You Make Me Smile Award And News

Well, I have had an awful week, this happened to my poor Bruno.....



He managed to fall down a hole and has dislocated his foot, last Sunday morning. An emergency trip to the vet and he got strapped up in the rather funky bandage with Ouch Stickers. Then we had to have a follow up check on Thursday at our own vet, and we have to take a road trip down to Fife on Tuesday for an operation. It's costing me a lot of pennies, but thankfully I have pet insurance. I am a total bag of nerves at the thought of leaving him there for a few days to get the operation. He's fine atm, and is back to leaping about like a mad thing most of the time, but still does the 3 legged walk.



Anyway, thanks to Marlou, Loublou, Anne and Nic for the You Make Me Smile Awards, lol I am not doing much on that front atm, but I promise I will get back properly blogging once things calm down, both with Bruno and with prepping for this fair. I now have to think of 10 people who make me smile, could be quite tricky because I think most folk will have been done by this time. Will come and update this later once I have had a shuffle round the blogs.

I will try and post a piccies only post this morning of some stuff I have been doing lately, though most of the fair stuff is in half-finished piles. lol it reminds me of a cross-stitch sampler I once saw in a shop years ago -

Why is it when I'm halfway there creative joys dimish
New Projects are more fun to start than old ones are to finish.

Bad Bad Blogger!

Oooooooooh where have the last 12 days gone?!?!?! Eeek has it been that long? Well, I guess for a start I got stuck in decorating my bathroom, so that is looking all lovely now.

Then my sore throat turned into the worst cold ever, which had me off work for a couple of days as I had absolutely no energy.

Then, on Thursday night I called a number I got from my brother for a local craft group who basically hold fairs almost every weekend of the year at various places in the area. So, I had to get together a paperbag album and some notebooks, etc to take along (with some cards too)for them to see as samples of my work and decide if they would let me join. PMSL! It felt like an X-Factor audition, and I was a complete bag of nerves. But........they loved my work!!! Unfortunately there is a waiting list for cards, but notebooks, mini albums, etc are a definite yes. So, I am guesting next month at one of the fairs to see how it goes.

And that has basically been it for me. Apologies to all the folks who have tagged me, I've not been ignoring you, just this is the first time I have been near my blog in ages. Will try and catch up properly over the next couple of days.

Justbex - Let It Snow(man)

This challenge was set at the weekend on Justbex, with a points deadline of midnight tonight. Basically we had to make 5 cards with snowmen on, they could be all the same or different but I like to have lots of different cards.

I got all the snowman bits assembled last night and managed to get them onto cards tonight after work. I quite struggled with this challenge. I have used my cricut for 3 of them (the Doodlecharms cartridge and Christmas Cheer).

These 2 were made using yet more of the DCWV Christmas stack. I am glad to say that I have almost finished this pad now, but it could have something to do with me binning a fair amount of the papers as I just didn't like them. The snowman ribbon is from papermania and the winter wonderland ribbon was from my LCS (not sure of the manufacturer) The stamp used is by Hero Arts.





This card was made using Basic Grey paper and again more ribbon from my LCS.



This card just uses cuttlebug embossing folders on bazzil cardstock. And again some papermania ribbon.



And finally this card. I covered another Brenda Pinnick Frame and tied a piece of papermania ribbon around it. An embossed cuttlebug panel was added behind the snowman. The paper used here is by The Paper Company, and has a lovely sheen to it.



Thats all for now (if you are still awake as it feels like I have taken ages to write this lol) I am off to nurse my sore throat - me and my mate at work moved desks yesterday to sit across from a bloke snuffling and coughing without putting his hand over his mouth and now we are both suffering today, hmmmmmmm!