Tuesday, February 27, 2007

voting was slightly delayed due to technical problems but it's open now! I know a few people have had issues registering as the site is a bit complicating, lol.

So click on the link in the previous post to the mm idol blog. Then on the left you will see VOTE NOW! click on it. You will be taken to a screen that shows the entries on the left and sign in boxes on the right. Click submit leaving the boxes blank. On the left should now be a registration form where you can set a username and password, once complete you will be able to vote.

I feel like i am harping on about this mm thing, but it's just so exciting and I doubt i'll get any further so i'm getting it all in while I can :D

Right I must go make some wedding phone calls..........have a good day y'all!

Monday, February 26, 2007

well today is the day that voting goes live for mm idol. I am terribly excited to be in this stage of the competition and can't wait to see the work and interpretation of the theme that everyone has come up with. If you want to register and be part of the voting pop onto the site for details.

So I have had a few days of wedding drama, but thankfully now things are sorted and we are back on track *phew* lol. This has also resulted in a few changes to the actual day but nothing major and actually they will make the day better so that is good news. This week I have some loose ends to tie up with regards the flowers, must go in and take the jugs and also show them the direction I am going in with the bridesmaids dresses. Although having chatted to the girls, I think I know which ones we're getting.

I have chatted to the caterer re:changes that have had to be made and she is fine with it all and will use the Friday to drop off equipment and also bring the banquetting roll that i am using for the tables, must try find overlays or fabric to make some, maybe a trip to John Lewis is in order.

And on the scrapping front not much going on at the moment although I have plugged my scanner back in so must do a catch up scanning DT stuff and LOs in general that I have done.

And now I think I must get a little work done ;) later dudes!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Toot toot......

Oh my goodness! I have made it through to the first round of MM idol along with the Fantabulous Suzanne!! Yes hun I am still shaking and so shocked but super excited even if I get no further, the actual idea of being selected from all the audition entries is just awesome!

Thanks Anam mwah!

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Friday, February 16, 2007

forum etiquette

so do you think about what you have written before hitting the submit button??? Some people I fear do not and think it's okay to ridicule a TYPE, as some people put it, or style of LO! How rude to think that your work or how you choose to do a LO is better than others. Sometimes you need to take a look in your own gallery before dissing others! Oh and when a mod says drop it.....um maybe that's what she means ;) Thankfully I'm not the sensitive type and am walking away!


Anyway that's all I have to say on that.....as it's Friday and weekend time Woo Hoo. I have been home ill since Wednesday and I was off Tuesday too with Callum who had a viral infection....yes he shared...bless him! So did I spend my home time having a sneaky scrap....na uh, I was too ill to scrap :o can you believe that!! mmmm you probably don't but tis true, promise!


So what does the weekend hold for me, well I need to post a cj to Angela and parcel off to my mum tomorrow. Wedding stuff.........I need to look at fabric in JL to make overlays for the tables and make an appointment with the florist to confirm the bridesmaids/flowergirls bouquets which will be hard considering they don't have their outfits yet! Not sure what to do about that really, maybe I need to make a decision and just buy them, although I really wanted them to choose as they are all different....mmmmm maybe I must call them and have a chat.


Oh and last weekend I paid the deposit on both the flowers and the car!! Which is so much cuter in real life that the pic on the web!!
And I leave you with an oldie LO using nothing but BG tags (what on earth else are you supposed to do with these suckers!), and one of my fav pics of Stu working on his heli!
TTFN dudes, have a great Friday!

Friday, February 09, 2007

Yikes!!!!

50 sleep till the big day, and I feel like I am forgetting something really important, lol! But i'm not, IYKWIM :D

So we went to meet the organist at church last Sunday and also heard the first calling of the Banns, I had the most awful feeling someone was going to jump up at the back of the church and object, I guess these are all nervous symptoms.......We're off this weekend to look at a car to take us girls to the church and Stu and I to the reception, it's a 1938 Austin Windsor and very cute!

I had a delivery of confetti last week. Have ordered 50 cones and enough petals for them and 2 baskets for them to stand in. We're going to ask Rebecca and Sarah to hand them out at the end, but I have to find a job for Jessica so she doesn't feel left out! It's very difficult, lol.

My caterer also called to confirm she had received my letter with the final menu confirmation and all was going to plan! Which is FAB!!

The quote for the flowers has arrived and it is better than I originally thought so that is also a bonus. I now just need to pop in to pay the deposit to confirm the booking.

I was hoping for a call from the jeweller today to say the rings where ready but nothing yet :( , but I guess it's only 2 weeks on Monday so i'm being a bit eagar!

I now just need to find some ushers...........

Oh it's all fun!

Right me lovelies I have got to go do a little bit of work today before I slope off home for the weekend, I have loads of yummy photos from the snow yesterday to upload but as they are on my laptop I can't do it now, lol.

Later dudes!

Friday, January 26, 2007

sneaky peak....

Tonight I have been working on my Kraft Stop design team layouts.....and here's a little sneaky peak!

Have you seen the new Dolly Beads??? Jaq of
a string of beads fame, is making the most awesome glass beads that fit the troll bead bracelets! I was so fortunate to receive this beauty bead before they went live in exchange for the pretty elf I had on my bracelet as she was just too big and stabbed me in the wrist, and Jaq loved her!

My Just Like Snowflakes kit arived today and it is so FAB! I am dying to get it out and play but I must finish my deadline work first, so maybe Sunday, lol. Keep an eye out for kit 2, these babies sell out quick!

Right off to do a bit more before bed! Ooh and don't forget tonight is Speshal Dare night and there's lots of new faces on the team!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Oops

Just realised it's been a while since my last post! I have every good intension of writing every day but it doesn't ever seem to work out ;)

Wedding plans have all of a sudden moved forward in leaps and bounds again.....my dress has arrived (but perhaps I posted that already), I ordered kilts and shirts yesterday for Stu and Callum, and I have finalised my menu and other catering requirements with the caterer. Just need a few answers from her before deciding if I need to hire table clothes etc.

I have seen a lovely dress for Nina in Monsoon, but not too much for Chloe, the problem is the kids dresses are too 'young' and the adult dresses are too 'old' for her. So I may have to go for a proper look in John Lewis as I think I saw some lovely things in there on my way up to the coffee shop the other day.

Mom and I where looking at M&S Per Una range yesterday while chatting on msn and she has seen an outfit she likes, so I popped in there on my way home to get it, but they only had the top :( Will check in the store down the road from work today or else i'll just order it on the internet. The advantage with Marks is you have 90 days to return unwanted goods, so if she decides, when she gets here, that it's not right, we can just take it back!

My Crocs Georgie boots came in the post yesterday and oh my goodness they are so flippin cute! I got to wear them to the bin last night, lol, but I can't wait to get them out in the mud to see what they can do! :D

LO I did ages back and uploaded but took it down to be published. It was in the readers gallery of the latest addition of SI. My gorgeous Stu!

Ooh and I got myself a new phone! Pretty little thing by the name of Nokia 6111 This site doesn't show the blue version I got, but let me tell you she is so FUNKY!

Right y'all I gotta go get some tea! Later dudes!!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Okay so here we go! A slightly cleaner and much more workable scrap area, lol. The desk is clearer so I can at least lay out what i'm working on. My tote sits in front of me with my most used small tools, herma, and refills, scissors, pens, craft knife, rub on sticks....... to my left on the bottom shelf is patterned paper, and on the top shelf is an empty basket, my cricut cartridges and my camera. On top of the desk unit are two baskets, one with primas, the other with chipboard alphas.
The unit next to the desk is new, and it's fab! The top drawer has all my bit tools in it, dymo machine, provocraft roller stamps, 7 gypsies stamps, punches, cropodile etc etc. The middle drawer has ribbons, and lace and the bottom one holds the beginnings of my wedding stash.
One the big shelves I moved the printer and cricut up a shelf and have three baskets next to me now, one has all the alterable stuff, like coin holders, mini books etc etc all the stuff I bought ages ago to make and not done yet! The middle basket has embellishments and the one on the right is full of flowers. The bottom shelf is full of paper and cardstock.

My old plastic drawer nits are in the cupboard to my left and still need to be sorted through, no doubt there is lots to be thrown out and i'm sure I will find stash I HAD to have that i've never used **rolleyes**

And now I have a cj to finish off for posting tomorrow, so have a great Sunday evening everyone!

Saturday, January 20, 2007

lol, i really should have taken photos straight away as um, well, now i've been working on something and it's a mess again **blushes** :D Okay i'll have a mini tidy tomorrow and take photos! Sorry Debbie! lol

Thursday, January 18, 2007

This was the state of my scrap room this morning! A total mess, with nothing in it's place!!



So today i'm having a tidy, and clear out....check back for the after photos later you'll be shocked, lol!

So till later dudes!

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

C*R*E*A*T*E

On Saturday I received my copy of Somerset Studio Gallery Winter 2007 magazine (see them at Box Room Booty, link on the right) and I was inspired by an altered tin made by Kim Thuleweit called 'Paris tin', page 109. Well I remembered I had a similar tin lying in my bed side table drawer and wondered if I could do something similar. And this is what I came up with.......

It's a little Christmas themed hanging ornament that I am going to give my mum so she can have me, butterfly wings and all, with her ever Christmas that we are apart! Crown is hand drawn and the wings are a stamp, but I just can't remember which one *rolleyes*
Papers are Basic Grey Fruit Cake, beads, and other embellishments i've used I have had lying around for ages, as you do! Dymo, lil Davis chipboard letter, prima flowers.....

The little frame came from a class I did about 3 years ago and it went so well with this that i'm glad I didn't use it for anything else, lol.

A little detail on the crown....I used ordinary beads glued onto the crown points with glossy accents to give it a bit of glitz!

For the bead charm I used craft wire threaded with a largish bead and which is inside the tin (to hold it on, lol), making the hole in the tin was a bit of a challenge ;) Then there are more beads and a little frame (could be making memories), and the wire is wound around itself to keep it tied and tidy. The snowflake charm is actually stuck on top of the plastic bit of the frame as it is quite thick.
It's also the first time I have used my crackle accents and it is FABBO!!
I love using playing cards on altered items so the J from Jack tied in nicely with JOY!

Thanks for looking :)

Later dudes!

Monday, January 15, 2007

Just a quicky post to show off my gorgeous birthday gifts from Jill (at a trip down memory lane). I have truely been so spoilt!
haPPy birTHday to me! haPPy birTHday to me! haPPy birTHday meeeee! haPPy birTHday to me!! lol!

My birthday really started on Saturday night with dinner at the Jade Palace in Stevenage old town. It's an eat as much as you like and the food is so YUMMY! It was just Stu, Callum and I, we had a good laugh and it was very chilled! Yesterday we went to the Hermit for a pub lunch with Steve and Kirsty, they gave me a gorgeous turquoise scraf from marks - delicious!

I have had been a great day so far (even though I am stuck at work!), having received a new troll bead bracelet, with a silver heart charm from Stu, well actually there is a little more to the story.......On Saturday Stu was still dithering about what to get me for my birthday and I knew he hadn't the foggiest idea where to shop for troll beads even though I have been hinting for ages, sometimes men are so slow on the uptake, lol. So I asked him how much he wanted to spend and said I would go out and get my gift and he could wrap it for me to unwrap this morning. Well he thought i was very funny! But i did go out and buy a bracelet, lock and a charm and left the bag on the lounge unit for him to wrap. He had a look at it yesterday morning and said it was very plain, so I had to explain, again, how it works with adding charms. Bless him, he rode all the way down to the jeweler in WGC to go buy me a few more beads/charms but they are closed on a Sunday, lol. So this morning in my card was the money I had spent plus an extra £40 to go buy a few more **heart** he is a sweetie!

So I called up loot this morning, and ordered the
turquoise and brown set of beads

Here is a photo of my full (well there is a bit of room for a few more beads) bracelet and I will take one of the new bracelet when the beads arrive!



Last week I ordered the launch kit from Just Like Snowflakes can't wait for it to arrive and I wish the girls every success with their new venture! It's all sold out now so you best be quick to catch next months!

Shimelle is offering a free class this Saturday to kick off 2007, so pop over to her blog to check it out! I am going to get my supplies ready tonight, just not sure where I am going to find the photos!

Later dudes!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

My photography session didn't quite happen this afternoon, mainly because it was freezing outside and I had a sudden burst of inspiration and had to create! But i'll show that tomorrow once the glue is dry ;) In the mean time though I leave you with a photo of me! Just to show off my nose stud!!

1 sleep

till my birthday!! Feeling very good about it cause this year is going to be a big one in my life, and I hope to make lots of good changes that have been a long time in coming.

The first is to spend less time online, lol, BUT more time blogging. I sit on forums all day when I could have my note book out sketching LOs or writing ideas or even just doodling. I have loads of ideas, but just not enough time to create them or the happy space to creat them in! My scrap area is a huge mess, with piles of magazines, paper and journals half done littering the place..........I have also had enough of my storage cause at the moment everthing seems jammed in and nothing has a real place. I have seen some new storage but I just need to get to the store to buy it! My old drawers will go into the cupboard in my scrap room and be packed up with my stamping stuff and photographs.

I also need to get in alot more time with my camera.........I need to practice, practice, practice! And actually while i'm thinking about it, i'm off outside to take photos, lol.

Later dudes!!

Thursday, January 11, 2007

haPPy nEw yEAr!!!!!

Okay so i'm a bit late, sorry Marja, lol! I have been meaning to update for days but then the day passes without me getting to it.

So much going on right now in our lives right now......work is still all up in the air with the proposed take over due in April, but goodness knows what the new company are going to do with us or when they are going to get around to doing anything with us.
Callum has come over to live with us while his mom and sister sell the house in SA and move back to the UK. Life with a 13 year old is quite cool, and we're lucky that he is helpful, he's been helping me make sure all the washing gets dry this week while waiting to start school. He's also very funny and has a quick wit so it's all laughs and smiles, not sure if it'll last once we get into a school routine :O

Wedding plans are all go, and here is the step by step for Debbie ;)
I have an appointment with the florist next Wednesday (seems my lady has left and I'm not sure if she has left all my paperwork) so I need to make sure they know what I want!
Mom and I have chosen the menu, just need to run it past Stu to make sure he is happy.
I plan to measure Stu and Callum this weekend for their kilts so I can order them next week. Stu is getting the real family tartan, but because it is rare and expensive, we'll just get Callum a ready made up one till he stops growing. I am so excited that the boys will all be in kilts, it is going to look so cool.
I am still outfitless, but going to try on dresses either on Saturday or next week. I had set my mind on an outfit from Monsoon but I want to try on tradional wedding dresses just to see ;)
The two littlest girlies have their dresses and they look positively gorgeous!
There is the tiniest possiblitiy that our village church will be open again in time for the wedding, which is so FAB, as it means I will be able to walk to the church in my wellies, and it is a one minute walk from the village hall!
Our parish has also found a permanent vicar starting in March so we have someone to officiate the ceremony that Stus dad is doing for us.
Um, that's it for now, will update when I have more!

Ooh it's home time! Later dudes!

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Wishing all my friends and family all over the world a very Merry Christmas!! I hope you have a wonderful day and what ever you do, stay safe. Love you all!!

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Countdowns!

4 sleeps till Christmas and this year it is going to be a very quiet one at our house, just Stu and I, for the first time in our relationship we will be spending the day alone! We are still going to cook a proper Christmas dinner, but doing a chicken and perhaps a ham too, with parsnips, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, yorkshire puds and gravy! Yum Yum!! We'll be stocking up on coal and mulled wine and enjoying a day spent watching TV and relaxing. I can't wait!!

And another countdown......100 sleeps till the wedding! Yikes, where has the time gone?? lol! We have some decisions to make about the order of service and the final menu in January and I am hoping to get to the florist tomorrow to confirm exactly what flowers we want at the reception. I need to speak to the ladies in the church about flowers too....oh golly so much to do.

Work finishes at 4 today and i am away till next Wednesday. Looking forward to the break as this month has been pretty hectic. Both at work and getting all the wedding invites done and sent! I have a hair cut booked tomorrow and afterwards I am meeting Sue and Lyzzy for hot chocolate and cake!! Can't wait to have a good gossip and chat!

Right now I have to get back to my knitting or else i'll never finish in time for Christmas! have a good day y'all!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Oh boy, where has the week gone??

Thank goodness the madness of the last two weeks is over and life can get back to normal. I felt physically and emotion beat this last weekend, and am only now feeling like i'm getting the feeling back in my legs.

We have a company holiday on Friday so i'll enjoy a lovely long weekend! So I will use the day to do last minute things for me, like getting my hair cut and buying a winter coat. Thankfully my Christmas shopping is already done and wrapped sitting under the tree!!

We woke up this morning to temperatures of -3 degrees and lots of thick frost, we had a nightmare getting the ice of the windscreen of Stus car and as we were driving down the A1 it cracked from a tiny chip!! I was very worried it was going to explode in my face and I hope he manages to get it fixed sometime today.

Tonight is works Christmas party and we are going for a meal and drinks, well the drinking will continue late into the night without me, lol. Stu is collecting me from the station so I can at least have a few glasses of wine ;)

Right, and now I think I need a cup of tea!! Have a good day y'all