Happy Birthday to…the old lady on the keyboard

Happy Birthday to me…yada yada yada…so yea it’s my birthday. 43 today. nothing to get excited about. there is only me and Katie at home so no one to celebrate with. I am a bit depressed, missing my boys and Chris as I do on anniversaries like this. But Katie did make me breakfast in bed, coco pops lol…not to bad for a 6 year old. Mum and Dad will take me out for lunch when they get back from the North Island. Dad called me this morning and sung me happy birthday which made me laugh so hard…Dad’s voice is only slightly better than my own lol.

Mum brought my present before they went away 9 days ago. she ordered me an ATG gun from Art of Craft and its awesome!!! ok so I unwrapped it as soon as it arrived but I have always been impatient lol. and I brought myself some goodies in the Scrappin Patch sale, which arrived today so I have some new scrapping toys to play with .

I spent the day today doing a layout and altering a box for the scrappin patch 6 week challenge. this week is cards which I have already made with a container to put them in. I will post the photos when I take them tomorrow.

I won the first one which just made my day with this pen holder which now sits on my desk and keeps my clutter in one place lol.

Last week was a notebook which was pretty quick and easy.

and I have finished the altered clipboard and pen for the LSH swap, my first swap and its going to be jetting off to America next week. I will post the video as soon as I have edited it.

anyways my Twilight dvd is almost finished and I am off to bed in a moment. my head is aching like nothing on earth.

nighters everyone

hugz

Vicky

Fantastic Giveaway

There is a fantastic giveaway at Scrapbooking Divas to kick the year off right. its this brilliant We are Memory Keepers album that is just to cute for words. I need one of these. What scrapper wouldn’t want one? I mean look at this thing, just perfect for Scrapbooking Diva’s Your Life 2012 which I would like to have a go at this year.

I have decided that this will be my year to be super creative and to try lots of new things. and to make an effort to be in more photos instead of always behind the camera. I have been through a lot of old photos lately and realised how few I have with me and my kids. so now I have a tripod and know how to work the timer on my camera…well you might just see a bit of this big ol mug of mine in my layouts.

anyways check out the Diva’s blog and say hello…get a chance to win. and don’t forget to explore their blog while your there….is good!

Happy New Year

hugz

V xxx

so neglected

my poor blog, its been so neglected and unloved for so long. I just haven’t been doing much in the way of blog worthy things. For months now I have been so up and down with my health that I have had no energy for much of anything.

Christmas was very quiet. Enjoyable with a bit of family here, though my boys couldn’t get home, both of them had to work which is the way of things when they grow up and leave home.

I did get a tripod from Mum and Dad which is something I have wanted for ages. Now I will be able to make more video’s instead of just enjoy everyone else’s on you tube I have become a you tube addict since I got sick. so watch this space.

anyway I am watching an incredibly bad zombie movie so i am off to watch the rest of it. I have a bit of a passion for movies that scare the living daylights out of me lol…but I have learnt not to watch them just before bedtime or I have nightmares lol. at the moment I am watching Zone of the Dead…and it rates worst zombie move EVER. the storyline is ok but the acting is terrible and the script is even worse, full of very cheesy one liners.

have a good night and in case I don’t make it back…a happy new year.

nighters

hugz

V xxx

Inspiration needed

I am trying to decide what to kick off the Kiwi Swaps first swap off with, I am thinking tags or ATC’s since Scrappin Patch has an OTP challenge with ATC’s at the moment. but i am not sure yet.

I have made a pile of ATC’s in the last few days, Katie has been sick and spent most of the time lying on the couch and wanting me nearby so I have been sitting at my desk in the lounge fiddling. its been fun, well except for the Katie being sick thing. She has a nasty virus that’s been going around the school. It feels like she has barely got over one when another one strikes her down, I will be glad when summer hits and virus season is over (fingers crossed)

so between her being sick, Mum having an overdose of OCD in her panic of the up coming family invasion for Mum and Dad’s 50th wedding anniversary and my needing to reorganise my office and new craft space as well as being a bit sick myself its been a very hectic week in our house.

we have approximately 30 people staying here for the party we are having for Mum and Dad’s anniversary, though that figure tends to change daily and it seems like Mum has a never ending list of things that must be done, RIGHT NOW…lol…I love her but she does go overboard sometimes. we have the food organised, its in the backyard and we have the marquee organised, there is pretty much enough room for everyone to sleep…though we will be going marae style in the lounge for the younger ones. about the only thing we haven’t done is warned the neighbours lol. it will be a good night. and most importantly my son and his partner and my granddaughter will be here…yay I finally get to be Granz to my wee darling!!!! I cant wait.

and yes you can just bet there will be a heap of photos posted after the event so watch this space. but now…its time to go dose small child with her medicine and get her into bed, she slept most of the afternoon away on the couch so she got to stay up a bit later than normal tonight.

good night one and all, and don’t forget to pop over to kiwi swaps and click on followers.

hugz

V xxx

Kiwi Swaps

I have started a new blog called Kiwi Swaps which will allow all followers to take part in monthly swaps, with the focus on hand crafted items like tags, handmade flowers, cards etc.

so please come and join in the fun, the first swap will start on the 14th September and the more members we have the more fun there will be. i am hoping it will be as big a success as some of the overseas ones are.

see you at Kiwi Swaps

hugz

V xxx