Sweet in more ways than one

Howdy Bloggettes! Well its that time of morning again.... my time to blog. Well it always seems things load up or down or whatever quicker for some reason... So anyway here I am. I bet yuo're soooo thrilled... well a tiny bit thrilled would be good! Anyway over at Totally Gorjuss our new challnge has just gone live! That sounds so important! Well the theme this week is sweet. So it can either be a sweet image or an image of something sweet. I opted for this little Tilda with her lollipop. Rather than have her float in mid air - always difficult I've found, in fact more difficult than walking on water..... No matter so I sat her on some roses! Always comfy lol

For a change I got the old Distress Inks out and coloured her with those. My last piece of gingham paper ~sobs~ a bit of punching a la Martha and flowers a la Wild Orchid Crafts. I had to lay the card down immediately after I took the photo, yes you're right it was still wet!


This is a new sort of colour for me, not the pink and blue. The very pastel shades. I do like them but I can't 'do' them if you know what I mean.


Oh here's my 'fabulous' (in my dreams) arty shot!

Oh you know how I said the theme was sweet I suppose I could have used these little babies! Yum! C H O C O L A T E C A K E S!!! Trust me they are as yummy as they look.


Oh and for you non sweet tooth folks - some small tarts. These are spinach, cherry tomato and feta cheese. I LOVE feta cheese.... In fact I love cheese full stop. These are warm out of the oven.... can you smell them?


Oh and specially for Kath here's a little video of one of her favourite girls! Well mine anyway. I bought harry and Tinker some treat sticks. Harry was so excited she couldn't wait to open them!

WOYWDD on the right day!

Yo Bloggettes! Are you enjoying the sunshine? I am what a lovely change from all that other horrible wet stuff. Still cold mind you but what a relief to have some respite from it.

Now the other day I had some new stamps 'accidentally' fall through the letter box - I mean how on earth did that happen??? Well I felt obliged to get some EZ mount on them pretty quick! This little beauty is one of said 'accidental' stamps - isn't she fab? I opted for purpley pinky shades again. I mean I never use purples! However I had to do some serious digging for papers when I'd coloured her. Amazingly I did find some.... I mean me who hardly has anything ~coughs~


Now the card isn't skew-whiff in real life. I've decided I must either have one arm seriously shorter than the other or my room slopes somewhat. Of course there is the other option which is that my photography's just pants..... Hmmm? I wonder which it is?


My arty attempt! It doesn't show up (there's a surprise!) but the stars and her scales (always attractive in a woman I think) have had the once over with a clear Copic glitter pen. I love these they give a lovely subtle shimmer.

Now of course its Wednesday so that means it WOYWDW - or similar! I always get the letters wrong or have my own because I'm on a different day altogether ;))

Now as you may have seen earlier there's a scary photo of little old me on my way to a ball. I'm wearing my new stilts!

That's what's on my desk today - yup the stilts!

I'm sure you can see now why I had to have them! Aren't they beautiful?


I've tried to show you how high the heels are here - almost 5 inches! I almost had altitude sickness! Oh and I did loads of dancing in them too.


So remember to pop over to Julias and you can get to nose, er I mean look at all the other desks, (and washers) too!

So I've shown you mine.....will you show me yours too?

ball night

Well no crafting pics today I'm afraid Bloggettes.

Just a little pic of scary old me! This was me in my outfit for the ball.

New challenge and a shock photo!

Howdy Bloggettes! No I've not fallen off the face of the earth or been abducted by aliens... well I don't think so... Its just been one of those weeks! You know where one thing leads to another and then another... add time mid week being poorly and that's it another week over. Actually I blame all that bloody ironing I did on Monday. I always knew housework and stuff was bad for you, well it is me! Of course now all my ironing is done I feel extremely virtuous. I'm doing no more laundry ever so it'll always be up to date! Result eh? Of course that means more shopping... I managed a spot of that today, well OK technically yesterday but because I haven't been to bed yet its still today. I bought a super dress and stilts. High heels to you and me, OM calls them stilts as they're a bit high!

So if you're still awake and if you aren't BOO!!! There that got your attention ~snigger's~ A new challenge is on the go over at Totally Gorjuss Its a nice easy sketch, well I drew it and I can only do easy ones! So here's what I did. I used an Anya for a change. Mine came from Tracy at Dies to Die For She's been distress inked and I finally found my doilies! So I popped her on one of those. (You wouldn't believe how long it took me to find them! Though the next photo might help....) A few roses a la Wild Orchid Crafts a bit of Stickles which doesn't show up terribly well. Anyway that was her done!


Right here's my take on OKIKIFANWBHMDA - which of course as we all know stands for OK I Know Its Friday And Not Wednesday But Here's My Desk Anyway

See I told you it was shocking, those of a sensitive nature might want to sit down before looking...


See I'll show it you again - still shocking huh? Now someone wondered where all the brads had gone... not far as you can see! Piled in a little bucket! Oh I found my Pinflair Glue Gel! Love it. It doesn't have that funny pong that silicone does.

I hope that's not left you too traumatised.... so just think when you think your space is messy... you know it isn't really!

Lazy Monday

Howdy Bloggettes - I hope none of you are suffering form that horrendous weather they forecast. At the moment it seems to have bypassed us. I hope so and not that its making a late appearance.

I had big plans of doing all sorts of things today. Well I mucked that up when I forgot to take the beef out of the freezer! Well on the good side I suppose that's tomorrows tea sorted anyway. Hmmm I hope you don't think I'm a posh bird because we're having roast beef and all the trimmings on a Monday!

So to brighten up your day - well I hope so - here's one of my latest Magnolias. I new I HAD to have this one as soon as I saw her! I think this little Tilda ladybug is so cute. The background paper is a Papermania one, its glittery with little ladybugs on! lol

The border is a Martha Stewart (naturally lol) and flowers are Wild Orchid crafts, nestie shape for layers.

I know its greeting less at the moment - I can't decide which to use. I used to be indecisive.....these days I just can't make up my mind....

Stay warm peeps.

Your mother will love it!

Batten down the hatches Bloggettes it's going to be rough! Well not my blog obviously... the weather of course. Well it is here if we get what the weatherman has promised us that is. How come we get what he promises when its nasty but never when he says its going to be sunny??? I think he some kind of plan going on there.... I'm just not sure what though.

So anyway over at Totally Gorjuss this week we'd like to see something for your Mum, now I know not everyone is lucky enough to still have their Mum in their lives ( I don't) so anything your Mum would have liked will be lovely.

I decided not to do a card this week. My latest thing is these little boxes! I love them. One piece of card, a bit of scoring and some light cutting and sticking and you've made it! Oh some decoration is nice too.


I punched the edge a la Martha and inked it a bit and added a thin piece of ribbon.

Well the top had to have flowers on! A spray of roses and rose buds, the banner stamp is a Magnolia coloured with Copics.


This shows how the box opens.

So I know my Mum would have loved this, especially with something special in, a photo of one of her grand children or something. So we'd love to see what you make too.

Oh remember those hatches folks!

WOYWDW and stuff!

Hi Bloggettes!

How you all doing? I hope no one has any or too much of that nasty white stuff, they do keep threatening us with more though!

I don't want any! Not even a flake :)) We had a smattering again last night but that's gone now thank goodness.

So anyway here's my card for this weeks Softpencil challenge. Is'nt this little pirate cute? Of course he has his parrot on his shoulder lol He's been coloured with Copics and I went over the pattern on his bandana with a white pen. The papers are Costco specials, punching a la Martha Stewart, paper raffia and a magnolia skull! I think the punch gives a sort of wave effect.... well that was the plan anyway. I hope you like him ;))



Now this is a sneak of WOYWW - you can just see my mess behind this box! I think it shows enough of my usual mess! It'll be tidy one day and you'll all faint..... Don't hold your breath waiting though.

Now as it was Valentines day I decided to make a box to pop the OM's present in, which was 2 CDS... so I made the box and it was about 1/2 an inch too narrow! How annoying was that? Yes VERY annoying is the answer. Anyway I'd got him some opera tickets so I put those in instead.

This is a one piece box - a pizza style box I suppose. Punched around with good old Marthas, the danger then is then when its been decorated that it becomes too girly for a man.... OK I know its bright pink! I like him to be in touch with his feminine side. Actually that would be hard - I don't think he has one.

Anyway I opted for some black raffia, an assortment of flowers from Wild Orchid crafts and a Magnolia heart stamp which was Copic'd.


My 'arty' shot! Hmm I'm thinking that's looking a bit tidier! Yup the brads have moved.


Pop over to Julia's and check out the other messes, er sorry desks!