Saturday 27 February 2010

How much stuff ???

Well this month's task was to re-decorate my office & I can safely say we now have mission accomplished! Re-painted ceiling, walls painted green, a new blind & some gorgeous laminate flooring. I am happy happy happy :-)
But for such a tiny room - it's only 5" x 8" - boy can it hold a lot of stuff! It's a bit of a multi tasking room, in that it's the place where I work, study & craft & it also houses all our photos going back to the year dot. I'm still cringeing through the photos which have caused much hilarity for Jess & Jamie seeing mum & dad way back in the day. I've tried to convince Jess that those clothes & hairstyles were soooooo trendy at the time but she's not convinced & thinks we were, in her words "well dodgy"!

Here's some before & after pics of my office

Before ...


After ...


I can't believe how much craft stuff I have ... well ok, maybe I can! I must own a few trees worth of paper!! Look!


And here's my stack of drawers all full of stamps, ink pads, glues, brads, flowers,etc etc etc ...


I want to get back to doing some stamping now though. I saw Tim Holtz on QVC this week & was so inspired. I've found 2 distress ink pads I already have, some adirondack pads, perfect pearls & a sheet of cut & dry foam which I haven't even opened!! And I just know I've got some alcohol inks at the back of a drawer somewhere. Oh yes guys ... I'm gonna get dirty :-)))

Next week is a "keep everything crossed" kinda week for us. We should find out which secondary school Jess will be going to. Secondary ??? OMG how quick does time fly, they grow up so fast. She's also auditioning for a part in the school production of Wizard of Oz, she wants to be either the good or the bad witch so we have lots of practising to do ... give back the ruby slippers my pretty, mwah ha ha!! ... lol

Take care all & thanks for stopping by xxx

Friday 26 February 2010

40th birthday card


Just a quick post for tonight ... I came up with a few ideas for my friends 40th birthday card request & we went with this one in the end. I used templates for the numbers, quickutz diesel alphabet for the letters, some gorgeous prima flowers which I've had for a long time. The "lots of dots" papers & card candy came from Craftwork Cards.

Monday 1 February 2010

So long, farewell January

Well I'm glad that's over, I simply detest January with a vengeance ... cold, wet & miserable. Bleuch! But now it's gone AND I've finished all my tax returns! Woop woop!
So now to look forward ... I registered for another OU course, in 'Human genetics & health issues' and the books arrived at the weekend. It looks soooo interesting & I can't wait to get stuck in. I've been asked to make a 40th birthday card by this weekend so I need to get inspired. Results will be posted up here later!
Take care all & keep warm xxx