Some new christmas cards

Well i have managed to make another couple of tilda christmas cards this evening, as well as doing quite a bit more to emmas secret pressie. this is now 75% complete, and i am very very pleased with it.
Here are piccies of my cards:-

Saras Blog Candy

Have a look at saras lovely blog, she has kindly got some blog candy up for grabs.
http://saz1984.blogspot.com/

Christmas cards

I managed to get out to the shed tonight.
I have managed a few more 'bits' for Emmas surprise christmas present. I also managed to make another 3 Christmas cards.
Tilda Images, papermania christmas stacks, ribbon, and greetings.

Dogs Christmas Outfits

We bought the dogs some little christmas outfits.
Dont think Elle was very impressed with me though...lol
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Dogs Bath Day

On Sunday i decided to bath the dogs as the baby was smelly..lol
Here are the photos.

Paddy & Poppy - Blog Candy

You have got to have a look at Caz's blog, she has designed some wonderful stamps, they are so adorable. As a celebration of the release of her stamps she has some blog candy to give away - so why dont you pop over there and have a nose. http://foxcrafts.blogspot.com/

xx

New Addition to our family.

After much talking and alot of debating we decided to sell our cocker spaniels. They were just to boustrous for us. Being that mum is at home on her own it isnt fair on her as she is the one who has to look after them day in day out. Due to her disabilities, as well as her dodgy heart i was worried that they could do her some damage. We sold JJ to a lovely lady called Michelle from Kent, and we then sold Lou Lou to a wonderful ladie called Debbie in Herts. Debbie has been kind enough to stay in touch, she texts me and emails me every few days, so that is really nice.

After Sheppeys op we was told we wasnt allowed to breed him, which is what we wanted to do, so again after a lot of talking we decided to buy another shih tzu. I looked on epupz and found a lady selling 6 of them in Noak Hill, not to far away, so last saturday we went there and we fell in love. He is 8 weeks old, and we have called him scrapy. He is the sweetest thing. (apart from my sheppey of course.)

So, meet Scrapy. xx

Weigh in week 3

Havent blogged much lately as i have been so so busy. I thought I better blog briefly today as I had my weigh in yesterday.
I have lost another 1lb. Its not great, but it is another lb off. It should have been more but I was naughty friday and had a vodka and a few chips. Wont be doing that again.
I have been asked what diet I am doing,it is the cambridge diet. It is very strict, but has a good weight loss.

I would love to have linked the website here but i dont know how to do it, so if someone reads this and knows how to add the links in, i would be very grateful of some help.

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Weigh in week 2

Well i went and got weighed again last night, and I have lost another 5lb. So in 2 weeks i have lost 1 Stone 1 lb, i am over the moon as you can probably imagine. I feel like i am in the right frame of mind to be doing this now. I will say though that I am taking 1 day at a time, not getting carried away with myself just yet. Still only 2 weeks in, and so easy to fall back into old habits, but so far so good.
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Crafty Sunday

Well today has been a crafty one for me. I woke early, for some strange unknown reason, and decided i fancied popping to Barleylands to do some craft shopping. I am needing some pink embellishments for the secret pressie i am making for my friend Emma. So i text Emma to see if she fancied a shopping spree, i mean i did get my pinnicle craft membership card which allows me 10% discount, what other reasons does a girl need...lol.
So me and sister Leighann went to meet Emma and Martyn, and off we went. I needed to show Emma where Barleylands was as we have booked to start a scrapbooking for beginners course in january at Sugar & Spice, and we are both really looking forward to it.
We went into pinnicle crafts and i treated myself to some doodlebugs sugar coating, a little vase jar thing full of flowers, a pack of pink flower embellies, and other bits i cant remember. We then went over to Sugar & Spice where i got some more pink embellies, some of that crackle stuff, cant think of the name...lol, and some other bits which i cant remember...lol

Then i came home and managed a couple of hours out in the shed, i managed to make my first christmas cards of the year, what do you think?


Also i bought a lil jacket for sheppey for when he has his collar off, cos he has short fur he shivers a lot. Mum decided to put it on Elle,how sweet does she look?

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Friendship Swap card

I made this card using a penny black image that someone kindly sent me on the do crafts forum. I water coloured it using wh smiths water colour pencils. I used flock on the red hearts. Not too keen on flock, maybe i need a bit more practice with it.
This card is for the November friendship swap on the docrafts forum.


I am also working on a christmas pressie for one of my best friends, i wont be uploading pictures though in case she decides to have a nosey on my blog. So Emma, no point in looking here, you wont get a glimpse of it :o).
xxx

Altered Tin

Been meaning to tackle this time for quite some time, and finally managed to get this done today.
Tin before

and this is what it looks like now.

Birthday Card

I actually managed to get out to my craft shed for a little while where i actually managed to make a card. I know its a shock isnt it...lol
This is a birthday card for a good friend of mine, whos birthday is on Sunday. So hope she likes this card.

My Little Baby.

I havent blogged this week as for me it has been a terrible week. Too much stress has happened and to be honest, i am glad it is friday.
Sunday Sheppey had his operation and we took him home in the afternoon. He wasnt good though, kept crying in pain. He had me up until 2.30am, then mum took over so i could get some sleep before work. Monday we just kept plying him with his tablets, then tuesday his eye started bleeding. So i rushed him back down the vets. The vet looked and said that is isnt looking good, it looks like the op hasnt worked. He said we had to leave it for the 10 days though before they could check. So again we took him home. The poor baby was constantly crying. Wednesday he seemed a bit better, still very dopey but that was cos of all the pain killers etc that he had. When i got home from work mum and Leighann were trying to bath the eye, next thing i know they scream, the stitch had come undone and his eye was hanging out. In that split second sheppy stopped crying and started running around tail wagging, he seemed so much happier. Again i rushed him to the vets. The vey took one look at the eye and said it needs to come out. It has popped, and there is nothing we can do for it. We found out that it was glaucoma that he had, that causes pressure behind the which causes it to pop. He said i could take him home and bring him back in the morning, but i didnt think it would be fair taking him home with 4 other dogs at home. I was scared that they would tear his eye out. The vet said he could stay there for the evening and they would do the operation first thing in the morning.
Wednesday night was horrible, all we kept doing was looking for him, our youngest shih tzu Elle was fretting for him big time. Kept crying, and wouldnt eat.
Yesterday at 10ish the vet called to let me know that they had done the op and all had gone well. She said that we couldnt bring him home though as he was on a drip. I asked if i could go see him though, she said yeah no probs leave it til pm though.
So as i was getting ready to leave work at 12.30 my phone goes again, it was the vet. My stomach sunk. It was good news, he had come out the anaesthetic, and wasnt distressed so we could bring him home. I had to leave it til 4pm though.
So at 4pm we went to the vets, and sat waiting. We waited for an hour before the vet came out and got us. Whilst we was waiting we could hear him barking in the kennels, that made us feel better as he hadnt barked all week.
When they bought him out to us, i could have cried, not cos he has lost his eye, but because i could see him, cos i could hug him.
He is doing very well. He doesnt seem to be in much pain, he is eating drinking and running about. If you are in his way then he rams you with the lampshade around his head...lol.
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Bitter Sunday Morning

Morning, thought I would add a quick post to here being that i am up wide awake and ready to tackle the shed.lol.
This weekend has been a quiet but mad one at the same time. Plan was yesterday to go out and tackle the shed so i can clear space in it to put my dolls house being that i need to bring it back to dagenham with me as i have sold the bungalow and it obviously cant stay in the garage.
Didnt quiet happen like that. Instead I noticed my poor lil Sheppey wasnt feeling himself, and that his eye was really weepy. So i called the vets straight away. They was fully booked, but i explained that he had been to the groomer on friday and since he been back his eye is glazed over just as they go when the eye is going blind. With that she rushed to get me an appointment and fitted me in at 3.30 yesterday as an emergency.
So i took him to the vets. The vet put a drop in his eye then put a uv lamp over it to see what the problem was, turns out he has got an ulcer on the eye. It is caused by a scratch over it. I dont think this was done at the groomers as i called her and she said he didnt fidget at all whilst he was being cut, so i am guessing its from when all the dogs play fight together. I have been given drops and pain relief to give him now and then i need to take him back on thursday for a check up. Fingers crossed he gets better, cos at the moment he still isnt right. My poor baby.
So about 6pm i decided to go and try to tackle the shed, i only managed to empty 2 units i have in there but that alone took me 3 hours and 5 bin bags of rubbish...lol (not craft stuff old junk i had been holding onto.)
So today i plan on getting out there and spending whole day working. Also need to get an exploding box made for an order. Oh the joys...lol.
Hope you all have a lovely day.
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