piled it all back on and really do need to loose some, Im looking awful in photos, (thats why there are none of me on here!)

Right off to get everyone organised for the day, not sure what we will do but Im sure we will go somewhere!

Here are a couple of layouts Ive been working on!

I'm spinning around, move out of my way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish I'd had the music yesterday to Kylie song whilst dd was at the park! We went to The Look Out discovery park in Bracknell and had great fun! Its full of hands on science fun and there is loads even for a 3 year old to do!






Faster Mummy, faster, Faster Mummy, faster, Faster Mummy, faster, Faster Mummy, faster!


Oh she has so much fun on this and it is pretty cool!!!!

It was my turn to set the challenge on docrafts this month, its a just for fun one, but lots of us have a go so here is what I set:



I would like you scrap a fun day out, family event or celebration.June means sunshine and summer so bright bold summery colours please!



As dd is learning to count you must use:

1 chipboard shape

2 patterned papers

3 ribbons/ric rac

4 blooms/flowers

5 brads

and here is the photobucket link in case you want to see what everyone has done!

All done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My dissertation is all bound and handed in as of 8.45am this morning! Had a mad hour last night when the printer ran out of ink and I had to make a mad dash over to Big Bro's house and get hime to print it, thank heavens for him!

So now Im just sitting, chilling, and watching last nights 'F word' I love Gordon Ramsey!

Right Im off TTFN!

Getting there!

Well my dissertation is well on its way to being complete, being checked by 'dh' as we speak although its taking him ages as he doesnt understand the topic well enough!

Roll on wednesday when its hand in day, I can order robbie my robo, I sooooooo want it now!

Spent the day doing very little, but its been nice.

Grandma and Grandad had Charley for the night last night which was fab, Steve and I got a pizza and a bottle of wine and just chilled in front of the telly, but it was soooooo nice to be child free for a while, roll on the next time!

Hamster in a wheel

Ever feel like your like is just turning round and round and never slowing, I feel like a hamster in one of those wheels at the moment, going round and round and round and never getting anywhere!

Im soooo fed up with this dissertation, I'm at the point where I dont know what to do with it, I cant see the wood for the trees or the light at the end of the tunnel! Ive done a bit of every section but not enough to call any of it complete. Ive finally given it to dad to read,not sure how much he will understand though, unless you speak childcarers lingo its probably not the easiest of things to get to grips with.

The weekend was lovely sunny and hot again, we went to the theatre with Charley to see the MI Men Live show on sunday, talk about cheap, nasty and tacky, the props were terrible and looked like they had been on tour with them for years, the woman playing the teacher had this really annoying grating voice and it was hot in the theatre which didnt help, but hey who cares, Charley enjoyed it, she wasnt too impressed that she didnt see Mr Tickle, only his arms came onto stage. 'Next time mummy Im going to ask Mr Bump if I can see all of Mr Tickle! Awwwwwwwwwwwww bless her!

I got rid of a load of my dies on ebay this week so now have 1/2 the money for anew craft robo or all of the money for a second hand robo, only problem is that it is the original model but I dont suppose that it really matters which one I get. Decisions, decisions!

Saturday sunshine

I can't beleive how nice Its been all week, so I hope you are all out enjoying the sun. Visited one of my fellow cj's on docrafts blog today and she is giving away some PIF blog cany so why not get yourself over there and have a look, Im stash dieting so anything free is always cool! http://foxcrafts.blogspot.com

Dissertation is still struggling along and with a decorating mad hubby who wont stop for a day to help me look after dd and do some work and a 3 year old who wont do anything apart from trash the house, I very much doubt Ill be graduating in July as Ill never get this thing finished!!!!!!!!!!

Dissertation Distress

Argggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I just want some time to get on and finish it, why wont anyone help me out! DH is too busy worrying about blooming bath panels and painting banisters to realise that this is due in on 21st may, less than 2 weeks away. Im sure that his behaviour is because he just cant be bothered to look after dd, i really dont think he reaslises what a huge peice of work this is.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I just want to finish it!

Neglectful blogger!

Been so busy with working on my dissertation its been a few days since I posted, Im afraid thats what it will be like over the next few weeks till its due in, roll on 21st May.

Have nothing crafty to blog as I havent time for anything crafty, but will get around to some at some point soon!

TTFN

Oh hurry up and give me my house back!

Another day of messing around waiting for carpet fitters to arrive then arrive back from lunch and still only have half a wood floor, I guess its getting there though!

Am still feeling really rough with my viral infection and have lots of rashy spots all over my legs and my arms, weird though as there isnt a single one on my stomach! Will pop and see the GP later this week if they are still there though. Im enjoying my week off though, going to get on with my dissertation for certain tomorrow, but am finding it soooo hard to get into! Due date is looming though so I best hurry up!

Been checking out the cc galleries from the weekend on UKS, there is some fab work, might try a few more of the classes this week, I much prefer doing them in my own time rather than to a deadline.

Back to reality with a bump!

Well its monday morning and Ive been told by the doctors not to work this week, so Im about to enjoy my week off!!! lol! Ive a viral infection so Im soooooo sad, because at least now I can work on my dissertation whilst Charlotte is at preschool! She is starting tuesday afternoons now so that will be cooooool!

I finished the cybercrop with 280 points which isnt bad considering I didnt think I would get a chance to do anything for it, 200 of those i gained before i started though! I managed two classes which I will upload tonight when I can get upstairs, we have the carpet people in screeding the floor, so by about 6.30pm/7pm tonight we will be able to walk on it again, problem is they are screeding the downstairs hall which is the main walkway through the house and we can't go anywhere at the moment, Im confined to the lounge and if i want the kitchen I have to walk around the outside of the house and go in through the back garden! Oh what joy, still tomorrow we should have spanking new wood floor up the hallway and then this time next week we will be having the carpet laid up the stairs!!!!!! Hooray the house will sparkle for the first time since we moved in!

Im have started making a book about our house and bought some lovely Heidi Grace papers - a little nirds tale the other week to cover the book with, Im really pleased with how its turning out, I now wish that I have bought the shimelle no place like home class as I think that that would have been fab!

The Cyber Crop is underway

Over on UKS, its frantic over there, but here is calm and collected! Well sort of! Ive done one class and thats it, Ive printed all the PDF's so that I can have a go at them but to be honest, scrappig to a deadline doesnt really do it for me. With precrop tasks etc Ive got 200 points for my team but apart from a couple of layouts Im not likely to get many more. I played bingo last night but all that refreshing gets a bit tedious so was glad when it was over.

I took Charlotte to the park yesterday morning to feed the ducks, there was one little female duck that she named Darling and had to keep feeding and on the way back round the pond we spotted some baby ducklings with their mummy and daddy, she was desperate to take one home and kept asking for one, tried explaining that their mummy would be sad if we took one but she wouldnt have one she was determined to have one till i told her that if she wanted to go get one she would have to get into the pond and swim to one. She then decided that the sandpit in the park was a better option!

Getting there!

Right here are some of the layouts from the Shimelle challenge on UKS that I have completed, I dont want to get all the pages ready because I want to choose papers etc that go with the pics I take on those days.

Can't get my PDF reader going so will get hubby to sort it out later I hope and then perhaps this time Ill take my pics tomorrow and just pretend they were taken today, no one will know will they!!!
Ive taken all my pics for my circle journal and am uploading them as we speak so that I can send them across to Jessops to print out then I can collect them in the morning, no way Im going into town tonight!

Ive been tagged!

Well I have been tagged today by foxcraft, aka, Caz! http://foxcrafts.blogspot.com/ so here are my 7 random facts:

1 I used to be a Brown Owl witht he Brownies
2 I proposed to my hubby on the back of a Jet Ski
3 The first time I flew was on my own to the USA
4 My first car was a horrible little Fiat Panda
5 I cant stand milk, especially on my skin
6 The first time I went abroard was to France with the school
7 I have always wanted to go to Rome, but huby doesnt so I guess Ill never get there!


Im passing this to five other bloggers:

http://jinnysartsandcrafts.blogspot.com/
http://clairesmumblings.blogspot.com/
http://rachelsdaydreams.blogspot.com/
http://www.mmwwaahh211.blogspot.com/
http://www.cannycrafter.blogspot.com/

Well its cyber crop tonight on UKS and all weekend, not sure how much I will get done but IM hopig to do a little bit! Im off to do my shimelles 25th of every month challenge now Ill post pics later.

Yay!!! I passed!

Got my last assignment back yesterday, and got 60% which for me is good! Im pleased as i was expecting about 45%.

Ive still got my two circle journal entries to get done this week and finish the other book which is great, the mystery challenge for the cybercrop, cyber crop trading faces challenge, this weeks uks challenge and he cyber crop this weekend! too much to do I feel! Oh and about 6 weeks of ironing - well thats how it feels.

Steve is still working on the decorating, its sooooo time consuming and frustrating, you cant get anywhere in the house, roll on monday when the floor arrives! Another week monday and we will have stair carpet too! Sooooooo excting!

Managed to get the week 2 cybercrop challenge complete from UKS, there was a sketch to follw and this is my interpretation of it! DD has this thing about these rocking horse thingy's at parks, even from an early age, this was at the airport in Spain on her first holiday in 2005!

Busy little bee today!

Been busy today, did these three layouts, these first two make up a double layout in my Charley's book! They were taken a week or two after Easter when she did her egg hunt in Granny's garden as the weather was soooooo terrible Easter weekend!

This one is of her in her Easter Dress which she absolutely loves and would wear every day if she could!

These were all made using Scenic Route Lynden papers, which I got from my fellow Fruitloop, Jo at Scrappydos. Love these papers and chipboard shapes, the ribbons are some american crafts ribbons.

This is the fabby stash that Claire sent me! I love all of it and Claire you will notice that I have used some of the flowers on my layouts above, they were perfect colours for the lynden papers! Got some paints on order so that I can Jazz up my letter J, thank you once again Claire!

We spent this afternoon at the park as it was really lovely sunshine - would be bearing in mind that we go back to work tomorrow!

My swappee got her bag too!

Here is the gooody bag that I sent Barbara G, She said that she was happy with it so I hope she was!..I popped in some wooly, fluffy socks to keep her toese warm whilst she scraps, a wooden box to alter, sticky tape, lots of choccies, nuts and popcorn. I didnt decorate a pen it ws uselsss attempting to so bought one but did alter a little notebok, then there was hot chocolate, archers and a box of bits and bobs like brads, chipboard and flowers as well as ribbons and papers!

It came!

My cyber crop goody box arrived this morning whilst I was out shopping, Hooray! Look at thar paper, so glittery and glimmery, sooooo special! and made with care and attention to detail, thank you sooo much Kelley! I just love the bx alone!

It was brimming!

It was all wrapped soooooo cutely I had to photgraph it and everything had a little label with some kind of cryptic clue as to what was inside it!

So what was inside you ask, loads and loads, including a little pressie for Charlotte which isnt pictured as she hadnt opened it when I took pics! Just get an eyeful of this!!!!

There were some fab nivea products, honey roasted nuts(mmmmm), Werthers originals (my fav!) dark chocolate (notice how I started with the food!, blingy bits, a pen, paperchase journalling book, nail file, nail varnish, sticky bits and lots of other little cool bits, I love it and was soooooo excited with it.

My goodies from my team swap arrived today as well, will take a piccie later, Claire sent far more the £5.00 we were meant to, so now Im going to have a look and see what else I can find for her!

Worms, worms everywhere!

We went to the allotment with grandme today and Charley did her usual worm hunt! The she named them all with names like Betsy, Cheesey and george! Kids huh!

Life gets easier!!!

Fab morning this morning! Steve took the day off from decorating and we took Charley to Fizzy Kids, this was the first time neither me or Steve has had to follow her around she played really nicely with a couple of little kiddies and not a bite in sight! (for those of you who know me, this is a real hurdle we have overcome, for those that dont, biting has been an issue since about 18 months with Charley, so there is light at the end of the tunnel for us and Im so happy!)

My gorgeous new scrapagogo kit arrived and I love it, pinks in it so thats the best for me, got the add ons this month as well which were lovely, the sequin flowers are beautiful, but the nest bit was the journalling notebook from Making Memories, its lush and I cant wait to get using it on layouts!!! I feel some scrapping coming on!

Finished my goody bag for the UKS swap and have packed up my team mate CLaires goodies for the team swap too, so tomorrow its off the Post Office for me! Then we are off to Grandmas allotment to help plant some veggies!

Right bed is calling my little madam! So toodlepip, Cherio and i'll be back soon!