Mr Humbug's birthday

Today its Wednesday - and it's Gary's birthday

We all made him cards - the girls did some encaustic art on theirs - yes I let them loose with an iron!!!

I need to make a chocolate cake today - but filled with cherries ( ala Black forest gateau) as Abigail doesn't like butter cream and he wants chocolate cake!!!

I did another BoM layout last night, but I don't think I will post - it's kind of a bit heavy the journaling on it -I did upload it onto Uks and then changed my mind.

The next one is hands - and I know what I am doing with that one, so may have a play later.

Hoping to get the website finalised now too over the next couple of days - so watch this space.

bbl with pics of cards and cake!!

A Book of Me and Chickenpox

After my frenzy of scrapping, it continued with avengance.

My friend, Sarah, has been following the prompts on UKS provided by Kirsty and Roz, to create a Book of Me (BoM). I had fancied doing it and made a note of all the prompts, but it never seemed the right time.

Well now it is!!

I started the first one on my last post (I am) and then I continued with three more over the next couple of days

The next prompt was "One Day", for this layout lo I used sage green card stock , book images to create circle and title (cut with robo) and lots of writing!

The next prompt was "If I didn't". By this time I was being co-erced into doing a layout with a BoM that included a picture of me - this is what it's all about they kept telling me so..........

I used green paper and card and made a feature of the journalling and title as opposed to the photo - for obvious reasons!!!

Then today I completed the "You" prompt. We had to use the word You in the title or within our journalling, and also an extra challenge of using at least 4 patterned papers or gold somewhere on the lo.

I wrote another poem (???:lol:??) for this layout about why I love you (my children). I used basic grey urban couture and made it into a circular lo. I used three gold three eyelets - one for each of the children.

And then last night as I bathed the children, Georgia's top of her arms and neck were covered in small red pimply spots. I had ruled out chickenpox immediately as she had it as a tiny baby, after Abigail had had it. It could of been a reaction to the jumper she was wearing, or by today we decided it could be prickly heat -- uurrgghhhhhh I can't say those words without shivering !!

Anyway I booked her in at the doctor's and yes it does appear she has chickenpox!! The doctor said she must of had a mild dose when small and now its the full blown thing - her spots are everywhere now!!

So we have medicine and calamine lotion, she's ok within herself - watch this space.

So much for them going back to school though eh?

Right off to think about the next challenge :

an emotion and a colour

xx

So much for daily updates !!!

I had a bad week the week before last - a combination of three things I think:

- lost in limbo re moving house and stuff - we're no further on than we were twelve months ago really,
- also bad weather holiday blues
- and memories of twelve months ago

the three mixed together didn't make a happy humbug, but as the weather perked up last week I started to feel much better, and what a week we had!!!

On Monday we went to the swiming baths - a first for me to take all three into our local pool together - only because now Abigail is eight I am allowed to take two others under eight!!

On Tuesday we were going to go to Whitby, but once I realised I would use a full tank of petrol in my fuel guzzling jeep ( and a tank full costs at least £70) I decided it wasn't really practical, so we toyed with Blackpool and Fleetwood - going on the tram too!! Then I priced up getting there on the train, and decided that would be cheaper.

So we set off on the bus and then caught the train to Blackpool, wandered on the beach a while and then caught the tram into Fleetwood. We found the market and had a wander round and then found a chippy and sat and ate fish and chips by the sea. As Abigail said they were delicious!!!

We had a wander and then got the train back into Blackpool, went down some of the golden mile to look for buckets and spades!! - although the tide was in by this time!! We sat down with an ice-cream and then went back to the beach for donkey rides and to collect treasures - as you do!!

On Wednesday we went back to Blackpool, this time to the zoo. We took my mum and this time went in the car. It was a lovely day and we had a great time wandering round looking at the animals - including the new dinosaur park and the "eructing volcano".

I am not boring with you pics here cos I am going to make the trips into lo's so you'll see then!!!

On Saturday I went to the Leeds extravangza - a twelve hour crop from ten til ten!! - although I only stayed til just before 6pm. After a barren two months of no scrapping and to be honest very little enthusiam to even start - we were given four challenges - two were classes to make two lo's and a little bucket and a cotton bag to alter. I set myself a task of doing all four before 5pm - and I did it!!

and then my lo's - I did Georgia first and to be honest that is my favourite, the second class I used for Abigail was using Basic Grey (not my favourite anyway) and the papers (a maths sheet - I can't recall the range) didn't really suit the picture. Anyway they broke the block as you will see!!!

So that seemed to break the mould for me and yesterday afternoon, I did a dlo of Sam at Blackpool

I used coastal and chocolate bazzil - k and co ( i think) paper, brown jumbo rik rak and journalling stamps, also amm vellum stickers for the quote.

Following my new delivery of my new mag on a direct sub (at long last) I had an idea for a title; I had a go at making my own ghost letters - I used acetate cut on robo for the exploring bit of title and then I decorated with alcohol inks.
To stamp the word beach, I used some children's bath letters and brown ink.

Later that evening I decided to make a start on my book of me I have been thinking about for a while. On UKs there are monthly prompts on a challenge thread - the first one (about nine months ago !!) was "I am", so I decided last night in a spare hour to make a start.

The idea just came to me quite easily after a few first thoughts of what to do for "I am"

I decided to use my favourite picture of Gary on our wedding day, and I combined this mustard cardstock and scrapbook walls ( I think pp) - using blue and mustard to represent his wedding attire.

I used a blue flower - that I won in a game of pass the parcel at the Leeds crop!! - and a gold brad to represent our gold wedding rings

I wanted to write a few words about why I love my husband and what he means to me, but as I wrote it just seemed to flow out of my pen as a sort of poem really. So after a few adjustments here and there, this was the end result:

We fell in love together,
We were joined together,
We created four children,
together;
We lost a child together,
We have cried together,
We have laughed together,
We live life;
together.
I love you .... for ever
xx

So after a barren two months scrapping wise - I managed to complete the equivalent of five lo's - over a weekend!!!!

Long may it continue!!!!

I got tagged

yeah thanks jemm

I got tagged my Jemm last night http://scrapping-with-the-squirrels.blogspot.com/

- which makes me a Rockin' Girl Blogger - apparently!!

Now i need to tag five others so here goes:

http://kirsty262.blogspot.com/ - Kirsty from Leeds

http://cardboredkitty.blogspot.com/ - a good freind from Yorkshire

http://eatbreathesleepscrap.blogspot.com/ - Natalie from Leeds

http://jackiehunter.typepad.com/its_all_me/ - formerly crafymum1971 - a cj freind whom i make laugh!!!

http://melissalsmith.blogspot.com/ - my team leader and adoptee - tinker

so go ladies and put the blinkie in your blog and tag five!!!!

And so my exciting news about 4 days later than intended

Here it is - my new venture - with a lot of help

notlawcards - providing handmade cards and gifts - completely personalised if required - cards, pendants, bookmarks, works of art, clocks - if you want it - i will do it

and here it is live !!!!!!

http://www.notlawcards.co.uk

There is only a holding page at the moment, we need to work on the site content - but humbug is live!!!!!!

omg!!!

I was all set to recommence my daily blogs and I had some really exciting stuff to share and was just about to do all this on friday morning and finish my draft post re our days out last week when i had to rush Gary to A and E with his stomach cramps he'd been having since the weds.


So what a weekend it turned out to be - I myself have more or less lived at Royal Blackburn Hospital - or whatever its new name is now!!!

We never really found out whilst there what the problem was other than an inflamed bowel, but on discharge the sheet said diverticulitis (I think thats how it was spelt). He was treated with antibiotics and painkillers - which in the end he refused as they sent him "weird".

He eventually came home on Monday morning, had some dinner and fell asleep. I had to go back to the hospital to get his medicines to bring home.

At the moment he is being a good patient, which shows to me at least that he is still poorly
xx