Duckling

Another card using the same Penny Black stamp I used the other day called "Duckling" 3347H. I stamped a few images and thought I would have a go at doing the same colour scheme but a different layout. This stamp is so easy to colour in, as you only have to do the flowers, ducks feet and beak. So makes for a very quick card if you are short on time like I seem to be these days. This time I used a martha stewart punch, cuttlebug swiss dots folder. added ribbon and a prima flower and brad.

TFL

Managed to get some crafting done. This is the first card I have made in 2009!!!!! My new year resolution this year is to make sure that I do not forget to send people cards. Especially bithday cards!!! So I am making a start and plan on making at least 2 a week!

This card is made using a Penny Black stamp (my favourite stamps, I blame my friend Jenny who first introduced me to this addiction). The Thank you image is SU which I received from one of the lovely ladies on the wish rak forum on SCS. I also managed to use my sewing machine which my dh set up for me the other day with a converter and a few different plugs!!!! (it is safe), I cannot remember the last time I used it, but know it was before we moved to the US which is 18 months ago now.

Thanks for looking.

KILLERS

We went to see the Killers in concert at Minneapolis yesterday and got back late this morning. I am so tired, but it was worth it. The concert was absolutely amazing and we had a fantastic time. The boys loved every minute of it and after the disappointment of watching Oasis in concert in December this showed them what a great experience a concert can really be. We took our camera so we could take some pics and low and behold the brand new rechargeable batteries that said already charged on them did not work so we do not have any pics!!!! never mind!!!

We also managed to squeeze a trip in to IKEA and I bought a few things!

I am back at college tomorrow, only 2 days a week this time so I will hopefully have more time to update you all and load up pics.

Fry

Yesterday afternoon another one of my guppies had babies!!!!! I moved her into the breeding next and they just kept on popping out!!!! A couple of hours later and she has had about 30 fry! I am hoping that there are no more fish in my tank that are pregnant!!!!! The 2 week old fry are doing well and so far I have only lost a few, they are growing rapidly and hopefully it won't be long until they are swimming in the tank along with all the other fish. I have set up our spare tank and will put yesterdays born fry in there when it is ready. Luckily we have a friend who also has a tank so he will be getting some too!!!

It is really cold here at the moment and we have had lots of snow. I hope to get some crafting done at some point today so watch this space!

I have managed to get some scrapping done for the first time in a long time!!!!!

Winter Wonderland: For this layout I did not use any patterned paper just cardstock, ribbon, Lollipop Prima flower,primas and a bit of bling, the title is thickers alphas, chipboard snowflakes which I painted with acrylic and then covered with snow glitter.

You Melt my Heart - Used Bo bunny papers and stickers, again chipboard snowflakes which I painted with acrylic and added snow glitter.

Thanks for Looking :)

Managed to take a pic of the guppy fry, if you click on the picture you will be able to see them better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Babiessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Last night I put one of my guppies in a breeding net and this morning I woke up to 20 baby fry!!!! I removed her from the net as I didn't want to risk her eating them only to sit and watch her give birth two 2 more fry!!!! I then put her back in the net and we went out to get another net and some food to feed the fry, on our return we counted about another 15 fry so a total of 35 fry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the question is what am I going to do with all these fish LOL I imagine that they won't all survive so will have to wait and see what happens.

It is officially the end of the holidays in our house, dh goes back to work tomorrow and the boys back to school, but I have 2 weeks off before I start college again!!! so will have a bit more time to keep up with this blog and do some crafting!!! Which reminds me I managed to pick up some of the mini mail boxes from the dollar spot at Target today, they only had the metallic pink. Anyway I thought I would mention it, as I know that these were difficult for me to find last year!!!!!
They also had some magazine files for $1 so I grabbed a few of them in the hope that I can sort my shelf out in the craft room when I eventually tidy it up!!!! wishful thinking I think!!!!

Finally managed to get some crafting done, not the usual scrapping but something different. I think I have lost my mojo for scrapping at the moment. Could be down to the fact that everything is just such a mess in my craft room.

I love the Primitive Country look and have seen lots of different signs in the country stores with some fantastic quotes. So I thought I would have a go at making one. I covered the wood with acrylic paint and stencilled the letters onto it and finally gave it a coat of matt varnish. DH put some hanging things on the back for me. The FRIENDS ARE WELCOME signs now sits above my cooker.

For the stitched pic I used calico that I soaked in tea to age it, then stitched the sentiment, added some hearts with buttons. I then put it in the frame without the glass and added batting to the back of it to give it a bit of a padded look. I am not sure about the brown frame so might paint it black, I haven't decided yet.

These framed stitched pic is for a neighbour that has really made us welcome since moving here to the US. Just hope she likes it!!! I have also made a sign for her which I will post in the next post when I get round to taking a picture of it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

MERRY CHRISTMAS

It is now officially christmas day over here (and I guess it has been for 6 hours now over in England)anyway.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you that have read my blog this year.

Christmas

Well, my exams are all over and so far out of the results I have got so far I have passed. Now all I need to do now is to get ready for christmas!!!!

I managed to take some pics of 2 out of 3 of our christmas trees and some of the christmassy things we have around our house.

Is it really that long since I posted on here???????????????????????? Things have been mad at college, I have 1 week to go and then I am finished!!!! Just thought I would let you know that I fine but just too busy for blogging at the moment.

It is -16C here today so very very cold!!!!!

Is everybody ready for christmas? I haven't even written my christmas cards never mind sent them and I am afraid I will have to BUY them this year as I have no time left to make them! Anyway gotta dash things to do. Take care

Happy Halloween

I thought I would come and say hello!!! I have not vanished off the face of the earth! I have just been so busy with college work that I have not had time for much else lately!!!! I can't remember the last time I ventured into my scrap room and did some scrapping! It is such a mess that even if I had some time to scrap it would probably take me a couple of hours to tidy up.

So its Halloween!!!! I just love it. The boys have their costumes ready and we managed to carve a pumpkin last night, I bought some fab stencils that I was unable to use as the pumpkin had started to rot! so I had to turn the rotten bit into the mouth and make do with it. We put up a few decorations and went to Michaels to buy some more as they were on sale at 50% off and I can't resist a bargain! I can't quite believe that I walked out of there without buying a new punch that I had in my hands!!!!!! and I had a coupon too!!! It was the new Martha Stewart embossed owl. I will have to go back and get it as I can see myself using it quite a bit, that is when I get time!!!!!

Anyway gotta dash as clothes to wash, rooms to vacuum, food to buy Oh and homework!!!!


Have a great Halloween and don't eat too many SWEETS (candy).

Bear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I was driving off the drive this afternoon to go to college guess what I saw!!!!!!??????? in our garden!!!!!!!


A BIG BEAR

I had to look twice!!!!! I couldn't quite believe what I saw, now this was not a little teddy bear!!! but a great big bear. Only 5 minutes earlier I had let the dogs out to do their thing before leaving, had I come across this big bear at the time I have no idea what I would have done, pretty scarey when you think about it!!!! I am also not sure what the dogs would have done either!!! which really worries me, I think and hope they would have backed off, but knowing Milly she would of probably stood there and barked a lot, where as Murphy is normally very timid I think he would have probably done the same! I am so glad I was in the car at the time!!!! but it is such a shame I did not have a camera.

As I went down the hill I saw a lady walking her dog and told her not to go up towards our end of the road as I had seen a bear, she was not bothered by it at all, infact she told me that she had heard about it roaming the neighbourhood recently!!!!!!!! I guess coming from England this is not normal to me and she was not fazed by it at all. Anyway I am still worried about letting the dogs out, I guess I will ahve to be on my guard.

Check this article out:
http://www.rivervalleynewspapers.com/articles/2008/10/02/outdoors/zbears.txt