Tagged, Snow, Lumpy & More New Goodies!

Hi all, I've got lots to post today so let's get right to it.




Firstly, I was tagged a couple of days ago by SemSee.


The rules are:

1. Go to the 6th folder, in your picture folder and select the 6th picture.
2. Post the Picture and an explanation on your blog about it.
3. Select 6 others to do the same and let them know.


Well, I only have one folder, so it will have to be the 6th picture from that folder which is:

This is my wonderful 10 year old son with some Wax Lips that were sent to him from a friend of mine in the States. I don't think you can get them over here in the UK, if you can, I have never come across them! Amazingly I was surprised that they tasted so good! Very nice to chew on too!
I would pick 6 others to tag but I know that this is a kinda old and well known tag and I do not have the time to go through all the blogs I follow lol, so if you are reading this concider yourself tagged if you haven't already been tagged :)






Secondly, we had lots of snow all day today. We do tend to get a few flakes here and there once a year in the UK but apparently today was the heaviest fall of snow in the last 20 years. It makes me laugh though because they are never prepared for when we do have snow. No gritter on the roads, and those that are, only concentrate on the major roads, Airports are closed, buses ain't running (again a lack of gritters). Which of course means people cannot get to work, so some work places are closed or severely short staffed etc. etc.

Also, because we get little snow we don't have snow ploughs like they do in the States and other countries, just because we don't get this much snow very often, the government think it is not worth it!

But when I was little, the snow was much deeper and heavier, yet we never complained, there had to be 6 foot of snow before we were kept home and we loved it!



No picture I'm afraid. It's 8pm* and the snow is turning to mush. Maybe I will post one or two tomorrow if it continues to snow overnight.




Thirdly, as I stated in a previous post, I finished cross-stitching Lumpy, but I just got around to ironing and mounting him into his little frame. So here he is, Lumpy, from Winnie the Pooh, and January's finished mini kit.

Isn't he cute? I haven't decided which mini kit to finish for February yet, still there's plenty of time left right?








And finally the first bunch of my last lot of goodies arrived today (no more spending on craft stuff 'till next month!!) I still have a few bits and pieces to come yet but here is what came today (I have done it in two pictures because I did not want you to see that I still have my Christmas Penguins tablecloth still on the table lol):

Here you can see: Corrugated Card, 4x Co-ordinating Dovecraft Papers, 2x Hot Melt Glue Sticks, Tweezers, Craft Knife, Large Orange Scissors, Small Purple Decoupage Scissors, Mini Angel Stamp Set and a U R 21 Embellishment. You can also just see the right hand side view.

Here you can see the 7x Embossing Powders, 2x Double Sided Sticky Tape, Hand Stamped By..... Stamp, Clear Away Tray, Black Pigment Ink and Silver Pigment Ink. There is also some Gold Pigment Ink, as seen in the above picture and some Clear Pigment Ink (not show).

I ripped open everything from it's packaging to show you that once all the packaging is removed it doesn't look like much at all! As you can see I have stacked almost everything in the Clear Away Tray!

Still, I do have some more items to come from two other companies, so I am looking forward to that.
Hopefully they should be here in the next few days.

Still to come: Quilling Kit, Anita's Rose Happy Birthday Border, Light Box and a few other things but I forgot what I ordered LOL

So anyway, I have 2 new and empty storage boxes and lots of loose little new goodies. Time to go fill up those boxes!

'Till next time.

* I know the time now is 11:30pm but I did write that section at 8pm lol - I have been doing other stuff in between writing this entry!

More goodies arrived + Freebies (kinda)

YaY! The rest of my goodies arrived today.

Quilling papers (I forgot to get a quilling pen, so that is on my next 'to get' list), waterbrushes, funky foam cut out shapes and stickles. Along with a FREE Marie Curie Cancer Care Card Bag. I thought that the bag would be a pack of 5 or 10, but nope they are singular bags lol oh well, I will have to get more the next time I order *cough cough*



This was the first time I had ordered from stamps.co.uk so when I found the little card at the bottom I was surprised to find a little free embellishment attached to it. It is the cutest little ladybird ever! (See pic below). (How many 'little's did I just write there?? LOL)

The card reads:


FREE sample with next order
Put 'FREE CARD' in the box at checkout to receive a FREE Papermania Card & Envelope. Valid until January 31st 2009

PASS this on to a friend and they can try it too!

FREE Touchy Feely!
Enjoy your FREE sample Lady Bird (EMB458) ONLY £2.99p for 60!




So there you go, I have passed it along lol


Speaking of goodies.....

I have been on another spending spree (well..... there was 10% off everything!) so............
I am looking forward to receiving the following in the next few days:

Corrugated Card, Double sided tape, more Hot Melt Glue Sticks, U R 21 Embellishment ('cus I can't find where I put the last one I bought for my Brother's special card for his 21st this year), 4x sets of Papermania Paperpacks (£1 each, can't complain!), Hand Stamped By....... stamp, Child's Angel Mini Stamps (hey for 50p you wouldn't turn it down neither!), Pigment inks, Heat Gun, 7x Embossing powders, Large Scissors (so I don't ruin any more 'kitchen' pairs lol), Angled tweezers (so I don't ruin my eyebrow tweezers), Clear Away Tray (to save on paper, and glitter getting EVERYWHERE), Decoupage scissors (ya never know when ya need those little 'uns), and finally a new craft knife, as the one I have has a tarnished handle plus it's blade needs changing and I'm too scared to do it myself! Knowing my clumsiness I will chop off a finger (again. - Don't ASK!!)


So there we have it. I think that is the last of my goodies to come, crafting wise anyways!

Looking forward to that stash coming, as I need the papers to finish off this little mini box I am making for my Brother.


And finally to report, I have finished stitching Lumpy, the free mini cross-stitch, he is on the radiator drying off, as I like to wash and iron my finished cross-stitches, so I will post a pic of him dried, ironed and in his frame later!


Gotta go get the tea ready for later, we sticking with the healthy eating crap. Tonight we are having Creamy Mushroom Pappardelle!


Take Care & Happy Crafting!

Little Intro...

Hi, I don't know whether anyone would even read this, but that is okay, as I have just basically created this blog for my own personal use anyway to keep track of cards I have made.

Usually I just take a few pics of them and upload them to photobucket.com to show my online buddies, however, I thought it was time to have my own little crafting blog, seeing as though I have blogs for other things!

Anyhow, my name is Joanna, though I just go by 'Jo'. I am 29 and a year old (t.h.i.r.t.y) and mother to William, who is ten.

I started crafting just a few years ago, and I started out with Cross-Stitching. After about two or three years I progressed to Cross-Stitched cards (my gawd, they are time consuming! - And a little achy on the old fingers).

Then I started to procrastinate and my cross-stitching slowly got put away to one side.

A few months later and I seemed to have gathered a few card making materials, mostly decoupage kits. And that was how it all kicked off really.

I must admit though, as much as I love to make cards, I do not have a huge cashe of 'stuff', nor do I have a dedicated room to craft in, but I have enough supplies and tools to last a good few years yet. And another thing I seem to lack in is stamping. I think I must be the only card maker in the world that has very few stamps. In fact the only ones I do have are some mini Christmas ones, some large funky foam ones and a couple of sayings stamps! I do not have any of these fancy stamps that a lot of people use as a main focus on their cards!

Maybe that will be my new venture........ stamping!

If there's anything else you want to know about me, just ask!