tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49791818040010454332024-03-13T11:44:11.918-07:00Scraps of HeavenPollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.comBlogger502125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-31617459889127493982015-06-01T06:14:00.000-07:002015-06-01T06:14:09.172-07:00Watercolour Love! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The last page, with the watercolour card gave me an idea for this layout.<br />
It's our second time to Shearbarn Park in Hastings. It sits right on top of a huge hill (very steep) and is surrounded by a big country park. You can see the sea and beach (shingles) from up there and it really is a pretty and peaceful park (except when the Lucas family is there ;) and my two noisy monkeys).<br />
The green is just perfect for the background to portray the greenery around bur the watercolour 😍 oh my!<br />
I used a sheet of thick watercolour paper and used the past card as inspiration. I soaked the paper with water and let it saturate it. I then added my colours. I started with red and worked up. It's magical seeing it spread out! You could use sprays (with a brush), inks (such as distress inks) or watercolour paints... any would work well.<br />
I think the blue matching the sky in the photograph is just perfect. I half backed the photograph with a 6x4 websters pages card and used the today poking out at the bottom.<br />
I used a white pen for my journal long and stamped my title with some mini stars in a diagonal and spotted some sequins too that complimented the colours I'd used.<br />
I want to do some more watercolour layouts now. I loved the unpredictable but prettiness of it!<br />
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I've also been doing this! My 12x12 layouts are lovely highlights to my project life. My project life layouts are just the small and ordinary details of our days, weeks and year.<br />
So far this year I've not journo'd or embellished any of it BUT I know I will. It's not about being up to date. It's about enjoying life!<br />
The photos are there. It will get done.Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-74297749418463057052015-06-01T06:01:00.001-07:002015-06-01T06:01:41.324-07:00Oh hi. Squidgey dog face.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These cards are perfect for a page without using a whole sheet (although we probably have enough scrapbook paper to wallpaper our houses inside and out) -what a pretty thought!)<br />
I used a lot of brown inks sprayed and brushed to give some texture to the back cardstock and the stamped a few times too.<br />
I love the water coloured effect websters pages card - so pretty and it gave me an idea for another layout!Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-22770745254220721012015-06-01T05:58:00.001-07:002015-06-01T05:58:16.587-07:00#LoveThis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ben will probably cringe in years to come looking back at this. But this was him and one of the twins... Lily walking into school holding hands. Theat term of her being there. Ben really has always been a ladies man!<br />
I love this ombre effect woodgrain paper (Websters Pages) with the small title card (totally not just for pocket scrapbooking).<br />
Along with the tiny title stickers they make and a 3x4 card cut in two. The picture says it all...Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-28501589485187507282015-06-01T05:53:00.001-07:002015-06-01T05:53:59.739-07:00For the love of lemons!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Emily loves lemons. In fact anything sour, the more so the better!<br />
This lovely bokeh style paper is from Websters Pages, along with small paper squares that make a collaged line across the page. I then searched through my embellies to fill it up with texture and variety, I love paper but sometimes you just need a little more!<br />
There's puffy stickers, acetate pieces, enamel dots, and stickers. All from different ranges which proves how use able these papers are!<br />
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This is my second layout from the Websters Pages - Growing up girl paper kit (see previous post for what the kit contains).<br />
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This is the next layout to be added into my year album, documenting my families life through the year, alongside my project life layouts.<br />
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Documenting year on year can seem like an enormous task but really it's not. It is as difficult as you want to make it! It is a lovely project to look back on year on year and see what has changed or stayed the same!<br />
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Documenting the everyday is so important. If I look back at photographs of the past, I like looking at the details. The story behind the story. I like seeing how things have changed. How things are the same. I love the everyday.<br />
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I joined this range with some stickers from my stash and flairs, joined with some cord I had on my desk. Because the colours are muted, the range is easily combined with other ranges.<br />
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I stamped on the map print too in a pale grey ink that worked well with the vintagey paper feel.<br />
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The map print was ideal for the subject too... sending selfies to one of my besties in Australia!<br />
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Happy mothers day mum. One day early but I came. Since the events of last June the feelings I have for mum have changed. I am not sure if that's fair but it's how I feel right now. </div>
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Maybe it's helped. I feel I have let go. I no longer need her back now. Not to say I wouldn't like that... but I don't need it. It's taken 13 years. 13 years. That's a long time. </div>
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And then I love this. Scandal. Huck. Oh my. Hubba hubba.</div>
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And I've been contending with the worlds messiest desk for weeks now....</div>
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Here is my first make for the Jones Crafts Design team! I got chosen to work with Websters Pages which is okay by me..... I love them! </div>
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As you know I am an avid project lifer but can't do everything so my project life album is mixed with 12 x 12 layouts of important things I feel warrant a large layout. </div>
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My project life album is usually mixed cards, I don't worry so much about using one range for a whole album... how could you do that?!! And I don't care about the mix match of page protectors/rounded or square corners etc... I just care about the memories! </div>
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So here is one layout I worked on with the Websters Pages range - Growing up girl paper kit. It comes with 12 papers and 10 mini cards and 5 file folders. The papers are beautiful and delicate and quiet vintagey.... not forgetting very floral and girlie!</div>
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They were perfect colours to match with these bright stickers and the instagram print I had of Emily and me in the cold! </div>
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I am not quiet sure how I managed working full time and fitting all this in... okay maybe not so many T.V programmes....! Well, anyway. I have been busy. Life is busy. I have the renovations going on at <strike>my dads </strike> MY house. It has literally nothing in it any more. Nothing. It moved really quickly but it has now slowed down and it is stressing me out a little! Waiting on architects, it's no fun. </div>
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I also sold the morris minor, the bikes and trailers are still there. Hopefully next weekend they will be gone....?!! And then all the tools. All the tools! Oh my! Well, it's a job that needs doing. </div>
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So as I have been job hunting, builder managing, car selling... I managed to squeeze in a little making. </div>
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I made this. Over Christmas we went on the Harry Potter studio tour and this was my favourite bit... the Yule Ball model! It was gorgeous! I used pearlescent embossing paste and a stencil to make a snowy pattern background. It has all sparkly sequins and gems on. I love that photo.<br />
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I also have done this.... I rekindled my love of sewing. Emily brought this with some of her Christmas money. It's a young Ana from frozen.... minus her dress as I made her a little red dress (and cape - not pictured). Emily was astounded. She was super pleased. It was a simple make... we plan on a whole wardrobe for her! Time permitting!<br />
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And I found this oldie on my phone. Ahhhh Leanna and Scott's wedding... nearly 2 years ago!!! What a lovely day it was.</div>
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I found these old photographs when I was searching on the laptop the other day. I can't believe how little you both looked! They were from our first visit to legoland - which we loved!</div>
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I also used this embellie that should of been... I think a garden water feature.<br />
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I cut it apart and sanded it down, so it made like a little wooden trophy. Rather like the one in the photographs that Em and Ben were holding onto.<br />
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I lastly painted it with paperartsy gold paint (a few thin coats,as it sunk in quiet quickly) and then pop dotted it on.<br />
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I love using things in a way they weren't intended for. I would of never used that garden ornament embellie... but chopping it up and changing it made it the perfect addition to this layout!Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-69244289235660329162015-01-10T16:15:00.001-08:002015-01-10T16:15:30.673-08:00Beautiful things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been making madly. Using up all the goodies I have stored, you know... those things for a 'special' project. Every project is special. Use it. Don't store. Use, enjoy and make pretty things!<br />
I have been working hard to get my 2014 album finished. It's a mixture of Project Life and 12 x 12 LOs. I like the variety. I hope to of finished it this weekend.... No pressure then.... ;)<br />
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This baby is now sold. My little inherited 1968 Morris Minor Traveller. My moggy. She really is so beautiful. Simple. She smells old (think a fusty old museum smell) but simply because she has been shut up for 13+ years. Today someone bought her. She should go on Tuesday. I am sad. I cleaned her up today. I wanted to keep her. It's just not sensible. She needs to be loved properly. Driven. Taken care of.<br />
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I did this a week or so ago. I like the reminder of A-L-L the tv series that I've watched. (Lots). I like the idea of year on year documenting this type of thing. I think it shows change. It is true documentation about my life, my time, my tastes... just me.<br />
It's one of the reasons I love project life so. The year on year changes. The documentation. The extraordinary ordinary things we do. The yearly changes. The yearly similarities. Life. Our life.<br />
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Documenting in any form makes me happy.Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-82382273525052509502015-01-10T14:56:00.004-08:002015-01-10T16:15:48.183-08:00A late hello to 2015Hello 2015.<br />
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I hope you're kind to me this year. 2014 was not as quiet as kind as I would of liked but then we don't always get what we need do we?<br />
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But 2015, I hold out a lot of hope for you. 2015, you are full of promise, wonder and hope. Life in 2014 changed immeasurably for me. I finished working and still am waiting for another job... I lost my dad. He wasn't a dad. He was just my biological father. Life changed. I faced up to all demons I had in my past. I dealt with it. I moved on.<br />
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I inherited a lot of rubbish. I also inherited a lot of good stuff.<br />
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I wore a lot of rubber gloves. I used a lot of black bags. I had a few more (okay, maybe a lot more) hairs turn grey.<br />
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I still stayed strong in 2014. I got through it.<br />
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2014, you did bring some wonderful things though. I grew even closer to my wonderful sister Jill. I found friendships flourished with my nieces and nephew. I realised this time, when my children are small, I can never get back, so cherish it.<br />
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2014, you were bad at times but sometimes you were good too.<br />
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I do though, hope 2015 just is ever so more lovely, wonderful and special.<br />
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2015, I need you to be. I am holding out all hope for you.Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-57646020516448888352014-09-29T12:39:00.000-07:002014-09-29T12:39:40.173-07:00New stash! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New stash! Who doesn't love new stash? The new Maggie Holmes range is gorgeous and coupled with the new Heidi Swapp goodies too! *gasp* it is really lush.<br />
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So I spent Saturday afternoon making this layout and watching Orphan Black. (And washing as our washing machine had caught fire last weekend!)<br />
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What is your fave new range (or old range)?Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-90833565931348826812014-09-24T04:46:00.000-07:002014-09-24T04:46:00.430-07:00A day in the life... of me.06:30: First alarm goes off. Go back to sleep. <br />
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06:40: Second alarm goes off. Usually at this point, I will hear Ben scuttle downstairs for his iPad. <br />
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06:45: Get up. Shower, teeth. Get ready.<br />
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07:00: Get kiddos up. Breakfast for them. <br />
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07:20: Tell kiddos to hurry up eating. Usually they are fiddling with stuff left on the table or day dreaming.<br />
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07:30: Do hair, make up, make sure kiddos are getting dressed, doing teeth etc... <br />
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07:50: Leave for school drop off.<br />
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07:55: Drop at breakfast club. <br />
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08:05: Drive to work. During term time I sit in a lot of traffic.<br />
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08:15-08:45: Dependant on traffic, arrive at work. Let myself in and start my working day. I don't officially start until 9am but always start earlier. I often think I am a little foolish for doing this but still do.<br />
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13:45: Maybe try and get some lunch, workload permitting. Always at my desk, always still working. <br />
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16:55: Pack up and get ready to leave work.<br />
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17:00: Leave. As it's Wednesday the kiddos are at our child minders, so head over there to pick them up. Hope the traffic isn't bad. <br />
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17:25: Pick up kiddos from minders. <br />
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17:35: Home. Phew. Start tea, wash up breakfast pots if Kev isn't already home. <br />
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18:15: All eat tea. <br />
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18:45: Kiddos flop on the sofa, usually on their iPad or iPod. Sometimes Emily might read. Kev lays on the sofa. <br />
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19:15: Kiddos get ready for bed.<br />
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19:30: Kiddos ask for a treat before bed. We usually watch the Simpsons or you've been framed. Kev is still sprawled on the sofa.<br />
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20:00: Kiddos to bed. Toilet/teeths. Emily always take a fresh water bottle to bed with her. She never drinks it. Say goodnight to Em first. Then Ben. It's always the same routine. <br />
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20:15: Flop in front of the TV. Maybe wine. Yes, quiet often wine. Maybe some making, if I am not too tired. Kev usually is now asleep on the sofa. Often snoring. <br />
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22:00/23:00: Bedtime. Always later than planned and in the morning I always wish I had gone to bed earlier....Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-78395650981941647332014-09-22T03:21:00.000-07:002014-09-22T03:21:00.146-07:0020 Facts About Me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. I love anything creative. I sometimes would love to be able to make this my full time job!<br />
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2. I live in Essex. It isn't all TOWIE you know but a lot of it is!<br />
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3. I have two kiddos - Emily and Ben.<br />
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4. We have a dog called Betty, called after the TV programme Ugly Betty. She is a staff (which get bad press) and rather like her namesake - don't judge a book by it's cover. She is as soft as grease!<br />
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5. I love instagram. It has to be my favourite social media hangout. <br />
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6. I bought my first house in 2002, when I was still 21 years old for £52,000. It was a lovely three bed terraced in a small village in Derbyshire. It was on a street called Mount Pleasant Road. <br />
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7. I am studying an access course, with the hope of some day becoming a midwife. <br />
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8. I love TV. Like really love it. Favourite programmes of the minute are - Ray Donovan, Orange is the new black, the real housewives and don't be tardy for the party. (I love trash TV).<br />
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9. I love sleeping. <br />
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10. I would love to have eyelash extensions but know I would never keep up with the up keep of them.<br />
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11. I am often surprised on how resilient I am.<br />
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12. I am a crier. I cry at everything. Happy, sad, you name it... i'll probably cry!<br />
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13. Celeb crush at the moment is Live Schreiber and/or Dash Mihok.<br />
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14. I love diaries and note books.<br />
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15. As a child we had lots of animals, I love animals especially goats!<br />
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16. I work full time as a regional manager. I am not happy in my work, I feel that it's a glorified title for a dogs body job. I want to make a difference to peoples lives. <br />
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17. I love my middle sister so much. I really miss living near her. If anything, my dad dying has brought us even closer together. I love seeing her eldest Abbeygail and Emily together. They are like two peas in a pod! <br />
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18. I have a son who is obsessive like his mama. This week it's minecraft.<br />
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19. I love coffee. Especially with hazelnut syrup.<br />
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20. I drive a blue citreon c3. I love that car!<br />
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<br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-87342880693900618872014-09-21T02:53:00.001-07:002014-09-21T02:53:11.904-07:00ProcrastinationHello.<br />
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I am not sure that anyone will read this, you know it has been so long since I blogged. Like YEARS. So I could just be talking to myself (and besides that it kept getting hacked, so someone had been blogging on my behalf... the type of stuff that usually fills your spam emails)...<br />
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What's new with me since 2011.. Well. I left L/C. I got a new job in the NHS, worked it for near on a year (for a pittance but I loved it nearly more than any job I have ever had) then I left to work where I am now for A's. I am not happy there BUT it's a job. There are points when I am happy. Like last Monday (I was on a weeks leave) but now (due back tomorrow) I am not so thrilled to be working there. <br />
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I am doing something about it though. I am studying my access course (well should be but haven't done anything for this weeks assignment, due on Sunday the 28th). I am STILL toying with midwifery. I have been for years and so with something that happened recently it has made it possible. (If I pass my access with flying colours).<br />
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My dad died at the end of May. I am NOT sad at all. You know, he was a wicked man. I am not sure now why I call him dad. He wasn't one at all. He was abusive to us girls (me and my two half sisters, I was his only biological child), he was verbally abusive and controlling to my mum. He, no matter how hard I have tried to put the past and the dreadful things he did to me and my sisters behind me, it still impacts my life now. How I trust, how I live, how I view the world, how much it impacts on my parenting is immense. I have no trust for anyone with my kiddos. I have so much fear for anyone taking them from my sight. I know how easy it was for us to be so highly abused. How it often was done in plain sight and how no one noticed. <br />
Him dying, brought that all up and it was something I thought I had put a tight lid on. Yes, it impacted how I felt about leaving my children and how I trust others BUT that fear for me, that dread in the pit of my stomach, those feelings of such fear, being so terrified and hurt were hidden away. I would manage the monthly or so nightmares, when i'd dream about being trapped in the house, knowing he was coming up the stairs. That was manageable. Him dying was not. It felt like he held all the control again.<br />
If anything though, I have learned to protect myself emotionally. That day I found out (although the neighbour had called the night before and left me a voicemail asking me to call him. It had been about dad), I cried so hard. I was at work. I sat in our interview room and sobbed. <br />
It brought me to the reality, I have always known, I knew I had no one. And I don't mean that in a horrible way. I mean it in the sense of, when you have been hurt by someone you should of been able to implicitly trust. You learn to only trust yourself. While you can hurt yourself, you can't hurt yourself in such a way another person can. <br />
But to protect myself, I stayed at work. I worked that day. That week harder than I have ever worked. It was a superhuman amount of work that I achieved. It's funny how grief, I guess I was grieving for the father I never had, makes you superhuman at times. I didn't sleep much that week. I cried lots. I didn't drink, for fear I might not stop. I knew that, as his next of kin, I would have to sort it all out and I was so terrified of that house. The feelings I had about it. How can a place cause so much fear? <br />
Well, I went to the house that Saturday. Nothing, NOTHING had changed since we left in 1987. Okay, maybe a paint in the lounge, wood floor in the hall and kitchen but it was the same. Same carpets throughout. Same darkness in the lounge. That same oppressive feeling in their. My bedroom curtains STILL up in the small bedroom. It was the same house. It stunk of smoke, wee, cat (there was a feral cat living there) and there was poop and wee and an enormous amount of grotty stuff everywhere! I felt a little creeped out at times but on the whole, I felt a small bit of comfort (comfort in that stink?!!). Maybe I had some of my childhood back? <br />
And I found photographs of things I thought had been lost forever. I found my great grandmas photos, I found some of our photos. It made a small bit of me happy. It made the enormous task ahead of me seem a little easier to handle.<br />
And now? Well, the solicitor is dealing with it all. I have a lot still to do. I feel comfortable in the house when I go back. The smell is getting better (we call it stink-house). We cleared the lounge of all furniture (apart from the three piece suite), carpets up, wood floor up (the smell reduced). We cleared the front garden (jungle) and I cleared the back garden somewhat (we need another skip). The two ponds are thriving. I chopped back the elderflower tree at the bottom of the garden. I cleared the weeds, thistles and made it look more live-able. There are frogs and newts and the most beautiful water lily in the ponds. <br />
Emily and Ben came with me one weekend and I heard laughter in that house. Uninhibited, pure joy and laughter. It made me sit in the back garden and cry. I have never heard happiness in that house. It was the most simple, yet beautiful sound I think I have ever heard. It made me realise that this house was not what I feared at all. It was him. He was the fear, the hurt and the thing that made me terrified. He had gone. I let it go. I let that part of my life finally go. There is something strangely cathartic in facing what makes you so scared. In fact, I wasn't scared anymore. <br />
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It's now September. Three months or so later. The kiddos have just both had birthdays. Emily is now TEN. Ben is now EIGHT. Really? Where did that time go. Both are thriving. Both are turning into great people that I am proud of. <br />
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I am still making, which is of course why this blog was first set up! I love making, this love has never dwindled or left me. I always have loved making. It's something that makes me happy and I am happy I have passed this to Emily (and Ben sometimes). We made lots of shrinkies yesterday! And currently Emily is sat at the table drawing, she also asked for a desk for her birthday (so she could have a 'work-station' like me) and a spinny chair. She has used it every day since to make, draw and just be at. I hope the love of being creative stays with her forever. <br />
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Well, if you read that all. Well done! It was a long, rambly one. I hope to continue blogging and maybe next time with pictures? <br />
Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-59333053259798096092011-09-06T07:11:00.000-07:002011-09-06T07:27:19.220-07:00Paper makes me happy :)Often, I get asked, in my 'real' job, what I actually 'make'. Its hard to describe to peeps. I mean I cut up and stick down pretty paper but its so much more than that. I guess you have to be sentimental to actually understand why I do it. Before you can understand what I do.<br /><br />If I hadn't of experienced loss so early in life, would I be scrapbooking. I would like to think I would. It just probably wouldn't be as heartfelt as it is right now. Just lately, i've been talking to my middle sister about life. Loss. How things have turned out. How i'm not sure you get life until you experience loss. Thats kinda sad. 'You never know what you had, til it was gone'. So true.<br /><br />So, thats what I make. Memories. Feelings. not just pretty paper and sparkles. They are just the decoration. Bit like putting on your make up. You're still the same underneath. You just feel better and for me (I look better ;) ) with a bit of slap on!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJRYP9d2v9s/TmYrbVvtMcI/AAAAAAAADb4/7293mN7tx8U/s1600/181_8127.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 317px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649250531276566978" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJRYP9d2v9s/TmYrbVvtMcI/AAAAAAAADb4/7293mN7tx8U/s320/181_8127.JPG" /></a> So i've been making this: This cute sprayed LO of Benji. Gems, stars, stamping, spraying... yum!<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpYA-qbfWWM/TmYqvrEsLqI/AAAAAAAADbo/lZIalfBb8jQ/s1600/iphone%2B108.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649249781087481506" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpYA-qbfWWM/TmYqvrEsLqI/AAAAAAAADbo/lZIalfBb8jQ/s320/iphone%2B108.JPG" /></a><br />This, alittle more sentimental. And taken by my iPhone, so I apologise for the photo not beign as crisp and clear. But I do love hipstamatic :) Made from broken down primark jewellery. Probbo not acid free but so textural and pretty.<br /><br /><br />And lastly: I'm on count down for this! ALLY PALLY :)<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MfBXjMmEkI4/TmYqvdE5FXI/AAAAAAAADbg/q6cN7rXxbA8/s1600/iphonejune2011%2B049.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649249777330230642" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MfBXjMmEkI4/TmYqvdE5FXI/AAAAAAAADbg/q6cN7rXxbA8/s320/iphonejune2011%2B049.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYG0xR21tMc/TmYqvGLkRNI/AAAAAAAADbY/OFix_gfqEss/s1600/181_8123.JPG"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-27086386182460062752011-09-06T06:49:00.000-07:002011-09-06T07:10:56.809-07:00Time ~ where does it go?It seems lately I spend my whole time chasing my tail ;)<br /><br />September is the busiest ever month for us at home. We have Ben turning 5 and starting schoolio and Emily is starting year 2 and turning 7. My middle sisters three children celebrate their birthdays, another niece and nephew celebrate birthdays too! It seems September is the month when I need a money tree :D<br /><br />Also, along with Benji starting schoolio, Kev goes off back to school/work. It means the whole balance we had going on for the last six weeks ends and its back to mumma doing kiddos, house, dog, work etc... I honestly loose my mind in September.<br /><br />We are off to Legoland and a hotel stop over for the weekend of Em's birthday :) So we have that to look forward to as a family, amongst the birthdays and fun.<br /><br />I have Ally Pally with Marion and Jayne to look forward to right at the end of September :) With <a href="http://sugarandspicecrafts.co.uk/">Sugar and Spice</a>! *Squee* I'm ever so excited by this. I love just getting away and although its tiring on the feet, I think we spend the whole time laughing. I am looking forward to it so much. Since leaving the shop, I miss the chatter and fun. Marion is now, on QVC! A superstar. Much better than Dawn Bibby ;) and i'm not quiet sure how she is doing it. I thought my life was busy!<br /><br />I am still working hard with my jewellery <a href="http://madebypolly.co.uk/">Made by Polly</a>, and am adding more and more pieces to my range, slowly but surely. I am selling lots. It has been through word of mouth and those of you who have brought. Thank you very much. Your lovely comments make me so happy.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lv21oAMJnbM/TmYlYmTltfI/AAAAAAAADbQ/pPUxfF48sC8/s1600/181_8185.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649243887112664562" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lv21oAMJnbM/TmYlYmTltfI/AAAAAAAADbQ/pPUxfF48sC8/s320/181_8185.JPG" /></a><br />I have designed this double pendant, which has Em and Benji's prints on but I recently did for a married couple. How cute is that! It had the date inscribed on the back :) It was so sweet to hear about their wedding and him giving her this pendant as a gift. Truly heart melting :D<br /></p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-49YMptsC6A4/TmYlYFxVCZI/AAAAAAAADbI/kyXo91x8rbY/s1600/181_8196.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649243878379030930" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-49YMptsC6A4/TmYlYFxVCZI/AAAAAAAADbI/kyXo91x8rbY/s320/181_8196.JPG" /></a> These weenie babies are just super cute! They are perfect for a little gift for a bracelet or necklace for someone who doesn't want such a chunky charm. Or perfect for a little miss who wants to feel grown-up and special. They hang great individually or seperately and I can't make them quick enough! I can't complain ;)<br /><br />In other news: It's <a href="http://www.adventuresinbugland.blogspot.com/">Nina</a>'s crop on Thursday night...!<br /><br /><br /><div></div>Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-53270264119186030062011-07-12T13:23:00.000-07:002011-07-12T14:08:34.099-07:00Apologise for the previous posts!!Howdy-doo everyone!<br /><br />A big thank you to Clare who alerted me to my previous posts (now deleted...) you can guess what they were about! :S I'm getting narked with it all, it seems no matter how many times I change my passwords/email account; they hack it! RAH ;)<br /><br />In other news, i'm still working mega hard. Stressful but rewarding. I got three compliments today, which is very unusual. Normally its all moany old ladies (and gents). Today, I achieved alot, got complimented and laughed when a colleague fell off her chair. (She laughed too, so it was ok!).<br /><br />In other news: I've had problems with a store in the US called Scrappy Land. Don't use them! :( I ordered a heap of *SMASH stuff from them (have you seen it... its fab! But it arrived half missing and damaged. I am fighting for my paypal refund right now. As you can imagine, i've had pretty grim email responses from them. Don't use them. Its not worth the hastle!<br /><br />I have GOOD news though from this lady <a href="http://sugarandspicecrafts.blogspot.com/">here</a>, she has got me a new little design job...! With QVC :) whoo hoo! So I have made a few samples for 3 new kits/products coming up... Not sure when but they are bits you will 'need'.<br /><br />I have been making lots too, I just haven't been photographing it... as now I am such a bad blogger. I am just hooked on Twitter and Instagram. Its just much more friendly and straight away ;) I shall try and attempt blogging again. I did love my blog so much a few years ago. I'm not sure why I lost the love for it all. I'm sure it has a direct link with work though and time.<br /><br />Also. i'm making silver imprint jewellery too... over here <a href="http://www.madebypolly.co.uk/">www.madebypolly.co.uk</a>Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-79222816437632195832011-02-23T10:06:00.001-08:002011-02-23T10:06:34.360-08:00Just a quick howdy!Well, I'm not good at keeping up with this blogging lark am I? <br />Work has been hellish, we have had a swap round in the office and it's not going well. I'm not sure how much longer I can hold it all in before I explode!! I have had a few arguements already and it's just stressful ;)<br />Anyhow. In four and a half weeks.... It's the GoGoGetaway!! Yay! I'm so excited. I thought I needed a break last year :) but this... ! <br />I'm thinking about packing already :) <br />I've been making too: <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/02/23/1591.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/02/23/s_1591.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This was with my January GoGo kit along with a few bits I've found on a big clear out. <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/02/23/1593.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/02/23/s_1593.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This is one from my studio calico kit :) I love that pic of Benji...!<br /><br />Well, that's it from me. I'm hoping work gets easier and less stressful although I'm not sure how that is possible really... Some people are just good delegators and do little themselves ;) all I keep thinking is ... less than 30 days til GoGo!!!<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-43276357656303116342011-02-15T13:31:00.001-08:002011-02-15T13:31:59.701-08:00TimeWhere does time go? It seems all I do is chase my tail lately!! :) <br /><br />I have had three lovely kits delivered though - Noel Mignon, Studio Calico and Scrapagogo... Each of them amazing!<br /><br />I have also been making :) I'm not sure how these pictures will turn out as I'm posting from my iPhone but here goes: ! <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/02/15/2224.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/02/15/s_2224.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This was a mixture of Studio Calico goodies, new and old. I used my new jenni bowlin ink pads too... You do NEED them!! <br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/02/15/2226.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/02/15/s_2226.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I used loads of primarni jewellery on this one. I just broke it up... The large pink flower was from a £2 bracelet that had about 8 of these babies on there :) <br /><br />Off to a craft fair in Braintree on Saturday, that's after working 06:30 til 10:30... Can't say I'm enjoying work but i'm grateful to have a job, two girls got made redundant today :(<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-59264198750086595902011-02-06T13:27:00.000-08:002011-02-06T13:59:42.897-08:00Where have I been...I guess you've all left me, seens as I haven't posted for like an age :( Life here has been busier than ever. I am still making though :D<br />I was told before Christmas that I would no longer have my job come March the 31st, as they have deemed it cheaper for a call centre to do my job... I'm sure they'll want to be helping old ladies get their jim-jams on at near on midnight ;) Still, they know best *ahem* and so I had that nonsense to deal with. Luckily, I was offered a part time job there in the day, so I am now getting Benji childminded for two hours a day to make it possibly. Its not the exact way that I wanted it to happen but I needed a job, so needs must!<br />So, I have been working 3 jobs, although for only one place -its driving me mad! I am so tired. The past four weeks, i've worked 28 days. Yes! Everyday each week. Luckily, I have managed to give up most of my out of hours :) and so that will ease my day job and my supervisior role. I might even manage some time for scrapping!<br />So far this year, scrapping has taken a back seat and i've made only two layouts. I'm hoping now my hours are reducing and i'm adjusting to being back at work in the day and having to get myself and two kiddos ready for work and schoolio!<br />I'm hoping that now we're into February and the house is in alittle more order... I spent the whole day cleaning today! My one day off and I scrubbed all day. Each of my babies are sleeping in gleaming rooms with cosy, freshly made beds tonight :) From now on i'm hoping life will slow down.... please!?!!Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-81839183799935256022010-05-12T07:34:00.001-07:002010-05-12T07:34:02.373-07:00Makings...I've used these photos alot to scrap with... I love them! <br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/577.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/s_577.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />She really was ecstatic about meeting Jasmine :)<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/579.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/s_579.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />A few weeks ago, ok maybe months... I loved this range. Now I'm not so sure? <br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/582.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/s_582.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I do love the little maya road chipboard bits though!<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/583.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/s_583.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This was an absolute scraplift from scrapbook trends. I love this pic of Benji :)<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/584.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/12/s_584.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /> and lastly this one... I used a whole heap of random brads on this, that I've been collecting through the years I've been scrapping. And I've been saving that dotty paper for so long. I just love the colours.... <br /><br />So that's what I've been up to. I also turned down that job as chilcare is just so expensive and just impossible with no support from anyone else :( making is the only thing holding me altogether. <br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone <br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-38447693375010248922010-05-11T13:11:00.001-07:002010-05-11T13:11:25.788-07:00This arrived today...<br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/11/1273.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/11/s_1273.jpg' border='0' width='1024' height='1024' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />And it has made me very happy :) <br />I got a call from the job interview I went to as well. I haven't called her back though. I'm not sure what to do if I'm offered it??<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-34460663910355974812010-05-08T02:41:00.001-07:002010-05-08T02:41:39.020-07:00Happy Saturday!The weather isn't looking too great, I have workio later but I had a job interview yesterday - it's unsuitable, I think as only a 6 mth contract but it's all good experience and I've been making!! <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/240.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/s_240.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />I used this studio calico range for a LO that is summing me up right now... <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/241.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/s_241.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />And this one is expressing that I know life has to have more, expressed so well with sassafras :) <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/242.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/s_242.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This was a lift from the scrapbook inspos quarterly mag. Well, kinda. The stitching was anyhoo...<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/244.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/s_244.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Another, studio calico one... Documenting a very funny tale from years ago ;)<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/245.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/08/s_245.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />And lastly this baby... Using more cosmo coordinations :) blingz paint, moo cards, prima pebbles and a heap of gorgeous little bits!<br /><br />Happy Saturday! <br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979181804001045433.post-1699224217351672512010-05-03T04:35:00.000-07:002010-05-03T04:36:55.319-07:00Things I'm loving right nowI'm loving so many things right now....<br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/270.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/s_270.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />Sassafras! I love the bright colours :) Studio calico stamps... I love them all. I have to have one of each one. Thickers in yellow. Yum. Pins. And old photos... (bad haircut though!)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/271.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/s_271.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />These scissors. They are better than any other pair i've owned and that says so much as I'm a scissor person...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/272.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/s_272.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />I'm loving my 7 gypsies carousel. I store all my packeted embellies on there. It's looking very full atm!<br /><br />And lastly: this... <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/273.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/05/03/s_273.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />This is a beautiful piece of art my little girl made me. She is mad on tinkerbell right now. Can't you tell??? <br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br /><br />Pollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00316824291388439509noreply@blogger.com0