Catching up on a whole year - cards

As promised here are just some of my cards from the last year

A double easel card made for one of my best friend's birthday

A homemade mtc file of spurs logo made for a friend

Another double easel card

a digi stamp card  coloured with promarkers

My daughters 8th birthday card, i made Snow white MTC file from a colouring picture

A double step card with a Me to you stamp, coloured with water colours

Hexagonal easel card made for my mother in law's 60th birthday
pollycraft digi stamp coloured with promarkers
and hand made flowers using a 1.5" circle punch cut into a spiral rolled
and finished off with a small pearl bead in the middle
 

Hope you enjoyed looking and any of my MTC files are available on request x

Catching up on a whole year part 3

Ok, so we have done Disney 2012, everyones birthdays, and the paralympics so that leaves us with the rest of the summer 2012 for this post.

And quite a memorable summer it was.  Apart from the stress with DS2, we had some funny moments, take the Essex Lion, less than 2 miles from my house (a mile as the crow flies) a holiday maker spotted what he though was a big cat, sitting in the grass in a field.

Turned out to be someones oversized tom cat, lol



We also got to go to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, all I can say is WOW. I am an avid Harry Potter fan, I have even made my own robes for fancy dress.

If you ever get the chance, you have to go.

I need to go again as i didnt see half of what was there and i spent 6 hours in there, lol  there is so much packed in there you always see different things, my friend went and from her photos i can tell how much we missed.  Here are a few pics

Ok in my next post i will catch up with my cards i made last year before continuing with my life in 2012.

Thanks for looking x

catching up on a whole year part 2

Now where were we, oh yes Olympics and Paralympics. 

Well living only just over an hour from the Olympic park and seeing everyone getting excited, we decided to try for some last minute tickets for the paralympics.

We were away camping for the Olympics and had not tried for tickets in the draw as they only offered 4 at a time and being a family of 6 plus having gained an extra one as my eldest now has a girlfriend, i decided it wasn't fair for only some of us to go plus the fact they were so expensive.

We managed to get tickets for the Judo event at the Excel Centre. Hubby couldn't come and number 2 son didn't want to come, which was his choice.  I must admit I have never been interested in Judo but just to go, to experience the atmosphere and for the kids to say  'I went, I was there' I thought we should take the chance.

That was the right decision :)

We witnessed a British medal and had a lovely day, the games makers were superb, the atmosphere was unrivalled and everyone had a great time. 

DS3 and DD with a torchbearer and his guide dog
 

DS1 & gf, DS3, DD &Me :)

All seated waiting for the Judo to start

Team GB's Ben Quilter (in blue)

Team GB's Ben Quilter (in white)

Ben Quilter when he won his bronze medal

Medal winners

Medal ceremony

So a brilliant day had by all :)

Catching up on a whole year, part 1

Well let me see, what to say so much has passed so in 2012 DD turned 8, DS1 turned 17, DS2 turned 15 and DS3 turned 13. Pics of birthday cakes I made below,i DS3's which he made himself.

 

 

All have grown up so much in the last year. Both of my older two now tower over me, which is not hard as i am only 5'2" and no 3 son is catching up quickly and i expect in the next few months i will be looking up at him too. DD has grown, i now find it hard to do her hair, lol, so she mostly does it herself and is becoming so much more independant, it's scary.

2012 was a very busy year for us in the UK, we had the Queens Diamond Jubillee, the Olympics and Paralympics.



As a Rainbow, Brownie and Guide Leader we make a promise to serve the Queen, so we celebrated the Jubilee.  Our girls made cards to send to the Queen and were so happy when each unit received a letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace. Here are pictures of the cards sent.



The cards the Rainbows made

The cards the Brownies made

The cards the Guides made

Right thats it for today, will catch up on the Olypmics and Paralympics next time

Thanks for looking x

Life passing me by

Oh dear,  where has the last year gone??

 I know I have neglected the blog, just life has not been the best over the last year.  I do know how lucky I am and I know there are a lot of people a lot worse off than me and I am grateful for all that I have but although I think of myself as a strong person, at times this year, inside i just wanted to curl up and hide.

So DS2 landed himself in deep deep trouble, stupidly, he got excluded from school which i found very very hard to cope with, and i became withdrawn and was very low, it took a few months to get through it all and we had to get through all of the red tape to get him into a new school (of which there is loads) and now he has 2 years of coursework for his exams to do in two and a half terms, but he is working hard and making me very proud and he has an interview for college next week.

DS1hDS1 also had a hard time of it, he is having to repeat a year at college, which took a lot of courage, then a couple of weeks into the school year one of his school friends was stabbed to death at a party.  This hit him, his school and indeed the whole community very hard, and i dont think he realises how proud i am of him for just being him.

Well thats enough about that.  Onwards and upwards 2013 is gonna be a better year :)

As you can imagine I haven't got any much crafting done.

But as i mentioned in a previous post I turned 40 last year and my hubby not only treated me to a weekend in london,  but a few days in Disneyland Resort Paris, my favorite place :)

My lovely Mummy & Daddy bought us tickets to see the Lion King in London too :)

well i will be back, and i wont leave it too long this time. 

Thanks for looking x

Christmas 2011

As Christmas came I had a photographer take photos of the kids for Christmas Presents,  well here is the result, my babies all growning up far too fast.

We were very busy over the Christmas period, my daughter was appearing in Pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it was a professional production and she loved it.
For any British readers, the panto starred Alison Hammond from 'This Morning' and Nicole Farraday from 'Bad Girls'  :)

DDwDD one of the Junior chorus, she had a fantastic time, made lots of good friends  and will cherish those memories for ever. Here are a couple of pictures from her time in panto

DDhDD on the right with her friend.

The finale

cast photo after final performance new years eve 2011

I will get around to making up her scrapbook of the panto, eventually.

In my next post I will cover my 40th birthday adventures, happy crafting all x

More cards

Ok, so I am gonna try to sum up a few month of craft in a couple of posts :)
October brought my family birthdays, first my dads, then my mums and then my brothers, so of course i made all of their cards

Then in November a couple of birthdays came and went heres one of the cards i made

Now in December we have a small religious festival (lol) called Christmas, here is a small selection of the cards I made :)

Hope you have enjoyed looking at my cards, in my next post some more of December and some of January, tfl xx