Its my birthday !!!

Another year gone by....all too quickly......
I have been so so busy in the house since christmas....sorting my craft room, decorating
our bedroom, then the garden etc etc etc.....

I am hoping to get back into blogging and crafting more soon.....
Off out today to the quay for some shopping and lunching and more shopping :))
Catch you later
Hugs
Janette x

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Hi Everyone,

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Hugs
Janette x

1 year on.....

Hi Everyone,

My lovely mum passed away one year ago today.........I cant quite believe where this last year has gone.........

No longer in my life but forever in my heart....RIP

This is my fave picture of my mum and dad together :)

Love you mum, always x

Nestie Frames

These frames were cut out with the nestabilities.....arent they cute ??

I think I need a magnetic placement mat to hold them in place as they did slip a bit.

I used the scallop circle and inverted circle.....I am going to try other sizes.....

Just thought I would share with you all...

Hugs

Janette x

Pink and Lilac

This card was made for our stamp club where the card of the month was using pink and lilac....

The paper was from Carol Anns studio and is printed on pearly paper..I used nesties and SU stamps....I decorated the inside too...seems to be the thing to do on all these blogs I keep visiting.....

Hugs

Janette

Top Note handbag

CUTE or what...it looks so lovely and great for adding your own little gifty inside...

Hugs

Janette

I crocheted a flower....

.....that I can actually use !!

1 out of the 4 I did.....hee hee

I saw this card on a blog back in April sometime and thats what got me wanting to make one....well a month later I have finally done it LOL...what do you think...should I keep making them ???

Hugs

Janette

Crochet Flowers

Hi Everyone,

Been uber busy lately ( again !!! ) ....decorating our bedroom this time....now Tony wants to do the hall stairs and landing and then its Simon's room.....shhhhh as a surprise for him....whilst he is on hols next month after his A levels.... !!!!

That will take care of all upstairs....

Anyhow back to the title......have you seen the crochet flowers that are *blooming* on peoples cards lately ???? have you.......

Stampin Up in USA have these little crochet fleurettes.....they are to die for.....so so cute.....and I used to make these years ago.....so off I went in search of my hook case....found it up the loft...sat there all ready to go.....couldnt remember how to start....1 hook or 2 ????????

What a laugh.....anyway like all things practise makes perfect.....so I'll keep trying....anyone any tips...???? I remember when my mum taught me she said I crochet real awkward like......so I kinda did my own thing..except that I canot remember what that thing was hee hee !!!!!!!

Will post some at some point...
Hugs
Janette x

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Its Tony's birthday today so we are off out shortly.......
Have a great day everyone....

Hugs
Janette

Easter Bunnies

I made these bunny baggies for my buddies :)

The bunnies are made from punches and the baggies contain an oval scalloped nestie filled with mini eggs...yummy !!

Bye for now

Janette

Missing in action

Thats how I feel at the moment....LOL.....if never rains what it pours.....we have had no heat or water a few weeks back and it took ages to sort it out......

We had a chemical flush done on the system.....that took all day and there were pipes everywhere and a big machine and the MUCK that came out was awful it was like thick black tar.....quite fascinating to watch it all mind.....This is what took over my whole landing for the day...!!

Once done we had heat and water...lovely....now we have developed a leak in the imersion tank in the airing cupboard....thats going into the header tank in the loft and dripping outside the house...so now the tank has to be replaced !!!

Then later this year we have to have a new boiler....so all my time has been taken up with sorting this out...and doing our bedroom...which we started before all this happened....otherwise we would have left it BUT now its started we have to see it through...so it seems the whole house is affected as bits are moved here and there.....oh boy it will be nice when finished but what a hassle....

Bye for now

Janette x

Birdie BD card

This is a card I made for my friends 50th birthday.

I used choc chip, certainly celery and more mustard.

I didnt want to make reference to the age on the front, so inside I wrote... "Sending 50 tweet tweets your way" !!

Bye for now

Janette x

A little birdie !!

This is the inside of the card.I used a strip of the same DSP then a label punch circle punch and oal punch in the co-ordinating colours.

I have seen this decorating inside cards on a lot of blogs lately...it carries the theme on through.

Bye for now

Janette x

Valentine Cards

My new header displays the valentine cards I made for the girls I stamp with.
I used real red and whisper white CS.
I used the heart nestability die set and the bottom edge is a Martha Stewart border punch
I love those punches.....
Hope you all get a valentine on Saturday :)
Hugs
Janette x

Snowy day

Wow dont you love snow.....well only if you can stay at home and play !!

This was Monday pm...I did make some snowballs and throw them...well you have to dont you ???

It was a bit scarey going to work in the car at 6am on Tuesday, the car had a mind of its own and brakes ?? what brakes ??

Once I got out of my road onto the main ones it was fine but it was a scarey 15 mins until I did so.

Today I am a day off and its all but gone :(

Bye for now

Janette x

Spinnaker....WOW !!

WOW and double WOW.....we went to Portsmouth today and went up the Spinnaker Tower...what an awesome piece of engineering.....the view was spectacular even though it was a bit misty we went up to the crows nest...boy was it cold.....even Tony came right to the top...he did hold on though...cant imagine what it must be like to have a fear of something and then be part of what you are fearful of....

the glass floor was surreal......if you live close enough to visit you should....it was only £7 each and the car parking for the day was only £5 and we had doughnuts and coffee and looked around the shops...bought a few things too....

Bye for now

Janette x

Ribbon Storage Idea

I wanted a new place to store my ribbon reels from SU....I have to perfect this idea but I think it might work.....the *drawers* are from units that WHS sell ( 1/2 price at mo ) I have turned them on their edge.....I need to get something to support the underneath to have them tilted to keep the reels inside....and I was thinking of using some silver SU cord across the front as well.....what do you think

Bye for now

Janette x

Ink Pad Storage

These are my other new babies.....I have been eyeing these up for ages....and now I have some.I have to say they are BRILLIANT.....very sturdy and easy to access the pads and re-inkers.....and if you look at the pic I have space for another one...after I get paid again that is LOL.....

I also got some marker buddy's for the pens and they are amazing.......

Bye for now

Janette x

Inserts...empty for now LOL

These are the inserts for the one inch and two inch drawers.I thought they would be perfect for all my jewellery findings and beads etc etc.....now to find where I hid my stash and fill these inserts.They were only £1.50 each...brilliant...

Bye for now

Janette x

New Trolley storage

This is my new baby....isnt she cute !!

It has 9 x 1" drawers 2 have inserts , 2 x 2" drawers with inserts and 2 x 3 1/2" drawers.....

Ooooh a place for everything and everything in its place...

I am selling things to be able to buy another of these.

The drawers are perfect for 12 x 12 pages and this sits under my scrapping table so brilliant....

I will also be putting my jewellery findings etc in here in the inserts shown above....

Bye for now

Janette