Happy Easter and A Shout Out.

A bit late in the day but a Happy Easter to all my lovely bloggy buddies, I hope you all got lots of yummy chocolate. The boy has decided that being 17 is no fun anymore...the only chocolate he got this year was off me, and he still remembers fondly the years gone by when he had eggs by the dozen. There was a bit of sulking going on today, though I did remind him that he was darn lucky to get anything at all this year!

I wanted to give a shout out about some candy...whilst I was at The Hobby House last week, Jill was gathering together this gorgeous pile of goodies for a candy she was making up for a customer...I can assure you that it's even more delicious in the flesh as the photograph doesn't do it justice (though please don't tell my husband I said that as he was the one snapping the photo!) The candy is being offered by Hazel as a thank you and to celebrate her 100+ followers. 

I met Hazel at Harrogate last year and she is a lovely lady as well as a very talented crafter, and it's well worth a visit to her blog to check out all her gorgeous cards. 

I love this candy and it's exactly the sort of prize I would love to win myself but I didn't enter it as it doesn't seem fair when I bought the same things for myself last week...don't want to be greedy!

Plus I also bought extras ready for my own candy later on this month :)

Go check out Hazels blog HERE.

Thanks for looking.

Love

And I'm back home...

We are back home again after enjoying a fabulous couple of days away in Tetney. We went in Bessie - the other woman in Phils life is Bessie, his motorhome, which I am allowed to stay in only if I've been very good...so not very often :)

We stayed on a little caravan site called Little End Corner which was so quiet and peaceful, overlooking a fishing lake, but best of all it was just a few minutes drive away from who we were visiting...the lovely Jill, owner of  The Hobby House.

I spent all day Monday with Jill, and as the shop is closed on Mondays I had the place to myself...I always knew I was special :) And on Tuesday we went back again while Phil finished what he was doing and I did a little more shopping...well it would be so rude to not make the most of the opportunity!

Jill is one of the nicest people I know, she's such a lovely, fun lady and I can't believe how quickly the days went.

My heartfelt thanks go to Jill for putting up with me for 2 full days :)

As many of you know, Jill had closed The Hobby House webshop while work was being done on it and now it's back up and running again with an all new fresh look...very stylish and classy and there are lots of new products too, loading all the photos is a work in progress so keep checking back!

Nosey old me had a good mooch about with lots of oooing and ahhing at all the lovely new goodies which of course I had to buy...would've been against the "unwritten crafting law" not to and you know that I'm a law abiding citizen of blogland.

Just a little portion of what I came home with :)

I bought some extras ready for a candy later on this month.

Hal also had a great time while we were away...too great a time I think, judging by the amount of cleaning we've done since we got home! I think he has learnt a valuable lesson...choose your friends wisely, and those that deface your parents house while they're away are not friends...particularly Scott who thought it a blast to draw smiley faces in permanent bright blue marker on the light switches! 

I was not a happy Mummy at all.

OK, I'd better get in the kitchen....humble pie for Hal :)

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter.

Love

With Love And Sympathy...

I'm late..I'm late...for a very important date...

The only date I'm late for is the one with my big, comfy bed, which I should be in by now! If I type really quickly I might just get snuggled down before midnight.

My boy has done his job. He actually quite likes the job of picking out a name, just so long as I cut the little slips of paper, write all the names down, fold the papers and place them in a jar. His job is to shake them up and pick one out, and tonight he picked...

Marianne's CraftroomMar 27, 2012 12:25 AM

Here's hoping you have a loveky rest nd come back refreshed and ready to get cardmaking again. I would love these, that sentiment is lovely.

Marianne if you can please EMAIL ME with your full postal address then I can get them in the mail to you.

I will try my best to get some more stamps for re-homing on here before I go away.

Thanks for looking.

Love

With Love And Sympathy...

I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather we've been having...long may it continue! I love the sunshine but it spells the start of 'silly season' at work. A couple of days of sunshine and the phones are ringing off the hook with 'urgent call outs'...as if we weren't busy enough already! But I'm not complaining, we are a small business and in this economic climate when our competitors - both big and small companies - are laying engineers off and struggling to find work, we are doing OK. And I need my job...just to keep me in new rubber and paper :)

No card to show today :(
I know, I know. I am a disgrace to the card making community and probably should have all my stash confiscated and be drummed out of blogland.
My Mojo vanished weeks ago and still hasn't come back, and I have neither the energy nor the desire to get inky. It's bloody terrifying actually! What will I do if it never returns?
I have the rest of this week in work and then I am off on my Jolly Holly's for a week and it can't arrive quickly enough. I am praying that a week of R&R will bring the missing Mojo crawling back, begging for my forgiveness...I hope so anyway.
We are going to take off in Bessie for a few days and see where we end up...though the first stop in Tetney is already organised :)

In the meantime I am still trying to re-organise my craft room, dusting all the crooks and nannies and clearing out the unwanted stash.
I have a duplicate set of the stamps below. They are brand new red rubber stamps by Stampin' UP in the dvd case. It's only a small set consisting of 3 stamps (two sentiments and the flower image.)

I always find sympathy cards very hard to make but I think a nice sentiment goes a long way.
Today is one of those family remembrance days when we go to the cemetery to leave flowers on the headstone and I thought it an appropriate day to put these stamps on here.

If you want them then please leave a comment.
Thanks for looking
Love

Just Catchin' Up

I'm back from our little trip away and the first job the boy did was to pick out a name, and the winner of the Stampin' Up set of stamps is:

ГерцогиняMar 15, 2012 02:57 PM

Elaine you are so generous!
I would gladly took care of these stamps at home.
Hugs Tanya xx

If you could please EMAIL ME  with your full postal address Tanya and I will get them in the mail to you.

I think Tanya lives in Russia? That will be a first for me...never posted to Russia before :)

Back to the weekend...we went away in Bessie and ended up at Harrogate. Now I decided months ago that I wouldn't be going to this craft fair, because

A) I really don't need anything and 

B) I didn't have much money to spare this month, so I totally blame my husband for taking me there :)

And I had a fabulous time!! The best bit was meeting up with friends, and first up was the lovely Christine and this time we also met Barry who is just the nicest man ever. We went for a coffee and a catch up and before we knew it 12 noon was approaching and I hadn't done any shopping! Christine is so adorable and I always love being in her company.

Then me and the hubby went for a walk around the stalls...boy it was busy! We should've been having lunch but I was feeling under the weather and didn't feel much like eating, so instead we went for a coffee and cake with Jill from The Hobby House - Jill is a peach and I always love to see her too- before I knew it 4pm was here and the show was closing in half an hour!

I didn't actually buy much stuff but I had the most fabulous day out...I'll take a photo this week of the stash.

Oh...but my lovely hubby did buy me a couple of things :)

Yesterdays 'feeling under the weather' has turned into a full blown cold, with the usual sore throat, snotty nose, cough, headache and this time the added bonus of conjunctivitis...two green and sticky eyes...lovely huh?

For someone that's never ill I've not been doing too well this year...it seems like I no sooner get over one cold and I'm starting with another - this is the 3rd cold I've had in 3 months and it's really starting to bug me now!

I have a huge pile of emails in my inbox waiting for a reply...please bear with me if you are one of those still waiting, I'll do my best to answer as many as possible this week.

Thanks for looking

Love

...Still Cleaning Out My Craft Room.

All stamps for re-homing have been duly posted. The ones I could just stick a stamp on and pop in the mailbox were posted on Tuesday, the ones that needed additional stamps or needed to be sent airmail were posted on Wednesday as I couldn't get out of work before the Post Office closed.

We are going on a little trip this weekend so my clearout will have to be put on hold which annoys me...I'm on a roll here! Plus I hate leaving a job half done.

I have a spare set of these:

Stampin' Up Outlined Occasions stamps, from the sale-a-bration catalogue. Again, these are the foam mounted rubber stamps in a dvd case.

Just leave a comment and the boy can pick a name when we get back home.

Thanks for looking.

Love

LOTV Stamps.

Firstly, a big thank you for all your kindness and well wishes. Bloggers are such lovely people :)

Secondly..sheesh! They went well!

I was hoping someone would take them off my hands...I just didn't expect so many of you!

In the interest of fairness, all names have been written on paper and the boy picked out the names, though had I known how many people wanted them I would've added the linky thing cos it's way too boring writing out all those names!

Just to answer a couple of questions:

If I put candy on here or stuff I want to rehome, I will post anywhere in the world and I do not expect anyone to pay the postage, but thank you for offering.

So the following names have been picked, please can you all  EMAIL ME with your full postal address.

Anne

Janette

Kimberly

Anita

Jenny

I am sorry if your name isn't there but I do have more crafty stuff to pop on here :)

Thanks for looking.

Love