Blogaversary Blog Candy

To celebrate my 2nd Blogaversary and thank everyone for visiting my blog I am having a mega candy giveaway!! Every day until July 22nd I am adding some candy to the pot...can you imagine...45 pieces of candy just for one of you!!! It could be anything from a piece of ribbon to a stamp or something bigger I have up my sleeve. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post...just saying hi or a thought or a story. I'd also like to get my followers up to 200. I'm at 162 at the moment but one of the new 38 will win some candy...for this you have to leave a comment but make sure you say you've added yourself as a follower otherwise it won't count. So that leaves the 162 followers I already have and am very thankful for! You won't miss out either...just leave a comment saying you're already a follower and you'll be in to win. That means you all have 2 chances to win. Grab the badge up above (my flabulous right hand Lisa made if for me!) for your blog and spread the news! Good luck :-D

CANDY: KI Memories pad, ribbon, tin, Scor-bug, self-adhesive gems, buttons, 2x rolls dimensional tape, strawberry charms, Scor tool, 6 x 6 Doodlebug pp (x4), 5 shaped blank cards with envelopes, Tiptoeing Lily stamp, KI Icicle embellies, Hero Arts flower sequins, Doodlebug Baby Boy Buttons, Flowers For You Nikki, Doodlebug Jellishments, Doodlebug Pink Heart Tokens, It's Only Words 4 sentiment set, Pram Nikki, pink glitter, Palette Ink cubes, Holiday rub ons, KI Christmas Icicles, BFF Phoebe & Olivia stamp, Eyelet Outlet brads, Lasting Impressions Senti-Metals, Sentimental Numbers, tiny black and white paper flowers, Winestool Nikki, textured card pack, Accent Beads (tiny micro beads), lilac flower eyelets, Chatty Nikki, epoxy dots, Cuttlebug Embossing Folders, Making Memories Jelly Labels. fibres, LCI Post It Note key ring, Shoes n' Bags Flip Flops, Martini Nikki, Papermania shimmer dots, more gorgeous ribbon, Baby Baby stamp set, Bazzill Chipboard Tags, Scor Buddy and Scor Buddy mat!!!!

***This will stay at the top of the page until July 22nd. Scroll down for the most recent posts.***

More Christmas Jack and Robyn

It's almost the weekend and I have visitors coming tomorrow. Thankfully they're not arriving until midnight so I can get the house tidied AFTER I've made a card. Like how I've got my priorities straight lol?

I have a few card samples of the new Christmas Jack and Robyn stamps that I thought I'd show you. I made these quite a while ago so it's great seeing them again and now I'm itching to ink them up again.

This is one of them...I LOVE this card...probably because of it's simplicity and the colours. Tell me what you think...

This image cracks me up...I love Jack's shocked expression. I ran some Co-oredination's cs through an embossing folder on my Cuttlebug and scuffed up the snow so you'd see it better. After colouring in the image I attacked it with my favourite snow glitter and added the Gotcha! sentiment that comes with the set. I found the button in a pack at the back of a drawer. I bought them a year or so ago and thought I'd lost them or surely not, thrown them out by mistake!

 

 

 

It's not all that long till Christmas...isn't it scary how fast this year has gone by. I promised myself at the beginning of the year I'd make one or two Christmas cards a week so I wasn't stressing at the beginning of December. But I guess I must strive on stress these days because I haven't been fulfilling my promise lol.

I'd like to enter this in Paper Sundaes Challenge #78 - Christmas in July
The Crafty Pad Challenge #130 - Christmas in July

I went for a run this morning and look who were cheering me on....

This one was behind the other cow in the first picture. After I'd taken the first one, she obviously wanted a picture taken on her own so just as I was about to set off she walked up to the fence and who was I to deny her lol.

I had a power meeting this morning (oooh don't I sound all business like lol) for some new images that I KNOW you're going to love. I've been teasing the DT so hopefully it won't be long until I can show them to you!

We're almost at the finish line for the Blogaversay candy...only today and tomorrow to sign up for a chance to win some flabulous stash. You might want to check out Ladybug Pam's blogaversary candy too....it's almost a year since she has started blogging!!

You know those one or two cards I said I was going to make yesterday? Didn't happen hmph. I've got a partial of one on the go so I'm going to try and get it finished now.

Have a great day :-D

Catch ya later xx

Free...One 3 legged Boxer with a mind of her own!

Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby...no not the song....but my gorgeous pup. She is perfect in every way except 2...she's a greedy girl and she just takes off and doesn't come back till she feels like it. Is she a typical female lol??? Ryan was took Rocky and ruby out for their last walk so I could get an early night. I got settled in bed at 10:30 with my new craft magazines and a brochure and got as far as the inside front cover of one when the phone rang. Ruby apparently was missing and had been for about 15 minutes. So out of bed I get, grab my jacket and in my jammies and flip flops went out to help look for her. As it was late we couldn't very well whistle too loudly (I have a pretty mean whistle which Suzy Q can vouch for) or shout so it was a case of whispering....Ruby...Ruby... Ruuuuubeeeeeeeeeeee! After 10 minutes I went back home with Rocky and grabbed a flashlight and headed back up in the car. Still no sign of her after another 15 minutes...I had visions of meeting the postman in my jammies lol. The hubster loves his bed so was quite surprised to see him coming around the corner to join in with the hunt. FINALLY in the distance with her 3 legs carrying her as fast as they could, we see Ruby...no where near where we were looking lol. Needless to say she got a ticking off and no treat... two things I know she doesn't like!

Earlier after dinner I took them to CB and took a couple of videos of the pair of them chasing stones I was throwing. Rocky is hilarious...I think he's part kangaroo! Have a look....

Oooooh I hate my voice!

Right...I'm off to make a card or two :-D

Thanks for stopping by

Catch ya later x

Lisa says...

....we should have a reminder about the Summer Birthday's challenge and who am I to argue! Any excuse to make a card I say lol.

Summer screams bright and sunny (not that it's very bright or sunny in Glasgow today hmph) so of course that's what I went with. I don't think you need your sunnies but maybe be prepared just in

case :-D

I find all my cards are pretty much straight...all lines going the same way and lately I've seen a lot of 'off kilter' mounting. Yesterday I was over at Susan's blog and she had made a flabulous 'off kilter' card and I thought it was about time I made one too.

I love Magnum and Lily so thought I'd dig them out. The pp was in the box where I found this...I'm on a bit of a recycling kick I guess. Instead of mounting the green check pp I sewed it directly onto the main pp. The only think I'd change is to mount the stripey pp onto the same lilac cs I mounted the image on. Of course I didn't check to see if I had more before I'd stuck it down hence no mount.

I've got a few birthdays coming up so now I've got to decide who will be getting this one.

Only a couple of days left to enter to win the Blogaversary candy. Welcome to my most recent followers...you're VERY welcome!

Have a few jobs to do this afternoon so I must fly.

Thanks for stopping by

Catch ya later x

Save the date!

Thank you all (I seem to be saying that a lot lately lol) for your lovely emails and comments of my last post. It's funny because you KNOW you're not the only one going through it but it feels like it so it was great to read your stories and suggestions. I'm going to give 'Angus' some time to kick in but I'll have your remedies on standby just in case lol.

I'm sure part of the problem has been trying to find a venue for Nicole and Ben's wedding. I didn't think it would be THIS stressful ... finding Nic's dress was a piece of cake in comparison and maybe I thought/hoped it was all going to be as easy lol. Anyway after many miles and about 17 venues viewed and discarded I can finally say we have a venue...and a date!!! That sounds silly but you can't pick the date without the venue because more times than not that date will be booked.

Now we have the date I figured it was time to start getting organised the with invites etc. Nowadays they send a Save The Date card and I had no intentions of doing them as I will have enough on my plate with the invitations, menus and everything else that goes with it. Well, you can guess I'm now doing them so over the weekend I had a play and this is the final card that will be going out....

It's nothing fancy...quite simple really but Nic loves it. We're not really very frou frou lol. It's 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 and will have a magnet on the back so you can put it on your fridge and it won't get lost in a drawer. I'm not sure exactly how many I have to make yet...they're still finalising the guest list (another headache!) but I won't make the same mistake I did when I ordered my invitations. We were inviting 110 people and I orderded 110 invitations doh!!!

That's another 2 boxes ticked on this wedding adventure only a gazillion more to go lol.

Thanks for popping in today...hello to my new followers that signed up this weekend....my there were a lot of you lol!

Catch ya later x

Menopausal Moments or Psycho Bitch?

Apologies for the 'B' word in the title but I couldn't think of anything more appropriate to describe me at the moment lol. For a while now...maybe 4 or 5 months I have been all over the place. One minute I'm my normal happy self then in the blink of an eye I'm so low you need to scrape me off the floor. On the low days I can waste an entire morning or afternoon doing nothing but playing Whirly Word (note to self: remove from phone and ipad!) ... I can't be bothered with anything, no energy and I know my face is tripping me....I feel like I'm going to combust! My memory is more shocking than normal...concentration almost non-existent and feel teary at the drop of a hat. I don't want to see or talk to anyone...I have to force myself to socialise. This is hard as I LOVE my friends and I'm sure they must be wondering who stole the real Kerry and replaced her with a PB!!!

 I suppose that was one of the reasons I started running and got back into Zumba as everyone knows (or should) exercise is a great form of 'feel good'. And it does but the 'feel good' is lasting less and less. Yesterday I was in great form...I went for a run then met up with Suzy Q at CB with the pups. The sun was shining and life was great. By the time I got home (less than 10 minutes) I could feel myself slipping and the rest of the day was torture. It has been in the back of my mind that I am at an age (47) that menopause could be knocking at my door. Not sure if I've had a proper hot flush as when they've happened in bed all I have to do is stick my leg out of the covers and things go back to normal lol. I know I haven't been my sparklicious self or fun to live with so today I took myself off to Holland & Barratt (thought I'd try the natural route before going to the doctors), marched in (literally) and verballed all to the poor woman behind the till lol. It was obvious she's had plenty like me come in ... she didn't bat an eye and marched me (literally) over to a row of green bottles that will hopefully be my (or should I say my family's) saviour....Angus Cactus Agnus Castus! She thoroughly explained how it works....told me a story of how she put her daughter on it when she was 17 as she was a she-devil a week out of every month and her son locked himself away in his room for self protection lol. So here's hoping it will start to kick in asap and I'll start feeling fabulicious again :-D If anyone reading this recognises themself and has found a solution other than drugs please email me ... I'll try anything within reason lol!!!

If you're still with me after that well done lol!!! This is one of my catch up's ... my neighbour's son got married recently...not once but twice! First was in a registrar's office in Edinburgh then in a beautiful chateau in France. Of course I had to make a card and Bride Nikki was begging to be inked again...

I hope you're not bored with my WOW wedding cards...I just love making them :-D

Here are a couple of pictures of Rocky and Ruby at CB the other day...

You got a bit of everything today lol. We're on the homestretch for the Blogaversary candy...I can't thank you enough for your wonderful comments and adding yourselves to my magnifilicious followers list. I am so overwhelmed and think I've set myself a HUGE task of sorting out new from old etc for the 3 prizes lol. I hope you'll stick around to see the final piece of candy I'm adding on Friday because it's flabulous!! I will  take the weekend to sort everything and announce the winners on Monday 25th...I'm so excited I can't stand it!!!

You'll be glad that's it for today :-D I hope you have a great weekend whatever you do

Thanks for stopping by

Catch ya later x

Whose Birfday is it?

Today should be a holiday...an international holiday... because it HAS to be THE mostest specialistist day of the WHOLE calendar year. I think it might even outshine Christmas it's THAT special. So I'm sure you're wondering what is so special about today? Well I'll tell you..... it is Mary Poppins aka Ladybug Michele's birfday!!

Can we all join in and sing please....

Happy birfday to you, happy birfday to you, happy birfday dear MPee-eeeeee, happy birfday toooooooo youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!! Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray!!!

ROFL...Michele has been telling us Bugs on a DAILY basis for the last MONTH that her birfday was coming up...she's been the biggest kid EVER!! She's obviously still a young thing to be that excited lol. Of course her card will be late (it is on it's way) but I'm posting it here today so she knows it's coming. For several reasons there was only ONE image I could use for her card and that was a Cupcake Cutie because if you haven't noticed she uses it a LOT and she loves the frosting and sprinkles I use when I make mine. She's ALWAYS hmphing cuz she hasn't got my fabulicious tiny microbeads.

Here's your card Michele...I hope you like it ....

What do you think of these toppings...yummalicious or what! We've got Fluffy Stuff and micro beads at the top, next Glossy Accents and Glamour Dust with a GA'd cherry and the bottom two are coloured with copics, then GA'd and sprinkled with micro beads. Also two of the liners are paper pieced.

Just in case she forgot lol

I do hope you have the bestest of birfday's Michele. I am exhausted from all the prep and I was so worried I'd forget...not a chance lol! Please do go over and visit Michele and wish her a happy birthday :-D

Catch ya later x

BTW...in case you didn't get it...that was my news lol