Motivation at an all time low...

Yes, I well and truly have lost all motivation I have. I sat last night and tried to scrap. I managed a short piece of journalling on acetate... and tbh it doesn't look that good either ~ that was 2 hours work. So I guess I have mis-placed my mojo again. It happens just before crop, always. And the answer lies in paint, I think. Painting is my mojo salvation. Getting messy really does usually bring it back. I need it. I have heaps of stuff I have to do and deadlines to meet. Hmmm.

I do have goodness to post tho... stuff I did over the weekend and haven't had a chance to post.

A mini album i'm working on, which is gonna be filled with camera phone piccies... so not great but documenting a weird/fun/wild time in my life. And I know the pics will be of a poor quality but they mean something more to me than perfect piccies... if you get me?!

I used the piccie already but I love it so much ... so tried this with it. Kinda wish I altered the title... but hey.

So this was inspired by last weeks post. My 1973 year...1998. So I made this little frivolous LO to mark it.

Cold...

Today, it's been extra cold here... In fact i've felt cold all day long. Brrrr. Winter is well and truly on its way. And after yesterday talking about cheesey music... http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/presenters/music/tvsongs.shtml (scroll down and click on the 'you know it's autmn song) for the HUGEST laugh of your life. This cracks Emily, Ben and me up when we see this on the tv. It is hillarious. Click the link and laugh away...!


Just a quick one 'cause now i'm off to go and scrap...

It's all about you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNubOGv_mg This little song (which was actually on ceebeebies Space pirates... lol) has had me singing round the house today. It's had me smiling so much. How simply cute is it? Cheesey. Cute. And down right lovely. Everyone needs cheese now and again.
Enjoy some cheese this Sunday x

RANT.

This is one post thats not going to be 'blog-fluff' but a plain old RANT. Sorry in advance!

Listening. I'm sure it's a complex skill because SO many people don't have it at all, one in particular that I know. And I know I have one of those memories that kinda retains almost everything... even real stupid details. And I appreciate that some people have memories like sieves but, you know when someone calls you up and they go on about their day (at the most inconvienant time in yours ~ Emily and Ben are moaning for their tea and i'm rushing around)... and you listen paitiently. You take note of everything they say and then after they've vented... they ask how your day was and you start to tell them. Sillence. Nothing. No words about it at all from their end. And then they carry on dismissing anything you have said and carry on with their day ~ what they still have to do etc... And I still stand there and encouraging their words.

GRRR. It infuriates (sp!) me. It really does. Why the hell can't people take time and actually listen? After all i'm sure half these people who don't listen properly are the ones who claim their brains are sieves...

Today, right now. That little 10 minute convo has me griped.

I've been tagged...

By Nina... I too have done the 7 random facts, so i'm gonna do another ~ random facts are easy to do...

1. I got a new hairdryer last week and I love it.
2. I am loving my CJ group so much.
3. I have no inclination to start my Christmas shopping.
4. At this exact moment Emily is screaming in the lounge with Kev.
5. Emily calls Ben 'chubb-boy'.
6. I ran out of my favourite perfume today.
7. I'm going to dedicate my evening to some scrapping tonight.

I am not tagging anyone ~ because I have tagged you all before, so if you want to copy this and get tagged... Please do!

Circle journals...

Shelley's cj:

Laurie's circle journal:

I am totally amazed by us. The group of 13 women we have in our circle journal. They are amazing. I have just got (today) two journals from Gina... and they are amazing. Each time I open the packages (this time a box! yay!) I am blown away. You can feel the amount of time, effort and love coming from these little books of art. I am truly inspred and amazed. This is what i've needed to stop being so slack.

Laurie's is Influential women ~ one I think i'm going to find easy to do. You know how much my mum and my middle sister have and do mean to me. I guess I want to capture that in my page. How loosing my mum left a huge hole for me and it still makes me sad but those two weeks she was very ill and after she had gone I gained something so precious. I gained a fabby close bond with my middle sister. So much more than I could've ever imagined having with anyone. And that makes me so happy. Things happen for a reason, I guess this was it.

So thats what I want to add into Laurie's cj. How close I was to my mum for 21 years. How she was my best friend and there through thick and thin and then when she went I gained something very special. A sister who is caring and loving and always there. I noticed something I had all along but hadn't realised.

I also have Shelley's cj too... ooooh colours! I am totally rocked to be in this journal as her and Michelle's blog I read devotedly without fail. I love their styles and their take on life. They are wow-some. I'm pretty nervous about adding to it. I have an aqua marine-y colour to inspire me... i'm thinking and I have a few cool seaside ish type ideas floating around. It's such a super cool idea to do this for a cj. It makes me kinda wish I had better ideas for mine before I made it up.

Halloween...

This is late, I know. I have been busy having abit of a blogging and creative break. My mind is busy atm and i've just felt that I wouldn't be too commited to it all and so I just quit it all for a few days. Quiet a bad time to stop, cause I'm noticing so many new changes in the whole season here and enormously fabby photo ops... but i've just not had the inclination to start doing anything.

Oh well.

Halloween. Emily was super cute. She did dress as a spanish dancer ~ in her flamenco dress (although it ended up on inside out with her head in the arm hole and she looked like a rooster ~ but thats a whole other story) And we waited til after tea to carve our pumpkin, now normally we would've had it done days before and had a bigger one (Kevy went and got it) and had more than one. But as i've said. I've felt slack just lately. Emily was SO excited at it all. And stood with the spoon paitiently waiting to scoop while I carved. It didn't help i'd misplaced the pumpkin carvers and so I used a knife, slipped and was nearly one finger-less on my left hand ~ we ended up with a scar face pumpkin (with a slash from nose to eye) but he looked ok. And of course he looked VERY impressive to a three year old.

Emily has since sung 'happy birthday halloween' to him everyday since. She doesn't get that you can have candles without a birthday...