Out with the old - and in with the new

So - this is it- the last day of 2010.It's funny when you think to yourself- 'I haven't done much this year' and when you look back you actually have done quite a bit!

So here's to all my lovely friends in Blogland and everywhere else...Let's hope 2011 is a very good one ..and may there be lots more blogging .....and this next photo is especially for Deb  over at Paperturtle in USA ......wonder if she has one of these....

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

  

The In between time

I'm sitting here today and the dustmen have just been to empty the overflowing bins,life is getting back ever so slightly to normal. Himself has gone off to work and it's raining....
Being in the Acounting world,January is always very busy and 24/7 for us so I decided to use some hoilday over these three days to charge my batteries ready for the next month....
Still, I've got two good things to look forward to afterwards in February - a class withTim Holtz and ...this....

It was one of my presents from himself and I am Soooooooo looking forward to it.It was a total surpise. I had some lovely Cath Kidston goodies too -

I hope you all had a lovely time with your special people too.

Scrapbooking Photo Tinks by WiddlyTinks.com  

Christmas Day

♥ Hope you had a good one :-) ♥

Hippitty Skippitty - Happy Christmas

Christmas Eve and all is reasonably calm here.I finished  work at lunchtime, got the last bits of food - iced the cake, wrapped the last pressies and we have had a lovely family meal out together. Just the veggies to peel and a few odd things to do...the one thing that has made me a very happy girl and made me all skippy today is that I have just found out I have a place on TIM's workshop in February so that has made my Christmas...I had given up all hope but a place has come up..perfect!- and now I would like to say   HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all my bloggy friends - wherever you are -have a wonderful time  ♥

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas ...

Snowy garden and snowy dog walking............

Crocheting these little snowflakes -pattern courtesy of the ever inventive Lucy at Attic24..............

Wrapping up to go shopping and spending a fortune on 'bits'.........

de-frosting the car every morning....

Silly Christmas jumpers...and......

Wizzard on TOTP Christmas special on BBC singing 'I wish It could be Christmas Every Day ....yep it's definitely feeling a lot like Christmas....

Christmas Club - Ghostbusters

I've been meaning to write something for ages with a memory of mine for Sian's Christmas Club. I really couldn't decide which memory stood out the most,one from when I was a child or one from when the boys were younger. One Christmas back in the early 1990s, out of all the toys that could be had,all the boys wanted was  a Ghostbuster's Fire Station.Nothing - but nothing else was going to be right. No Ecto car, no Slimer,no Marshmallow man - it had to be the fire station.They had the model men,but desperately had to have the station.
So - that year - what was the one thing that sold out everywhere weeks and weeks before Christmas ? - yep the Ghostbuster's Fire Station, if anyone has boys around the 23-25 age they will probably know what I mean.
We started at the local Toys R  Us - who were supposed to stock tons of everything but of course no luck. We went slightly further afield to Woolworths and John Lewis and various other toy stores. (Internet shopping was not around then).
We asked Nannies and Grandads to look out for one, Sister and Brother in Laws - friends but no one could get one.How on earth could we say that Santa couldn't find one ?? Horror of horrors!
Anyway,about a week before Christmas someone at himself's work said they had some the other side of the river.Off we went one evening all  the way down to Kent and woo hoo we got one.
We were so thrilled to get this bloomin thing - it was tucked safely in the loft and the boys were duly thrilled and excited on Christmas morning. Dad assembled it - they got their men out and a pot of 'ghosty slime'.
They tipped the slime all over the top floor and waited for it to drop through the floors- which it did - slowly,and put the men in the bottom - that was it ,they played with it once - or maybe twice.All that aggro  and they played with it once.....I'll never forget that Christmas !

Probably not a very exciting story, but a real memory for me !

Organised ? - er no !

Well, I have managed to buy one of these in readiness for baking the cake that I was going to make last year.....

and some of these.....to put on top..

and I have actually managed to make some cards

I made more but didn't photograph them before I gave them to the recipients..I finished another layout from the GoGo crop too...

it was a page designed by Nicola Kerridge using acetate to create a 'window'...oh and I made a birthday card for eldest son's girlfriend too

So three guesses as to who found their Forever Friends card kits in the dark depths of the craft room!

So how's everyone else doing with their Christmas plans?

Where did this week go ?

I seem to be saying that a lot lately but really- where did the week go? Apart from the fact that I spent quite a bit of it sleeping in between work and other things- trying to get rid of this nasty fluey bug thing,which finally seems to have packed it's bags and left.
I made a couple of odd Christmas cards over a couple of evenings and managed to finish one of the 5 layouts we started at the GoGo through the keyhole crop a couple of weekends ago. The photos required for one of the classes were fun and playful- childy.I was a bit lost at first as to what to do then I thought-'why not do some of the boys when they were young'- so I did! Here's one designed by Lorraine ..

and here are the couple of cards I made

Been a poorly girl

I've had a totally craft + blogless few days -one minute I was fine and the next minute,I was laying flat out with lots of these beside me ...

I can't really pinpoint what it was, dry throat, temperature,backache and being oh so sleepy...I've now hopefully seen off the sleepiness and cough and dry bitty throat,but have a sniffly nose and have been sneezing lots today - so will probably have to have some Night Nurse tonight.

Okay - so enough of the ailment 5 minutes. I haven't got any crafty stuff to blog but the crochet blanket I've been making for a friend's baby girl is coming on nicely.

56 rows so far and the pattern says go up to 90 so a few to do yet...and I've been making some little squares too ...

and now I'm off to do a bit of catching up on blogs - I've missed everyone lots !

Journal Your Christmas - my intentions

I wasn't sure if I was going to have anything to journal and scrap about for JYC this year as there are only the two of us at home at the moment and it seems that life hasn't really changed a lot since last year and is a bit boring.But then I think that's the whole idea really isn't it? You may think that your life is boring but maybe to others it isn't.I actually fancy doing a little book with some nice papers and nice embellishments with all the things I like in it,and to kind of do it just as I like it. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm sure Shimelle's main aim is for us to do it as we want it and if we digress and don't do it exactly as prompts say, it doesn't matter.I'm going to take each day,take some guidance from the daily prompts and take it from there.So you might see some random pics popping up in the next few weeks!