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Hi

As promised I have posted a few more cards I decided to scan them now and thought I might as well post them at the same time.  I popped into Beryls’ (Bik59) blog this morning to see her Christams card and it was blue.  It was lovely I love the colour blue for Christmas cards I know the norm is red, green and gold but blue ‘feels’ cold.

 

Lorraine x

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Hello 28th September

Well this month is nearly over and October will be upon us there is a chill in the air even though the sun has been shinning for several days now.  The leaves are changing colour and starting to fall I think Autumn is a beautiful time of the year and the colours of nature are awesome.  The Robin is back in my garden and feeding he is very chirpy and happy looking.  The frogs are croaking well even though I nearly threw one in the bin the other day (purely accidental).  There was an old jacket that James had put outside the back door and I, having a cleaning splurge, picked it up and threw it in the bin liner but I just happened to catch sight of the frog picked him up and let him go on his merry way.

I am making cards but I seemed to have slowed down quite a bit but I will be scanning some of the ones I have made into the computer today (this is about the fourth time I have said this) hopefully.

I have decided to pack up some of the stash of cards to send to the forces thanks to the information I got from the JS Forum.  I have completed my forum October birthday cards and ATCs for the Oct swap I do like to get these done as they are quite important and with my memory I feel I must get them done before anything else I have to do.  Being a member of the JS forum has bought me so much happiness, inspiration and new friends.

Unfortunately with the onset of Autumn the fireworks have arrived and some kids are setting them off daytime as well as at night.  This is I believe anti-social behaviour but like may things it will carry on whether complaints are made or not.  Whatever happened to the good old days of ‘penny for the guy’ and fireworks being used on bonfire night only?  I know when I was young my brothers and I had a lot of fun making a ‘guy’ and looking forward to dad setting up the fireworks in the back garden.  I suppose like everything else it is not appreciated anymore and if guys were made these days we would probably be threatened to give a fiver, a penny would never be acceptable.

Anyway enough of my rabbiting on and showing my age in some style.  I have made my first Halloween card for a private card swap with one of my friends made on the forum.  I love making cards for other crafters and it is so lovely when you get one in return.  I personally am not a lover of Halloween and I remember when I was a member of a small village church volunteering to keep watch in the church at night on the eve of Halloween.  Blimey I just tried to think of when it was and that was at least 22 years ago.  Gosh I must stop this reminiscing.

I will probably be writing something again tomorrow so thank you for reading my ‘diary’ and see you soon.

Hugs

Lorraine x

Hello 24th September

A bit late posting this but its been a busy day. Good news Polo is back to normal, I gave him a bath and put some ’spot on’ on him he was asleep through the night cuddled up to me I think he must have picked something up while we were out walking.

Another bit of good news for me today is that I sold my car to two men from Birmingham they were very nice and they talked to me quite a bit.  They also loved my cards which I thought was very nice.

I have not done very much crafting but doing the normal housework etc.

I was up until 2.00am this morning doing some stamping with my new Alota stamps they are gorgeous. I will try and scan them in tomorrow if I have time.

I have made an appointment to have my eyes tested and I need a new pair of glasses.  Since the beginning of the year I have had a flare up of eczema but it is on my face this time never had it there before.  Its right where my glasses lie on my cheek it may be an allergy actually but I need some rimless ones.  I e-mailed Specsavers with dates I wanted for the test and it said they would reply straight away 2 hours later I had to ring them and they said the next appointment was 15th October.

I was amazed at that so I rang Optical Express and I got in at 10.30am tomorrow.

Anyway must go but I wish you all a good night.

Hugs

Lorraine x

Hello 23rd September

Just thought I’d pop on to say good morning to you all.  Things have been very quite here the weather has changed no more sunshine for the moment.

Po was still fine until last night but he is not well this morning I gave him some water but he looks a bit off.  I will wait to see if he plucks up today but otherwise its a trip to the vet, his very unfavourite place.

Well I have managed to make a few more Christmas cards which I will probably post onto the forum.  I did make some birthday cards using images from the JNM CDr and they looked really good but I posted them on the forum this time just in case there are some people who do not like blogging.

I might give Christmas a rest today and play with some other stamps that I haven’t used yet my stash of stamps seems to be growing at a fast rate of knots.

I did pay a visit to the local Hobby Craft store yesterday and I must say they seem to be catching up with the times.  They are doing so many lovely new things that I have seen on TV but not ordered.  I did buy the Craft Workstation that does all the embossing and stuff the one that Steph is always advertising on C&C.  I got it for £29.99 not £39.99 as on C&C.  I also bought a lovely 8″x8″ glittered pad of ‘Blossoms & Butterflies’ paper/card its gorgeous it will go with my Sweet Ebony and Sarah Kay stamps lovely.  I also got some self adhesive Christmas Ribbons reduced to half price at 74p instead of £1.49.  I might pay another visit soon…..

Well James has the rest of the week of now and he is pestering me to do some ironing apologise for the language.

Hope you all have a great day

Hugs

Lorraine x

Hello 21st September

Hi to everyone on this yet another beautiful sunny day.  Well its the big day for my son James as its 18th birthday and he has received some beautiful cards and money which is what he wanted. He loved his silver tankard that I bought for him and had engraved (thanks to Sheenies for this suggestion). His mates have been phoning and calling round all morning he is such a popular kid.  Its weird but all my life I have never been able to make many friends, if any, but James has them coming out of his ears.   I am so glad for him I always prayed that he would not have the hang ups that I have had.

We were supposed to be going out for Sunday lunch but alas that was not to be instead I am going to end up with a bacon butty.  James has gone off with his girlfriend and will be playing football tonight as he usually does.

Polo had the runs again last night which meant another sleepless night on the settee for me.  He does not appear to be unwell and is eating and drinking fine.  He goes out in the daytime as usual but he seems to save this up for night time and it is no fun having to keep getting up every hour to open the back door and wipe dirty bums………blimey it takes me back to when James was little.

Well I would like say a big thank you to everyone who has visited my blog whether a comment has been left or not, knowing you have taken the time makes me so happy.

Have a lovely safe day everyone.

Hugs

Lorraine x

Hello 20th September

Good morning to you all

The sun is shining yet again here in Gloucester can’t believe it that’s 2 days running still we must enjoy it while we can.

Well its the eve of James’ 18th birthday he is driving the Corsa he took it out last night and didn’t come home until 1.30am this morning.  I was not a happy bunny I am nearly always up anyway but I was worried to death and he had not taken his mobile with him I was on tenterhooks until he walked through the door.  I told him that in future he was to take his phone and ring me if he was going to be late or I wouldn’t let him drive anymore. 

I was making Christmas cards with flower soft for a change so I stayed up until 2.30am by then I did start feeling tired.  Went to bed within an hour I was up again not that I couldn’t sleep but the dog was not well and that was the theme for the night. I gave up in the end.

Mum came this morning and collected the 2 boxes of cards that I made for the raffle and she was very pleased with them.  Thank you Beryl and Ann for your comments on this and yes you may be right I might get some orders that I get paid for, it would be nice, I might do some other themed ones once Christmas has gone.

I am hoping to scan the cards that I have made these last two days so please watch this space.

 

Hugs

Lorraine x

Hello 19th September

Hello I hope the sun is shining wherever you are it is here it certainly helps to lift your spirits.  I am still making Christmas cards but I aim to take a little break for something different soon.

My mum goes to an OAPs day every other Tuesday and they do a raffle nothing much but my mum is always asking me if I have anything to give her for the raffle.  I never thought about my cards but this weekend mum stayed with me and asked if I would give some of my Christmas cards for her to take to the OAPs.  Of course I said yes and I had some small sqare cards that I had made so I also created a deep box to put them in and added a flora doodle on the top.

Well mum phoned this morning to say that the person who won them was over the moon and I have been asked for 2 more boxes of Christmas cards for the next raffle.  I know I have not made any money but at least it has given someone some pleasure and saved them a bit of money rather than buying from the shops. 

Maybe this will be a regular thing and I could give mum a box of assorted cards for the raffle every other week.  It will also reduce my stash somewhat and I know they will be appreciated by the elderly.

Well I am off to finish my projects but I have some more scanning to do and hopefully be updating my slide show soon. 

Thanks again to all my Sheenie friends who visit my site and anyone else having a look.

Bye for now

Hello 17th September

Hi all

Today is not a nice day in more ways than one.  First it has been raining most of the day and it feels cold and looks bleak.  Secondly the person who agreed to buy my car has let me down at the last moment.  I think it best to keep my thoughts and feelings on the latter to myself or I might offend someone. 

On the positive side I have completed another four Christms cards which are shown below, I have decided that anymore I make will go into a slide show.

I have also used my new Alota stamps from Crafts U Love.  They are so beautiful and cute I could not resist and this is the first stamp of four and I have called her ’sleeping beauty’ because I think that is exactly what she is.

I hope you like what I have on show and please feel free to leave a comment at any time.

 

Hugs

Lorraine x

Hello 15th September

Hi all I would like to thank all those who have visited my site and to the ones who left their comments it is lovely that other crafters have taken the time to give me their verdict on my cards.

Well I have been so busy this morning but unfortunately not crafting which is what I would love to be doing.  I have my ‘craft room’ in my living room and I am afraid I was branching out and nearly taking up the whole room it looked quite a mess.  So I have reduced it somewhat and I now have a living room again but that’s not to say it will stay that way for long but there we go.

I have also been hoovering and cleaning the inside of my sons car, well its mine actually but he will be using it as I am selling my other one.  I cannot stand the thought of driving with so many idiots on the road.  I don’t go out very often but when I have taken my son to work normally before 7.00am there are so many mad people about it gets me so angry so its best that James can drive himself he can also do my shopping.

Anyway I am off to create a few more cards so I can post.  Once again many thanks.

Selection Box of Christmas Cards

Hi

I have not posted any cards on my blog for some time for one reason or another.  I have tried to keep busy by making some Christmas cards as I don’t want to get caught out like last year.

I was so thrilled to use the new Christmas Messy Rabbit stamp and I think he looks beautiful.  On the large A5 cards I have actually used H20s to colour him in on the smaller cards I used pencils.  I think the H20s suit him better. 

I have also used the Cuddly Buddly robin with an envelope stamp and he will be making another appearance at a later date as will some other Cuddly Buddly Christmas stamps.

Some may think these are not real special cards and you may be right but they have all taken time to do.  I will be doing ’special’ cards at a later date so please keep an eye open. 

I would like to thank anyone who is visiting my blog and I would be so grateful if you could leave a comment good or bad.  See you soon.