My Wish for You in 2011


May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for money
May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!
May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy
May the problems you had forget your home address!
In simple words .............
May 2011 be the best year of your life!!!

A Happy New Year!!

hi there

The nights are getting shorter, i can feel a nip in the air, Holly bushes are weighed down with berries, old folk lore say that means a harsh winter brrrrrrrrr ,another one i hope not !!.

A friend gave me some out off date seeds this year, one of the packets was a plant called "My Love Lies Bleeding"  which was a popular favourite of my mother and her generation, a real golden oldie, its a lovely plant and a lots of my  friends and  family have said they will be growing them next season
Not a lot of time for crafting this week just made 3 birthday cards could nt seem to get very good photos of them

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Beautiful Autumn i think a thousand spiders must have been busy all night to get this ready for the early dawn

Found a cup cake teashop in covent gdns lovely selection of cakes

Back to Autumn don t need words for this tree

busy busy

Hi all. Where does all the time go  never enough minutes in the day, i have been making a clock a altered art kind with texture paste Ferro and terro by Viva,also metal paints  by Viva, have got so far as the photo will show you, still have to give more texture to it and numbers and embellistments but then time ran out, so hopefully will get back to it this week .A elderly neighbour of mine was telling me in the Second world War she was an evacuated as a child of 6 years old to Norfolk with her 3 year old sister, what memory's she has of that time, then she informed me she and her sister who now lives in the states wrote a book that was publish and sold many copies in UK and the states.  noting my interest she gave me a sign copy which is brilliant, worth a read .My sister in law was a Dagenham Girl Piper in the 50 s and travel playing with the band for many years, on Saturday i went along with her to  celebrate the 80th birthday  of the band, so nice seeing all the old members the eldest was 89 although many have passed away as the band started in the early 40 s. the modern day pipers, although, not as many as the original mingle  played and dance for the ladies.                                                                                                                                                                                    I went to my beading class also at the weekend will post photo when finished

SCRUFFY

   NOT MUCH GOING FOR ME THIS WEEK WAS LEFT ON MY OWN A LOT OF THE TIME AND IT WAS RAINY AND GREY SO NEVER WENT OUT MUCH SO JUST LAZED ABOUT

hi all, i have had lots of request from people wanting to know how scruffy is getting on, as you can see i have updated his story. Now i have decided to continue with scruffy diary. so he will share my blog from now on.Today i went to a workshop at my favorite craft shop IMAGINE THAT run by EMMA, the workshop was called CHRISTMAS UNLEASHED and was taken by JO FIRTH, we made 5 cards but only posting 4 as i haven t finished the 5 th one yet.thought you would like to see my home grown tomatoes no rude comments please! ha ha

SCRUFFY BLOG

while my owner was At the workshop her daughter came AND took me round to play with HENRY, her dog, a golden retriever so i would nt be lonely. WOW!, he is twice my size and talk about weighty well, when he runs pass me the earth shakes, but i had a good time and managed to bite his ears a few times, lol. Henry is 3 years old in Oct and hopefully if he has a party i will be invited. now i m back home and as you can see i ve just had my dinner and i am taking the empty dish back for seconds

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the story of Scruffy the rescue pup

hi there all and a big hello to Peggy Chatto, Scruffy was 1 year old at the weekend the grandchildren came round to celerbrate his birthday they brought him lots of presents, you know the kind that squeak and you end up hiding them away lol, He is a rescue pup who is very loving and mischievous .His breed is a cockerpoo, or in the USA they call them spoodles, in other words he is a cocker spaniel bred with a poodle, i have had him since he was 4 mths old ,i called him scruffy because that's what he is, his fur is long and curly and no matter how much you brush him he still looks scruffy,he has been to the doggy parlour once this year, was trimmed and at last we could see his face, but it is now rapidly growing again. He has settle here with me and i would not part with him he is wonderful .

BREAKING NEWS

wonderful!!! exciting news!!! i have got a ticket for TIM THE KING workshop at the famous Linda and Leandra's workshops at l&b s Milton Keynes will be counting down the days it is a complete sell out with people coming from Europe and the USA, Malaysia and Canada FEEL LIKE A GROUPIE LOL

wow i done it

well been mega busy, wanted to do 100 cards for summer fair tomorrow and i finished the 100th card at 1 pm today, well chuffed with myself, will be posting some photos next week of the sale, wish me luck

IMAGINE THAT

Emmas make and take with her new stamps the colours are very delicate pink and yellow so the photo is not very good

still around, but oh so busy making cards for the summer fete, nearly there now with the amount i wanted to do, so will be able to post some photos soon .my friend had her op and we are waiting for results and all clear but the actual op was successful.Went to Imagine That the shop on Saturday 10%off of all goods and also a lovely make and take with Emma's new stamps she has got some lovely new papers in and lots of other goodies. The dog in the photo is scruffy the cockerpoo who is my baby, this was when he had just had his first beauty parlour treatment and is nicely clipped but the fur is growing at the rate of knots

monday already

a good week just gone my S.I.L has now returned home after a busy week with me .No let up of this hot weather .children break for 6 weeks holidays tomorrow so buses and roads will be less packed which is nice .Going to a open garden tonight which is becoming a very popular charity event and a nice chance to see some beautiful gardens .Desperate housewife's has just come to the end of the current series it ended as they all do on a Cliff hanger, roll on Autumn when it will be back, till then i will have to guess what happens next, lol

lovely weekend

Parham gardens was beautiful,with row upon row of stalls selling plants and garden delights, the house was beautiful,a Elizabethan style manor. many of the plant sellers were specializing in the more unusual plants, all in all a perfect day, but oh! so hot. The rain this morning was such a welcome guest, hopefully we will get some more this week ,my sister in law Elizabeth will be arriving tomorrow, she is staying with me for a week, which is brilliant we have a lots of plans of what to visit and see can't wait to get going

first workshop

quite excited to be doing my first workshop in October (from little acorns as the saying go s )but first have the summer fair to do, bit pushed for time as there are other events that are going on but deadlines are good for the moral lol its just sooooo hot and never ending for watering the Lottie ,of to parham gardens tomorrow "big event the gardening weekend" my dear friend has her womb removed next week as she had C cells but all contain in the womb so they can whisk it out and hopefully no other treatment so Jeannie with you every step of the way x

hi there, i have just relised its over a year since i have wrote anything i will have to update all my photos and continue my blog be back soon