Happy New Year.....just a little bit late!

Hello Lovely Bloggers,

Well Christmas is done and dusted for another year. A very quiet one for us really this year as illness effected our plans a little, not us, but parents. Also a good friend of mine is struggling with her Father's illness, and my Son's friend is also very ill. With all that to think about celebrations were a little subdued. My very best hopes and wishes for all concerned for the coming year.
Having won my battle to get all the decorations and tree away, (Why is it that the tree and deccies never seem willing to go back into the space they came out off?), i have some some much needed crafting time. Here is what I have been playing with....

 This is for my Cousin who has a birthday in the next few days.....

 This is for my Lovely Hubby. We have been married for 23 years on Sunday.....

This a gift for my Daughter Jenny's desk, she was after something to pretty her space up a bit....

Hope you like....until next time!

WOYWW-84

Hi Everyone

Not a good start to the day really today....I have just spent over 2 hours on the phone with the Virgin Team trying to regain internet access that has been lost since yesterday morning. After crawling around behind desks un-plugging and re-plugging cables we are finally back on. So I headed straight here to do my post and.....the camera battery is flat so I can't take a "this morning" picture...ARRRggghh!

I do have a couple of this weeks makes that I can share with you though.
Today is our 20th Wedding Anniversary, so here is the card I made for Him Indoors!

Last weeks visitors may remember that I was having a lot of trouble with my Forever Friends black and gold disc. Well I did eventually get a response from Docrafts....but only an email asking me to send them a screen shot or the file I was trying to print, and I have not received any further assistance from them :-(   at all. I have taken matters into my own hands and found a way to use my DSA2 program to access and store the images from the CD so I can use them. To anyone else in this position I would recommend this as I can now use the DSA2 program to manipulate the images and get much more out of the artwork than I ever would have using the DoCrafts Software.
I then went on to make this card for my neice's birthday at the end of January. I am going to have to be careful....I am getting far too organised here!

Sorry you can't have a snoop around the desk this week, but I will make sure I am all charged up for next weeks visit. I hope to be able to visit more desks this week, last week was a bit hectic..(internet permitting). If you have no idea what all this desk snooping is about head on over to Stamping Ground and on Julia's blog you can find out all about it and get links to be nosey on everyone else's blog too.
Have a good day !

woyww 79

Hi Everyone,

Wednesday again and boy is it a chilly one today. Walking the dog this morning was not a pleasant experience!

No current picture of the desk today, as there is nothing really happening, just a load of mess. I need to tidy so I can start on some family birthday cards...male ones...the ones I hate doing!

Thought today I would show you the finished 40th Anniversary cards for my cousin and his wife. They are on holiday now until after their anniversary, so it is safe to show you.


This is the one my Mum ordered to send them. She wanted something red and traditional.











 This one is mine to send. They both love there holidays and travelling, and like oriental so I thought I would go with that. This is the front view.....

















 And this is the inside....I hope they like it. I am also entering this card into the Quirky Crafts Challenge after being encouraged to do so by Spyder.

Thanks to Chrissie for the Knot Tutorial. Head on over to The Stamping Ground to check out everyone else's desks today


Blogger Templates

WOYWW...

Hi Everyone,

First thing I have to say is a big apology to the High Priestess of WOYWW, Julia at stamping Ground. Sorry I missed last week Julia, I have been poorly so I have a sick note Miss! I won't go into too many details, don't want to make anyone else feel yuk, suffice to say I have been quite ill the past week with a virus that hit from nowhere last Tuesday night. I didn't get out of bed again (apart from being taken to the loo!) until Friday night. Still can't eat so feeling very week and dizzy etc. Lost over a stone in 4 days (bonus!). So trying now to get back on my feet, but haven't got back to any crafting yet. I have some photos to share, which would have been last weeks effort as they were taken just before I fell ill. I hope that is ok for this weeks entry.

Luckily for me I had got ahead of myself with up and coming birthdays. I made the football card for my cousin's birthday, he is football mad and plays in a good local team. The football was cut on my gazelle and paperpieced.

The other card in progress is for my Mum to give to My Mother and Father in law for their anniversary coming up soon. It's their 60th. Quite plain and simple really, just cuttlebugged for embossing and a decoupage image.

Pop on over the stamping ground to check out everyone else's desks.....

Passed!!

My clever daughter passed her driving test on Friday. Haven't been able to get on line since as our wireless router decided to blow up!!! Blasted technology! Anyway after a lot of cursing and head scratching we are now back online with a new network set up, so hopefully we will be ok now. Anyway back to the original reason for my post...here is the card I made her:-

Also was asked by my Mother in Law to make a card for her Sister Daisy and her Husband. They are celebrating their Golden Wedding soon. They are unable to go along to the party as they can't travel that far any more, so she wanted to send a card that was special to them. This is what I made, a variation on an easel card, using Daisies as a theme:-

Our Aniversary!!

It was our Wedding Anniversary yesterday and below is the card I made for Kevin. Poor bloke deserves a medal, putting up with me for 19 years, never mind a card!