Day Two of the UKScrappers CyberCrop

Ok, so another day is almost over. I have completed 5 classes, 1 challenge and also played Bingo in a chat room. There have been some fantastic classes, but I have to say that amongst my favourites were both of Shimelle's classes. They were "Drink Me" and the classes involved making a little 3x3" album, and "The Box of Sweets" which involved a 12x12 LO using a picture that was 12" across. Mine was a little small as I forgot to get one printed at Costco....so I just improvised, and here are the results.




I also enjoyed the class by Kate Hadfield (whatkatiedid). She is a Digi Scrapper and her work is absolutely lush. It has a real depth, and if you didn't know better you would think she was a traditonal paper scrapper. I didn't have the software loaded on my new PC, so decided to take the paper route. As soon as I get the software loaded I will be having a go at a Digi version. And here is what I came up with.

Anyway there is one more day of the CyberCrop left and I am flagging....I think an early night is in order, and I will endeavour to catch up a little in the morning.

Nite, Caz x

Day One of the UKScrappers CyberCrop...

Well day one is now officially over, and so far I have completed three classes and one challenge.

The classes have been a lovely mixture of techniques from paint and doilies, and decorative scissors, mini books. Here is a picture of the LO I did for the first class.

It isn't really wonky in real life....just my late night photography and cropping skills...LOL

Anyway, off to bed as I need to recharge my batteries ready for a full day of scrapping tomorrow...turns out David doesn't have to work tomorrow after all...so no interruption in my scrapping to look after Georgia.

Nite, Caz xx

Arrrrggghhhhh....

Don't you hate it when technology goes on the blink just the day before you are due to take part in a CyberCrop Weekend on one of your favourite scrapping forums (UKScrappers in this case). The past few weeks since I got my new PC, I have been having problems with my incredibly slow broadband speeds. We were so shocked at the PC is pretty powerful...certainly powerful enough to download a few web pages. Anyway today it was slower than dial up, considering I have an 8Mb connection, that is pretty worrying. So I phone up BT Broadband and get through to a call centre in India.....now don't get me started on that issue. Anyway they checked the line and basically tried to persuade me to upgrade to a 16Mb download speed. Now I am always interested in upgrading if there is no extra cost, and if i can notice the difference but I decided to hang fire. Anyway I decided to go and get myself a new Router instead. We got a new all singing/dancing Belkin SuperFast Modem/Router that uses the new standards...previously they were 802.11g or b...and they are now n....anyway it cost us £140, but it works like a dream, even our wireless connections around the house whizz along...so although it cost us a pretty penny, I am a happy surfer tonight.

So lets see if I can upload another picture on Blogger tonight. This is a picture I took last weekend. From top left Jody 12, James 8, Hannah 5, Georgia 4. They looks so cute all squished up together. Here is another this is Hannah my niece, she is such a character....she is so confident and boy is she loud...she has absolutely NO volume control...LOL

And finally here is one of Georgia taken while she tries to learn the fine art of skipping.

Ok enough for now, better get to bed as I am sure this weekend will be made up of very little sleep. Nite Caz x

Well after a lovely relaxing weekend, the week started off in it's usual hectic manner. I have 15 regular clients for whom I do bookkeeping, and 6 of them have VAT returns that need doing this month, 6 next month and only 3 the month after. So I am now 2 done, and 4 to go....another will be finished tomorrow, and the final 2 on Friday. Anyway enough of the boring stuff. Here is a picture that I took over the weekend. This is my Sisters Step Daughter, Jody aged 12. She is a stunning young lady and Georgia loves to spend time with her. We don't see her as often as we would like as it depends on if she is with her Dad for the weekend.

Tomorrow I have to go to Gambado's to book Georgia's birthday party. She has made a list and at the moment there are 21 names on it including hers.So we are hoping we can book for either May 18th (Friday) or 19th (Saturday). I hope they can do the party on the Friday that way we can go and visit my niece Hannah who will be 6 on the 18th over the weekend.

Anyway this week is the lead up to the UKScrappers Cyber Crop, and I still have soooo much to do. I have received my Eat Me! Drink Me! swap....it was full of lush galaxy and thorntons alpini bars......yum yum. I have also received my "Royal Flush" ATC's...which look FAB. I need to finish my project with my Mystery Kit, and also make a planner. I am going to try to get onto that tomorrow night.
Anyway, enough for now....bedtime soon.
Nite
Caz
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Halfway through another weekend...

After the hectic return to school this week, we have had a relaxing weekend with family and friends. Yesterday we travelled down to Weybridge, Surrey to spend the day with our family. We had a lovely time with my Sister, the kids enjoyed playing in the garden followed by a simple BBQ.

Today we are off to another BBQ, this time locally with friends, and the weather is supposed to be even warmer, at the moment it is hazy, but I expect the sun will burn that off pretty soon.

I took some fab pictures yesterday, and will share them this evening once I have finished processing them. But I can share this LO done as part of my DT work for ScrapaGoGo, and the GoGo Create Monthly kit, if you are not already a subscriber, check them out...there is a link to the right. This LO is done using the April Kit which features the delish Crafters Workshop papers, plus one of their journalling/doodling templates. The kit also contained some lovely little reels of ribbons, including the one that I have used to focus around the photo, some Queen & Co sequins, L'il Davis chipboard letters, plus many other bits and pieces.

May kit is equally filled with all things lush....including Upsy Daisy Ice Cream Shoppe papers...they are so sping inspired...and perfect for so many LO's. There is a sneak peek on the GoGo Girls blog...check them out.

I have been having a tidy up in my Scrap Room in anticipation of the upcoming Cyber Crop on UKScrappers...at the moment I think I have made it messier than before...but fingers crossed I can finish it off this evening once Georgia is in bed.

Ok, enough for now, I will be back later with a few pictures...Caz.

As life returns to normal...

We have had a lovely relaxed afternoon. After yesterday's hectic schedule...I really needed to kick back. Georgia went to her friends party and had a fab time. I stayed and took a little over 200 photos..some better than others. But trying to take pictures of 5 year olds running around a dimly lit hall (curtains were closed for the disco) is certainly a challenge...my camera stayed firmly in auto...well it had to if I wanted a cat in hells chance of actually getting anything that resembled a child in focus.

Here is one of my favourites...of Georgia, Katherine & Hannah (the blonde the brunette(ish) and the redhead).

Well it's Sunday night, and school goes back tomorrow and I return to working 5 days a week. The uniform is ironed, the PE kit is clean, and we are ready. Georgia is looking forward to seeing all her friends again. We had such plans for the second week of the holidays, but all that was blown out of the water when we all became ill. ...nevermind we did have some fun...and spent lots of lovely time together.

Here is something that I have been working on this week...my a-maze-ing book. As I mentioned before this is just for me and is not part of any swap on UKS.....I had an idea and knew I wouldn't want to part with it...so now I don't have to.

These are just a few of the pages as there are too many to upload. I am now working on something with the UKS Mystery Kit....fingers crossed it works as I think it will be a fab...if I can pull it off.

Nite

Caz

My Day with Lance "Mr Pickle" Anderson...and the GoGo Girlies

Wow, I had such a fantastic day yesterday. It was wonderful to see Lorraine, Janice, Zoe & Kirsty again, and also to meet my fellow GoGo create DT members, Jennie, Eileen and Ifa. I managed the 105 mile journey is 2 hours 5 minutes and arrive ahead of schedule @ 8.50am in Kesgrave. The hall was fantastic, light bright and spacious. I was greeted with a warm hug from Lorraine, and also one from Janice & Ifa. "Mr Pickle" arrived at about 9.35am, and came with armfuls of wonderful kits. There was some initial confusion as the kits we thought we were doing were not the ones that he had with him. It appears that an email from Rusty Pickle to Lorraine had been lost in cyberspace. So instead of Princess Bride & Guinevere, we had the choice of Girlfriend & Pirate. Well it was obvious that I would have to opt for Girlfriend, as I already own some of the products in the range and totally love them. It was great taking another class with Lance, and when I was choosing my kit, I mentioned that I had travelled 105 miles to take this class after I was disappointed that "Imagine" had been cancelled...I also handed over a nice big bar of Galazy chocolate as I know he has a love of English chocolate...this was greeted with a large bear hug...most men are so easy to please. Well the class was packed with people, and techniques and was pretty fast paced, thankfully Discover Bonanza 2006 had prepared me for this. The book was amazing, and as soon as I have put some pictures in this afternoon I will take some pictures and post them on here. I do however have a couple of pictures...the first is on "Mr Pickle" signing my one of his books that I purchased and also my class book. This next picture is of the GoGo Girlies with "Mr Pickle"...from left to right....Zoe, Janice, "Mr Pickle", Lorraine & Kirsty. Ok, I have to get cracking, Georgia is off to a Birthday Party @ lunchtime, and I still need to make a birthday card. Will be back later with more pictures etc.
Caz
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The Holidays are almost over...

Well, I posted too soon on Sunday last week...that night I spent most of my time laying on the bathroom floor as I came down with the bug that had already seen Georgia & David sick over the weekend. I only started to feel human again on Wednesday, but decided that I may as well take it easy for the rest of the week...didn't want to miss craft day on QVC.

Last week a cybercrop was announced on UKScrappers....with a Mad Hatters theme. I take my hat of to Fi (ScrappyBunny) I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of work she puts in to make everything run so smoothly. For the first time I have decided to take part in some of the pre crop swaps. I have signed up for the Eat Me, Drink Me! swap, which as you can guess is chocolate and drink to keep my fellow team mate sustained during the intense weekend. The strange looks I got in Asda today when people say that I had a huge supply of Galaxy in my basket...I said they were being sent to someone overseas, it was so much easier than any other explanation...LOL. I have also signed up for the Royal Flush ATC swap....each member has to make 5 cards the same on a different card that make up a Royal Flush. I am making the 10 Clubs....they are almost done. There was another swap that intruiged me, A-maze-ing, but I decided that I would make my own rather than make one and send it on to someone else. I have taken some pictures, but my broadband and blogger seem to both be conspiring against me...so they will have to wait until tomorrow evening.

I am off to Rusty Pickle @ CropaGoGo in the morning...a whole day spent scrapping, I can hardly wait. I was so disappointed when Imagine was cancelled, you can guess how pleased I was when Lorraine managed to persuade Lance to pop to Ipswich to teach a couple of classes there instead. So even though I received a free ticket to The Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally...I am not going. Instead I am travelling 106 miles, 2 hours and 13 minutes to Ipswich. This means an early start for me in the morning, so I am going to finish up now...will be back tomorrow night/Sunday morning with pictures.
Nite
Caz
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What a Weekend...

Well what a disaster of a long weekend we are having. Things were looking so good on Friday, after a fab lunch we went for a lovely walk in the park and took pictures. That night Georgia went to bed saying she had tummy ache. Well I heard her moaning at about 10pm and went into her room to find her bed and the floor covered in sick. Poor little mite as Gastic Flu. Yesterday I had to call the Doctors as she was vomitting bright green bile and unable to hold down water. Well after a trip there today she is starting to feel better, unfortunately now it is David's turn and he has come down with it. So I have left the two sickies downstairs laying on opposite sofas and I am hidden in my Craft Room trying to stay away from their icky germs.

I am just finishing some picture and will come back tonight with something for you all to look at.
Caz
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Easter Weekend is upon us....

Well what a week. Since I last blogged on Saturday last week, I have been to my monthly MKScrappers Sunday Crop. I finished a LO that I had started and also did an American Crafts Accordian Book with all the snowy pictures I took of Georgia in February. I will upload pictures this weekend. I have also managed to damage the nerve that goes to my little & ring fingers on my left hand. Went to the Doctors and he told me that it should heal on it's own, but if it is not better in two weeks to come back and he will refer me to the Hospital for some kind of scan...it is getting worse, so I forsee a trip to the Hospital this month.

Received my May ScrapaGoGo Design Team kit this week, and it is lush, as usual. The colours are totally springtime. I struggled a bit the other evening....I just could not come up with something that I like...that hadn't been a copy of someone elses work...LOL...in the end I gave up. Then last night inspiration hit and a LO is now finished awaiting me to take a picture. I am also working on a couple of other bits. But I do like to get a least one LO under my belt ASAP....I have a deadline and want to make sure I never leave it all to the last minute...I really hate to disappoint.

Today we were supposed to be going to a BBQ with friends, but sadly one of the daughters is ill, so it has been cancelled. So we are back to a trip to Pizza Hut for lunch, which had been the original plan before the BBQ invite.

Ok, so off to get myself ready. Would love to show you the GoGo stuff but you will have to wait for April 20th for the April stuff and May 20th for the May stuff... but I will be back with non DT stuff over the weekend.
Caz
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Another Week Passes....

Hard to believe it is almost Easter and the Kids have now broken up for End of Term. We have a few things planned, Georgia wants to go bowling and to the cinema (not on the same day). I have to work a couple of days over the holidays, but luckily she can come with me.

She said the cutest thing last night. We were sitting watching Eastenders, and the scene with Ben and Stella was on, and Georgia told me that you have to tell somebody if you are being hurt by someone else. I said that I would never do anything to hurt her, and she said " I know Mummy, because I am precious, and you love me". It was so heart warming to hear her say it.

This afternoon while transferring some photos from my Laptop to my new super dooper PC, I managed to loose some pictures taken earlier in the month. The were some of Lynsey's girls and some of Georgia. I was pretty upset when Georgia told me not to be upset as she would let me take some more. When she put it like that, they weren't a special event that cannot re done again, they were just pictures taken on a day...any day. So she told me she would hug her Bunny especially so that I could take some more pictures....so worry over, it's not the end of the world.

This evening we are all going over to Lynsey & Paul's for a chinese. And by some small miracle I am already packed and ready for the MKScrappers Monthly Crop...I have even managed to get everything into the bags...something that I have not been able to do for a couple of months as I keep over packing....I am unable to travel light.

I managed to get a couple of Dolly Beads this morning from Jacquie's regular Saturday release...boy do they disappear fast...

Anyway, better go and get myself ready before we head out. I promise pictures tomorrow, cause who wants to read all my daily drivel.
Caz
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I was listening to Radio 1 on the way to my clients this morning, and Sara Cox mentioned about watching a film in the evening and how you need to start watching by 8pm or you will be late to bed. Well she then made me think about the last film we watched...Casino Royale. Which obviously got me thinking about Daniel Craig aka James Bond. Boy does that man have a buff body, as long as you don't notice his sticking out ears. Well five minutes later Sara mentions Daniel Craig...his buff body and how he looks like he has the head of Chesney of Coronation Street....which had me in histerics...she is soooo right. Still he does have the most amazing blue eyes....

Ok, back to work...once I stop daydreaming about Daniel Craig in speedos...will update again this evening...
Caz
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New Dolly Beads

Tomorrow I am expecting some lush new Dollies. I was lucky enough to get hold of Sirius...and it is stunning. I also ordered a couple of beads a while back. Georgia decided that she wanted us both to have a bead each...the same. So I commissioned Jacquie to make us two beads the same. Georgia said it had to be pink with pink/purple/black dots. Jacquie did a wonderful job and even made one beads ever so slightly smaller than the other. So here they are...

Today I also ordered myself a new Mobile phone. I have two contracts, one for me and one for David, although both are in my name as I got it for him for Christmas many many years ago. Anyway one of the was playing up, and we have an agreement that I get the new phone, and he has my old one. So I ordered myself a new Nokia 7373 in pink, and he will have my Sony Ericsson Z520i.

Anyway I also made something that I can share, the Jenni Bowlin Project Kit this month had these lovely little hangerz in them....and here is my version.

I also made a "Love" Door Hanger for Georgia in the week, and here it is.

Nite

Caz

Pictures at last...

Well it has taken a couple of days to get my new PC up and running and get all the software loaded and made Vista compatible, and now I can load my piccies. I did the first canvas of Georgia in the snow at the MKScrappers crop last Monday. Pretty simple really, used a Poundland £1 canvas with easel painted with Jo Sonja paints, added the picture, used Heidi Swapp corner stamps with black Stayzon, and stamped directly onto the photo, and then added some of the new Heidi Swapp heart bling...well a whole pack actually.

The next canvas is also a Poundland £1 special, but on this one I have used a picture of Georgia taken at school, while the foundation year performed a Dragon Dance as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations that they were learning about at school. The kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves, as did the teachers who provided the music, by all playing something, we had whistles, guitars, drums, triangle...it was a fantastic display from both the Kids and the Staff. I used the lush new DCWV Far East patterned cardstock and ribbons. The nice people at DCWV kindly made some 5.5 x 6.5 inch cardstock pads, which were perfect for the small canvas. I also used some lush K&Co rub-ons for the title. The canvas was given to Georgia's teacher, Mrs Kirkpatrick who was over the moon and showed it to the whole class...the other foundation teacher, Mr Cross was envious and thought it should be shared...Mrs Kirkpatrick was having none of that though.

I have a few other things that I can also share, including a LO that I did as part of the ScrapaGoGo Design Team with the March Kit. I will add them in a minute as I need to get them off the other computer.

We have 3, well actually 5 computers in the house. One is in the garage and controls the music when we have BBQ's in the summer. The next is an old laptop that we got when we were in New York in 1999, Georgia was using it to play some old games. Next we have the PC that we have just replaced, which was the main family computer, well mainly mine...LOL, then comes my laptop which is almost 2 years old, which is for my work, and finally the new Dell PC that arrived on Friday. They all work, so I am loathed to get rid of them, especially as they are worth next to nothing secondhand....so I put them go use around the house. The old family PC will become Georgia's PC, and we will load all her games and learning programs onto it. Four of the Five are actually contected to the Internet, only the old laptop is incapable as it would be too slow. So Georgia will still be able to play on the CBeebies website...a girl has to be able to surf the web ya know.

Anyway, enough for now. I will be back later with some more pictures.
Caz
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WOW, this week has flown by again, and what a fab one it has been. Last night I went to a Pamper Evening at Georgia's school run by the Friends of Merebrook. I had a Colour Me Beautiful colour consultation, and found that some of the colours I have been wearing are all wrong. She told me that I am a contradiction in colours as my skin and hair are naturally cool, but my eyes are warm (I am a dark/dirty blonde with brown eyes). I found that I should be wearing brighter colours with no yellow, I am a pink/blue undertone. Typically I wore a top that I rarely wear, only because I got the one I intended to wear dirty minutes before I was about to leave the house, and it was not one of "my colours". I also had my nails done, and they are now a lovely pinky/scarlet colour (one of my new colours), followed my a makeup makeover, which has given me a few new ideas.

Yesterday my new Dell PC also arrived, and I am now fully installed....it has a magnificent 22 inch widescreen monitor. Now I just need to get all my music, pictures and emails transferred over before Georgia takes possession of the old pc and loads her Dora game on it. I also got a Playstation 2. With the release of the PS3 this week, prices had come down, and I managed to get one of the slimline ones for £60. Now I just have to order the Buzz games that we want, and a Dance Mat game for Georgia.

I have been crafting this week, a little more than in previous weeks. With David now in the house in the evening/night I find that there is less time for me to disappear into my craft room to create. I made a cute little canvas on Monday and the MKScrappers Crop, which has a picture of Georgia playing in the snow. Used my lush new Heidi Swapp corner stamps, and heart bling. Then on Thursday night I made a canvas for Georgia's school teacher which had a picture of the Kids doing a Dragon Dance as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations they had in February. She was so chuffed, and loved it. She even showed it off to the class in morning registration, and the other Foundation teacher was envious and asked if it was for everyone....I think he wanted one.

Today I intend to play in my craft room for a while, and maybe a little housework, but to be honest if I do it today, it will only get messed up by Georgia before the weekend is over.

Will be back to load pics later.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!!

Wow, I have had such a lovely, if somewhat hectic few days. Monday Georgia came home from school with broken shoes, so we had to dash off to Clarks for a new pair....I came home £92 worse off, as she persuaded me into buying her a couple of dresses and cardigans. They are the proper old fashion style pretty summer dresses, so I could hardly refuse now could I. In the evening I went off to the MKScrappers Monday Night Crop, and my lovely friend Lynsey treated me to a few things from the shop (www.craftywotname.com). I got 2 packs of 7Gypsies 97% complete stickers, and a 7Gypsies Journal...aren't I a lucky girl.

Today was work as usual. Georgia made me wear a "Birthday Girl" badge, which was a little embarassing, particularly outside the school when people were wishing me Happy Birthday and I couldn't work out how they knew......that darn badge...LOL. I received a lovely box of Belgian Chocolates from one of my clients...yum yum. Then after school I had a hair appointment...had some highlights (copper & blonde) and then a semi in chocolate brown. I love it.....looks all shiny and glossy. So with my new hairdo I went out to dinner at the Wavendon Arms in Wavendon, just outside of Milton Keynes and on the way to Woburn Sands. Had a fab time with all the ladies from the BNI group that I used to belong too...fantastic food, lovely surroundings and wonderful company...what more could I ask for.

Today my lovely Dolly beads arrived from Jacquie, via Nick, her Husband and his wonderful delivery service. I got 3 stunning beads...Purple Velvet, Ferris Wheel & Passion....they are all lush, and I will post a picture tomorrow morning, together with the canvas I made on Monday night.

Well, I think it is time for bed...have had a couple of drinkies and feeling a little tipsy...and have to work tomorrow...so need some sleep.
Caz
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What a Weekend!!

Had a lovely treat this Mothers Day, as not only is it Mothers Day, but it is also my 18th Wedding Anniversary. David treated me to breakfast in bed, and also bought me a new book...very unusual for him to get me a gift, but all the more special because he did. Georgia had also made me a card at school for Mothers Day, and I was also given a little Pansy to plant in the garden. With David's help she also got me a cuddly giraffe and bear with a chocolate heart, plus a lovely bunch of Tulips and a giraffe card. So I have had a lovely relaxing day of being pampered as we also had Roast Beef & Yorkshire Puds for lunch...yum yum.

Well, as I mentioned the other day, we went down to Surrey to see our families on Saturday. We had a lovely day, including a short trip to Woking Crematorium to leave a card and flowers for my darling Mum. David was cleaning the bench of all the bird poop, and a wonderful job he did too. As he cleaned Georgia and I were standing by Mum's tree (the tree her ashed were scattered at) and Georgia picked up a feather and started to tickle the tree...she said she was tickling Nanny....I could just imagine my dear Mum laughing away, and it was so touching it bought a tear to my eyes.

After that we went to spend a few hours with my In Laws, we had a lovely time. Georgia ate too many ice lollies and sweet, which is entirely usual when we visit. We often laugh that when she visits she comes away "fuelled by sugar". Once we were finished visiting them we went to Tesco's got one of their Chinese Meals in a bag...or 3 bags plus some extras in out case (well there were 6 adults, and 4 children to feed), and went to collect my Dad before going over to my Sisters. My Dad gave me a lovely Birthday Card (as I will not see them during the week, and it saves him posting it), full of compliments, and I had to laugh at the bottom it mentioned that all these traits were hereditary.....from him...cheeky so and so, as I am sure all the good ones would have come from my Mum.

Finally on Saturday I received my Jenni Bowlin March Kit, and also a largish order from A Million Little Things....full of goodies they both were, and maybe tomorrow night at the MKScrappers Crop, I will have a chance for a little play.

Tomorrow I am having 4 Dolly Beads delivered from Jacquie @ www.astringofbeads.co.uk, I am lucky that she lives in Northampton/Northants somewhere, and her husband, Nick, works in Milton Keynes. All are special orders I have placed over the last couple of weeks. One is a gift for my Mother in Law, and the others are for me. I have also commissioned Jacquie to make me two beads the same called "Georgia" in her favourite colours, so hopefully they will be ready very soon.

Anyway, all in all a lovely weekend, filled with family, love and laughter...roll on Tuesday so that I can be pampered some more.
Caz
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Thanks Rusty Pickle....

I don't know if I ever posted this, but back in December I purchased some Rusty Pickly Girlfriend Alphabet Stamps. Well when I went to use them, I noticed that the "Z" was missing. Now while it is not the most popular letter in the alphabet, and I did manage to do my title without them. Imagine the words you would be unable to stamps....Zoo, Zoe, Zack, Zebra, ok so Zoo & Zebra would probably be the only ones I struggled with. Anyway I emailed them back in December and got a lovely email back from Tasha Anderson saying that they would send me another set with the "Z" included. Well, I was looking back through my emails on Monday and realised that I had never received them. So I emailed again, and got an extremely prompt and very apologetic response from Christy Wood the Operations Manager. She promised to send me the stamps and some other goodies...so can you imagine my surprise when I saw the UPS man rock up to my front door and deliver a parcel....yes it was from Rusty Pickle and included the stamps with the missing "Z" PLUS a Rusty Pickle Book, A Journey of Creativity, plus some Girlfriend file folders and a Girlfriend Quote Stack. I am so stunned, and what is even nicer is that the extra things they send me are from the same range as the stamps, and also some papers that I already own....yay for me...and Rusty Pickle of course.
Caz
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What a Day!!!

Well it all started off with such promise. The weather was beautiful, we were on time for school, I got to Kettering on time....until, David calls me at 1.15pm, and tells me that he has broken down 250 yards away from the Toddington Service Station, Junction 12 on the M1. So I made a mad dash via the petrol station (to buy a tow rope) and travelled down from Junction 15 to 11, and back up to where he had stopped. After a short trip along the hard shoulder, and through the Services we exited and then called for a tow truck. Why is it that you always realise that you are desperate for the toilet when you are trapped in the middle of nowhere, with no toilet in sight. Anyway a little after 3.30pm the truck arrived and took David back to Chalky Whites in Fenny Stratford who will have it fixed for him in the morning (thank goodness they are one of my clients). So hopefully David should be back on the road without too much delay in the morning.

My ScrapaGoGo April DT kit arrived this morning nice and early. We have a different Parcel Postie this week as the regular one is on holiday, so I got to have a quick look at the kit, which is gorgeous btw. So many fab things in it, that I actually felt inspired to come into my craft room this evening.

Anway, after the excitement of today, I think I will have to get off to bed. I mean who knows what tomorrow will bring after a day like today.
Nite
Caz
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All Booked Up!!!

I finally sent my cheque off to Rachael for my place on the MKScrappers Retreat in Thame, Oxon in September, should be great fun. Now September is a long way off, and I need something else to keep me out of trouble. So today I booked to go to Imagine and The Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally in April. I booked to do 2 of the two hour Masterclasses on Saturday, Cosmo Cricket & Rusty Pickle. We are staying overnight locally at a small family run hotel called Glenlyn Hotel in North Finchley, just 3 miles away from Ally Pally. It is only a few pounds more than Travel Lodge, but has wireless broadband and also includes a full english breakfast (yum yum) in a lovely conservatory and also has a bar. On the Sunday I am doing a Fancy Pants class in the afternoon. Really looking forward to it, only 31 days to go...LOL

Feeling ready to handle anything I also decided to chase up Rusty Pickle about the "Girlfriend Alphabet Stamps" that I bought that had the "Z" missing. Well I got a very quick response and huge apologies for not sorting it more quickly (I first contacted them in December). A lovely lady called Christy Wood, the Operations Manager @ Rusty Pickle, said that she is sending a replacement set out today, together with some other Rusty Pickle goodies...cannot wait to see what they have sent.

Finally with the rest of my free morning I got up to date with paperwork, and sending out invoices to my clients...I mean they can't pay me if I haven't sent an invoice, and some of them have been nagging me for them all last week.

Anyway, let me leave you with another couple of pictures of Catherine & Melissa from the weekend...

Nite Caz x