Our landlord's engaged

Our landlord has just got engaged and being within regular staggering distance I sent OH to the party with this card.
The image is Siku and Shiya by Mo Manning which I was lucky enough to win from Nutcrafters. The papers are Making Memories and the layout is the current challenge at Moving Along with the Times with a love theme.

All together aaaahhhhhhhhh - lol!

Happy New Year!

Better late than never!
This is myself and DD (yes she is pullng a facce coz she's actually wearing a dress) on New Years Eve.

We had a fantastic night at a black tie do at The Monk Lusitania Restaurant in Blyth near Worksop.

Seeing this picture was a great excuse for me to order the Just Dance game for the wii so am sat here out of breath lol!

Bright and Cheerful!

Rainmac has set a sketch challenge over at MSE with a sketch from here.

I found the embossing folder lurking in my stash - must have had it ages but have never used it.
Papers are Papermania Sweet Nothings and image is Pollycraft.

The gems were part of my Xmas pressie swap on Craftyplace and had to result to Diamond Glaze to get them to stay put - I only lost one which must be a record for me lol!

Out of my Comfort Zone

Another early January Birthday card. Why anyone wants a birthday so close to Xmas I don't know lol!

The layout is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday and the image is Evie waiting for Santa from Pollycraft. Embossing is d'vine swirls and papers are making memories. The sentiment reads with love but because it's dufex it just reflected the flash.

Back to Birthdays

At last a birthday card. I don't have any grey promarkers so the only other colour I could think of was pink lol!

The current challenge at Charisma is anything but Xmas and over at Bee Crafty is circles so got my nesties out to layer up and added a flower - the biggest one was from a challenge win at Nutcrafters. The papers are making memories and the image is a Karen doodle

Xmas at Padster Towers

This is our mini tree in the Lounge - the big one was in the dining room as usual.
Before! DD's present stash from Santa taken at the ingodly hour of 6:30!!! She never gets us up that early but was excited this year for some reason. We were certainly ready for breakfast at 9. OH cooked a fantastic lunch of fillet steak but cooked like a roast with all the Xmas trimmings. His stuffing was to die for lol!
Bargain craft box from Craftsuperstore that came with a free storage tote. DD was very impressed that Grandma knew exactly what she wanted - didn't have the heart to tell her that my mum gave me the money and got me to spend it for her. Bless her!
The cat was impressed as usual by all the excitement although she did get a catnip filled mouse which has kept her awake for at least 10 minutes at a stretch! She also found some handy cardboard boxes to sit in!

Hopefully the last

Small child brought yet another Xmas present home from school today.

I'm sooooo glad I stocked up on notebooks pens coasters and calendar tabs.

I also had a spare child sized fluffy scarf that I'd knitted

Am just about out of spares now though - fortunately she breaks up tomorrow.

Image is from Pollycraft

Poundshop Penguins!

We three penguins of Ferriby are!
These guys were proudly sitting on my windowsill today through all the rubbish weather you can just about see the almost horizontal snow in the background = :c)

Maybe I should have sent them to get small child from school they'd have been right at home!

Virtual Cake

My husband has been baking today as it's his turn to bring cakes for the monthly management meeting. He's never made a cake before but is pleased with how this one turned out. He put the sausage rolls and mince pies in the tin before I could snap them.

I would love to be able to tell you what it tasted like but he's only let me lick the spoon after he put the frosting on it :c(. He did make me some lemon curd tarts though.

Update: It tasted great too! Not all of it got eaten so he brought the rest home Yum!

WOYWW Again Already!

I'm sure that December is all just Wednesdays - where has the time gone???
The desk is looking a lot better this week - all the xmas stash has been packed away ready for next year.
Top right are my daughters implements for making 3D snowflakes - she needs to make some more to hang from the fireplace - we were going to replace the decorations this year but haven't found the time not that we have them up yet. Just a lot of cards plus the 3 pound shop penguins on the windowsill.

Team Padster!

I've been invited out to tea on Monday so needed a couple of last minute pressies for a couple of Twilight mad work colleagues.

One bought the books and kindly lent them to me. The other one read them fast enough so I wasn't waiting too long for the next one when I got fed up with the wait from the library lol!

Just need to add some chocs and decide how to wrap them :c)

Last But Not Least!

This my last Christmas card for 2009 for my husband. Found these Forever Friends stickers when I was having a sort out so used them on a card in his favourite colour.

The challenge on Creative Card Crew at the moment is anything goes so would like to enter it for this.

Pink again!

This is my Step Daughter's very pink xmas card! The image is from Nutcrafters and the challenge at the moment on their Nutshells blog is to use ribbon.
The lovely sketch is the new one on Friday Sketchers

Red Green and Silver

There are several challenges that I would like to enter this card for.
Charisma is a colour combp of red, green and white or silver
Creative Card Crew is silver or gold
The sketch which I love is Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Have a Mice Christmas

There's a lovely simple sketch on Truly Scrumptious at the moment so I ticked another one off my list with this cute card :c)