05.09.2009

PIPPA wall art.

A LONNNNGGG time a go I made these altered name

01.09.2009

Blog Award :0)

smiles on faces award

This gorgeous award has been kindly passed on to me and my fellow ProMarker girlies from our gorgeous and talented Sarah.  Isn’t this a great award – I love the name of it.  It has a condition – name 5 things you might not know about me, so here goes….

1.  I am compulsive about buying things in multiples of two!

2. I got stung by wasp on Thursday and it REALLY HURT!

3. I want to swim with Great White Sharks.

4. My eldest daughter is named after Olivia Newton-John.

5. I have 2 cats called Ollie and Scratchy.

I’m so boring aren’t I?  I listed anything vaguely interesting about myself for another blog award a few months back so was really struggling to come up with anything at all!! lol

I am passing this on to these gorgeous peeps as they make me smile whenever I read their comments or visit their blogs:

Steph , Victoria, Tracy and Aimes.

Big hugs,

Caryn xxx

01.09.2009

A Spoonful of Sugar #67 – Distressing

Now I don’t really “do” distressing so whenever I see a challenge coming up on that theme I do sort of shudder!  At A Spoonful of Sugar this week we’re looking for distressed effects on your cards so I have completely cheated and used a paper with a distressed effect already printed on it!  It’s from a HUGE K & Co pad I recently got from QVC which I have to say I am chuffed with.  It’s got some gorgeous papers in it and only a few that are “not me”.   I have paper pieced the clothes and umbrella with coordinating papers from the pad and used my retro daisy punches from Craft U Love for the flowers.  Please pop over to the blog and have a look at how distressing is meant to be done as the other DT members are all much better than me!

Well, it’s the final 24 hours before school starts again (hallelujah)  and as usual everything has been left to the last minute.  I still have uniforms to iron (with name tags to attach), PE kits to sort, lunch box contents to buy, children to bathe, socks to pair…..  Don’t get me wrong, I love having them around and have really enjoyed these holidays but I have SO much to do and the house needs to get back to normality.  They NEED school!!  I NEED school!!

Off to find the iron!

Hugs,

Caryn xxx