Pooky225spot

2012-01-27T09:54:00.000-08:00

Cant take the credit for this design, i found it on the internet and adapted it to the things i had. So Kudos to the designer.

2012-01-27T09:46:00.000-08:00

2011-10-17T23:06:00.000-07:00

The most beautiful eagle Owl, and this one is a baby!

card

2011-10-12T14:30:00.001-07:00

Cake!

2011-10-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

The cake i made for my pals birthday!! she loved it!

More stuff!!

2011-05-04T16:28:00.000-07:00

2011-04-01T13:15:00.000-07:00

Embossed and a 3d butterfly on it by dazzles.The stamp is a hero arts stamp.

Birthday card for a little girl.

A card for my son, thats him on the skate board, i put the pic in photoshop and played about with it.

2011-02-13T16:49:00.000-08:00

Just a few things i have done lately, been busy, love doing Decoupage cards, it adds a new dimension to a card i think.

2010-11-11T22:18:00.000-08:00

A few things ive made!!

2010-11-11T22:11:00.000-08:00

2010-03-06T20:41:00.000-08:00

Been busy what can i say!! Got lots of new stuff to post so will get to it in a day or so. its late right now and i'm too tired and lazy to be bothered!! But i am back!!!
Got my sis and my niece coming over in August for a holiday and hopefully my bro will be coming too, planning a road trip, girlie nights in!!! Even hubby said he would join in!! going to fun watching chick flicks, painting nails, doing all the stuff i miss out on back home.
So keep watching, i will be back!!

Scrapbook giveaway

2009-11-14T09:00:00.001-08:00

This is a great blog, they have giveaways now nad again...go check it out...http://northridgemedia.net/blogs/scrapbooktrends/?cat=3

Veterans day

2009-11-11T13:28:00.001-08:00

In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Our new toy!!

2009-06-09T18:59:00.001-07:00

Shes very pretty and her name is ruby!!!

Very good movie

2009-05-15T10:58:00.000-07:00

Gran Torino, what a great movie.......who knew!!!!! but it did have Clint Eastwood in it so need i say more? We saw it at the dollar movies, nothing better than a buck for a movie and some popcorn!!!!!!

WW1 bodies found

2009-05-07T09:01:00.000-07:00

This report in the Daily Mirror made me cry, after all this time they find the bodies of a few of the brave....but so sad they were lying there all this time and no-one knew who they were, no family could visit a grave and put flowers on it years after the event....just to remember them and say thanks for the sacrifice.... But so nice that a funeral was held and they lie in separate graves now, but with still with their comrades.....it made me think for a few minutes and say a prayer of thanks.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/07/brothers-in-arms-of-passchendaele-finally-at-peace-after-90-years-115875-21337863/

Random crap

2009-05-02T16:09:00.000-07:00

Steven julie and gemma

Casey,Kelly My Bro and Julie

My Bro and two sisters. Love ya guys and i MISS YOU so much.

It has RAINED all week, on and off all week, we have had 1.5 inches of rain so far with more to come, i mean i amused to it, coming from Britain but i know everyone here is a little fed up of it!!

My Bro got to go to Edinburgh Scotland last weekend to visit with the sisters!! he had a wonderful time and didnt want to come home. First time he has seen them in 18 years, its a long time but we are all so glad to have found each other again. Lots to talk about and he took some pics for me.

Had a yard sale last weekend at my step daughters, we made over 4oo bucks!!!!!! YAHOOOO memphis here we come baby!! going to see where the King lived and all that good stuff i cant wait!!!!!

Lol cats..

2009-04-23T19:27:00.001-07:00

A couple of cards

2009-04-14T14:25:00.000-07:00

couple of pics

2009-04-05T13:59:00.001-07:00

Beanie......my lovey!!!!!!!

Hagar aka the worlds worst cat!!

Cy aka fattus cattus!!

Oh my!!

2009-03-09T15:24:00.000-07:00

i was reading a blog from the BBC about Jackalope hunting, i was reading through the comments when i came across this little gem, unfortunately for me i was drinking water at the time and it went up my nose as i laughed!!

"When you come back here you can take part in our annual Haggis hunt. The season starts on the 1st April at one minute past midnight and finishes at midday 1st April. This year as a conservation measure you can only shoot clockwise mature Haggi that's those with the short legs on the right hand side. Shooting of faggots (baby haggi with only six legs) has of course been banned for some years now. In 2010 it will be the season for shooting anti clockwise animals. Good luck."

Hilarious i think!!!

Ordering water...

2009-03-07T13:46:00.000-08:00

Now who would have thought that ordering water could be so wrought with language problems. I of course have an English Accent, i am indeed English so that would be why. There have been several times that i have tried to order a glass of water in a restaurant and have had either blank looks thrown at me or i get Beer......yes i said Beer. I went to our local Mexican place and ordered a water or so i thought and he brought me a beer, much to my husbands delight and my puzzlement. He had to order me my water...i thought why in the world would he think "water" sounded like "beer"??
Then i went to Golden Corral one day and ask for water and i get "what?" i think it was 4 times i asked until a little portugese exchange student that was serving there said i know what she wants and gave me my water, the American lady had no idea what i wanted, i was irritated by then cos this lady was being really rude by now. All i kept getting from her was "what, what do you want...." her attitude was extremely rude. Then today, i asked for lemonade, cant go wrong with that i thougjht.....sorry we dont have it.............well rats i think,i really wanted water so i asked, nope sorry we dont have that, what says i you dont have water??????? what place i am thinking to myself doesnt have water?????????? So i looked at her and i said, you dont have water?, so she looks at me and my hubby says in his wonderful american drawl......"warder."....... oh says the lady all smiles "warder"!!!!! yes i said exactly...by then he and she are giggling all over the place and i want to cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh i just love the way you speak says she.....i could listen to that all day.... and her am i thinking yes but i wont get fed!!!! So i tell my darling hubby from now on HE orders my drinks!!!!!!!!!!

I love you Americans, you brighten my day!!!

Fresh air!

2009-03-06T13:27:00.000-08:00

I have one of those Air purifiers, when i got up this morning i noticed it smells really fresh in the house, i mean REALLY fresh, i think my allergies would be far worse if i didn't have it. I have 3 cats and you wouldn't know it, i keep the cat box really clean but i think in some houses you can still smell cats, but nope not in this house!! I found beanie, lounging in the sun this morning, he had crawled behind my vertical blinds and was snoozing in the sun!! so i opened the front door and put the catch on the storm door and let him snooze in a bigger patch of sun,. he is a sun bathing fool!! he loves the sun! When we lived in a diff house i had a table in the dinning room and it got the sun all afternoon there was many a time i caught him lolling on the table in the full glare and heat of the midday sun fast asleep stretched out so i took a pic of him and scrap booked it.

Been a very stressful day, i have issues with my bank, also issues with someone who will remain nameless but never the less causes undue stress to others and to me. Such a jerk and a control freak.Is not happy unless they are in control of what people do. So i took it to God, i am trying to do that more these days, i have a few issues that i know i need to talk to God about.
So into the weekend, we have nothing planned so it will be a nice relaxing weekend i hope, just me and the old man!!!!!!!! HEHEHEHE my sweetie that is!!!! have a good weekend all.

A few things recently made

2009-02-25T12:13:00.000-08:00

2009-02-12T14:12:00.000-08:00

The anniversary flyover...

I have just finished watching the movie " The Dambusters", i have seen it a few times but not in a few years, it made me feel extremely proud to be British and very very thankful for all those that gave their lives in that episode of History. If you have never seen the movie you have to find it on DVD or video somewhere, its great. It was either last year or the year before that they had a fly past to commemorate the anniversary of that day, the last surviving ( i think its the last surviving flying Lancaster bomber) flew over a dam along with a spitfire and a hurricane in tribute, i wish i could have seen it, it would have been spectacular.What a way to say thank you in these modern times, it was an incredible time in history and if it wasnt for those that gave their lives we would not be here today to enjoy the things we do. So thank you, to all who served, then and now.

My Hubbys Valentine card

2009-02-03T13:01:00.001-08:00

SShhhhhh here is my darlings valentine card!!!

I got some dazzles from paperwishes.com they are fabulous.

Snow facts....

2009-02-02T08:59:00.000-08:00

Britain had its worst snowfall for 18 years over night, i swiped this from the Daily Mirror online newspaper i read every day!!
I get very little snow this season and my home country gets bathed in it!!! Oh well!!!

10. What was the biggest snowman ever?
The biggest snowman was built by the villagers of Bethel in Maine, USA in 2008. It was 122ft 1in tall & weighed 13,000,000lb. The eyes were 5ft wreaths.
9. How many take the day off work when it snows?
One in five people take the day off when snow is heavy, although these days, many people can opt to work from home and avoid the nightmare commute.
8. Why is London unable to function in one foot of snow?
London can’t function in deep snow because it’s such a rarity. If it happened regularly, there’d be teams of snow clearers ready at a moment’s notice.
7. When was the heaviest snowfall in the UK?
The heaviest snowfall in the UK was in 1695. It snowed every day in London for 5 weeks - and the Thames froze over. The snow didn’t fully clear till mid-April.
6. What temperature produces the perfect snowball?
0C produces the perfect snowball. The best ones are made in advance and stored for a few hours to firm them up. Dig deep for snow that’s easier to pack
5. Is it true that if you are trapped outside in the cold you should compact yourself in the snow to keep warm?
Some experts suggest burying yourself in snow for warmth, deer style, but most recommend using a snow shovel to dig a snow hole for maximum benefit.
4. Is it ever too cold to snow?
Below -30C, there is usually not enough moisture in the air for it to snow, but it is technically possible at any temperature. Snow has fallen at -41C.
3. How many water molecules in the average snowflake?
The average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water and falls at a speed of 3.1mph. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide.
2. How does grit stop snow settling?
The grit is rock salt. The salt lowers the freezing point of the snow on the road and helps it to melt. The grit component helps tyres to grip the road.
1. Why is snow white not blue?
Snow is white, not blue, because its crystalline structure reflects white light in all directions. Ice is more dense and so appears clear.

Feeding birds!

2009-01-27T12:03:00.000-08:00

I went out to feed the birds in the back garden today, i had just gotten down to the feeder and i started getting strafed by the sparrows, it was loud!!!! There must have been 20 of the little souls in the trees!!! I was either getting yelled at for letting let run out of food or they were getting excited that there was food coming either way it was noisy and funny.

I had then walked back to the house and turned around and there was already birds eating at the feeders, in this frigid weather they need all the help they can get, i put water out too although i am sure it won't be long before the water has frozen over again. I had to get the dogs back in again as they were eating the seeds i had put down for the ground feeders. Honestly the dogs had been fed not more the 15 mins before and there they are eating bird seed!! Blooming dogs!!

So i am happy, i got my snow!! all be it a scattering its at least snow!!!! The ice Storm was not as bad as i thought it would be but I'm sure elsewhere it has been bad.

Addicted to this site!!

2009-01-26T12:09:00.000-08:00

Have become an addict to this game!!!

http://apps.bebo.com/mindjolt/game.jsp?gameKey=CN00XI4BLQAWGSIS

So many gone..

2009-01-19T15:26:00.001-08:00

I am talking about Actors, in the last year we have lost so many good ones. Heath Ledger, Ricardo Montalban, Van Johnson, Paul Newman, Charlton Heston to name but a few. I think it is so wonderful though that we can put in a DVD and these people come back to life, even just for a few short hours their flames burn bright again.

I love to watch movies, especially the classics, the old black and white ones, the gangsters ones, the weepies, the musicals, my fav tv channel is TCM, i can spend hours watching the movies on it. I love the private screenings they have where they talk to the actors and ask them what it was like to work at MGM in the old days, fascinating to hear how they would work and then would visit each other at parties that where thrown by the MGM bosses. It was hard for some to be under the contract of MGM and other movies places, Bette Davis hated it, she tried so hard to get out from under it, she got crap scripts and was contracted to play the part, you would never know from watching the movie wether it was one she had wanted to play in or she had been contracted to play in, she was a consummate professional in all the movies she was in. Same with Katherine Hepburn, she i am sure hated some of the roles she had, but again you would never know it. They truly where Movie Icons, i am sure Heath Ledger had he lived would have gone on to do bigger and better things and been a bigger star than he already was.

2009-01-16T14:59:00.001-08:00

Ugh Finally i am feeling better, i don;t think i have Blown my nose, sneezed, coughed, and swallowed so much SNOT ( yes i said snot, this is my blog and i am going to be disgusting!!!!) in years....i don't know if i had a very HEAVY cold or the flu but i have been sick for 5 days now and i am TIRED of it..... it serves me right of course, i was whining to my hubby that he hadn't kissed me in days last week cos he was sick, then the day he kisses me i come down with what he had, so it's totally my own fault. But oh i have made up for his man flu!!! i whined to him that i needed crushed ice in a tall glass with blue Gatorade and a "bendy" straw!!!! that's what he asked me for last year when he had flu!!!!!( we watch too much Frasier in this house!!!!)HEHEHEHE so of course i asked him for all the nice stuff, he went to the store to get me some medicine and i asked him for some orange juice......he went...came back.....no orange juice....then when i shuffled into the kitchen and asked for a glass of OJ he said...... oh crap i forgot it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i wailed to him its the only thing i asked for.............poor hubby he felt so bad, offered to go back and get it but i said no, queue fit of sneezing and hacking just to make it seem worse......LOL he called me a terrible fraud and poured me a glass of water, i muttered something about choking it down.........bless him hes tried so hard to look after me and i have not made it easy, well its payback for being such a grouch when he was sick....

Love him really!!!!!!!!!!! Hes my sweetie...............Life is never dull with my pooky around!!!!!!!!!!!

Normal service...

2009-01-14T10:59:00.000-08:00

.... Will resume in a couple of days, i am currently laid low with a very bad cold.....yup i caught my Hubby's nasty cold!!!!!!! serves me right!!!!! He fluttered those baby blues at me and i kissed him then voila....i get sick...i knew it was a mistake!!!!!!!!!! but man when he flutters those blues, he makes me weak at the knees!!!!!!! ( am not no grouchy bear like he was though!!!!!!!!!!!))

So give me a couple of days to stop sneezing and having to blow my beak!!!!!!!!!!!

Randomness..

2009-01-09T13:54:00.000-08:00

I had to go to the Dentist on Weds, practically made myself ill over it, all i was doing was having a clean!!!! I am so the biggest coward EVER when it comes to the Dentist. I was sitting there in the office, he has 6 alcove thingys and we all sit there and wait our turns, i get my teeth cleaned, not too much bother until she hit a nerve type bit, made me jump, she said i have a little receding going on there. I felt bad that i jumped and scared her, but it hurt!! She wants the dentist to come and look at my partial,its rubbing a little, so i sit there and wait.......and i hear..........................THE DRILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL....................arghhhhhhhhhhh i was almost out of that chair and gone but i calmed down and told myself its not for you, it's not for you, its for that poor sap sitting in that chair over there....................oh but it was all i could do to sit there and not move, not run for the hills!. Ugh that noise just make me want to be ill, i hate it, makes me go cold even now thinking of it!!! I always worry that when I'm in the dentist's chair that he will say oh yes you need that doing now and he will have me trapped and i won't be able to get away and I'll have to sit there and have needles poked in my mouth and all that goes with it..............ugh.

But i have to say, my dentist chap is very good, he treats me with kindness and sympathy, is very good to me, so much so i went back after he did my root canal, he would stop and ask if i could feel anything and if i did he numbed me up some more so that i couldn't feel it. Of course it helped that i was sky high on two little pills that had me feeling that i could float away on clouds. Bu ti didn't feel anything at all, i also had the happy gas, i didn't quite go to sleep but it was close!. When i got home after it, i slept for a little while, but i found i did not need the painkillers he gave me, and it was bliss not to have the constant pain that my tooth had been giving me,i felt like a new woman!! I had sat and done the crossword too, until i checked it the next day............not one word made any sense!!!!!!!!! it obviously had to me whilst i was doing it but when i looked at it the next day it was complete nonsense, note to self here, "do not try to do crossword when you are still pie eyed from happy pills....."

So i don't have to go back now until July, praise god!! great dentist and no offense but i hate dentists!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (( but he really is very good!!!))

Hubby is better, thankfully, i don;t think he would have seen the weekend if he hadn't been getting better, he was bummed last night when OU lost against Florida,and if i hear Tim Tebow's name once more in the context that he's the best college footballer ever I'm going to throw something, it takes a TEAM people to play, not one person.I really do not know that much about football ( coming from Britain football to me is played with a round ball, on a pitch!! Hence the pic of David Beckham!!) but i do know that it takes a whole team to play the game, but listening to the commentators last night Tim was the only guy on the whole field!!!! OU are still #1 though, i don't care what anyone says, we just didn't have it right on the night,any other night we would have been on top form, but last night is the night that counted!! So congrats and raspberries to Florida, and commiserations to Bob Stoops and OU but we still love ya!!!!!!

WOW

2009-01-08T15:39:00.001-08:00

I discovered the Donkey Rollers on itunes, Silver bullet is AMAZING....i downloaded it to my ipod and its my fav music to workout to now!!!!!!!! I know I'm freeeeeeeeeaky but my eldest son would be proud of me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i downloaded some of their other tracks but silver bullet is amazing!!!!!!!!!! Check them out.

My hubbys Christmas "card"

2009-01-06T12:48:00.000-08:00

This is the "card" i made for my hubby for Christmas, we don't normally give each other cards at Christmas but i wanted to do this for him, it came to me overnight as it were!! When i say "card" it's really an exploding box, i just downloaded a few Christmassy pictures from photobucket and assembled it as you can see. He liked it anyway!!!

Man flu...

2009-01-05T13:52:00.001-08:00

My darling has man flu........do i really need to add anything else to that? If i haven't strangled him before the end of today he will be lucky. He has turned into this grouchy, miserable,whining........... thing. So not like him at all, i don't think i like this man flu man, can i have my old one back please??

It's cold here and we have not had a lick of snow at all so far, i am miserable, i want some snow, at least a little we have it every year, I'm not asking for a huge deluge, just enough to make it look pretty so i can take some pictures!!!!!! It's been snowing back home in the UK, but we have not had anything, OK maybe the odd flake in the wind but that's all. I need some snow people!!!!!! i watch the news avidly thinking my weatherman Dan will take pity on me and forecast some, but no, it's going to warm up here later this week, so no chance there!!!!!!! Oh well, at least i can get outside and escape the whining man!!!!!!!!!!!

Journals

2009-01-02T14:35:00.001-08:00

The journal covers i made for my neices Christmas...

Started New Year..

2009-01-01T15:14:00.000-08:00

With a workout this morning, i REALLY did not want to crawl out of my nice warm bed to go shiver in the living room and workout, but i knew i wanted to start the New Year off right so i did, i did an hour on the treadmill, and 30 Min's of weights and crunches etc..... boy was i tired afterwards, and i didn't really stay up late last night, i saw the Year in with my beloved and we went to bed at like 12.45am. But i was on a high anyway as we measured me yesterday, i have dropped 2 dress sizes!!!!!!!!! the weight might be very slow but the sizing is fast!!!!!!!!! I knew my clothes where fitting better so it has just spurred me on to do better..... so hence the reason i was up and at em!!!!!!! it's working so I'm going to continue with what I've been doing and throwing in the odd surprise or two to wake my body up and not let it get complacent!!!!!!! So watch this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also have my furry companion Hagar, he sits on the wall next to the treadmill trying to figure out if he can jump on my shoulders or not!! I swear he is the worst lurker ever, i get the odd paw on my arm as it comes back when I'm running, almost as if to say ' Keep it up mum I'm watching you!!!"we spar as well, he's a good little boxer!!!!!!! Shame he's the worlds worst cat!!!!!!!!!! Love him anyway!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year to all...

2008-12-31T11:41:00.001-08:00

Random stuff!!

2008-12-30T14:06:00.000-08:00

Christmas goodies we gave to our chiropracters office.

Cat in a bag!!

A First Birthday card.

A few Christmas pics to bore you with!!

2008-12-29T13:26:00.001-08:00

My Step daughter had to crawl under the tree to get to the last of the presents!!

For some it was too much!!

Somethingmade my Hubby laff!!!

Christmas cat, he crawled under here when everyone arrived and we could hear him chewing the ribbons, i kept shooing him out and he kept going in for more!!!!!!!
Hope you all had a great Christmas.

2008-12-23T11:35:00.000-08:00

Real tree or Artificial? I have had real ones, but when Beanie was younger (cat) he would climb in it and one year i lost all my lovely glass ornaments cos he and Sam pulled it over with their fat butts!!! SO now i go artificial.
Do you like eggnog? Nah not really. ..too many calories for one thing....its kind of fattening you know!!
Do you have a nativity scene? yes i have two one that belonged to my hubby's mum and one i have got him for his Christmas village ( its so cute)
Worst Christmas gift you ever received? the first year i was married to my ex, he got me plant pots and shelves, a rubbish bin for the kitchen........no imagination that man.
Favorite Christmas Movie? Has to be "It's a wonderful life" its just so sweet.My fav line is "every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings" love it
Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Hmmm nope don't think i have.......i have recycled bags and bows does that count??!!
Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Turkey, Sausage rolls, mince pies, sweets............oh i could go on i love food!!!!!!
Favorite Christmas song?"Sleigh bells ring are you listening, in the lane snow is glistening."...... By Johnny Mathis of course!!
Travel at Christmas or stay home? I like to stay home, i love my tree, my decorations,i like to cook Christmas dinner, i love this holiday its my fav and i like to be the hostess!! Although we do go elsewhere on occasion.
Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Hmmm OK lets see now, theres Dasher and dancer and Donder and Blitzen, comet and cupid, and of course Rudolph, is that them all?? oh and prancer and vixen............i was thinking there was only 6 but i sang the song and i remembered!!!!
What do you want for Christmas this year? Oh i don't know...........perfume, scrapping stuff,happy smiles
Does Santa wrap presents or just put them under the tree? Oh my gosh he wraps them, i thought everyone knew that????? Putting them under the tree unwrapped who does that????????
Colored lights on house/tree or white? Coloured, white are nice abut i love the colours.
Favorite holiday memory as a child? Us all being together when we were kids, mum baking up a storm in the kitchen, mum making the Christmas cake in October with the money in it!!Just a lot of happy memories!!
When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think i was 12...well that's when mum told me but i knew before then!!!!!!!! too many kids at school with big mouths!!
Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Oh of course!!!!!!!!! i can;t wait I'm a big kid!!!!!!!!
How do you decorate your tree? Lights first then all the glass balls and tinsel and everything else!!!!!!! My fav thing at Christmas is decorating the tree!!
Snow. Love it or dread it? LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
Can you ice skate? Nope never tried, but I'd like to!!!!!!!
Do you remember your favorite gift? Gosh been so many of them, i love anything my Hubby gets me.
What is the most important thing about the holidays to you? Everyone being happy and safe if they travel and being with my hubby.
Which do you prefer, giving or receiving? Oh giving, i get embarrassed when people give me things..... i blush and i hate that!!!!!!!!!
Candy canes. Yum or yuck? YUMMY!!!!!!
Do you dress up for Christmas Eve or wear PJs? Well i think i might dress up for a change i think my hubby gets sick of seeing me slob around!!!!!!!!!!
Do you own a Santa hat? Yup and you wont see me in it as it shows my big ears off!!!!!!!!!
Who do you usually spend Christmas with? My best friend, my darling Hubby.

Thanks to dust bunny for me stealing this !!!!!!!!!!

I am being driven insane...

2008-12-22T09:53:00.000-08:00

Slowly and surely i am being driven insane by my animal's and my house.... My dishwasher is on the fritz again, and i have 9 people to dinner on Thursday............ugh, i could just throw that piece of junk out the door, never EVER buying Maytag again.......EVER. Hubby has looked at it, cleaned the filter on it checked the valve and it's still not working, he's going to have another look this afternoon, what is the point in having an unreliable machine???? i could kick it. I told hubby we are eating off paper plates and using plastic on Thursday, and I'm deadly serious cos I'm NOT standing washing dishes on Christmas day whilst everyone else is having fun...NO WAY. You know what its like when you have the family over, everyone seems to disappear when the words washing and dishes rears its ugly head!!!!! I got some heavy duty paper plates and plastic forks, if anyone is affronted by that then they are more than welcome to eat of the china as long as THEY wash it!!!!!!!!!!! Heck I'm supplying the food the least they could do is wash their own plate they are all old enuff!!!!!!!!!

As you can gather one is not in the best of moods today, the dogs are in the house as its really cold outside and i think they have gone loopy,they have to be crated as i have cats and one of my cats was murdered by my Step daughters pit bull and my two joined in with the murdering so they get crated, also the dachshund is not house trained and he will pee and poop where ever he wants too and i got brand new carpet so guess what, you get crated little dog!! ( he was a foundling dog, got rescued from heavens knows where and was a bag of bones when we go him, he is now known as dumpling dog cos hes a little chunky!!!!) i swear though when i feed them you would think they had never been fed in their lives and if there's no tidbits in their food i get "the look".......... now the look consists of a pathetic look directed your way that says in dog speak, "um excuse me lady, there nothing but dog food in here, where's the good stuff huh?? you seriously cannot expect me to eat this???" then there is the sigh and the begrudging consumption of the meagre rations for that day.
Boomer ( the Dal) when it is time to go out to pee, will leisurely stretch when he is let out of his crate, walks slowly to the door and then i have to push him out with my foot, its cold out there you know!!!!!!! every morning its the same then as soon as hes done its whining time to come back in even though poor scooter has just about trotted to his fav spot!! Boomer is not a lover of the cold, he has a comfy crate with a pillow and a blanket and its right in front of a blowing heater..................bliss to him, Scooter has a pillow and a blanket also and he buries himself under it, many a morning i have to wait whilst he extracts himself from the tangle his has made himself!! Oh and whilst they are out doing what they need to, guess who has moved into the crates?? The cats......all snuggled up on the blankets, i swear those cats can hear the dogs go out over a mile away. They can be nowhere to be seen then as soon as the dogs get back in i have to extricate 3 cats from poor old Boomers crate. I get the "other look" then, the one from Boomer that says..." oh the indignities, now i have to smell like a cat" The cats are another story, they rule this house, i have to walk carefully as you never know when Hagar or Cy will come zooming past you at about 100 miles and hour, they fly over furniture and do not leave anything shiny on a coffee table or Cy will have it off there and he will be admiring his new shiny toy on the floor and then....it's gone. I swear he is either a pack rat or a magpie..........he loves shiny things.........i had a nice bracelet once.............. he ran off with it.

Take a look...

2008-12-21T12:09:00.001-08:00

At lou's blog, she does great work...

http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/2008/12/20/christmas-mini-album-pages-6-7-plus-150-give-a-way/

a few of my fav's...

2008-12-21T11:45:00.000-08:00

A picture blog today, some of my fav deccy's on the tree... i brought this one over from Britain with me, it's a fat British Robin, i have 3 of them!!!

These globes you plug into your strand of lights, they change colour and there is a switch at the bottom that you can turn on and off and it will rotate whats inside of it, needs batteries of course so i only put them on at weekends but they are so pretty. I have the nativity, church,Santa, snowman and a tree one. Had lots of compliments on them so i bought some for family as gifts this year.

A couple of things i made..

2008-12-19T11:55:00.001-08:00

I have been busy this week!!! I made a card yesterday for my hubby's mum's birthday, i thought this picture was so pretty. It's just some lace on the back of it and a couple of buttons and ribbon but it turned out really nicely.

The second things is just a twig sprayed silver with some glitter spray on it and some shop bought ornamental pine cones, it turned out so pretty also. I was worried the cats would dig in the pot as it has dirt in it, but so far they have left it alone!!! I can't have a single real plant in the house, they chew on leaves and dig in the pots so all i have are artificial ones!! I even bought an artificial spiky plant for the bathroom and thought it would be safe, oh no Hagar ( the evil one and naughtiest cat int he world) starts chewing on the ends of it, every day i would go in there and see little bits of chewed plant on the vanity unit, so we had to move it up to a shelf, i mean it was PLASTIC, but he chewed it anyway. I have a lucky bamboo plant in my bedroom, i have to keep it in there cos he chews on it!!!!!!!! If he sneaks in there whilst my back is turned or my arms are full of laundry i have to chase him out of the room as he Will get out from his hiding spot and go chew the plant. I am telling you the naughtiest cat in the world, this morning for instance I'm on the treadmill, now there is a wall right by it with a place he can sit on, so there i am working away on the treadmill and he decides he's going to jump on my back, SCARED THE PEA WADING CRAP OUT OF ME!!!!!!!! i screamed, i know i did cos i heard it over the ipod!!!!!!!!!!scared him too cos he jumped off and ran off!!!!!!! i thought for a moment it was my hubby playing a joke on me til i felt claws......... what on earth he thought he was going to do sitting on my shoulder whilst i ran i do not know, later on he tried it again only this time i saw him out of the corner of my eye....turkey!!!! i said to my hubby later that i could have been screaming for help and he wouldn't have heard a thing!!!!!!! Of course he stuck up for the "baby" ( hes 2 by the way, the cat not my hubby!!) he was trying to encourage me by riding on my shoulder was the excuse he came up with, lets just establish right here that Hagar can do NO wrong in my hubby's eyes!!!!!!!!!

Had a hawk in my garden today as well, he had what looked like a rat in his claws, sitting in one of my trees scoffing it, might have been a kestrel but i think he was too big for that, not sure if you have sparrowhawks over here, i will need to look that up unless someone can tell me? I just hope he wasn't after the birds in my yard, i don't want to have to chase him off as hawks need to eat too, but i don't want him picking my garden to use as his menu!!!!!!!!!!!!

That;s it I'm out of here for the weekends, got a busy busy time set up for this weekend.!!!!!

New ornaments

2008-12-18T11:13:00.001-08:00

When i was on vacation in September with my sis i found some nice ornaments of states, i got Oklahoma, Montana,Arizona and New Mexico, i tool some pics of these the other day. I couldn't find the New Mexico one on the tree, i know its there as my hubby put in on there, its on there somewhere, i was just too lazy to look too hard!!

I worked out this morning and kicked it up a notch well 5 Min's anyway, i put my treadmill to 60 Min's, i thought i was meant to get a 90 sec break but noooooo i ran for 30 secs and then i get a 60 sec break............oh my,i thought i was dying!!!!!!!!!! i had to slow it down a couple of times so i could get my breath!!! not sure if it was my asthma but man i couldn't breathe!!!! 5 Min's might not seem a lot in the grand scheme of things but when your overweight and your running you are running with that fat and its hard work!!! i thought i moved pretty good for a fat girl but boy...........i weighed the other day and had put on a pound i was so mad, but i am getting more toned and i have lost a couple of dress sizes, so its working, i just have to leave the m&m's alone!!!!!!!!! i now weigh 205lbs now and a lot more to go!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-12-17T11:37:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhc1r2b5h2A

I love this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please feed the birds..

2008-12-16T14:22:00.000-08:00

With the weather being so cold and frigid please don't forget our feathered brethren, they need food and water at this time of year, especially when its icy. I feed mine a mix of sunflower seeds, millet and a host of other things in a bag!! I love to watch them, i fed them this morning and about 2 hours later it was gone!! So i had to refill it, i get a lot of sparrows but yesterday i had a blue jay and then today i had a cardinal ( my absolute favs!!) i get mockingbirds and assorted finches, also please DO NOT PUT ANTI FREEZE in the water you will kill them as it is a poison ( yes people do put anti freeze in the water) they are so cute to watch. You will be rewarded with watching them squabble for a good position on the bird table or hanging feeders!! So please feed and water them, they need it this time of year!!!!!!!!

Christmas shopping...

2008-12-15T14:12:00.000-08:00

Yuck.......we went to target and wal-mart yesterday, all i can say is never again at Christmas. i was looking for gifts for the Grand kids in Nebraska, left it a little late i know but we've been snowed under with other stuff.So here we were at target, i had looked at the Sunday ad and they had some good games on offer, well i tried to get down the toy aisle, in fact i tried twice before i just put my head down and shoved my way through (I'm too nice i say sorry for things other people have done!!) i got to the games and got the last connect 4 they had out and managed to find sorry (how apt!!) then it was the turn of the baby dolls...............oh my there are some ugly baby dolls out there!!!!!!!!i didn't like the ones they had so i knew wal.mart had a nice one so i would go there and get it. People do not like getting out of the way or moving over at all, there were people blocking aisle's, pulling stuff of shelves, i mean it looked like a bomb had gone off in some aisles!! toys not put back on shelves, kids playing with toys, kids wandering around on their own, no parents to be seen!!! The rest of the store was busy but manageable!! Wal-mart wasn't much better, i guess we picked the wrong day to go shopping!! I never really looked at the toys out there today, my two boys are teenager and early twenties so they are long out of the toy stage!! but there seems to be more electronic toys, i liked a talking my little pony, it was cute!! and they had some cute talking soft toys, but man the prices!! it;s nice to have girls to buy for i can indulge my girlie side, never having had one its nice to buy toys that are pretty and not boyish!! there seems to be more variety for girls or is it me??

2008-12-12T10:34:00.000-08:00

Someone sent me this in an email, i laffed till i cried!!!!!!! so funny!!!!!

http://adoniscabaret.co.uk/saucy-santa-hen-night/index.htm

Busy weekend coming up, got some holiday goodies to bake, shopping to do and its the Christmas jingle bell ticket draw in town, got my tickets in my hot little hand!!!!!!!!!!!! We might be 10,000 bucks richer on Monday!! wouldn't that be a nice Christmas prezzie!!!!!!!!!!!

Been a busy week, got all the British contingency's prezzies sent and cards sent, just a few more prezzies to buy and I'm done!!!!!!! got to buy the turkey though, i don't know who is coming for Christmas but we are having turkey no matter what!!! Christmas just isn't Christmas without turkey. Got my crackers last saturday, got one more decoration to make, and i'm good!!!!!!!! Have a good weekend all.

Cute

2008-12-11T15:23:00.000-08:00

I thought these little chaps looked cute, i got an email from better homes and gardens and this was one of the homemade items, i may give them a try!!

2008-12-10T14:49:00.000-08:00

My Christmas cards for this year, a lot of work, mainly typing and assembly but once i had done one or two it got easier.If you want to use these please do but you may want to e.mail me for the whole poem, i could only find part of it so i had to make up the rest.

Update on Boomer and some Chrissy pics!!

2008-12-09T13:41:00.000-08:00

A pic of Boomer before the ear trouble, see a BIG baby!!!!!!!!!!

Well our poor Dalmatian boomer has a hemotoma in his ear, its puffed up like a bladder, poor thing, my Darling hubby took him to the V.E.T and they took some fluid out and gave him some antibiotics and some pain killers cos its got to be hurting him poor thing. Looks like we may have to get him some surgery on it, it just keeps filling with fluid, thing is its going to cost in the region of 350 to 390 dollars, right at christmas and right when we don;t have that kind of money. But its got to be done, we may ask if they will let us pay in installments we could maybe afford that. Why does this kind of stuff ALWAYS happen at Christmas, i know in the grand scheme of things its really no biggie, but right now when things are tight and we still have grandkids pressies to buy its a big deal.But it's the price you pay for having pets, they cannot help themselves and when you take in an animal its all or nothing and he needs to have his ear done.He is trying to be brave and he seems to be alot better today although its filled with fluid again, we can take that off ourselves, but it will eventually have to be operated on, he was a big baby at the V.E.T.'s though, i knew he would be!!!!!!!!he is 82 pounds of big blubbering canine baby!!!!! but we love him!!!

We put our outdoor Christmas lights up on sunday, i took some pics, took the flash off but it blurred but i actually like them!! they may be blurred here and there but it looks nice an dfestive anyway so im putting a couple on here for you to look at!!Oh and we got a new tree topper too, we have the box fro our old one but no topper, we have looked and lokked and looked and its nowhere to be found, so we went and got this one, that was before we knew Boomer needed his ear fixed!!!!!!! we got this for 50% off!!!!!!!! Oh well.... we had money for a while there!!!!!!!

It's Monday...

2008-12-08T13:06:00.000-08:00

It's Monday and don't i know it! i worked out this morning and it was like wading through mud, my poor knee and hip where hurting, its the cold, i have arthritis in my left knee and it just takes a little longer to get going of a morning!! But i still did my 50 mins on the treadmill, going to up it to 55 on Wednesday, keep the same program but just add 5 more mins, i think i can cope with that. Weigh-in tomorrow, see if i have lost anything, i may not have but i know my clothes are fitting a whole lot better, which spurs me onward.

Our poor Dalmatian Boomer has a swollen ear, looks like he and scooter his best pal have been rough housing a little too hard and nicked his ear a little, it looks to us like its infected, i suspect the vet will lance it and give him antibiotics, so hes going to be a little sorry for himself when he gets back.I think a treat will be in order when he comes home. Poor thing.

My bro sent me some puzzle books from home, i love Kriss Kross books and he always sends me some, every few months or so, well this time the package arrived torn, i think there would have been more then the two that got here, it was torn completely open at one end and half way down the side, i hate to think what the post office have been doing with it to get it in such a state. I am grateful i even got the two that did come in it. So thanks bro.

So that is Monday...........yuck!!!

2008-12-05T12:19:00.001-08:00

You Are Rudolph

Sweet and shy, you tend to be happiest when you're making someone else happy.

Why You're Naughty: You sometimes stick that nose where it doesn't belong

Why You're Nice: Christmas would be a sad affair without you!

Which of Santa's Reindeer Are You?

I love these..

2008-12-04T12:03:00.000-08:00

These old fashioned Christmas postcards are just so nice, there's a market in town that sells all sorts of old things, people have booths and when they find stuff they have it for sale ,i was with my darling today in the market and they had some postcards from days gone by. The writing on them is always so neat and always done of course in old fashioned ink pen. It just makes me smile when i see them, i wonder who these people were, where they lived what kind of lives they had. Some of the artwork on them is so pretty, so it prompted me to look up when the first one was sent, this is what i found..........

The sending of greeting cards at Christmas began in the Victorian era. Although wood engravers produced prints with religious themes in the European Middle Ages, the first commercial Christmas and New Year's card is believed to have been designed and printed in London, England in 1843.
John Callcott Horsley (born 1817-- died 1903), a British narrative painter and a Royal Academician, designed the very first Christmas and New Year's card at the request of his friend Sir Henry Cole (the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Cole suggested the idea of a specially designed form of greeting to send to friends at Christmas. In 1843 an edition of 1,000 of these Christmas cards were printed and placed on sale in London . They were printed in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick Court, Holborn, London, and hand-colored by a professional "colourer" named Mason. The cards were published under Sir Henry Cole's nom de guerre, "Felix Summerly"—by his friend Joseph Cundall, of New Bond Street...

So i thought that was jolly interesting. Did not surprise me one bit it was invented in jolly old London!! So i have learnt something today. I may go back tomorrow and get me a couple of the ones i was looking at.

Tinsel cat!!

2008-12-03T13:54:00.000-08:00

Hagar playing in the tinsel.

The naughtiest cat in the world!!!!

2008-12-02T11:31:00.000-08:00

here he is looking extremely cute and like butter would not melt!!!! But trust me when i say he is the worst cat in the world, i mean into EVERYTHING!!! He's 2 i expected him to grow out of this phase, but so far he has shown no intentions of doing so!!!! My Christmas tree is surviving but only just!!!

More cards that i have made..

2008-12-01T13:11:00.001-08:00

I jogged!!!

2008-11-19T14:42:00.000-08:00

I have a great Treadmill with some great programs on it, i have been doing my new workout routine and my hubby said i needed to "up" my treadmill workout. So i tried a diff program that had me jogging!!!!!!! Yes me!!!! i only did the prog for 30 mins and you had 90 secs of resting just a walking pace then for 30 secs it had me at a jogging pace, it kept this up for 30 mins!!!!! and i did it!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOEEEYYYYY!!!! I was knackered at the end of it though and boy did i ever sweat, then i did crunches and sat in an exhausted heap on the floor, but i did it baby!!!!!!!!!!!

Maytag suck...

2008-11-17T13:29:00.000-08:00

.......or maybe its me, we bought this dishwasher back in 06, we had to take out a cupboard to put it in and plumb it in and all that good stuff. Well i was over the moon, no more having to wash dishes by hand, having people over and me stuck in the kitchen washing hoards of dishes because i can;t just relax knowing they are in there.........waiting..................drying food on them. I have to get in there and wash them, i cannot stand it and i cannot relax. So for our wedding anniversary that year we decided to get a dishwasher, or was it my birthday.... hmmmm. ANYWAY!!! we got it, went to the store to pick that baby out, money was fairly tight but we had a decent budget, we decided on the Maytag one. Black and pretty!!! ( i love new appliances!!!) so we took the little thing home and were all excited!!!

Yeah well that was until we had to take out the cupboard, which we knew we were going to have to anyway, but did not realise it was a job and a half.Two days later and we had the hole, it took two days as my hubby was on shifts so he would fit it in when he had time. He put the plumbing in,wired it up,slid it in and away we went.... GREAT. Til a few months later it started making a grinding noise, that lasted a few weeks but we couldn't see anything wrong with it, we had peeps out to look at it and nothing. then as soon as it started grinding it stopped it. All was good until 2 weeks after the warranty ran out.................................it stopped working all together. Oh i was so mad at it, i wasn't about to pay for the man to come out again as it would cost us a fortune, so we turned off the water, unplugged it and took it to a little man that can.... fix things!!!!!!!!! told him if it was going to cost more than 150 bucks to fix it not to bother we would go buy an second hand one,but it only cost about 80 bucks. Hoorah, fixed and back in the house.....all is right in the world again.......until about 7 months later and it stops working again, but this time my Hubby got it working.......until last week when it once again packed up on us. This time hubby could not get it going, he had to go get a part for it as the little man that could doesn't fix em anymore, more money to be made in A/C's apparently!!!

So i am once again washerless and hubby is on nights, so no washer, all by hand again, that's why i'm putting off going in there to wash them, i keep looking at the washer and sighing.......and of course calling it all the names i can think of, don't think i will be buying a Maytag again.....i had a Hotpoint washer dryer once that blew up on me so i have never even looked at another Hotpoint.............but thats a whole other story of flashing lights and sirens and smoke....................and bright red luminous fire engines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would love one of these.....

2008-11-14T09:48:00.000-08:00

IF MY SISTER HADN'T SCOFFED THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For weeks since she went back to Scotland she has been saying she will send me some..........well i'm still waiting sis of mine, the min she gets any they are scoffed by her......or her daughters!!!!!!!! She says they just call to her......hmmmmmmmmm well stop listening!!!!!!!! Love you really sis!!!!!!!!!!! hmmm i hear a three musketeers bar calling my name......................must go................

2008-11-12T09:14:00.001-08:00

This picture goes with the song Time in a bottle..... I love this man with my whole heart and soul!!! He is my reason to get up in the morning.....I would never want to be without him..... Love you Pooky!!!!!!!!!

Another moving story of WW1

2008-11-11T10:36:00.001-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7720299.stm

I've posted a few blogs the last couple of weeks about remembrance, i just think we really should never forget. So much was sacrificed so that we today could have the lifestyle that we live. You know we can fly to almost anywhere in the world safely ( well relatively safely in this terror climate) we get to move around our home countries freely, we can do so much thanks to those that fought and died for their countries. So much is said about bringing troops home from Iraq and such places, but if we do then those people that live there will face tyranny and death in large numbers, torture, any number of cruelties. I don;t know what the answer is, as i certainly don;t want anymore troops dying out there, so if you have a spare min or two today, bow your head and remember those that fought in wars past and those that fight in wars today.

OOOooooeeeyyy Gooey...

2008-11-10T12:47:00.001-08:00

I made these babies yesterday....ooooooooo they are so good, can't eat just one though!!!

12 ounce(s) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
11 1/2 ounce(s) 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Chips
6 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter
3 eggs
1 cup(s) sugar
1/3 cup(s) all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
1 cup(s) chopped walnuts

Directions

In double boiler over hot water, melt bittersweet chocolate chips and butter. In large bowl with electric mixer or whisk, beat eggs and sugar until thick; stir into chocolate mixture. In small bowl, stir together flour and baking powder; stir into chocolate mixture. Gently mix in semi-sweet chocolate chips and walnuts. Using a sheet of plastic wrap, form dough into two logs, each 2 inches in diameter and about 12 inches long. As dough will be quite soft, use plastic wrape to hold dough in log shape. Wrap tightly; refrigerate at least 1 hour or until firm. (Dough may be frozen; thaw in refrigerator before proceeding with recipe.) Heat oven to 375°F. Unwrap dough; with sharp knife, cut into 3/4-inch slices. Place slices 1 1/2 inches apart on greased or parchment-lined cookie sheet.
Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until shiny crust forms on top but interior is still soft. Cool on baking sheet; store in airtight tin up to 1 week.

Ghirardelli Cooking choc is the best to use, they are fabu!!!!!!!!!

Lest we forget...

2008-11-09T21:07:00.001-08:00

An amazing story

2008-11-09T21:04:00.000-08:00

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/08/together-for-remembrance-sunday-the-last-of-the-tommies-a-little-girl-whose-father-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice-in-iraq-115875-20879412/

An amazing man and a little girl...

Look at Billy BOB!!!!!!

2008-11-06T14:07:00.000-08:00

I made "Billy Bob" for my sister, it was a felt kit and i just could not resist him!!!! Hes so cute, he will be winging his way to Edinburgh come Christmas time!!!!

Another card!!

2008-11-06T14:05:00.000-08:00

For my Step Son-in-law, who loves Eric Clapton!!

2008-10-22T11:47:00.001-07:00

please wear a poppy the lady said and held one forth, but i shook my head.
then i stopped and watched as she offered them there,
and her face was old and lined with care,
but beneath the scars the years had made there remained a smile that refused to fade.
a boy came whistling down the street,bouncing along on care-free feet.
his smile was full of joy and fun,lady, said he, may i have one?
when she's pinned it on he turned to say,why do we wear a poppy today?
the lady smiled in her wistful way and answered, this is remembrance day,
and the poppy there is the symbol, forthe gallant men who died in war,
and because they did, you and i are free,thats why we wear a poppy,
you see.i had a boy about your size,with golden hair and big blue eyes.
he loved to play and jump and shout,free as a bird he would race about.
as the years went by he learned and grewand became a man - as you will, too.
he was fine and strong, with a boyish smile,
but he'd seemed with us such a little while when war broke out and he went away.
i still remember his face that day when he smiled at me and said, goodbye,
i'll be back soon, mom, so please dont cry.but the war went on and he had to stay,
and all i could do was pray.his letters told of the awful night,
(i can see it still in my dreams at night),with the tanks and guns and cruel barbed wire,
and the mines and bullets, the bombs and fire.till at last, at last, the war was won-and thats why we wear a poppy my son.the small boy turned as if to go,the said, thanks lady, i'm glad to know.but your son- did he come back all right?a tear rolled down each faded cheek,she shook her head, but didn't speak.i slunk away in a sort of shame,and if you were me you'd have done the same,for our thanks, in giving,if oft delayed,thought for freedom was bought- and thousands paid!and so when we see a poppy worn,let us reflect on the burden borne,by those who gave their very all when asked to answer their country's call that we at home in peace might live.then wear a poppy! remember- and give.

PLEASE remember on the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour.

My Sisters visit

2008-10-07T14:20:00.000-07:00

My niece, My Sis and my darling hubby

The little papoose my niece and my Sister!!!

Oh how i miss her, she went back on Sept the 23 and my life has a hole in it!.

We hadn't seen each other in 18 years, due to some odd circumstance prob best forgotten and indeed i can't really remember what went on. Our Mum had just died and then she lost her oldest daughter to an accident and it just "happened". So after i had divorced and moved onwards i tried to locate both of them. I have never lost touch with my brother but i had not spoken to the sisters in years. He didn't even know where they where, we were fairly sure they still lived in Scotland but i had no way of knowing if they where still in Edinburgh or had moved on. I had moved on you see, i now lived in the US so i know they had no idea where i was. So with the advice of my hubby echoing in my ears i tried to locate them, i cant tell you how many hours i searched the Internet, keying in various forms of their name and their children's names but there would always be hoards of names like theirs and with money being tight the sites that wanted me to pay for the information would just have to keep it!!

BUT one day in 2007 i went to a UK site that i had been with since 03, i hadn't checked in quite a while so i keyed in her name and lo and behold there it was!!!!!!!!! My sister, absolutely it was her, the info she had put in there exactly matched her. So i sent an email to the site to send to her. I heard nothing back, so after a week i decided to key in my other sisters sons name, located him also, he was on there, so i emailed him and heard back that very night, i had found one of them at least!!!!!!!!!!! So that night i had found my nephew and he called his sis and told her you will never guess what has just happened..........then she emailed me also. I got her email, his email and her myspace. I can;t even begin to tell you how i felt, then i got their MSN messenger ims and started to talk to them. Then i chatted to my sister via her daughter cos she is not computer literate!! But i had found them, then i got my other Sister's MSN and i was talking to her also!!!!!!!!!!! It was the best day, we talked for hours exchanging news, they were so surprised that i was in the US, all the news and gossip from years and years!!!!!!

So fast forward to Sept, one of them was coming over with her youngest daughter to see me and my Darling hubby. When we saw each other at the airport it was one of the most emotional days of my life. There was one of my big sisters walking towards me!!!! and her daughter, who was tiny the last time i had seen her!! I burst into tears and just hugged her and hugged her, she hugged me back and could not believe it either!!!!!!!! It was like a slow motion dream and it was wonderful. The whole 3 weeks she was here we talked and talked and talked, we managed to fit in a road trip too!!! We took them to Arizona to Tombstone, ,The Petrified forest, Carlsbad Caverns, The Grand Canyon it has been her life's dream to see it and we obliged her!!!!!!!!!! I have not talked so much nor laughed so much in my whole life!! I miss them both dearly and hope they hurry back SOON.

The cricket and what happened to him!!!

2008-08-28T10:00:00.001-07:00

Well lets see, he kept my Hubby up the next night HAHAHA.............sorry its just normally the man can sleep through anything, and had no sympathy for me when i told him of my cricket saga.....so the next night i hear the dreaded bug singing away for all he was worth, and i hear grumbling, and whining, so i said "well now do you believe me when i say he is LOUD????" so i feel the bed move which means Dh is out of bed and hot on the trail of the dratted bug. So i snuggle down thinking i will hear the "SMACK" of a shoe or rolled up magazine as the pesky annoyance is severely dealt with. The singing is continuing, i can hear Dh staggering around in the dark, the beam of a torch sweeping the room. Then i hear...............................................nothing..............................silence.........................so i'm thinking ahhhhh peace..................and i go to sleep.

So i ask the dh the next day how did you kill the bug so quietly? "Well" says he looking everywhere but at me, "I didn't", so i look at him saying "so what did you do with him??" "well, i put him outside" OUTSIDE?" says i "OUTSIDE?" i am shrieking now cos i know the little devil will be back................"what are you thinking???????????" " you know the little sod will be back and probably bringing his new found family and friends with him...why didn't you flatten him???????????????????" " well" says Dh ( he seems to like that word!) he was singing so nicely i hadn't the heart to flatten him, so i picked him up in a tissue and threw him outside" I think that is when i snorted and told him that if he came back with a whole host of relatives that he had better hope i had taken a sleeping tablet and i couldn't hear him, cos there would be DIRE repercussions!!!!!!!!!!
All has been quite on the cricket in the bedroom front, BUT the cats on the other hand have been having a high old time with them, i have no idea how the bugs get in ( and when i do find the place i am having it sealed)...........anyway, i see the cats all in a circle ( i have 3 of them) looking intently at something........so i ask dh what they are looking at, he mutters something unintelligible and i sigh and get up to go look..............................i shriek and say to dh "oh yuck its a cricket with no legs.......... can't you do something?" well he says no and mutters something else about study and having a test etc..................and can't i do something?.........................i freeze...........................can't I DO SOMETHING?.............................you have to understand that i hate things that crawl, i don't like insects of any kind well ladybirds are an exception, but mostly i am scared to death, unless i have shoe, rolled up paper or the hoover nearby.SO i think ok, i know Dh really does have a test and study to do........so i think i can do this, it has no legs how hard can it be?? so i bravely go and get a tissue and attempt FOUR times to pick this thing up, each time i am so grossed out i can't do it..............so then i steeeeeeel myself...............i pick it up in the tissue....................................................................................................and promptly start shrieking again cos the thing MOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has no legs but it tried to move anyway and i felt it. I dropped that tissue with legless cricket in it and ran for the hoover, why i didn't do that in the first place i do not know..........i sucked that puppy up, took the compartment with it in and threw it in the rubbish bin............dh meanwhile is laffing so hard that tears are streaming down his face, i am not amused and i tell him so. Meanwhile the 3 cats are peering into the dark through the screen door cos they just know their toy was out there someplace............ some days i hate those cats!

Bad Blogger!!

2008-08-28T09:58:00.000-07:00

Oh i am a terrible blogger!!! I can leave it for weeks before i post anything, but then again i'm a boring person so i have nothing to blog about!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blood sucker in my room!!

2008-08-15T09:08:00.000-07:00

Ok, i think their may be a mosquito in my bedroom, the last few days i have woken up to find little red spot on my legs and they are itchy, i know its not fleas as i had the cats de-fleaed not too long ago and i'm not allergic to fleas but i am to mozzies.When those little devils bite i get huge welts and they itch like the dickens. So the question is where is the little bugger?? i walked around my room this morning peering up at the ceiling, i will get you, you little sod, oh and i've been sick all week with a fever and a really sore throat so if you sucked my blood i hope it was poisoned!!!!!!!!

Also i am very tired, i have a rain machine in my room to drown out the noises of cars etc. Well last night a bloody cricket chirped for 2 whole hours non stop, well he only stopped when i got up to go to the bathroom and i guess he thought i was coming to batter him......well i got back into bed and he starts up again, so i lay there fuming for about 5 Min's, got up with my torch ( flashlight) and started to hunt the little sod down, so i get to the old disused Gas wall mounted heater and that's where he is hiding, i could swear i heard laughter as i pulled down the little door there to see if i could see him......all the time i am doing this he has stopped that infernal chirping...............but of course i couldn't see him and if if i could have i doubt i could have gotten anything in there to kill him off! So i trudge back to bed and get in, pull the sheet over me and it STARTS AGAIN, that bloody chirping.................i know that little sod waited for me to get back into bed and get comfy so he could start again, he had to be watching me. I forgot to mention that whilst i was looking for him i could here in the not too far distance another one, now i don't know if he was in the house or outside but he was singing away also, so i know he was talking to him. I lay and seethed somemore, half an hour later it STOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh the sheer bliss, all i could here was sweet blessed rain machine..........and then....................my hubby starts snoring...............oh my gosh was i meant to get any sleep tonight?????????

Card for an anniversary

2008-08-14T13:37:00.000-07:00

New card...

2008-08-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

Newly painted!!!

2008-07-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

Afters!!!!.........

Before shots....

We have just finished painting our living room, what a job!! we had horrible wood panelling on one wall and in the hallway. So we decided to paint over it, so we had to fill the grooves and sand it and fill it and sand it! Then we were able to put the base coat "Chocolate Froth" on, boy did it ever lighten that room up, we had a texture paint to put on top of that, "Bellagio Faux" depending on what colour base coat you pick you then get the texture paint to put on top of it. It has small balls of paint in it that you "splat" with a trowel looking thing, we picked the one that had a greyish tint due to the silver metallic paint thats in there....its so pretty it looks like wallpaper. We chose to go with Louvre blinds and get rid of the venetian ones, i hated them anyway!!All in all we are very VERy happy with it, it looks so brigth in there now, all we have to do now is get the carpet!!! Watch this space as they say!!!

More cards..

2008-07-08T14:17:00.000-07:00

Just a few cards i made over the last 2 weeks.

Fathers day Card

2008-06-20T14:03:00.000-07:00

More cards

2008-06-01T12:53:00.001-07:00

Close up of flower

Get well card

Birthday Card

My son

2008-05-14T10:14:00.000-07:00

My son flew back to Britain on Friday, i am so sad, i howled in the airport, howled going back to the car and howled all the way home ( and hour and 20 mins). Then when i got home i went into his room and sat and on the bed and howled some more. i think my poor hubby thought i was having a breakdown of some sort!! No i was just very very sad. i know he will come back but it was just nice having him here, hearing him whistle around the house, telling him to turn his music down, you know all the stuff that 20 year olds drive you to distraction doing. But i enjyoyed telling him, he made me laff he made me cry and it was so wonderful. i miss you son, come back soon.

2008-04-24T09:50:00.000-07:00

Ok so i am now over my pneumonia ( at last) We got the statement form the insurance company, i noticed my Doc's office charge 88 bucks for a shot.....................i told my hubby he could have given it to me and that would have saved some money, but then i looked at the expression that came over his face and thought, MAYBE not!! I think there would have been a little bit TOO much happiness in that shot and he would have maybe stuck the needle in a little harder than it should have been!!!!!! Those shots sting, its not the needle its the stuff they have in it, she said it would sting, i was ok for a second or two then whammo!!!! i mean i was going ow, oh ow, ow ow ow. They made me sit for 15 mins cos i am allergic to penicillin and the shot the gave me they wanted to make sure i wasn't going to have an ill effects from, but when i stood up to come out OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!!!!!! i was rubbing it for ages trying to get it to stop hurting. I know, i am a puss as my hubby likes to call me!!!!!!! He says he knows i could never be a drug addict..... i would faint at the sight of the needle........not sure if that is a compliment or not......somehow i think not!!!!!! But all is well and i am better, thank you lord!

More made stuff!!

2008-04-24T09:43:00.001-07:00

Just a few of the ones i made this month, i have 11 or 12 birthdays in May and i had to make all of my cards for them. i have decided against buying cards, i can never find one that i like and they sare so expensive. I already have all the paper and stuff i need so i make em!!!!!! But May is the busiest month of the year to make cards.

Not creeping crud!!!

2008-03-26T09:07:00.001-07:00

OK so it was not the creeping crud it is pneumonia!!!!!!!!!! I was shocked when they told me that on Friday at the Doc's. They gave me a chest x-ray and then came and told me i have pneumonia! I had to have a shot and a breathing treatment, i was doing the breathing treatment at the time the nurse stuck me!!! its very hard to breathe in stuff when you are going OW OW OW!!!!!!! I was trying not to laugh at the same time, cos she did warn me it was going to hurt!!!
So pneumonia, yuck,i had to Google it, as i wasn't really sure what it was, i mean i "know" its bad but i didn't know to what extent it can be bad. I am exhausted to be honest, even walking across the room wears me out, and cough, good grief!!I could cough for England!! I have to go back later today to see if the stuff they have given me is working. I have an inhaler and cough syrup and an antibiotic to take every day.
I am banning sick people from my house PERIOD. If they have the merest sniffle or cough do not come to my house.I don't care who they are, it could be her Maj the Queen for all i care, i am done being sick and i am not going to let you come to my house and give me some other nasty crap to get sick over. SO, don't ask me to babysit,cuddle,hold hands,clean up after, touch a door handle,WHATEVER,i am not doing it and i will fumigate you if you walk over my threshold. I have Lysol and i am NOT AFRAID TO USE IT. You have been warned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Creeping crud

2008-03-18T14:04:00.000-07:00

Well crap i got it again, this is the second time in 3 weeks that i have lost my voice. I went to the Sil's at the weekend, my sd's kids are sick my sd is sick and now i have caught a chest infection AGAIN.I was holding my Sd's baby and he has a chest infection so i think i caught it from him. All i know is i am sick and tired of coughing and croaking. At least i have a notepad to write stuff down, but really, enough already i am done with getting sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Some cards made this week....

2008-02-08T14:16:00.000-08:00

Card made for a friend to give on Valentines. Card for my son.

Card for an Anniverssry..

Close up of Tear Bear

Another Valentine...

bears!!!

Thats it!!!!!!! I'm done for this years Valentines day!!!!!!!!

Love it!!!

2008-02-08T12:41:00.007-08:00

So tragic

2008-01-23T09:15:00.001-08:00

So unbelieveably sad. Tragic. A waste.RIP Heath, you will be missed.

A card for my Niece

2008-01-16T13:18:00.000-08:00

Lots of sparklies on this one!!!!

Ice Storm 2007

2007-12-11T08:39:00.000-08:00

This is the picture i send to KJRH and they used it!!!!!!! i was famous for 3 seconds!!!

We have been hammered and hammered hard, when i look outside it's just so sad, all around all you can see are snapped of tree branches. I hate to say it looks like a war zone but it does, you see the trees encased in ice and in amongst all that you see the raw yellowy orange of the wood where the branch has been snapped in two or off from the base of the tree.Trees that were once tall and elegant are now broken and only fit for the fire. I haven't seen a single bird yet, might be because it is chucking it down with rain right now and any self respecting bird is hidden in some hidey hole keeping dry. We drove around a little yesterday, it was awful, cars that where parked by their owners by the side of the road had huge branches on top of them. When you stood outside yesterday and listened all you could hear was a "pop" and a "crack" and you heard the branch fall, when i was taking pictures i saw at least 3 branches go down. Also yesterday the sound of sirens filled the air, i live right behind a fire station and i swear they were called out every 15 min's, i bet they are all worn out today. So many people are without power, i think we were extremley lucky that ours didn't go off, it did once or twice and flickered a little ok a lot, but it managed to stay on thankfully. I feel sorry for those that have very small babies and no power and those that live in rural parts. Not much fun living in the country and you only have elecricity as your power and heat source. Some lucky folks will have a propane heater or a log fire so at least they can keep warm, and heck there will be plenty of firewood to keep them warm once it's thawed out and dried out.

So if you have no power i feel for you, if you have lost every tree you possessed i feel for you,it has been one heck of a storm, and it's still raining!!

My tree in the back garden has broken in two, half is ok the other half is lying at an odd angle. There is going to have to be a massive clean up operation and i mean massive, they are already out there repairing power lines and getting generators to places of need but it's all going to take time. Half of my town is without power, half is ok.

Christmas Cards

2007-12-06T10:13:00.000-08:00

Some Christmas cards i made for family!!

Look what i have!!!!!!!!

2007-11-28T09:47:00.000-08:00

Oh looky here, i have a new cell phone, i have been wanting one for a while but i knew i didn't need one with a monthly plan as i wouldn't use that many mins to warrant a 49.99 plan or something else as utterly ridiculous.SOoooooo on Black Friday my hubby took me to best buy and we looked at the pay as you go phones and i found this little beauty!!! it's a virgin Mobile Super Slice and don;t you just love the colour??!!! I love it, it is so slim and fits great in my pocket or purse. I got a 30 dollar top-up card and it gave me 30 mins plus i got extra mins with it, not many though, just enough to start your phone up.BUT the great thing about virgin is you can log into their website and earn extra bonus mins.....all you have to do is rate a few ads....how cool!!!! It has Bluetooth so if ever i decide to get more savvy and get it to work then i am good to go!!!!! the only thing i would have liked is a little case... i just don't want it getting scratched, i am a little concerned when i put it in my purse ( i have so much crap in my purse for one thing)I just don;t want it getting a mark on it as it is so pretty!!!!!!!!!! Love it, my new fav thing to borrow a line from Oprah!!!

Congrats Paula!!

2007-11-05T11:31:00.000-08:00

Way to go Paula, congrats on winning the NY marathon!!!

So cute!!!!

2007-10-24T20:48:00.001-07:00

SO STINKING CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-10-06T20:49:00.000-07:00

Layout's from my Road Trip in 2004, great trip and i am so enjoying doing this Album.

R.I.P Flower

2007-09-29T09:24:00.000-07:00

Poor little flower, I watched Meerkat manor last night and was crying, poor little flower got bitten by a Cobra and died. She was protecting what she loved most in her little animal life her pups.It was so stinking sad i was boo hooing, just another reason to hate snakes in my opinion.I logged on to the Animal Planet discussion with the producer of the show and he said she actually died on January the 27th 2007.They recovered her body and buried her in a marked grave.Poor little Flower, Meerkat Manor is so addictive, you just have to watch, they are only about 12 inches high and weigh about 3lbs but they are so cute! I love the way the sit up when they are sensing danger and the way they all band together as a family when danger is present.They "mob" snakes to get them to leave them alone but occasionally they get bitten and this is what happened to Flower, the snake was in her burrow and her pup's where in there, so in she went, when she came out he next morning, she had a swollen face and in less than 48 hours she was dead.She was 6 years old which they said was a good age for a dominate female, so she had a good life i guess, nature is so cruel sometimes.
So next weeks episode is going to be interesting, who will be the dominate female now? and what will Zaphod her partner do now? he may well have to leave the group as they are all his children.Tune in to find out!

Great websites!!!!

2007-09-28T12:14:00.000-07:00

Two of my fav websites right now are:-

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

http://lolsecretz.blogspot.com/

Check them out!!!!!!

An Obituary

2007-09-23T12:23:00.000-07:00

Found this on another website.....
__________________________________________________________________________ Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and Maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies: don't spend more than you can earn and Reliable Strategies: adults, not children, are in charge. His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they, themselves, had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Tylenol, sun lotion or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, share this with someone.

Names!!!!

2007-09-18T20:56:00.000-07:00

Swiped from Kenny who swiped it from someone else!!!!! it's just too fun to pass up!!!

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car): Bugs Isuzu.......it could work!
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie): Neopolitan chocolate chip............oh yes i am so gansta!!!!
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name): Mfle...i have no idea what a Fly person is so...?
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal): Purple cat.........hmmmmmm i have a cunning plan!!
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born): Jean Bedford.................oh my, the starring role with a name like that i think!!I could earn millions with this name!!!
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first): Flema....................the force is strong in this one!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink): The Red Diet Rite coke!!!..............yeah baby!!!!
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers): William william!!!!!!!!!! Pole position!!!!!!!!
9. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names): Mary Bruce........................Cool!!!!!!!!
10. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Hill Houston...............works for me!
11. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower). Autumn Rose..............wow!!!!!very cool!!!
12. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”): Strawberry shorty.............nuff said!!!!!!!!
13. HIPPIE NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Keelogs choc cereal oak........yeah man, whatever.............
14. YOUR ROCK STAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour” and the year): The scrapbook rainstorm...................think that should be my hippie name!!!!!!!!!!!

very funny, i had a good laff doing this!!!!!!!! thanks Kenny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!