A little bit of snow.

Here's a little video taken about half an hour ago. I slipped at the end in a muddy puddle lol.
There is a pile of junk in the corner... needs chucking!
The Dalek looks pitiful I know.. but he has been snowed on more today, lol.



Update on Abby.
She came home yesterday and was very tired. She kept falling asleep sitting up and jolting herself awake again, one time banging her head on the coffee table. Today she's more alert and has been outside once.
I've been into town with Matthew, got a few bits like bread and my fruit pots for work tomorrow. I also got a blender pen to go with the new Whispers pens I got, and Matthew got some metallic pencils. Now we're home watching Mamma Mia! LOL!

MY FAVOURITE FOR TODAY! 5th Feb 09

I love love love this card!! So pink and girly, I love all the detail, the colours, the stamp, everything! Gorgeous! The card was created by Mumur of Le Blog de ScrapMumur.

Cute Card Thursday metallica challenge.

This is my entry for the Cute Card Thursday challenge. This week you had to add some metal to your card, so I've used a little butterfly charm. My gorgeous Penny Black mouse stamp was coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Stickles glitters in crystal, blue and yellow. I also added some crocheted edging, Prima flowers, Kanban jewels, swirly thing cut with Cricut, Dovecraft Venetian paper pack, and I made the sentiment myself... as if you couldn't tell, lol!

We now have a dalek... (pron Darleck)

Yeah I know... sorry, lol, but the head got knocked off the first version... so here's another one.

Card I sent to Shell.

Here is a card that I made on Tuesday for Shell from Challenge Addict. I can upload it now as Shell has received it this morning. I could have entered this for the Hearts Galore challenge as well! LOL.

Dad, you should have gone to the vets!

Yes, that's right, Dad, you should have gone to the vets! Abby has gone in for her breast lump removal this morning, her surgeon made it in! (I'm talking about our dog Abby, not Darryl's girlfriend, just in case anyones confused, lol) So... if you're an animal, you get an appointment and get the op done one week later (non emergency), but if you're human, you get an appointment, wait 6 weeks for an op that gets cancelled, then have to wait another 6 weeks!

Ok, so aside from that... Abby loved bouncing along to the vets this morning in the snow, she's like a big kid and thought it was wonderful!
We'd heard on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire that Matthew's school was closed. We've had much more snow than we had on Monday. We came home and built the snowman... he hasn't got a name yet though.

Here are some more photos from this morning.

Hearts Galore!

Here is my entry for the Hearts Galore challenge over at Crafty Creations.
I coloured my Sarah Kay image with Prismacolour pencils, Whispers brush markers, and H20's. I used ribbons from stash, Stickles glitter glue, hearts cut with Cricut, swirly stamp from this months Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine, and drew the little red hearts and glittered them.

Three new challenge blogs!

The first new challenge blog I'd better mention is being run by two friends of mine, Shell and Paula. The blog is called Copics Colour Challenge. The first challenge is going to be set on February 11th, and then fortnightly.

Here's the second challenge blog! It's first challenge was set today and is titled "Hearts Galore". The blog is named Crafty Creations, so pop along over there and have a look!

And finally, the third new challenge blog, also for a Wednesday (who was it that said Wednesday's are quiet in challenge land??!), is Truly Scrumptious, they are due to start on the 18th of February, and then every fortnight thereafter.

MY FAVOURITE FOR TODAY! 4th Feb '09

This stunning card has been created by Claudia from Pretty Pressings blog. I love how the mix of new colours go perfectly with the "old fashioned" colours, and a perfectly coloured Tilda with Lilacs.

MY FAVOURITE FOR TODAY! Feb 3rd '09

Wow! I REALLY love this card!!!! The cute piggy card was created by Ila from Artfully Ila isn't it gorgeous???? Click the above link to visit her blog. I only found it today blog hopping and I've now added it to my blog list on the right.

Forever Friends Challenge - Tall and Thin.

Here is my entry for the Forever Friends Challenge - Tall and Thin.
I used the same stamp from yesterday that is from a birthday big box set by Forever Friends. I used Cricut cut shapes, Stickles glitter glues, Cuddly Buddly sentiment stamp, Kanban jewels (have you noticed I love those too??), and some ribbon from stash.

And another award!

This is from Paula (link on the right), from Paula's Ponderings. Thanks very much Paula!! I'm still thinking who to pass on the other awards I got the other day still, lol.

And whilst listening to Enya...

... and Justin was in the bath, Matthew was laying on the bed watching Flushed Away on DVD, and Darryl and Abby at the cinema then Frankie and Benny's, I decided to make a quick card! I used the birthday box set that Darryl bought me for Christmas. The Whispers Strokes pens that come with it are soooo lovely to use I'll have to see about getting a full set!
I didn't really do much with this card, just matted and coloured in the stamp and shoved a greeting on it, lol, but I like it! It doesn't always have to be fully embellished or take ages to make to look nice.
I do love the Forever Friends stamps. I haven't used my decoupage FF sets yet either... must have a go with those tomorrow.

The Enya album by the way which I was listening to is And Winter Came, Darryl also bought me that for Christmas, it's very relaxing.

I've made a card!!!!

I've made it for a relative of mine that's going through the mill a bit, need to get her address!!! I made with one of my new stamps that came from subscribing to Cardmaking and Papercraft this month. Great stamps!!!! I also used my lovely Prima flowers, Kanban jewels, Forever Friends papers.

Other news...
Dad was due to go into hospital today for a "small" op and an overnight stay... unfortunately, the surgeon was stuck in London. The UK comes to a stand still when it snows... but Matthew's school didn't, much to his disgust, lol. It's snowing rather heavily now though, and it's due to get worse apparently. We don't normally get too much in this area.
I'm on the third 100 gram ball of white baby wool for Paula's grandchilds blanket. I have the edging to do after this ball, and get a motif for it. It's looking lovely.
After school, all the kids ran onto the playing fields to play in the snow. Matthew was having a snowball fight with some of his friends. They played for about 20 minutes, but then Matthew got fed up and came over to me and started crying coz he'd got a large snowball in his ear, lol... awww... he said he just wanted to get home and get in a warm bubble bath. It was freeeeezing in the snow, and there was quite a wind too so the snow was blowing in our faces. I was glad to get home too.

EDIT:
LOL, ok... apologies. The blanket is for Paula's GREAT niece or nephew... not grandchild!!

Two more awards!!

I've received two lovely awards from another fab cardmaker and friend, Marion. Thank you so much Marion!! I shall have to have a think about who I'm forwarding them on to.

Get your school interested!

Matthew spent over 4 hours on the computer today since leaving school at 3.30pm. His school has signed up to use this fantastic website Mathletics. It encourages children to log in out of school hours and do maths challenges. You can see other children's names and where they're from, school etc, and it keeps a tally of your total. You work towards awards, and Matthew just earned a bronze certificate, so when the school log in tomorrow, they can print it off for him. It's amazing!

EDIT: When I say you see the childrens names... Matthew is just listed as Matthew C, so not his whole name. It's pretty safe.

And Matthew turned eight!

Matthew with his cake!

Saturday was Matthew's 8th birthday, and unfortunately I had to work, probably good really coz Justin was shattered by the evening, lol.
Matthew received some nice pressies - The Spiderwick Chronicles Book (from the film), The complete box set of all the series of Knight Rider! Various Indiana Jones things, and over £70!!
We had a birthday tea with Grandad here also, but no Darryl, he had to work until 8.30pm. Matthew had chosen his cake - A Terry's Chocolate Orange cake, it was yum!

Here are some more photos from the evening.

Daniel the gas man!

He is a genius! He came back again today after ringing me to see if the heating was ok... I told him that the rads had stopped working and the boiler was clanking again, so he said he'd be straight round. He spent 2 hours fiddling around trying to get it sorted out today. He changed the pump in the airing cupboard, cut off some more pipe and cleaned it, and various other things. Well he got it working, although 2 upstairs radiators still need bleeding but the nut things on them have worn slightly. He said he'd be back another day to have a fiddle with those. He even worked through his lunch break today.
It is SO nice to have heating again in the house.
Funny thing is... myself, along with 2 of my cousins, who incidently are sisters, have also not had heating either this week. One of them didn't lose their heating until last night, and that was when a radiator fell off the wall????? How on earth does that happen! Anyway, it covered the NEW flooring in black sludge ruining it... I suggest a powerflush is needed!!! I'm still saving for one of those myself.

So... the heating!!

.... is NOT working! It worked for about 2 hours today, and the gas man had to visit twice, but then it made such a clanking noise and the downstairs radiators decided they didn't want to go, so I ended up switching it all off coz of the noise.

Heating update!

Well I had quite a dishy looking gas man come round this morning, and the good news is he said he will get the heating working again... the bad news is, he didn't! But he will... tomorrow! He has sawn a bit of pipe in the airing cupboard and it is full of black sludge, so we definitely need a powerflush doing so we better get saving!! I've transferred my first fiver into our ISA account this evening, lol.
So he's coming back tomorrow, he needed a T shaped bit of pipe apparently... so watch this space!