Merry Christmas!

These past few weeks have been hectic! Aidan has been real poorly :-( We have had a few trips to A&E with him too! Anyway hes on the mend now i fink!
Although he has been so excited during xmas week hes even given himself two asthma attacks! Bless his cottons!

Anyway Christmas day went well! Antonia was up @ 4 !!!!! anyway i managed to say through gritted teeth get back to bed! and she went! Although she tells me she played her DS until 7am LOL!

Kiddies were spoilt rotten again! I say every year we will cut down but be dont *blush*

Here are a few pics ...

Father Christmas left a bit of mess when he came to us! And on my new carpet too!!!!!










Off out again this year for new years eve!
We are going to the empress balroom with MIL< FIL Dad Step mother and Soph :-)
Its gunna be ace!

Will report back with some pics and a full run down of the evening xxx

Thanks for popping by, i hope you all have a wonderful new year! x

More craftyness .....

I was asked if i could make a birthday book like i made last year for a teacher at my kiddies school! and this is what i did ... TFL xxx

Addicted ....

... to CJs teehee

I have to have alteast 2 on the go at one time or i feel very lost!
Here is a sneeky peep at one i have just completed ....


It was a lovely topic because it took me back a few years to when i was a child :-)

TFL x

P.S if you do happen to pop along please leave me your blog details i'd love to nip on over to see what you get up to .. if i dont already *wink* xxx

More craftyness .....

Well i have surprised myself latley at how much i have done LOL

Here is another card made for the challenge on CBC - Punch and cut



I made the red part of the flower with the dovecraft 1.5" heart punch :-)

TFL and go on over to CBC and take a peep, there is always something to get your mojo going xxx

Sneeky peek

Here is a sneaky peek at the CJ i just did an entry in ... cant show it all yet!
I was really pleased with it tho as i did not know how to use these papers!!!

The MEET!!

Had the most fab ti,me with the girlies from the NORTY CREW over on UKS

Here are a few snaps ....
all of us together :-)

Scrapping in the Nevil room in the Hilton!









The girls are all amazing! and i really cant wait to meet up again with them soon!
I went home on the Sunday and had to massage my cheeks they were hurting from all that laughing and smiling! xxx

Crafty Post

Ok ive been AWOL again *blush* sowwy :-)

First things first some crafty makes - I'm showing them just for you Maddy :-)
This is my CBC CJ :-)














I also made these bookmarks for the swop over on CBC



I have also been very busy with a wedding stationary order - 50 invites - 70 OOS, name place thingies and a table plan, unfortunatley the pics i took did not save on the memory card :-( so very upset about it :-(

A BIG MEET !!!

Well the time has finally come for the "Norty Crew" to all meet face to face!

I am so excited i cant even put it into words LOL

The meet is being held in the Hilton Hotel Blackpool (5 mins down the road from me - how lucky am i!)

We have a room booked for a BIG crafting session on the Saturday! Not sure how much we will get done mind you *wink*

Will be sure to report back with lots of pics of us all getting upto mischief LOL

Oh nearly forgot to say .... its the big day tomorrow for my OP, so wont be around much this week, hope your all crafting hard LOL

xxx

OH MY !!!!

Well i am still wondering where JUNE went !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let alone July & August !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



OK We have had such a weird couple of months, from happies to saddies and back again! I really dont know where to start ..............

Crafting has taken a real back seat i am afraid to say, i have been completing the CJs i am in and thats about it until this last week :)

Antonia my DD spent 3 weeks in Alicante at the start of the hols! Then we went to join her for the last 10 day, what a wonderful place! We stayed in a new complex where my dad has a Villa (yeah should have said my DD was staying with him really shouldnt i)

The compelex was called ELDORADO lol lol

Here are a few pics ...


Thats out of the plane window on route to Alicante :-)




One of the many sand sculptures we found on the beach :-)












Thats Aidan when we climbed to the top of the castle in 41* blimey charley it was ot ot ot :-)














Aidan, Antonia and Sophie (my dads step daughter)











guard de civil ... LOL LOL































Fishing down the harbour on the last morning! Everyone had a blast!






















On our way home !!












Pool antics!












Then the day we came home we found a lump on the dog :-(
Took her to the vet that afternoon and he says she needs op to see if its cancer!
Well all went well during the op and the first 3 days she was fine! Then she got poorly :-( (apparently it was gastro - we had a rough few days then with her)

The results came back 5 days later that it was a very rare form of historical cancer and its the most aggressive form eva apparently! So as you can guess we were all hysterical!

And i had the job of going to tell the family (which was the hardest thing i have have ever had to do!
If you have not got a dog/cat then you prob think i am barking! But of you do have one then you will know where i was coming from.

So with it being such a rare form of cancer they have no details to give us! No time, no treatement no nothing! Which i dont know if its a good or bad thing!

THEN .... my poor niece tipped a bucket full of boiling hot water over herself! Burnt really bad! My Sister was hysterical as you can only imagine! She has only just learnt to crawl! So she is still very young! Anyway shes coping ok at then min!


and THEN !!!! ...........

I have had 8 stitches in may hand! AWCH is all i can think about!
I was washing up and sliced through the webbed bit inbetween my little finger and the next one! Straight to the hosp! and was in and out within an hour and half not bad going! Must have seen how white i was and thought we'll get rid of her b4 shes sprawled out on the floor needing a bed too! LOL

anyway had the stitches out about a week ago and it split open nearly srtaight away so its been a tough few weeks not having a right hand!

anyway today is the first day i feel its healing proper! so fingers crossed

right if you have made it this far then thanks xxxx
Ill be trying very hard to keep up with this blogging a bit more promise xxx

what a few weekends!

My sister has been up over the bank holiday! we had a brill time it was just what i needed! few pics of my beautiful nieces ....














then last week we went ot the Paramotoring Nats 2008
Hubby was a marshal and did a free flight ...

This is a mad Irish man just landed ... LOL













This is the UK champion!












My hubby getting ready to take off ...













Hubby in flight (hes the one on the right!)














Now this man ... Gabe ... he has had a few accidents, hes had a run of bad luck and still wants to keep flying, that's how passionate he is about the sport! He still traveled the 6 hours to get here and just watch! Now that's a dedication to the sport!
Here he his with a wing attached to his wheelchair LOL












and a group pic to finish off! These are the few pilots and marshals that were left at the end of the event! Most had to leave earlier!

Thank you !!!

First of all i would love to thank you all for leaving a comment on my last post :-)
I cant beleive how many of you did TY TY TY xxx
It really made me think how lucky i am xxx

and secondly i want to say a HUGE TY to Sue for the beautiful card she sent me xxx TY Sue your one in a million u know xxx

so sorry ...

I am so sorry if you pop by my blog ....

I am not in a very good place right now just dont seem to want to do anything, not sure whats up with me but its really getting me down!

Had some smear results back that were not good at all, i am sure its nothing, well i am praying its nothing! Its just allot of worry.

I hope i am not going back to my bad depression days either :-( They are really not a place i wanna be right now!

xxx xxx xxx

Happy Easter !!

Yesterday we made a trip to York! We visited the National Railway Meuseam. Its was great!
Here are a few snaps hubby took ....

In my element here LOL ... bit of crafting with the kids LOL