Its a dogs/ducks life

Afternoon all,

How are you all coping with this heat?

Lucky for me our office has got air conditioning so it is nice and cool in here, but when i popped home lunchtime my car was like an oven, i thought i was going to melt. I think this is the only time of the year i literally cant wait to get back to work...lol

When I was home I managed to catch a few snaps of the animals in the garden.

How sweet?





Thanks for looking.
xx

First card with pro-markers

Evening all,

I think my mojo is back, thanks to the class i took yesterday. It def seems to have got my juices flowing. So all is good.

I decided i wanted to have a play about with my pro-markers. The girls on docrafts have got a thread that they have done to advise newbies on what inks/card/colour combos they use. I tell you it is fab, very informative.

Here is what I came up with:-



Here is a close up of the image:



I dont think it has come out that bad, but i do know i need a lot more practice.

Thanks for looking.

xx

Happy Birthday Sall & Banana Frog

Morning all,

Well yesterday was a good friend from docrafts birthday, the lovely Sall. I hope you had a fab day hun.

Here is a piccie of the card i made for her:



At the top point of the card there is a mobile phone charm that i made. I stamped the same image i used for the card onto shrink plastic, coloured it with my pro-markers added a hole with my cropodile, then shrunk it down, added the cord and then added to the card, i think it gives it a extra touch.

Also yesterday i went to a class at sugar and spice. It was taken by the lovely Bev from Banana Frog. We made a lovely mini albumn and started a scrapbook page. The class was very interesting as it was mainly showing us different ways of stamping. I managed to complete my book, once i have added piccies to it i will post on here.

So thanks Bev and Marion for a fab class.

Thanks for looking.

xx

Gizmo sunbathing!

Morning all,

Well, here is some piccies of gizmo, trying to hide from the sun. Where he is so small he can manage to hide behind the plant pot.





How sweet does he look?

I also managed to get a piccie of scrappy which is very rare nowdays as he is always on the go.



How much has he grown? this is the little one that i took piccies off back in november time, he is now as big as my Sheppey.

Thanks for looking.

xx

Ducks new home

Morning all,

Hope you are all well.

As you know the ducks have been living in our front room for the past few weeks as we couldnt put them outside just yet as they were too young. So monday we decided to buy them their new home, which got delivered yesterday. Yesterday afternoon mum and Darren set about getting the new house ready for the ducks.


And here it is.

It has the nesting box which we are using to put their food and water in, then the bed box, and the run. We put them in there last night they quaked for a lil while but that was it. They seem to like it. Thank god.
No more smelly ducks in front room.
lol

Thanks for looking.

xx

Ducks take to water!

Morning all,

Well the ducks arent so little anymore, and we decided that as their feathers were coming through it was time to let them have a paddle in the pool.







Thanks for looking.

xx

My Little helper

Afternoon all,

Hope you are well, and enoying the sunshine, even though i aint as i am at work :o( stuck in a stuffy office :o(

Well as you know we got a new addition to our family saturday, i was speaking to one of my directors about him before lunch and joked around about bringing him to work. He said yeah. Not telling me twice, i shot home on lunch and brought our lil baby back to work with me.

Here he is helping me get my work done.



How sweet?

Thanks for looking.

xx

Blog candy alert!!

Morning all,

Pop over to Kim's blog where she is giving away some fab candy to celebrate the end of 6 months of chemotherapy.



I would also like to wish Kim well through the final cycle of her chemo.

Thanks for looking.

Tracy xx

Meet Gizmo

Morning all,

Just wanted to add some piccies of the newest addition to our family. He is 8 and a half weeks old, and is a cross breed between a shih tzu and a chihuahua.








Thanks for looking.
xx

Darrens Birthday drinks

Just thought I would add a few piccies of Tuesday night when we went to the pub for darrens birthday drinks.



I really dont like this piccie of me and Darren, it took Steve 10 mins to get the photo cos Darren was being a pain in the backside - Love ya really babe :o)



This is Tom and his girlfried. Sorry hun I cant remember your name. (hangs head in shame)



Here is Tony and his girlfriend. Again sorry hun but I cant remember your name. :o(



Lastly, here is Steve and his girlfriend...lol can you see the love in his eyes? lol

Thanks for looking.
xx

Some new Duckie piccies

Good Morning All,

Nothing exciting happening with me this week. Not managed to get out to the shed to get any crafting done either :o( Maybe tomorrow.

Here are some updated piccies of our little ducks, who arent so little anymore. Everyday they seem to grow and grow and grow.




The duck which is in the photo in my hands is my duck. I finally named him. His name is Buttons. I mean what else could i call him being a crafter and all lol

Thanks for looking.

xx

My First Tri-Shutter Card

Morning all,

Here are pictures of my first tri-shutter card I have made.







I think that if i had more time I would have embellished it a bit more, but over all i am really pleased with the outcome, i mean its not often i make male cards.

Thanks for looking.
xx

Photoframe decorated for Darrens Birthday

For Darrens birthday I wanted to make him something special, only a token gift as he had already had his trainers from me for his birthday.
I saw blank photoframes at The Craft Barn and thought they would be perfect.

Heres what I came up with:-



The love hearts and the D & T have been highlighted with glossy accents which the camera doesnt show too well.

Thanks for looking.
xx

Happy 20th Birthday Darren

Morning all,

Just a quick post today to wish my darling fiance a happy birthday.



Have a lovely day babe.

Love you.

xxxx

Ducks and Dogs

First step card

Hello again,

Here is a step card i made using instructions that kerry kindly put in her gallery over on docrafts.




# Image coloured with my kor-i-noor pencils and sansador
# CHLOE cut on my cricut machine, and highlighted with glitter
# sentiment typed on pc.

Thanks for looking.

xx

Last card from wednesdays crafty day

Here is the final card i made on my day off on Wednesday.



# Image kindly sent to me coloured in with kor-i-noor pencils and sansador
# paper from stash
# flower from a bunch i broke down and got loads form, thanks to caroljenks for the tip.

Thanks for looking

xx

Hi! card for friendship swap

Afternoon all,

I hope you are all having a fab weekend, and that hayfever suffers like me are not suffering too bad. Yesterday my hayfever was that bad that my eye swelled up and i couldnt open it properly.

Here is another card i managed to make on Wednesday on my day off:



# Tilda image coloured with kor-i-noor pencils and sansador
# scalloped circle cut with nesties and cuttlebug.
# chipboard letters from stash, coated in crackle accents
# other bits from stash

Thanks for looking.
xx

How to post a link

Afternoon all,

This post is especially for Jenni and Alsyon, but may come in handy for others that dont know how to do this.

I know when I was trying to add links to my posts i struggled to find instructions for it.

There are a couple of ways of doing this, the easiest way, which is the way i do it is through the create post link. Now, if i want to have the word HERE linked with docrafts website i would type the HERE highlight it by running mouse over it whilst holding down the left mouse button. Now above the box where you type it has a picture of a world then what looks like a paperclip on it, if you click that it brings up a script prompt, which is where you add your website. then once you click ok it will come up like this HERE Now if the prompt box doesnt come up then see if a yellow warning bar has come up, if it has just right click and click on allow.

Now reading this back it would confuse me, but maybe thats just me. If you cant work it out this way, which is the way i find best, then check out Kathleens blog here as she describes the other way of doing it by remembering the link.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for looking.

xx

Just a note! Card

Morning all,

Hope the weather is pickng up again where ever you might be. Today seems a bit more sunny here, so nice.
I just hope it doesnt get too hot...lol

Ok, here is another card i managed to make on Wednesday whilst spending a crafty few hours in my shed.



* image was kindly sent to me by my friendship swap partner, coloured with kor-i-noor pencils and sensador.
* flower is one of the artificial ones i bought from the range, and broke down to get about 50 flowers (tip received from caroljenks over on docrafts.
* paper is from one of the papermania packs, cant remember which one though...lol

Thanks for looking.

xxx

Birthday card for a 1st birthday

Morning all,

Well I had a day holiday yesterday and I managed some me time in the shed, and wow it was fab. I havent managed to craft for that long in ages. Hopefully this means that my mojo is finally coming back to me. Lets hope i can get on with scrapping after my course with the lovely nina, i have got ideas running through my head.

Mum had hospital yesterday morning at the heart department, and she has been told things are looking good, her cholestral and blood pressure are now under contol, and this means she hasnt got to go back to the hospital for check ups again for another year. So this is excellent news for us.

I made this card for Steve for him t give to his neice on saturday, thankfully he loved it. I think the image is so cute :o)



*image kindly sent to me in friendship swap, coloured with kor-i-noor pencils and sansador
*ribbons, buttons, card all from stash.
*sentiment printed on computer.

Thanks for looking.

xx

More blog candy at carlz cards

Afternoon all,

Just having a nosey about again and noticed that carly over at carlz cards has some blog candy to celebrate 30,000 hits.
Here is what she is offering:-


So pop on over to carlz cards it wont be a wasted trip as her blog is full of lovely creations.

xx

Blog candy alert!!

Morning all,

Just been having a nosey about and Shree is giving away some lovely blog candy, along with a runners up prise - have a lookie here
Here is a piccie of the prize:-

Good luck.

xxxx

Good luck Sue Bubbles

Just a short note to wish Sue Bubbles luck for her op today.
Sending you buckets of sparkly vibes, and big but gentle hugs.
Catch you when you get back on line hun.
xxxxx

My little duck.

Morning all,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Just a quick post with a close up piccie of my little duck. This one is still un-named. Mum has called her one Donald and Leighann has called her one Pickles. God knows why she has called it pickles??? she should so be blond.



I managed to get out to the shed for a little while last night, and have been playing around with a decoupage set that grandad bought me well before he passed away. He passed away in September 2007, so i have had it a long time...lol
Hope to finish that tonight and put piccies on here.

I also had a play about with my new pencils, and sansador liquid and they are fabby. I cant remember the name of the pencils but i will add that when i load the images.

Anyway i better get back to work, i am sure thats what they pay me for...lol

Thanks for looking.

xx

Baby Ducks

Evening all,

We have just added 3 new additions to our family, and i thought you might like to see them.

They are un-named at the moment.


Aint they cute?

xxxx

Slimming world week 2 weigh in

Evening all,

Just a quick post, had weigh in tonight and i stayed the same?? not sure why as i have been good this week. So i will do a food diary to monitor what i am eating.

Oh well, extra good this week, i need ot shift this excess weight if i gonna marry Darren, i dont want to walk down the aisle as i am, i dont have any confidence at best of times let alone in a wedding dress.

No crafting yet this week, i am a week behind on the christmas challenge also. Hopefully the weekend i can get out and play as i received my new nesties this week also. I got the oval shapes so cant wait to play.

Had a delivery from Mad about cards so again i want to have a play with my stash :o)

Thanks for looking.

xx

Last week weight loss, and feeling sad :o(

Afternoon all,

I forgot to blog last week on my weight loss, well for the first week back i lost 3lb, so i am back moving in the right direction. All good. I have my 2nd weighin tonight not sure how well it will go as i have had a few meals out this past week, all arranged before i went back to SW. So, fingers crossed as i didnt eat rubbish.

I am feeling a bit sad and low today, so if anyone has any hugs spare can i please have them?

Thanks for looking.

xx