Where has my crafty side gone?

Hello everyone!! I've missed you all and seeing all your blogs. My ME has decided to knock me sideways for a good 8/9 months now and life seems to be an endless struggle against exhaustion, pain, dizzyness, weakness, nausea, IBS, anxiety etc.. etc... I am again almost always housebound, hardly ever being well enough to go out or do anything. This awful weather isn't helping either as i'm not yet having that extra energy and warmth from the sun (you remember that big yellow thing in the sky we seem to never have!).

Along with all this i've lost all inclination to craft :-( Just the thought of the energy involved tidying my stuff up and getting it into some order is exhausting enough, let alone actually crafting. I really want to try to get that spark going again though, so thought i'd pop back, have a browse round your blogs and try to get some crafting mojo going again. 


I hope you've all been doing ok and keeping well. How depressing is this weather. In the south east here, we are forecast for rain, rain and more rain all week again. I cannot say how desperate I am for some sunshine. 


Thank you to the lovely Sally for emailing and sending me a lovely card. It really means a lot xxxx


Sending you all love and am off for a nosey xxxx

British summer time is finally here!!

Hello everyone! I hope you have been one of the lucky ones to have some sunshine this weekend. Here in the UK we are now into British summer time. I just cannot wait for summer and some long warm days on the beach and the evenings getting lighter. It is 18.16 now and it's still nice and light.
I managed to get out for a family day at a local event hosted by a local radio station, and celebrated my cousin's 1st birthday. I can't find a pic of the card I made :-(
It's exhausted me though and I rebelled against the "losing one hour" by sleeping even longer and didn't wake until 1.30pm!! I'm very achey and worn out, so doing nothing today.

It was my sister's birthday recently so I thought i'd share her card with you, with one of the new Magnolia stamps:

Isn't she just so pretty! I love that lace doily under the cake. 

I'm loving weekend tv still! I want Chico to win the dancing on ice final tonight!! I love the new show "the voice" on BBC1 and then a great start to Britain's got talent. For anyone who watched it wasn't that Welsh boys choir amazing! But my favourites were the last two. It brought tears to my eyes and goosebumps. I will say now I think those two will be in the final (unless Simon gets his way to split them up :-( )  Don't you love the new judges too? David Walliams is so funny and having Simon back makes the show.

I had my niece over with me again this weekend, so we snuggled up together watching the tv. She gave me a fright today though by having a bad nose bleed. Luckily I stayed calm, kept her calm and managed to stop it, but it did worry me a lot. It's horrible seeing anything bad happen to our kids.

Anyway, I'm blabbering on about nothing, so I'll wish you all a good Sunday eve and enjoy whatever you are doing xxxxx

Emily's 12th birthday.

Hello everyone!! I won't bore you with more illness stuff, so i'll just say it's nice to have something to post! My niece has just turned 12 (scary as time goes too quickly!) so I had to made a card. I didn't have money to buy her a prezzie yet so I made her something for her room, until I can treat her to some copics which she wants.

I just adore this stamp and loved colouring her:

It looks more glittery in real life. 

This is what I made her:

I hope you like them! I'm off to have a nosey round your blogs now. Wishing you all a happy weekend xxxxx

scrapbook

Hello lovely people! I'm back again! lol Same old same old from me. Struggling health wise and just craft for short amounts when I am able. 

I have finally, (almost) finished my friends birthday scrapbook. I'll be adding a little letter onto the front and few finishing touches, but it's almost there, so I can finally send it, nearly a month late! Luckily she is understanding. 

Hope you like it! Sorry about the photos not being that great, but I just don't have the energy to spend ages on the photos. 

I found this gorgeous Cath Kidston on eBay as she adores all her stuff. 

Under the tractor flap:

That last page has an envelope bit in so she can slide in some more photos. 

In between doing this, when I'm too tired to move off the settee i've been colouring some images in ready to make some cards when i'm well enough:

The wedding couple, the mermaid and the birthday Tilda are what I bought with birthday money. I adore Magnolias.
Thank you again to Sally@ scallywags for sending me such a lovely card and some gorgeous little gifts. I was really touched xxx

I'm off to watch the England match now. Very happy to see my spurs boy Scotty Parker captain! Let's hope Psycho does a better job than Capello did!

Sending you all love and good wishes. Thank you as always for comments left xxxxx

A scrapbook challenge

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having good days. Thank you as always for lovely comments from you. It really makes me smile.

I had my gorgeous niece, Emily to stay with me for a few days for half term and after reading some old scrapbook mags, I decided to set us a challenge. I gave us each a £10 limit and we were to buy enough for the other to make a scrapbook page with. We chose the photos before we went off to the gorgeous "Glitterpot", which I am so lucky to live near, and we went shopping. It was funny trying to avoid each other and keep our buys secret. ( I had some early Birthday money to spend so 3 new magnolia stamps fell into my basket too! lol)

We got home and showed each other our kits and we were not surprised to see we had chosen the same sticker sheet and the same flowers! lol
These are our kits:


Emily bought this lot for me:

She loves those felt brads so spent a big bit of her budget on these. 

I bought her this kit:

I was very pleased to find those little stamps at such cheap prices and they fitted in so well with the theme. 

We loved our bits so these are our pages!! 

Here is Emily's page. She did everything but stick it all down, as she struggles a bit with that, but the design and layout was all hers. Isn't she talented! 

This is my page:

I hope you like them! We can't wait to make more with the gorgeous new Bo Bunny papers out at the minute. We are going to make snowy pages with them as they are so wintry.

I'm nearly finished my friends scrapbook, so will show you pics of those soon.
I'm off to watch Emmerdale now.

Wishing you all a good evening. Lots of love xx

*shock horror* i've made a card!!

Hello everyone! Thank you for such lovely comments on my last post. This ME and Fibromyalgia lark is not at all easy in the winter! I haven't had any improvement at all for months now and just hope that the spring/summer will give me a little relief, so I can at least get out a little more as I feel like a hibernating hedghog!

Well, my best friends birthday was recently and I wanted to make her a special card. I'm a bit slower crafting at the minute as I can't sit there for long periods, so this took me about 4 hours in the end, on and off. I hope you like it! I am now desperate for more flowers as this is the first time i've used them on a card after winning them in some blog candy. I'm becoming more shabby as the time goes by too and am inking everything that sits still! lol

I'm also in the process of making her a small scrapbook. I found a lovely Cath Kidson one on ebay (She's obsessed with CK), so i'm hoping she'll love it when I finally send it. 

I'm sorry i've not been well enough to be on here much, especially to leave comments on your blogs, but when I've been able to i've been popping by to see your gorgeous work! 

I'm soon to be 34 (on the 19th, which just seems bizarre as I still feel in my 20's) and we are having a little party at my sisters, so that I can rest and lay on the settee when need be and watch everyone make fools of themselves on the Wii! We are making jelly and ice cream, cheese and pineapple etc.. so it should be fun! I just hope i'm having an ok day so I can enjoy it. 

Hope you are all keeping warm! I'm off for a nosey round some blog. Thank you again for such supportive comments. Crafters really are a lovely bunch of people!! xxxxxxxx

Bad blogger :-(

Hi everyone. I feel like such a bad blogger, as I haven't been on for ages again. My health is not at all good recently and I'm struggling to stay awake some days. I feel so poorly and weak everyday and keep waking up feeling as awful as the day before.
I'm just about managing to walk my little doggie and bath each day, while the rest of the time i'm laying on the settee trying to stay awake.

On slightly better days, i'm sitting knitting, so I'm at least doing something, but the last few days i've not even been able to do that.
I've had Millie at the vets with a stomach problem so have been worried sick about her (she is doing bit better now thankfully), so it's all a bit of a struggle.

I just wanted to keep this updated anyway.

here is a pic of my knitting I was doing last week with my faithful little companion with me! 

I hope you are all as well as you can be and i'm sorry for the lack of comments from me on your blogs xxx I hope to be back soon with crafty makes to show you xxx

Happy new year everyone!

I know I say it all the time, but long time no blog. The build up to Christmas was either pressure of getting stuff made for the craft fair, or feeling ill and exhausted, so I just didn't have time/energy to blog.

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas. Doesn't it go so quickly :-( I had an ok time, but I have been poorly all over the Christmas period with that virus as well as the ME playing up, so I spent most of Christmas morning in bed, having a little cry and then my lovely family took a mattress into the living for me so I could at least be with them all. I did manage to get over to mums on boxing day but rested on the settee whilst most of them popped over to the pub for a Christmas swifty.
I hope all of you had healthy Christmases and lots of special times.

I want to say thank you to Sally (Scallywags) for such a gorgeous card!! Isn't it so cute! I just adore the glossy accents on his beak and feet. Thank you for the ribbon too. That was very sweet of you. I'm pleased you liked my blog candy xx

I've not made any cards for a while now but wanted to show you a few of my lovely prezzies and some bits I bought in the Glitterpot sale with some Xmas money. 

I just love owls lately. They are too cute! My sis bought me this gorgeous cushion. 

A cute little hand warmer from my friend. 

She also got me this cute little robin. 

Every year I end up buying more and more decorations as I just adore Christmas and I bought these a few days before:

Yes I bought another owl! lol 

Here are my bits from the Glitterpot:

Ok, enough photos! lol

Now that Christmas is over, I am going to try and concentrate a bit more on my scrapbooking as I have so many years to scrap! Trying to actually use my gorgeous pile of papers isn't going to be easy though! So watch this space!

I wish you all a happy new year. I can't stand new year's eve myself, as every year that passes of me being ill, makes me wonder if i'll ever get my life back. Maybe 2012 will be a good turning point for many, as it's meant to be.