Poor Lewis

Lewis has been terribly poorly today aswell. He got much worse in the night with a temperature that was off the scale. I had already decided he wasn't going to school this morning, when he got up, got dressed and promptly threw up all over the place. He wasn't a happy boy!

Managed to get him cleaned up and drove him to my mum's then he was sick again. Mum said she'd sort him out and I came home at lunchtime, he's been on the sofa since (between dashing to the loo that is!). Poor little man.

Disappointing...but not sad day!

Well, the results are in! Lianne unfortunately didn't get ANY of her choices!! However, when I broke the news to her she was terribly grown up about it and said, "Don't worry mum, we'll appeal and if I don't get any of my choices between now and September, I'll just go to that school, it was good enough for YOU! (Yes, she got the school I went to back in 1983! Which can't have been that bad as I came away with 9 GCSE's!)

Anyway, like I said, it was disappointing for both of us, but NOT the end of the world AND a few of her class mates got into the same school...

Thanks for your support guys! Really appreciate all of your lovely comments!
P.S. Shaz, I hope your boy did ok in his examination xxx

Happy Mother's Day

Well, this morning I was woken up with a lovely mug of tea and a bowl of Rice Crispies. Bless xxx Lianne and Lewis had both bought (I'll forgive them) huge Mother's Day cards for me and I got some lovely lavender bags for my underwear drawer and wardrobe. We then all went to take Lewis swimming and then watched a rather one-sided game of football on the way back. Poor Lewis was not feeling very well though so we didn't stay to watch the end. Even though it was lovely sunshine again, it was very windy and I think it was giving him 'brain-freeze'.

We then took a detour to Asda's on the way home and bought some rather lovely flowers for my mum and my nan. When we got home, Steve had been out and also bought some flowers. One bunch from Lewis, one from Lianne and one from HIM. So I have a beautiful smelling home of fresh flowers. How lovely!!!

We then drove to my mum's and because she wasn't expecting Steve to have bought me anything, she had bought (on behalf of the children of course) a lovely make-up set for me, which I have been experimenting with since getting home.

Poor Lewis is lying down in his bed with a raging temperature and not feeling like his usual self at all unfortunately. I think there'll be one little man missing from his class tomorrow. Poor thing! We'll see how he gets on with the Calpol and and early night but I can't see it getting any better before morning. Bless! Hope he gets better soon, I hate it when my children are poorly and there's not much more I can do for them other than a 'cuggle'. Get well soon baby! Love you xxx

D-Day tomorrow... FINGERS CROSSED EVERYONE!!!!

Sit back and Relax...

Who could forget 'NANNA' on Mother's Day...?

After all, without her, none of us would be here, so I made my nanna a card too. Sadly I didn't get around to making my other nanny a card as well as I only decided to do one today and I wouldn't have enough time to post it to her so maybe I will send her a belated Mother's Day Card or just a card to make her smile and say 'hello'. I'll make her a nice one either way, whatever the occasion.

Feathered Lady

My mum loves anything from Art Deco, to Charleston girls. So I thought I would make this card for her. The stamped image in unknown I'm afraid as I bought it from Ebay and it was unmounted and untitled. But it's fab and I love it. The image is a woman wearing a feathered stole or boa, something like that, or the feathers are attached to her dress, it's hard to tell, but I always cut the image and thread different coloured feathers through where the 'stole' should be. I usually coordinate them with whichever colour I decide to colour the dress. I added a little glitter to the bottom of the dress to add a little 'glamour' and a satin printed ribbon. The printed phrase in the bottom right of the card says: 'Mother. The woman who cradled you as an infant, held your hand as a child, and as an adult, she let you go.'

Happy Mother's Day, Mummy

Sweet Lavender

This is my Mother-in-Law, Gwen's, Mother's Day card. She loves lilac (as does Shaz) and this cute little spray is from Penny Black. Mounted the white paper onto lilac card then onto gray with a snazzy cut edging. Added a lovely lilac satin bow and a little phrase which says: 'To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world". I hope she likes it.

Don't you think it makes all the difference to your photos when you photograph something in direct sunshine rather than with a flash!!! Sunshine...bring it on!

Cute Christmas

What Christmas would be complete without a Penny Black Christmas card...? Here's one I made for someone last year, which I have decided to re-create and use again. I used watercolours for most of the card but coloured his hat in with a Marvy le Plume pen in Maroon, to give it a bit more richness and I then added glitter to the 'white furry' bits. Jingle Bells embellishments as before.

Jingle Bells

Same Whipper Snapper penguin (thanks Ju) different design. Cut the penguins out and decoupaged them onto plain white cardstock and then added some glitter as before. The stripey background paper also came from CM&P and I added the PaperMania flower and a little 'X' in the middle. Added some red velvet ribbon and the 'Jingle' and mittens, which I purchased from my local craft shop (they were in a bargain bucket!).

Christmas Everyday...

This little Whipper Snapper penguin is one of a selection of images Step-Mummy Julie sent me which I watercoloured and added some glitter to. The background paper was part of my prize from CM&P from the article me and Sarn sent in about our inspiration jars, and I mounted it onto white cardstock. Added some ribbon and the Penny Black wording. Et voila! (I made two of these but the other version is a pink snowflake background with the penguin wearing blue and has a pink dotted ribbon!)

Apologies...

It's been a busy week and I have to apologise for not posting any new messages during that time. I've been avoiding going online so that I could get my christmas cards done and I have to say I'm very proud of myself as I have made February's target of six!!!

I basically made three designs and made two of each, and I will do the same next month (sorry... this month, I keep forgetting that today is the 1st of March!!!

I will post my three designs shortly but I wanted to apologise for not being around first.

Two days to go before Allocation Day and the tension is starting to show. I can't wait until it's all over on Monday and we finally get to find out which school Lianne will be going to (ubless we go to appeal of course, which we will do if she doesn't get ANY of her three choices, but we'll see on Monday). Watch this space!

Anyway, I'll get my cards on now. Thanks for your patience...
Fae xxx