Quick catch up .

1. Been to see two films 'Dreamgirls' and 'The devil wears Prada' enjoyed both and the music in dreamgirls was great.

2. Ethan tells me he HATES KISSING GIRLS!!

3. Child faints in my cookery class and I remembered my First Aid course. Poor little soul really went down with a bang.

4. Got paid for organising a workshop at my Thursday evening group.

5. Photo' of my brother in his uniform having realised life long ambition to work for the police.

6.. If you are wondering why I have used such a strange format, I did type it all out properly and then pressed the wrong ****** button and lost it all!!!!!

Good week.

I've had a good half term week. Done a bit of pottering and sorted a few jobs that needed to be done. My last post deals with Monday and Tuesday.

Spent a very pleasant afternoon on Wednesday on our Swap a craft outing with tea and home made cakes included and at Mothers and Wives club in the evening when we had a talk and demo about encaustic Wax art work.

My SIL came to stay for two nights ( Thursday and Friday). We spent Thursday evening making a paper bag book and another mini book. On Friday we were joined by our friend Claire and passed a very nice day at The Bramble Patch quilt shop and then a very filling but mainly healthy lunch out.
In the evening we were invited to a suprise 60th birthday party for a friend of ours. Sadly, he has been ill with cancer for the last 5 months but now his radiation and chemo. are finished and he is soon to face an operation. He has coped so well and it was good to be in on his celebration which by the look on his face when he arrived at the party venue , certainly was a BIG suprise.

Another crafty day on Saturday. This time at the Poppy Patch learning a new way to make a Wedding Ring Quilt and then the evening making some lovely little needle cases, very quick and simple.

Scrapping was on the menu on Sunday, which was spent with Naomi, Laura, Rachael and Beverly. Lunch provided by Naomi was delicious. A couple of very simple LOs shown here.

We had Take-away for dinner with Lindsay and Ed in their new home. It is a fairly large old Victorian house . The ceilings are hig and the rooms light and airy. Once they have it all straight and decorated it will be beautifull.

Next project for me is to decorate our small 4th bedroom and of course there is plenty of patchwork and scrapping in the pipeline.

Valentine

Michael and I have never really made much of valentines day. Just the odd bunch of flowers or a chocolate heart. This year won't be much different but I have made him a little box of love. Picture to follow in next blog entry. This morning he told me to order a Cricut cutting machine so I'll count that as my gift.

Ethan came here today for a few hours whilst Rachael went to the stables and we made a gift for her. He painted a little box and then affixed a gold heart and sprinkled beads on top. His favourite part was punching out paper hearts to go inside.When it was dry I explained to him that it was for tomorrow. Needless to say he was so excited about it that as soon as Mummy arrived to collect him he just had to give it to her. Bless!

Old fashioned?

Well , call me old fashioned but I couldn't help thinking back a good few years yesterday. How lovely it was to see so many children actually out playing. Even in the summer when I take the dog for a walkI rarely see many on the field just up the road. Yesterday there were hordes of them. Some with Mum and Dad others in groups. All were having so much fun, sledging, building snowmen, sliding and just chasing around. Laughter and shouts of joy filled the air and it took me back to my childhood when being outside was the norm. What's more, all that fun and it didn't cost a penny!

Off for a little outing to Borders this afternoon to buy a couple of books and of course the fact that PaperChase and Starbucks are there too adds to the appeal!

Goody, Goody..

The snow today gave me an extra day off as school was closed. I have tried to use the time well and have caught up with some patchwork projects and I intend to sort out the next lot of photo's to scrap.

Ethan came to show me his new sled and enjoyed throwing snowballs at me! He and Racael built a snowman whilst I clicked away with the camera.

Bonnie had a daft few minutes dashing around like the silly mutt she is.Sadly as I type the snow is melting and with very low temperatures forcast again for tonight I hope the ice doesn't cause too many problems.

It is Michaels birthday today but we shall be celebrating on Sunday so that we can have a family meal.

Busy crop day.

Spent some time yesterday playing and demonstrating the Cricut and managed to get one LO done. It was a very busy crop. We had three new ladies who all seemed to enjoy the day,they have all booked for next time. I helped Rachael out welcoming them and making sure they were not feeling left out. What with setting out the room, dismantaling tables, answering the door and clearing up, popping to the shop for milk, Rachael was run off her feet for most of the day.
It is good to see so many people becoming interested in our craft.

Some of us had a little giggle at my wedding photo's, they seem quite boring compared with the wonderful reportage pictures that we see today. I have decided to take them out of the original album and make them look better by scrapping them. I love this picture though, can you tell the photographer was not a scrapper? Look at the poster in the background.