Bank holiday morning

Well it's still a holiday but much is going on in our household with hubby finishing the bathroom off by putting in new bath panels, with me making the coffee.
I finished my grandson's card last night and am quite pleased as I coloured the image in ( not sure where I bought the image from though ) . I was trying to do something fancy but on searching my stash I found this beautiful double sided paper and as Freddie loves being in the garden I thought why not. So before I head off to hp a friend with lunch I thought I would post this card . Have a great day whatever your plans are.

Tidy up

Well this was not planned but I was fed up with only having a few inches to work in even though I have 7ft of work top to create on but I had so many cards that I had made with no inserts, I spent the afternoon making inserts & then matching envelopes to finish and last of all putting the finished card in a poly bag.
I now have a box full of finished cards woo hoo. I now need to get selling so that i can buy some more stash.
After completing that job i managed to get a few crafty drawers cleaned and rearranged.
I know my Daughter will laugh at this but I thought to make life easy i would draw a plan of my craft room & mark up what is in each draw, shelf and box. I am NOT KNOWN FOR BEING ORGANISED.
Make me angry and I clean for England.
well over the last few days Dollie has been indoors and been very naughty in as much as she thinks she's a cat and climbs all over the sofa but keeps tiddling so the covers have to be washed yet again.
She has also been tunnelling out of her run & when i go to get her in at night she runs to the furthest point of the run so that I can't get her.
What a little pickle she is.
Once I have cleared more space I will post some pictures of my completed cards.
Well I'm off to buy some real black card if its not sold out so I will say goodnight
see you soon

meet dolly

 Hello my names Dollie and I came to live in the mad house with the two cats called Tiggie and lola.
The only trouble is they don't let me in the house often enough just because they think that Tiggie will eat me. Oh well I can't complain as the male of the house built me a big hutch with a run attached to it.
Not a bad life for a wabbit. See you all again soooooooooooooon xxx

more photo's

I bought a kit from hunkydory and as much as I love the kit I just have to make cards my own and not copy the style of hunkydory. In other words I have to do it my way.

wet and windy february

Hi everybody
Well the time is fast aproaching that special day in everyone's lives that demands that you spend shed loads of money, you know the day it's called Valentines Day.
My husband and I don't celebrate it as we have our wedding Anniversary five days later but that doesn't stop me having fun making cards for others.
I love making cards and loads of mess in the process,but I am not so great at doing the inserts until I really have too.
My Daughter is always putting my cards in boxes and marking them up in neat boxes.
Well I received my long awaited parcel with my scan and cut machine inside and I was amazed at what it can cut out, it was amazing but I have to do lots of homework to maximise its use so watch this space.
I will post a few of the cards that i have been busy making.Not a great picture which I was unable to rotate for better viewing.

Morning with my daughter

Well I'm disgusted to find I haven't been blogging so with my new phone I have no excuse. 

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

it's nearly the weekend

well what a beautiful & nearly the weekend, I really don't know where the time has gone this week.
I have made a couple of fathers day cards using the free birthday downloads as they are lovely.
sorry no pictures as wrong light .
Well my husband is like a child this week as he had a new shed/garage erected & he even took a day off to watch it going up, so we know what he will be doing after work tomorrow( filling it up)
Well have a fab weekend whatever you are doing

polka doodles freebie

Well as you can see I have been busy using the free birthday down load to make an anniversary scrapbook for my daughter & as usual left it till quite late, infact i was doing quitw well at 2am this morning.
I was quite pleased with the end results but will pobably end up putting a bit more bling on when I get some photos to pop in it.
Well it's been a while but I may even post a bit more tomorrow as we had a stamping up party tonight which was great fun.
well TTFN for nowxxxx

Nearly may

Hi there just thought I would post this as I believe this is a worth while charity & none of us know when a friend or loved one may need help.
I thought he was a cheeky little monkey so decided I would use him to make some cards for our hospice that Nettie & I help at.
Take care for now
LOL xx

Well it's Easter weekend & as far as the weather is concerned we have fared quite well, today we went out for a ride with my daughter & Son in law for a wander to Rye & then onto Hastings for a lovely meal at the Italian on the roundabout. on route to hastings we stopped off for a cream cake & a cuppa at Jempsons, ummmmmmmmmm so yummy. I even bought two cornish pasties for dinner tomorrow so that will be an esy meal. I have every intention of painting my daughters room ready for her baby.
Take care & hope you had a lovely Easter.xxx

catchin up

Hello there my few followers who I have sadly neglected.
Apart from the crafting i have done at our local hospice with my daughter I don't seem to have had much time to do card making, I have however been busy knitting a shawl for my Daughter in four ply which I am doing okay with. I just have two and a half lace borders to do which I have to really concentrate on or I have to unpick & start again which has happened more than a few times. When i get it finished I will post it here. I still have my shawl from my first baby which was 32 years ago, quite scary when you think like that. My nan knitted my shawl for me & I have knitted a shawl for each of my children when they have had their first baby. People don't seem to do as much knitting as they used to.
Well it's getting late & as I am taking care of my neighbours mum for part of the day I need to get some beauty sleep.
TTFN xxx

Freddie decided that seeing as he is off school after having his tonsils out he would make a card for his Mummy for Mothers day.
I love the hand drawn flowers & he did have hand made flowers but he decided to take them off as they wouldn't fit in the envelope, he though that was hand made from pretty wrapping paper.
Children know what they want.
I am soooooooooooooooo lucky as my friend stuart is over from Texas & he went shopping for me & I have at least 7 scapbook pads, 4 martha stuart border punches, 7 friskars templates & 2 corner punches. Nettie says she's jealous but she will be round to share them with me.
well must go TTFN
xxxxxxxxxx

A very wet kent again

Meet my three Grandsons

Left freddie 5yrs, Middle Kieran 2.5 yrs then Sydney 4.5years
Freddie & sydney are brothers who's Mummy is my youngest Daughter Sarah.
Kieran belong to my son Graham & wife also Sarah
The boys are watching a video clip on my sons phone.