is excited

cos i've just booked a ticket to go up to edinburgh on the train, 1st class of course darling LOL to go to see the christmas markets and have wee spendies on useless but lovely stuff :-) that'll keep me going through a week of lates next week :)

a rather lovely holiday

was had at the strathyre forest site near callendar, the lodge was surprisingly lovely for the amount of money we paid and the beds were very comfortable, the hot tub was lovely too and came complete with it's own rubber duckie LOL the weather wasn't too bad either considering it was november although we had to drive up in really bad fog on the monday :( managed to spend lots of money on silly things like new handbags and purses and got to see the b&b we will be staying in on the way up to skye in june :) took loads of photos as usual so that should keep me going over the winter LOL off to make some xmas cards now :)

hamish the pet highland cow, we loved feeding him vegetables

our hot tub's rubber duckie

welcome in gaelic on the dining table in our lodge

dad and i at loch lubnaig

21 lo's

that's how many lo's i managed at the sarahs cards retreat this weekend, it was a fabulous retreat, the classes were gorgeous. the kits were packed and the goody bag was excellent, had to have a wee looksie at the shop as well of course :) took me about 3 hours to get home which is really good, it was a nice drive apart from when the fog came down near penrith but it was soon away again, the sunset over morcambe bay and the lake district mountains was stunning, wish i'd had my camera :) my table buddies were so much fun and we laughed like drains all weekend LOL roll on march 2012 :)

two more sleeps

until the sarahs cards retreat, i'm uber excited and my totes are stuffed with as much as i can possibly carry LOL have a suitcase to pack yet LOL but tonight was devoted to knocking up a mini book for a friend who was burgled early tuesday morning, one of the things the bastards took was her laptop with all he 11 month old photos on it :( i'd been saving her photos of the bairn on facebook to make her a book for xmas but i think she needs it right now.

i'm buying a gypsy!!!!

and no not one of the ones recently evicted from dale farm as suggested on my facebook page LOL, i'm buying a cricut gypsy :-) i'd been talking on facebook about getting one and one of my friends, the lovely l has decided to sell hers and not only did she think of me she's linking all her cartridges to it as well :-D i'm so chuffed as i am getting a complete bargain :-) can't wait for next weekend even more now as not only is it the sarah's cards retreat, l is bringing my new gypsy to the retreat :-)

other things to celebrate are 4 more pounds off and a reduction in my blood pressure of over 40 points :-D

and another

busy day but at least i managed a long lie in this morning :) didn't get up until 11.10 :) after lunch and doing the shopping i decided to get the sewing machine out and make a start on the quilt i am making to raffle at work with all the pproceeds going to the sir bobby robson fund. turned out quite a bit bigger than the i had planned, in fact it might be bigger than the wadding i've ordered so it might need to be trimmed or i could make the wadding bigger with the other bits i've got left over :) i've just ordered some gingham fabric off ebay for the backing, going for lime green and white to set the colours off :) gotta love ebay, have been finding loads of lush stuff on there recently :)

busy day

i was up bright and early this morning as i had this idea going around my head of something to make LOL anyhow thought i wasn't going to be able to get it done cos i had an eye appointment which entailed having eye drops to dilate the pupils, well it never got done cos the optician had rang in sick so it meant i got to make some xmas cards and get all gluey :-)

i've had this house shape for ages and today was the day it got finished, i painted really roughly with white acrylic paint then dry brushed stream paint dabber on it before putting the prime alla prima papers in it, i then used some of my hoard of tim holtz and prima embellies before using the finished house to display some of my sea glass and sea pottery collection.

the finished house

close up of some of my glass and pottery

the bottles are filled with glitter and micro beads

more seaglass and sea pottery and the flower embellie