rolling stone

thank you leigh-ann for pointing me in this direction!! i also found it on anna's blog, so at least im not the only person looking at him! makes me feel slightly less dirty!


just watched pan's labryinth...it's very good, very shocking in parts and very confusing..is it real or not??

winner!

my 'buds' layout (a few posts below) won the scrapping frenzy challenge :) well, there was only 1 other layout submitted but i still won!

i bought some high school musical stickers yesterday and got 3 of zac efron. now i know he's only 19 and its a huge bit wrong, but he's not a bad looking guy!



















we also went to pizza hut last night as i really couldnt be faffed with cooking and cleaning up after.

here's marcus contemplating pizza!














and here's a LO i did for the scrap mojo blog. although i was born in the 80s...at the beginning of to be truthful, i remember more of the 90s. i dont know why im pushing my sister in a wheel barrow. maybe im taking her to market to sell her??

kind of cupcakes

so i feel like i've been spending every day at work recently. this off duty, my shifts have all been really close, i.e 3 on, 2 off, 3 on etc. when you're working 12 hours plus driving time, it's really tiring. and yesterday, because of the clocks going back, i ended up doing an extra hour at work...now that felt like a long day!
so because of all this time spent at work, i havent been able to play for what feels like ages! although im sure in reality it isnt.

saturday night we had a drama at home. as we live on a new development, parking is at a prime, especially as so few people use their garages. but we do. i was at work and marcus had been invited out by some people he hadnt seen for years, but when he went to leave, there was a car in our drive, blocking him in the garage. it took him 2 hours to find out who's car it was (who didnt seem remotely bothered) so he missed his night out. he didnt want to leave it for me to sort out as id been working all day and he wanted the drive clear for me (ahhhh). so he wasnt happy and i had visions of coming home to find him in a puddle of blood!

one small recommendation for everyone reading this...dont shut your knee in the car door. it really hurts!!

and this afternoon i attempted to make cupcakes. for some reason, mine never turn out right. these are today's. they dont come out of the cases properly

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and is everyone on here at the same time?? this is ridiculously slow at the moment. i have just tried to u/l a pic and it tells me its done, but there's nothing there...lets try again..

ok so you cant see my poorly made cakes. never mind.

and on publishing i found that there were 2 photos. so this is edited to remove one of them. *rolls eyes*

the countdown starts.

we have a day for Zeus going...November 4th. we'll both be really sad to see him go, but at the same time relieved. he's been such hard work.
my sister is already trying to persuade us to get a cat! in time maybe.

play time

so ive just done another couple of LOs, one of which is a double *gasp*! the style is very different to my norm but i felt the photos needed it. the flowery paper is actually wrapping paper from Paperchase!













LO no 2 is using the Scrapping Angels october kit.


so apart from paper play, i havent done much today...paid a credit card, told some lads off for throwing rubbish on the floor, met my sister for lunch.. and im currently eating Ben and Jerry's half baked. yum yum.

i emailed the guy who is supposed to be taking Zeus to find out what is going on. he said he could take him if we're willing to donate his vivarium too, so i replied 'that's more than possible' (mean yes, obviously) and he sent back 'is that yes or no?'. duh!

also, through the blog funky finds, i found this site called little travellers. basically its a charity which supports HIV/AIDS initiatives in africa, and they do it by the people in africa making these little beaded doll pins called 'little travellers' and other people 'adopt' (buy) them. they're really cute and its such a good idea.

edit: 25 new ones up for adoption on Leigh-Ann's blog, i have adopted Strawberry!


also, check out these stamp companys: cats life press, purple onion, pink.sugar.pop, asta arts.
enjoy.

what a QTea!

so ive just ordered one of these fabby little embellishment kits from QTea kits. its basically stuff you wouldnt expect to use for scrapping. but the best bit....cherries!! i lurve cherries!!

just saw Nicole for the first time in 2 years! she came over with her bf hugh and we had chai tea latte at starbucks and came back to mine to play fluxx, a really confusing card game. dont i sound old!! but it was fun. shame we couldnt spend more time together. oh well. doesnt the light in Borders make me look pale!

back to the land of the living..

..well, thats what it feels like anyway! i've just finished 3 nights and feel surprisingly awake! one of them was busy, with a child under neurosurgery which meant hourly neuro observations, tons of drugs to do and drains to empty. my other two were much more peaceful! i had a cardiac baby who was sedated and had hardly any medicines all night! lovely! so glad to have finished!

i had a phone call yesterday from my sister to tell my that my granddad, who has dementia, had burst a blood vessel in his prostate! meant he was weeing pure blood! yuk. surprisingly though, he didnt get taken to the hospital. an ambulance crew gave him something to close the blood vessel. marvels of medicine.

im seeing my friend nicole tomorrow! i used to go to air cadets with her and then 6th form, but since she moved to portsmouth for uni (and stayed there) i havent seen her for 2 years! but she's coming over to my house and we'll be doing what we do best..going to starbucks!

got my scrapping angels kit today, finally. its taken a whole week to make its little way here! its crate paper pp with a fabby owl stamp! cant wait to play.


and finally, after my little attempt at making buttons, i have myself a swap running on UKS. its my first swap so fingers crossed it's successful!

finally!!

ok so i finally got my gingerbread buttons..very well wrapped but a tiny package!! no wonder it took a while, they probably fell down a sofa somewhere!! (love em jodie!)
here's a photo for ref. the white envelope is my phone bill...

my boy Zeus seems to have hurt himself...when he gets cold, he tries to get as close to his heat lamp as possible, but ends up burning his crest. somehow he's managed to catch the burnt bit and rip it off! but is isnt totally off, it's sticking up in the air like a little spike. and he keeps catching it and getting caught in the roof of his viv *rolls eyes*

also just made myself some shrink plastic button...im so chuffed with them! especially loving the cupcakes.


this Lo i did for the scrapping frenzy blog and you had to scrap your best mates.

paperchase

gotta love that shop. and the fact that it's inside Borders is even better! i got 4 funky packs of stickers for £1 each yesterday.
now...will i use them...

and now dont laugh, but this is a young me!

catergory stories

as an add on to my earlier post, here are 2 LOs for the blog category stories. the 'guilty' one is a bit late but blame my shifts!!