Inky fingers

Yay.. I'm in the craft room working away on a wee project trying to get back in creative mode again. This time around I'm working with a wooden letter rack, distress inks and some papermania papers. Boy does it feel good to be having a wee play all for myself.

Hope everyone's having a creative day too.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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Memory book

Sorry but can't remember if I've posted a picture of the finished book or not so incase I haven't.. Here it is. Lol

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Birthday make

Evening all and I'm glad to say I've managed to get in the craft room for a brief period of time. Hubby returned to work so I've spent the day getting the house and paperwork back in order.

This is a wee card and posy box I made for someone's birthday tomorrow so that was priority over my other projects today.

It's been somewhat of a quiet day again as I've spent it indoors and mum only popped in for 5 mins on her way home from work. She does amaze me the way she zips about at 70yrs old. Thankfully she's decided that she's finally going to retire when the school break for the summer holidays as I was beginning to think she would be there till she dropped. Even the neighbours laugh at her as she's said for the last 5yrs she's retiring then next thing you know she's off to work again.

Well I've been hiding in the craft room since hubby came home so guess I really should go and be at least semi sociable eh! Oh and still got my washing to bring in off the line too. So loving the last few dry days as you can't beat fresh clothes that have been air dried. Cat is starting to demand my attention too so guess that means I've to sit and pet him for 10 mins till he's ready for another wee nap! I've truly got the laziest cat around as he sleeps for at least 18 hrs a day if not more.

Right, signing off now and will hopefully be back in the craft room tomorrow so toodles till then.

Happy crafting
Lorraine xxx

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Oopsie

Look what I found.. A picture of the cardigan I knitted a few months ago and forgot to post. So here it is.. One hand knitted cardigan complete with buttons and pockets.

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Quiet wee day

Well it's another late one today folks as you can tell. Hubby's had another day at home trying to get over his bug but is determined that he's going in to the office tomorrow so we'll see what unfolds. Have to say that he didn't start the day too well but does appear to have picked up as the day has gone on so fingers crossed.

I managed to escape to the back garden for a few hours late afternoon in to early evening and enjoyed some of the lovely sun we've had today again. Here's hoping it's here to stay for a while as it's nice getting outdoors in the fresh air.

Then I decided to have a 'chippy' for dinner and no sooner was I back when my friends 2 kids appeared out front and as I was speaking with them out the window my friend appeared.. Well she sent the children home to their dad and came in for a wee natter and then my other friend appeared too so the 3 of us were sat of the sofa having a good old natter. After they left Rob laughed and said we were all chatting away that much that the walls were shaking. Lol. It's not very often that we get time to just sit and chat so I really enjoyed it.

Hubby's just took himself off to bed so I'm going to put my pj's on, make a wee cuppa and snuggle on the sofa to watch some tv seeing as I've got it all to myself now. Hopefully I'll get in to the craft room for a few hours tomorrow if he's back at work and see what I can have a play with.

Toodles for now and hope everyone's had a fab day.. Here's hoping it's sun on the forecast for tomorrow again.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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Good and bad day

Evening all and as you can probably guess from the picture it's been a beautiful day here today. Plenty blue sky and some fluffy white clouds too.

Anyway, the weather has been the best part of my day I think. Hubby has been off work ill all day, slight temp, aching bones and nausea. Got him doped up on paracetamol and he's currently in bed sleeping just now. On top of that I've had a to-do with my phone and pc. Connected my phone to the pc to upgrade via blackberry desktop manager but I needed to upgrade the desktop which I attempted to do, only to receive a message telling me I needed to upgrade my pc to xp sp3. Took myself over to the microsoft website to install that and guess what happened.. Bloody computer crashed!!!! So basically I am now left with no pc and I've been unable to upgrade my phone so currently have no facebook or internet access on it. Hopefully I can get the pc repaired without them having to completely wipe the system clean as I've got so much work stuff stored on it that chaos would not be the word for it if I lose it all. Then if that all works out I can hopefully get my phone upgrade done too. Keep fingers crossed for me please as this is obviously going to be a rather trying few days coming up.

Finally, I popped to the cemetery with flowers for my Dad and brother and whilst there I noticed that the headstone of a girl I went to school with was damaged. Appears as though it's come loose from it's foundation so I cleaned the dirt and dry grass off to make it look presentable then popped in to tell her mum, who's one of my neighbours. Glad I did the right thing though as her mum didn't know so at least they were warned in advance of seeing it. They're off down the cemetery tonight to have a look at it so they can arrange the repair tomorrow.

Thank goodness the sun was shining today as it always helps us feel more positive and I've also managed to clear the washing basket and get it all dried out in the fresh air. Only thing left to do tonight is tend to my animals but before I do so I'm off to organise some dinner for myself.

Hope you've all had an awesome day.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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Finally!

Evening all and sorry it's a late post tonight but wanted to wait till I could upload pics of my clear working space. Can hardly believe I have a nice clean area to work on again as it's been so long. Lol.

Although hidden from sight I will be truthful and tell you that there is still one box to be sorted out tomorrow then my job will be 100% complete but for tonight I'm happy to settle with 97%.

Now that's done I'm off to tend to my animals then chill for the rest of the night so I can get stuck in tomorrow. Got some invoicing and emails to tackle in the morning, a few errands to run then I'll see how long I can keep my desk tidy for. Hopefully the cleanliness will help on the old creativity front too.

Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend. I'm off now to do chores, make a cuppa and sit down.

Nighty night
Lorraine. Xxx

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Even the computer desk is organised!!!

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Oops..

Now here is the good thing about having a good tidy up of the old work space.. I just opened a bag and found all these goodies inside it. Ooops I think I may have forgotten to unpack them! Best not tell the hubby eh. Lol.

Off to put them away now, continue the clearing and you never know.. There's every possibility I could find even more.
Toodles
Xxxx

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What a mess

Afternoon all on what is a bit of a wet day here with no sunshine in sight.. So much for it being summer eh. Lol.

Well it's a bit of a strange day for me.. As many of you will know I had a brother who was 9 years older than me and who passed away 9 years ago today, but this morning I woke to the news that my god daughter has given birth to a beautiful new baby boy this morning.. Brought a lovely warm feeling to my heart.

Hubby is at work today and I've poddled around doing the housework but there's still one room that needs to be tackled and that's the all important craft room. As you can see from the picture it's a right old mess just now. Things were going at a fast pace in there but I had some time free from orders over the last week when I've tried to catch up with house related chores that had piled up. There's still a few things left on the list to be dealt with but work now demands that the craft room be brought back under control and seeing as I have the house to myself and it's raining outside what better time to start.. It may take me some time though and I may need you to say a wee prayer or two for me along the way. Lol.

Right I guess it's time to stop typing and start clearing so will wish you all a happy weekend and be on my merry way to the craft room.. Toodles for now my lovelies.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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What a month it's been

Well I've finally found my way back to the old blog front after what has been one heck of a month here.

Won't bore you with all the details, just a brief outline.. Rob's been going through a switch over of his meds, I've had a viral infection and had to toddle off to the docs last week to get checked out as I've had a pain on and off in my left breast for about 6wks.. Thankfully the doc can't feel any lumps but due my mum's history and the fact I had and oopherectomy a few years back I'm being referred to the breast clinic to be on the safe side. Mum's husband Eric has also been bed ridden for the last month and they've been getting so much done at the house.. Stair lift has been installed, bed raiser, zimmer frames, wheel chairs, raiser chairs, commodes.. It's been all go and there's been so many health visitors etc too. Finally my back garden was so out of control with weeds and what not that I had to bring in a gardiner to get it back under control so that's finally done and another ton of stones has been laid down too so at least if the sun shines I can work outdoors without looking at Steptoe's back yard. Lol. Then I've had to work in all my orders too and think the smallest one I've had has been for 45 invites.. Everything else has been in the hundreds. Typical eh!

Anyway, things seem to be a bit more in order now and the chaos is subsiding so I'm slowly getting back to normal and hopefully that means I can resume my blogging too. Hope everyone's been having fun and behaving in my absence.. Then again.. You've probably all been naughty.

Right I've got a few more chores to get done today so best say bye for now and catch up with you again soon.

Love and hugs
Lorraine xxx

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What a 24hr period

Well folks it's another posting at a strange time for me. On Tuesday night around 10pm we had a horrendous fire on some spare land very close to us.. Flames were leaping 40+ft in the air with so much black smoke billowing in to the air that apparently it was seen from surrounding towns. This morning I popped down with another neighbour to see just how extensive the damage was and this is what remains at the air where the fire was started. There were also fences and trees alight way too close to a few houses for comfort. Thankfully 4 fire units attended and done an amazing job in getting it under control and extinguished.

To add to that I awoke this morning feeling a little blocked up and by lunchtime I was rapidly deteriorating so gave in, took some paracetamol and lay on the sofa for the rest of the day sleeping on and off. Going by the symptoms it would appear that I've caught a lovely cold! I've been freezing, boiling, coughing, sneezing, blocked up then runny nose. You know.. All those symptoms that we love so much.. NOT.

Well I have to say I haven't felt as crap as this for a long time so hope it's very short lived. Just taken some more paracetamol so going to head off to bed and see if I can get some more sleep in the hope it helps rid me of the germs at lightning speed.

Hope you've all had a better 24hrs than I have and hope that I'm feeling better by morning too.

Toodles for now

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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Finished project

Evening all and sorry for being a bit quiet over the last week but it was my Dad's 15th anniversary last Friday, I was demoing Sat & Sun, oh and it was also hubby's birthday yesterday so today I've chilled out by getting a little inky.

I used one each of the Art Parts pocket watches and leaves, some embossed aluminium foil, alcohol inks, distress stain, perfect pearl mists, grunge, inka-gold and idea-ology pieces. Now if that's not the perfect recipe for play time I don't know what is.

I decided to make a gift for hubby so the watch was perfect as he has a strange obsession with them, umbrella man represents his time here in the UK as it's always raining, the sea salt is for his home town of Huntington Beach in California (HB) so the initials have a joint meaning of his home town combined with Happy Birthday. Some small Idea-ology pieces finish it off.

Well now that play times over I guess I better clear my mess up eh!!! Aahhh the boring part.

Happy crafting all

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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Weekend event

Afternoon all and I finally managed to do an early blog post!!! Will wonders never cease.
This weekend sees the return of the extravaganza at Craft world at Hillington on Saturday and Sunday between 10am and 4pm. Lots of demonstrators as per normal will be working away teaching you new tricks and showcasing some new products too including the much loved distress markers. I've also heard that you're in for a treat with some Indigo Blu and that a very special lady will be demonstrating them so well worth a trip to the shop.

Well.. I'm afraid I need to keep this short and sweet as this weeks work agenda is overflowing with 2 sets of samples being worked on for C&C alongside prep for this weekends demo so best get my skates on else I'll be hairless by the time Saturday comes around.
Happy crafting all.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

Lazy Sunday..

Evening folks and it's another late one from me today again eh! Really must start posting earlier in the day instead of a few hours short of midnight.

Anyway.. Last night was one of those where the brain and body didn't switch off till somewhere around 3.30am so today began with a lie in till 11am (shocked and ashamed of myself), followed by a nice fry up for lunch made by hubby dearest whilst watching a true movie which I won't tell you about as it was a sad one.

Popped out this afternoon for a few hours (nothing exciting) and tonight I've been poddling away again on some samples (sneaky peek in the picture) and would you believe it but hubby has just dropped a big drip of water right on to one of them!!!! Aaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!! Question is can I manage a sneaky cover up of the water drop now? Well guess I better go and try to repair the damage, and I may just glue him to his chair first right enough. Lol

Toodles for now everyone.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

Where has the day gone!!!

Evening all and it's hard to believe that it's 10pm already. This morning I got up and ready then popped off to Craft World to see what is on the agenda for next weekends craft event.. Arrived there around 11am and think it was almost 4pm when I returned home.. Ooopppssss think that may mean I lost track of time. Lol. Think it's better to blame it on the coffee, the staff and the customers. ;-). It's funny to say but although it's a massive shop, everyone knows everyone else so it's a very friendly place to spend time in. Needless to say I had to get some essentials too like ribbon, glue, a pad of resist to name but a few. Lol.

Tonight I've made a couple of quick Hunkydory cards as need them over the next few days and the next week is going to be spent making samples all day every day.

Think I'll chill for the rest of the night and hubby's informed me that he's taking me out tomorrow.. No idea where but with any luck he may treat me to lunch or an early dinner.

Hope you're all having a fab weekend so far.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine. Xxx

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Simply glorious

Afternoon on and boy what a gorgeous sunny day it is here too so I'm just getting ready to pop out in the garden to catch some rays before they disappear again.

Yesterday and part of today I've been buzzing away cutting, scoring and base layering a whole load of samples so they're now all ready just for the embellishments and final touches to be added. The house is all in order, the last of the washing is now on the line so I'm going to use the sun as an excuse to go cut the grass and do some weeding.. Truth of it is I'm off to soak up some sun.. Well they do say vitamin D is a necessity in life so best to grab it when the opportunity arises. Going by the forecast it's due to return to it's normal self tomorrow! Let's hope it proves the weather man wrong eh.

Well I won't get much done pushing the buttons on this phone will I so will say toodles for now and I hope you're all basking in sunshine too.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

Good day yday..

Afternoon and happy Tuesday to all.. Well the week has gotten off to a good start yesterday but I have to admit I'm forcing myself to move today as I could happily have a day just curled on the sofa watching tv.

Yesterday we trooped off to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for hubby to see a specialist. The drive up wasn't the nicest due to poor weather conditions but glad to say the appointment and drive home were much more pleasant. He had a few tests done yesterday, the consultant is writing to the gp advising on a change of prescription and he's to attend another clinic too which we'll have to wait on an appointment for. Then.. Back to Ninewells in 6 mths for a follow up appointment, by which time the consultant hopes that all symptoms will have disappeared which would be wonderful. To think of the years poor hubby has suffered and the many specialists he has seen who didn't know what to do to help and now we seem to have met a wonderful man who knows all about it and to us appears like he may be able to provide a miracle cure so we're keeping fingers crossed.

Think with all the pressure we felt under yesterday that the stress has now been released and today I could happily do nothing but instead I'm slowly working my way around the house doing the cleaning so it's just a quick daily clean for the rest of the week. Soooo boring but a necessity all the same. At least once this is done I can get back to sample making as lots to do over the coming weeks and I'd rather spend my time doing that than scrubbing. Lol.

Well.. Time to get back to the dusting I guess so I'll say toodles for now and hope you all have a fab day.

Love 'n' hugs
Lorraine xxx

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