Hi loyal Blogettes! Another treat for you (well I think so). Some of you, well OK one, might have wondered where I got the blog name from, what on earth is a Caique I hear you all cry! And how on earth do you say such a weird name! Well a Caique is a type of parrot, I have two of the little blighters. Mine are yellow Thighed Caiques. Why? well because their thighs are yellow I guess! So behold the babies Harry and Tinker. Tinker is the one stood by the utensil holder, she was actually waiting to empty it. Its a really good game apparently, remove all tools from jar them throw them on the floor! Oh and don't forget to laugh and go 'Ooooo' while you're doing it. It adds to the excitment you know. Plus its lets Momma (me) know that you're doing it so Momma comes and tells you off and plays games. I call it trying to stop her doing it she thinks its a game. While this is going on Harry watches and then sees the opportunity to go and do something else naughty! Oh and Harry is a girl too. We thought harry was a him and picked Harry, but then we found out him was a her but she could say Harry by then so Harry she stayed. Harriet on Sundays or when she's naughty - that'll be most of the time then.

So enjoy my babies - I do have more pictures of them if you like - about a 1000 or so and heaps of video too! ;))

Stuff and well stuff

Well here I am loyal Blogettes, gee I hope someone is reading this! Still if no one is I've had a little blogging practice, which I surely need! Hopefully this time my pictures will appear where I want them not where Blogger thinks they should be! Working on that theory I reckon Blogger must be male! I mean otherwise they would go in the right spot - wouldn't they?

So a busy day here at Caique-Momma towers. As well as actually making stuff - like it says in the title people - I've also been baking again. I'm doing an evening selling market tomorrow so I got to bake. All for the ladies of the Womens Institute! And boy are some of them scary! And funny too I mean I just pee my pants with laughter as they come and scrutinise the cakes and then say 'how much???!!! I could make it cheaper myself' Well I smile and think 'yes go and do that then DEAR' They always come back and buy some so I don't know why we have to go through the same rigmarole each time. probably makes them feel better somehow I suppose.

Enough of my whinging - now this is what I made today (please put the photos on Mr Blogger!)







As you can see (fingers crossed) its a Christmas planner, which is a laugh really as I NEVER plan anything! I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kind of gal ~checks yes am wearing pants~ I was kind of sprawled on the couch watching X Factor and the idea somehow came into my head. So off I trotted, well crawled really, remember I had been sprawled and a trot never ever follows a sprawl. So I rooted for my mountboard got cutting and away I went. I only did one real stupid thing, which of course I will strenously deny if asked later ;)) I put the dam BIA wires in the wrong way so my book wouldn't close! So I made another discovery then, if you prise them off carefully, and that's the operative word Bloggettes you can re-use your wires! So a result there lol

My OM even complimented me on it and he didn't notice that there is one teeny tiny kink in the wire. Believe me he is the first, no second to spot any hint of wonkyness in my work. I usually spot it but then ignore it if its not a sale piece!

So Bloggettes - love how I say it in the plural! It might be Bloggette in the singular or would that be Bloggee I wonder? Whatever I do hope you've not nodded off and gone face down on your keyboard. I mean how long would it take for qertyuiop to fade off your forehead?

The news!

Well my news - (just in case anyone's reading this!).

Awhile ago I entered a competition for doodling and I made the DT. So all those hours spent doodling in meetings paid off! Thats the same meetings where I count the 'ers and ahs', I can doodle pages in those I can tell you. I say its better than me dropping face down on the table snoring! A good one was when my pen ran out and I asked to borrow one so I could carry on doodling!

Anyway I'm rambling - I've been contacted and some of my doodles are going to be made inot stamps!!! How blimmin' fantastic is that!

I shall be immortalised in rubber/polymer/silicon or whatever it is they make clear stamps out of! ;)))

I'm feeling just a little tad chuffed with myself.

So as a treat I shall subject you to another photo! Now the photo was meant to be here but its up there! Anyway.....

Oh my!

I have just had the MOST exciting news!!!

Will hopefully reveal all soon.....;)))

I will keep you in suspenders fellow Blogettes!

I love my camera!

Well not in the biblical sense you understand! Its really easy to use which is vital for me! I also wanted a viewfiinder as well as a screen. I find it hard to see the screen when its bright mainly I think due to my glasses. Still got one now. Oh its got a feature that recognises smiles! If you set it it won't take a photo until the subject is smiling! How cool is that? So armed with that and my new 'studio' I set about and photgraphed some cards. As brilliant as this camera is it hasn't automatically transformed me into David Bailey, must check where that feature on it is. ;))

Perhaps I sound mention what sort it is now I've sung its praises ~blushes~ its a Sony Cybershot, not I really must think of a name for it.... hmm is camera a boy or a girl? Well seeing as its behaving quite well it obviously must be a girl... hmmm any ideas for a name for her?

While you're perusing that earth shattering subject I'll show you a few photos (well I hope I do anyway!)

So here you have a little selection of cards - I only need make about another 1000 and I'll be good to go! Only kidding thank goodness! Now the bottom one is actually red glitter for the berries not random red splodges! I'm quite liking my Magnolia Father Christmas, I can see him being used a lot in the future.

So my Bloggette fans ~rolls eyes~ you will now be fast asleep over your keyboards!

Night night!

Well RIP good old Fuji camera :(( Well it is now wretched thing refuses to switch on even! So figuring out that a repair will be more than its worth I'm now the owner of a new camera! Which has more features than you can poke a stick at - apprantly. I never was any good with sticks myself. I need to get the book out I suppose and see what I can fathom out. But whats really peeving is that now most cameras DON'T come with an XD card or whatever they are! Fortunatley I can either take the card out of my dead camera ~ooh a bit like a transplant!~ or I have a new one we bought in the USA.

Right off to read the camera book..... boring.....

Yo fellow Blogettes!

Hopefully (fingers crossed) above me ~crosses fingers harder~ shkjfjkf kgkgkpdfskiugn ~ uncrosses fingers bloody hard to type with them crossed!~are a few photographs of where I've been today. Today Net has been to Woollaton Park in Nottingham! Lovely! It was sunny and quite warm which makes a big change. I was there to play golf and even better I won! the only Lady playing in a field on men! HAH! How big did I grin? You guessed it pretty darn big I can tell you ;))

We had a meal after which also meant I didn't have to do any cooking at all - we even had breakfast there too.

Woollaton Park is lovely - you play in a deer park - how fab is that! Though at this time of the year its the 'rut' when boy deers are looking for L U R V E! Woe betide anyone who gets too near the girlie deers! The stags will chase you off. And boy do some of them have some mahoosive antlers! 8-( Would be a real shock to your system. But beautiful animals even if they are a teeny bit ~okay alot~ stinky!

Hopefully this will be the picture I've been stressing over!

More pictures... these are from a recent challenge over at Crafts by Carolyn. The box actually started its life as a PG Tips box.

Gah!

Stoopid blogger!

I'm sure (??) I'm doing the same thing I did before to upload a photo... it shows fine in preview but on a post its weird and shows just a corner! But a big corner.

Anyway totally ticked off now - going to put a hammer through it and see how that works!

More mushrooms!

Don't faint peeps but two posts in one day! Has the woman gone mad? - now that's a rhetorical question! ;))

Well I'm just back from a meeting - blimey it dragged on and on and on and on... well you get the drift. The worst bit is when one particular man starts, he could bore for England and often does. He always says 'ah' and 'er'. Lots and lots. He excelled himself tonight - 43 'ahs and 'ers'. See I said he was boring - counting them keeps me awake. It doesn't quite stop me glazing over though!

Well now as a special treat (lol) I've got another one of my mushroom friends for you. I'm sure the picture will no doubt be blurry but hey you'll soon recognise my photos!

Well I'm just back from a meeting - blimey it dragged on and on and on and on... well you get the drift. The worst bit is when one particular man starts, he could bore for England and often does. He always says 'ah' and 'er'. Lots and lots. He excelled himself tonight - 43 'ahs and 'ers'. See I said he was boring - counting them keeps me awake. It doesn't quite stop me glazing over though!

Well now as a special treat (lol) I've got another one of my mushroom friends for you. I'm sure the picture will no doubt be blurry but hey you'll soon recognise my photos!





Kind of cute isn't he?

The mushroom are here!

Wow what consistency - a post two days running!

Hang on you nutter its only the second day of your blog! Ooops!

Well anyway my friend Mr Postie came yesterday with some lovely stamps I ordered from Nikki at www.dewdropcraftz.co.uk they are the cutest little mushroom 'people'. I actually felt the need to use them immediately! Wow mojo overload here at the moment.

I mean blogs, photos, cards, baking.... whatever next?

Hopefully there'll be a picture of said mushroom card somewhere on the blog!

Oh if its blurry that's probably because I took it with my camera phone - real camera is poorly sick. Either that or its just being lazy!

Whoa! I've done it!

Well at last I've succumbed - I've got me a blog.

Now what will I do with it?

How many people will I send to sleep when ~laughs hysterically~ they ~more hysteria!~ actually read it!

I suppose it could be promoted as an insomnia cure if nothing.

Will I remember to ever update it?

Will I have anything to update it with? ~note to self 'take photos of your stuff!~ ;))

Ooo just checked, Firefox spellchecker works - hooray!