especially for mrs a !!!!

managed to get up into the craft room today and was on a roll with 8 single lay outs done and 1 double, promised h i would put them up here for her to have a look at so here goes, in no particular order, a random selection of the march holiday album,
the first photo is of the inside and outside of our lodge, it was gorgeous, so well appointed and a lot bigger than it looks in the brochure and on the web.

this one is of the linn of dee near braemar, i'm experimenting with different shapes and multi photo layouts in this album as i thought my last album looked a bit samey as all the photo's were 7x5. next photo is of the otters at the scottish deer centre in fife, they had this huge enclosure and were nowhere to be seen so i shouted "hello otters" and they came running over, i was well impressed.
i love this photo of the deer at the auchengarrich wildlife park, he was so greedy trying to get all of the food we had and he even licked the lens of my camera, so not a good move mate LOL

did a double layout for the first time in ages of us panning for gold at the highland adventure safari lodge, dad seemed to only find gravel and a few bits of semi precious stones, i fared a bit better, i found lots of fools gold, bits of amethyst and rose quartz and then right at the end i found a piece of real gold LOL if i can remember where i put it the plan is to put it on the lo too LOL this next one is from the off road safari we went on, the village in the bottom of the glen is fortingall and we have visited there driving through the glen to get to aberfeldy, never thought i'd be up a mountain to take photos of it from above LOL

took this next photo when we disobeyed the warning signs and stopped on the drive down to glamis castle LOL used the brooke collection from crate paper here, just love the stuff they are doing at the minute
okay, bored now and the asda delivery has just arrived so i need to go and put that away, so here's the final 3 from today, think i might go open a bottle of wine now and chill with my book for a while

the best laid plans............

..............of mice and men, go out the window when your bum is attached to the toilet bowl all day LOL wasn't laughing yesterday though when the tummy bug that is rife at work at the mo struck me down, oh no it certainly wasn't funny when i couldn't even go upstairs into my craft room for fear of not being able to make it downstairs in time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so yesterday i drank gallons of water to flush the bad bugs away and (touching wood) today i feel well enough to make the trip up to my craft room a with only a little trepidation LOL mind you i am starving LOL but i think i'll stick dried toast today.

on the plus side i did get lots of my latest book read as i sat pondering the meaning of life LOL

it's a girl!!!!!

my dear friend b who retired from work recently has just become a granny for the third time to a much longed for baby girl, her daughter already has an older daughter but has tried for another baby for so long and has lost a few along the way, so it is such lovely joyous news to hear of the safe arrival of lily rose :)

good news

had a phone call from the doctors tonight,to say that dad's latest blood test results have come back and they are back to normal, his kidneys appear to be working properly again so they are very pleased, they want him to go and have his blood pressure taken asap to see if he needs to go back onto a different bp medication and he still has to go to the hospital next wednesday but she doubts the specialist would do anything because the bloods are back to normal, might get a bit of a good nights sleep now

bit of a shock

to discover last night that the woman who murdered her two children in spain used to live next door to us about ten years ago, and her parents live up the street, even more of a shock to discover that some of our "lovely" (meant in a very sarcastic tone) neighbours have been describing her poor parents as weird and reclusive to the local rag just because they haven't spoken to them :0 i don't speak to that particular set of neighbours either but it doesn't make me weird and reclusive just bloody choosy :0 i was so upset by the article i have sent an email to the rag telling them exactly what i thought, the poor parents J and D have just lost two grandchildren, have a daughter accused of murder the last thing they need is their neighbours talking about them like that, i aslo had to laugh at the street being called a close knit community LOL yeah right, a close knit community would have told the reporters to sod off and would have been offering as much help and support to J and D as they want, ooh it makes my blood boil the lenghts peolpe will go to just to see their name in print, stupid people

the monthly group hug

or how a few hours with my dear friends c, b and v make me a happy bunny LOL we had only planned to go out for tea but in the end were in the restaurant for hours, chatting, giggling and reminiscing, and being completely oblivious to the head waiter who was obvioulsy after the table LOL tough!!!!!! we had to have our dream team fix LOL

busy weekend planned and i'm out again tomorrow night LOL taxiing this time so i can have a drinkie poos or three LOL

a planting we will go part two

after the disaster that was the gardening at work last week i dug all the dead plants up today, went to b&q and bought lots more and planted those, the kids were very interested especially at the part where i was almost being sick scooping up fresh cat poo as the local cats have decided to use our garden as their toilet, of course the kids were fascinated and it was like "step away from the poo" they were all so keen to have a look LOL oh to be three again LOL

got some lovely coloured foils delivered today as i'm going to have a go at making some more faux dichroic glass at the weekend using different colours this time, slao got some gorgeous cosmic shimmer sprays, like glimmer mists but even more shimmery and sparkly, fancy spraying the blue one in my hair when i go out partying on saturday night LOL