I Do!

I'm sad to report that monsieur mojo is still missing in action. However, I have dropped by to let you know that there is an absolutely stunning new download release over at Funky Hand! The I Do collection is designed specifically with the wedding season in mind and I have to say Anice has really come up trumps with her designs. The downloads is a papers and word book collection and the colours are very neutral to enable you to dress them up with the colour of your choice. I really LOVE this download and my most very favourite and best paper is the one with all the swirls. It is to die for. I do have a word book and card sample for you to peruse and then I demand that you trot on over to Funky Hand and buy this most faberoonie download. You won't regret it! x


Ooh and I just want to add that it is my parents 43rd wedding anniversary today! Blimey 43 long years eh? You get much less for murder. Happy Anniversary mum and dad. Love ya both (even tho you hardly ever stop by my blog!) xxxxxxx

Taking a break......

I need to recharge my mojo. x

Polka Doodle - challenge 2

Wow what a great response we had to the first challenge! Check out the blog to find out the top 3 entries from last week. There is another totally fab sketch this week. I had a set idea in my head of what I wanted to do for this card. Unfortunately it didn't turn out quite like I had expected. It is a card for my dad from the girls for Father's Day. They call him Pappap which is what Abbi used to call him when she first started talking. I turned the sketch on its side this time.

Everything is from the Sugar Birdies CD except the card stock, ribbon, stitching and the rub ons (doodlebug).

DCM - Take 5

Just for a change I seem to be chasing my tail this week. It's been a pretty stressful week work wise and yesterday we had a day out which involved visiting this little fella.....
Tropical World in Leeds has a fab Meercat section. I went along hoping to see Aleksandr in his cravat and smoking jacket, but he must have been filming another TV ad as he was nowhere to be seen.

We had a really lovely day yesterday but it was jam packed and we were back late, so I only made my DCM card this morning. The dare is to make a card which features 5 of the same thing on it. I used 5 punched hearts on my card but I'm not happy with it at all. The flower I have made with the hearts is far too small. Never mind.
I used my favo MME papers and the stamps were sent in a package of blog candy that I won from the fabulous Enfys.

Fields of gold

It's me! I'm here with a picture heavy post I'm afraid, and it ain't craft - and a lot of the pics are samey but I love them all the same. I'm a glass half empty kinda person by nature. I can't help it. It is probably genetic or learnt as my dear mum is just the same (bless her cottons!). Today we woke to the most glorious weather. Blue skies, tweeting birds, we're talking GORGEOUS. Poor Mr Jozza was working today (retail sucks!) and I just thought bugger it, I'm taking the girls out and about for the day. I decided to walk the most beautiful path into town down by the river Ouse. When Abigail was a baby I used to walk down by the river such an awful lot. It was great - I lost loads of weight. I walked all over the place pushing her in her pram and then her buggy as she got bigger. Once she started walking she used to toddle some of it. In fact before she was even 2 years old she walked all the way from our house into town without going in the buggy once! Amazing. Anyhow, what I'm trying to say is that for some reason, I seem to have forgotten just what a beautiful city I live in. I am so lucky that I am a 10 minute walk away from the river trail into town. When Abs was about 2, I walked the walk with my parents. It was a glorious day like today and we joined the path higher than normal so we had to walk away from the city to join the trail to then walk into town again. It was worth it because the fields of buttercups were breathtaking. I took pics of little Abs in amongst them and they were lovely. Unfortunately the computer died not long after and I lost the photos. I was gutted :o(

Anyhow, I decided to take the camera today and see if the buttercups were there - and they were! Bliss! We took way over an hour to walk into town. We stopped loads so I could snap pics while the kids picked buttercups. I'm so happy with the photos and I must not lose these! I just wish I knew how to use my camera properly. In fact, I wish I could afford a professional photoshoot of my kids. I would kill for that!

Tonight I feel like my glass is half full. Heck it may even be full! I'm so lucky to live in this city. I'm so lucky to have a job I love. I'm so lucky to have 2 healthy daughters. Maddie is starting to read just now. Not by me pushing her I must add, she is always asking "what does that say mummy?" and "can we do some words tonight?" and I am so proud of her! She is so animated when she tells a tale and her eyes seem to get bigger and bigger as she's telling it and ooh I could just breathe her right in. And Abigail - she is so beautiful and she really has no idea. But she is! I can say that because I'm her mum. She's clever and funny and gorgeous. Tonight I feel very very lucky (even though I got so sunburnt today that the City of York Council could turn off all the street lighting in York tonight and the city would be lit perfectly well by the glow coming from my chest!). So. Enough gushing already Joz. I'm not normally a gusher, honest. Tomorrow I may be a glass half empty person again but I hope not. Today was good!






Hmm. These next 2 didn't go quite to plan. I was inspired by Tara Whitney to take pics lying in said field of flowers and Abs was meant to look all serene and pretty. Yeah right! The sun was so bright that she either had her hand up to shield her eyes, or she had her eyes closed. So. Picture it. Eyes closed, lying down on the ground with flowers in hand. Yep, she looked like a corpse! The second lying pic was her face when I told her she looked like she was dead!

Polka Doodle challenge 1

Today is the day! Polka Doodle challenges have begun. The first challenge is a sketch and I LOVE working with sketches! Because this is the very first challenge, Nikky is offering up some MEGA candy which is worth over £80! How generous is that?? To be in with a chance of winning, just enter the challenge.
Right, on to my card now! The new CD will be available to buy very soon and is full of yummy papers, sentiments and images. Ooh I know you will love it! For my card I turned the sketch round. Everything on the card is from the CD apart from the ribbon, buttons and alphabet stickers. I used the sugar cherry cupcakes collection and sugar swirlies for the main backing paper. Couldn't you just eat that cupcake? I added some glossy accents to make it shine!

Daring Cardmakers - wet wet wet

It's dare time again! This week the dare was set by the lovely Kathy...

"This week I'd like you to do a bit of "singing in the rain" and make cards on the theme
"Wet, Wet, Wet"
I'd like to see cards featuring water of any kind, and if you can actually USE water in the making of them - then you can claim an extra bonus point lol"

Now I'm sure you'll be shocked to hear that I ran out of time again this week and that it turned out to be a bit of a rush job. Mine is a very quick card (15 mins to be exact) but sometimes the quickies are the best eh? *wink*

I used a pre coloured Dottie image (very cute!) and my favo Dream Street papers. Glossy accents on the bubbles to make them look wet and a few buttons to tart it up a little.

There's a new challenge blog on the block!

Oh yes there is!

Check it out HERE tomorrow for the very first challenge and some fab candy that needs to be won!

Check this blog candy!

Wowee I've never seen anything like this candy giveaway! If I were to win this I would surely burst with excitement!!!

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