I'm back

Well here I am again aftr a very long time away from my blog which is very disgusting but in that time I have now got 2 more grandsons which now makes 6 grandsons. Pretty gready some would say.
well today has been busy as my eldest daughter is moving house on saturday without removal men so watch this space.
Tonight i have been using my hoogie board to score 12 by 12 double sided paper ready to cut into strips so that i can make lolipops or flowers. i will take some pictures tomorrow .
I will however post a card I made for sydney's birthday last month from nikki's pokeadddles collection,  i love her work

Hi i made a gate fold card but with a twist as the little boy is a removable book mark , i loved making this. goodnight

Fairy

I thought I would just post this little fairy seeing as I have just seen the polka doodles challenge, this fairy lives in my friend beautifully compact garden.

Well it has been beautiful today & I have spent the entire day

out in the garden, firstly came the most important bit which was breakast on the decking then I moved onto mowing the front & back lawns.

I then had a brain wave & thought I would cut out the brambles which turned into a mammouth task. I would like to know how rubbish like that grows so fast , I wore thick gloves but have ended up with plenty of cuts & thorns in me. so much for spending the day making cards ready for our Hospice fete which is fast approaching. I did mamage to make a few cards last night .

The cards above are ones I made for friends & the purple one I made for my sister in law.

Time for bed so TTFN xx

Spaceman

I had some real fun making this card. My grandson Kieran is 3 this birthday and I have made him a Space themed side step card. I have really gone for some spacy embellishments on this one and loved the image, which is from Digistamp Boutique.

I have coloured the image using Promarker pens and added a little bit of bling with some glitter. This little chap's name is Josh. This is my first time making a side step card and I managed it without any hiccups.

I am entering this card for the Digistamp Boutique July challenge. Catch you all later, I'm off to catch some sun rays. Mandy.x

little mans card

This is my card of the week which took me most of yesterday to make, thats a record for me.
I chose the charactor then kept thinking one of us had a rocket in our tools which I needed to keep the theme going.
Nettie went on the hunt & found it. I really enjoyed cutting out all the bits & pieces.
The background papers came from a friend in America which are just perfect.
I then decided to put a badge on the front to complete it.
I hope my Grandson likes it as he's actually mad on lightening Mc queen
& toy story.
Well that's it for now so TTFN xxx

Hubby's week off

Well my husband had a week off last week as it was his birthday & even though we did'nt go awat we did go out some days. On monday we stayed close to home by going to a place called Godington house where they had a celebration of delphiniums which were fantastic.

the gardens were fantastic especially as there were stunning dragonflies on the lily ponds.

We took nettie and a friend called Wendy who is a fantastic artist who really makes you laugh.

I think we must have been slow as we missed out on the cream teas so ended up coming back here for Mr kiplings fondant fancies.

We also went to a place called whitstable which is a beautiful seaside town where we found a lovely place on the seafront to eat. It was a bit up market as fish and chips were fourteen pounds. ouch .

We also went to folkstone harbour where they have been doing a massive clean up on the harbour itself so we can now see the bottom of the beach , No rubbish so lets hope it remains this way.

I then finished off the week with the charity moonlight walk which was really good even though I only raised £155 pounds but every penny counts.

I believe we raised 50 thousand in total for our local hospice that Nettie and I help out at.

Fathers Day weekend

Well those fellas out there who love football have got it made this weekend as they have a good excuse to sit & watch the footie in peace.
Weather permitting we are doing the barbi thing on sunday with a few family & friends so I had better make sure there are some yummy puddings to go round. one at least best be banoffi which usually goes down well.
I have made some fathers day cards for others but sadly i left it too late with the light to photograph them so will have to post at a later date.
We took 2 of our grand children to chessington last weekend along with my husband & the biggest kid of all was chris with Nettie & I coming up the rear.
Nettie was the bag lady due to her size & not being able to get in most rides.
She did however come on the skylight ride which we all love.
As I said chris was the biggesr kid encouraging little sydney to stay put when the ride was over so that they went round again, I just happened to be on the runaway train at the end of the day & the controller sent us round 5 times without a break. Yes I came off feeling sick but not the others.
Have a fantastic weekend
LOL Mandy xx

lovely comments

I think I must have done a very late post last week as I missed out some words, senior moments.
Just to say thank you for all the lovely comments I recieved last week from the girls at polka doodles, it's the most comments Iv'e ever had. I will have to start entering more competitions more often.
Thanks again
lol Mandy