Skivsjö!

Sitting here listening to the sheep outside my mum's window.
How relaxing!
I love hanging out here, it's the most important part of any vacation for me...
Yesterday and today we've been working in the garden. My dear mum is so full of idea and always coming up with experiments and now she has decided to redo the whole thing. Job number one is the horseshoe shaped, raised flowerbed surrounded by a stonewall.
She's bought and taken delivery of a whole heap of rocks of all shapes and sizes and she's been chucking them over the fence and I've been washing them and building a (wobbly looking) pile!
It's hard work but loads of fun and very rewarding!

We've also been taking walks with the dog and generally just hanging 'round. Love it!

I've decided to make her a blog where she can write about her garden plans (and general dyi jobs around the house. And show off the results! I think many folks would find that interesting so that's my project for the evening... :-)

Best get off now as she still has dial-up (gasp!) and don't want it cutting out!

Simma lugnt!
(swim calmly?!)

sab x

Oh lottery-win where art thou?!

I miss my camera!!!!
I really need to buy a new one.
I have found the one I want, now it's just a matter of saving up some pennies
and getting James-in-law to eaby it for me ( he is the king of Ebay after all!)...
And I must stop lookaing at cameras and comparing them,
I'll never get a perfect one cause they cost a lot (I'd think) so all it does
is confuse me and make me wonder if I've "chosen" the right one. And that will get
me no camera at all!!

If only I was rich...

(typing with a big plaster on your index finger is tricky business!

tag/doll/thank you

This is a tag I made as a thank you for someone UKS for organising a swap.

It also fits quite nicely in with this weeks Mixed Media Mondays theme
which is Playful Dolls...

I made it using various bits and bobs around the house,
mostly pieces of some ugly earrings I picked up for next to nothing!

Thanks for looking!

These guys always cheer me up!

Well today has not been a good day...
The start was bad, the middle alright and the end (so far) not so good...
Oh well, Ugly Betty is on tonight and I've had my nails done.
They're now green!!!


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Much the same as mine lol!

Just a quicky

I'm getting really into all these challenge blogs!
This is a tag I did for Tuesday Taggers where the theme this week is

male!
The main image is from an old newspaper I picked up...

Now I really must run to work!

Journal

Wow, lots of posts in one go!
I have recently (in the last few days) started a journal (art journal, mixed media whatever)
and I just thought I'd post some pics of a page I did in it...


I really like doing this, it's very therapeutic (surely that's not how you spell it?!),
I have never been one for keeping a diary, quite often I find it difficult to put
into words my feelings. Doing it this way is suits me much better and gives me
a creative outlet for my feelings...
Wow don't I sound all pretentious!

Anyway, over on the mixed media mondays challenge blog the theme is numbers
so I thought this tied in quite neatly!

Pieces of me

Have finally managed to upload some pictures of what I made the
other night!

It was inspired by last weeks Make it Monday cahllenge which was Puzzles!

I used some jiggy pieces I had left over from the swap on
UK Scrappers. Painted them with acrylic paint. Cosmic shimmered them using some Tim Holtz
masks. Stamped swirly bits with gold and silver ink.
The letters are just some cheapo chipboard letters that I embossed with gold
embossing powder (wanted to use my bronze but couldn't find it!) and then
stuck on. 2 of the pieces (I and E) were wrapped with blue wire.
On one corner of M I added some jump rings and a goldie looking chain. (That bit's not finished yet, trying to find something nice to hang from it...)
And then I attached them all together with some beaded wire.


Apart from finding some sort of charm, all that's left to do is add some sort of
"hangin up" bit at the top...

It's no master piece but I sure had fun making it!