Heartbroken!!!

So sorry I have been MIA  yet again!
Sadly the day after my last post! my sister was taken into hospital yet again. 
Very sadly she passed away on Tues 19th June, I spent every day and many nights sleeping at her bedside. She was never alone and I am grateful of that. She was cared for amazingly well by the hospital.
Diabetes has now claimed two of my sisters and a young niece!  what a cruel disease it is!!!

As Pats next of kin I am busy with arrangements but I will be back in Blogland ASAP. 
Sorry for my absence yet again
Take care everyone and give your loved ones an extra hug today. xxx Mau

My favourite sausage :-)

I love sausages!  well a certain type that is....
 Hope everyone is well and enjoying some better weather here in the UK. We have had quite a few lovely days of Sunshine here in the north east although we could do with it being a tad warmer. However we have had some lovely park days with Alfie the sausage dog, he has loved it!
Well here is my entry into Allsorts challenge ..All about Pets  I just had to play along with this challenge. As usual I am playing catch up with myself as the challenge ends tomorrow lunchtime.

The Die is a Marianne Die which I cut 3 times and layered it, you can't see it but it sits on the card beautifully and his paws I cut from some tan coloured textured card I had.
The card is going to Alfie's veterinary nurse as she looked after him last week...   (shhhh! he lost his Crown jewels) we are whispering as he is looking a little sad!  We didn't think he would notice as He is Tooooo long to see his b **  ha ha ...poor sausage!   
Catch up with you all soon xxxxxx

CAS Blue Baubles

Good Morning,
Just a very quick post today, My card to enter into the 
CAS Christmas April Challenge This is Bonnie and Lolls 2nd challenge and the theme is Ornament....if you enter remember its a CAS challenge. It only has a day to go so I am lagging behind this month.

Hope to catch up with you very soon. xxx

Golden Dandelions

Good Evening  Everyone,
Just popping on to add a card to
 City Crafter Challenge week 407 blog.  the card to showcase is this......

This is the 2nd week of their Birthday celebrations and this week its to showcase this card created by Ros Crawford I chose to work with the Gold embossing. Ros is a beautiful card maker and well worth a blog visit if you haven't seen her work, just click on her name above and it will take you to her blog.
This is my take on her card

I was chosen in the Top 5 last week with the Keep it square challenge at City Crafter (my baby card in last post) I was thrilled! Thank you girls xx
See you all soon
Hugs  

All Squared up!

Hello again everyone, 
Well what a dreadful wet dark day here on the coast, you would think it was late evening!
However a perfect day for crafting...coffee, and heating on full   :-)
I have popped on to post a card for the 
Allsorts Challenge be there or be square ... well I will never have it said I am square!   lol
the challenge was obviously to use squares and not other shapes such as oval, round etc.  so here is my take on it. 
  you still have a couple of days to join in so pop over and take part. 

tried to improve the lighting but not much difference really!
sorry the pictures are not wonderful but its so dark here.
Catch you all soon xxxx

Birthday Wishes

Good Afternoon everybody,
Just a quick post today! but I wanted to join in the Birthday challenge over at City Crafter Challenge Blog
        They are celebrating 8yrs this month... Wow!!!   Happy Birthday girls x
Well the inspiration to case was this beautiful card by 
                                              
                                        SAMRA LESHINSKI

I decided to use the blue and the circle as I had been experimenting with making my own Hydrangea, I have plans to make some in different colours   :-)  as making flowers is a good relaxing pastime whilst watching TV.
Anyway back to my card, I also thought I would make another card from the same Die I used last time...seems it was laid about on my work table.

I want to make a few adjustments to this shape next time I use it, but overall I like it.
Thanks for calling by, see you soon xx

Postman brought me flowers!

Evening Everyone, 
Hope you have all kept warm and dry over the last few days! I think April showers should be  renamed April downpours!!!  
poor Alfie hates the rain so his park runs have been a total washout!  He can't wait to get home and into his favourite spot....and I can't tell you how hot that Radiator is!!!   I try to remember to remove his collar as it gets so hot! but he is up there in a flash the second we get through the door.

Well onto My latest make, The postman brought me 2 boxes of Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts last week, I ordered a load myself and then 3days later hubby asked if I had got all the ones I wanted!  silly question! I told him no as I had spent too much already. Well how pleased was I when he said send for the rest and I will treat you for Easter    :-)   
I had to find time to craft and use some of them, so here is one of the cards ...  

Sorry about the long post, catch you soon xxx

A touch of Holly

Hi Everyone,
Just a very quick post to add my CAS card to the very first 
CAS Christmas Challenge which Loll and Bonnie have started, Hopefully it will prevent a lot of us clashing at the last moment to make our Christmas cards!

The first challenge is a Holly Theme, don't forget if you fancy joining in to keep your card CAS,  I hope you will support this new challenge and get it off to a good start.
Thanks for calling I will be back soon.

In Love with Blue

Evening Everyone,  Hope everyone is warm and coping with the snow ...if you got some!!! We have got quite a lot considering we are by the Sea.  I think that's a sure sign of how cold it is, normally the salt air kills it off before it has time to land!
I was hoping to have a nice warm day at home crafting, sadly my sister is in hospital and as she needed lots of messages done and also her house needed sorting out as she went into hospital rather urgently!  I ended up having a  busy day. 
I did however make a card last night so I will add it to a couple of challenges.....

My B is Blue..as though you could miss it....lol
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/week-456-i-spy-something-beginning-with.html

also.... Use a Die challenge at 
http://citycrafter.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/city-crafter-challenge-blog-week-401.html

Bye for now,  xxxx

CAS Watercolour heart

Good evening everyone,
Just a quick post to add my card to the Watercolour challenge  at http://www.happylittlestampers.com/2018/02/hls-february-watercolour-challenge.html  
   

I thought I would try using the same  Sweet Poppy Stencil that I used to open my blog up with last week! as the optional twist is "Heart" I thought it would be a good one to try. This time I used my Watercolour paints to colour it, I have never joined the watercolour challenge so hopefully it will be ok. 
Now I am off to have a little play with Alfie as he wakes up at this time of night :-/  and you get no peace till you play games with him!
 Catching up with you all as fast as I can, so will hopefully visit a few more tomorrow. xxxx

T for Tea....or Teal

Here I am again, determined to keep my blog going  ha ha 
         I would like to enter another card into the Teal challenge over at     http://addictedtocas.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/addicted-to-cas-challenge-129-teal.html

I hope this time I can get my card to show as I must have made an error  loading the last one onto the challenge  :-(
I love this Tea pot die but haven't a clue what make it is!!!  I had it sent to me a few years back by a lady that doesn't have her  card blog anymore.
Catch you all soon as going to have a crafty session whilst hubby goes to visit a friend. He is taking Alfie so I may get an hour of peace!  
Hugs  xxxx

Good Evening

                             Good Evening Everyone, 
What a long time since I have blogged!  I tried quite a few times last year to get back into my blogging but sadly life got in the way. My hubby had a terrible 2017 regarding his health and with so many hospital appointments and treatments throughout the whole year! Crafting had to take a back seat. We are hoping 2018 will improve as it moves on as it has not started good for him so far with ongoing health issues.  Last year brought him a Skin cancer, Industrial Lung disease and ended with a heart attack and 2 stents fitted in his previous Heart by-pass grafts, this year already he has had another skin lesion removed  ...we await biopsy results with great anxiety.

Well now to Happier things!  I have re-arranged my crafting space to reclaim my conservatory back as it was full of Craft units and a very shabby looking cane suite. It is now all new and refurbished with new chairs, rug and blinds. We look forward to sitting in there again with our coffee and evening drink like we used to. 

In my new craft space I have managed to make a couple of CAS cards which I am going to enter into challenges!  

I always enjoyed the CAS challenge so it feels good to get back into it, and my card is for   

         http://addictedtocas.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/addicted-to-cas-challenge-129-teal.html

I love the colour Teal so I really enjoyed making this card, sadly the true colour has not shown very well due to the sun being to bright to photograph it, 

I used a Sweet poppy Stencil and Memento Ink  "Teal Zeal" 

               I do hope I can continue to blog this time! but please stick with me till I see how things work out.  xxxxxxxx