Need to get on with my Christmas cards!!!!

Hi,
Goodness me... I don't seem to be able to get going on my cards this year!!!!
I had a play and came up with this one... used a peel off... I'm not a lover of peel offs, but seem to have aquired a pile from somewhere and thought I would have a go with these trees... not too bad!!!
Hopefully, I will find some inspiration to make some more... I will be so disappointed with myself if I go back to buying packs of Christmas cards!!!!!
Gosh! it's gone really cold here... that wind is has a real chill today!!!
Hope you're crafting with a smile...
Hugs
Kim
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Friday Sketchers

Hi,
Today I have made a card for my cousin Andrea... I was inspired by the sketch over at Friday Sketchers #122. What a fun sketch! The image is one my mum gave me and the papers are from Papermania's Summer Bloom pad... I love these papers, they are so gorgeously girlie!!!!

I am off now to have a play at a card to hold tealight candles... and hopefully at least one Christmas card... Hope your sunday has been as relaxing as mine... even my kids have chilled today.

Hugs

Kim

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Where has September gone????

Hi,
I can't believe it's the 1st of October tomorrow... I'm getting old, because I hear myself saying 'where has this month gone?' all the time now... I can't keep up with time... My daughter is in year 5 and we have had invites to High School's already... is this normal? It's not that we haven't thought about it, it's just all coming around so quickly.
Anyway, I have managed to find a little bit of time for myself and made a card... it was inspired by Kazan's sketch #62 over at 2 Sketches 4 You... I made my decorated edge using Martha Stewart punches. I need some more of these, they are so effective!!!! Mind you, I am supposed to be on a stash diet (again!!!!)....

I still haven't made any more Christmas cards... I have cleared tomorrow afternoon for a bit of a crafting session... now I have said this something is bound to happen to spoil it!

Hope the sun is shining and life is treating you well.

Hugs

Kim

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Christmas card #1

Hi,
Gosh, it's been a while, hasn't it? I just don't seem to find the time or have the heart for crafting lately... but I really have to make a start on my Christmas cards and I am so glad I did this one today. I feel so much better and really enjoyed myself... good therapy, obviously.
Inspiration came from Sketch Saturday week #121 ... what a great sketch! The image is one my mum passed on to me... using some paper and card I had in my scraps folder, believe it or not! I haven't actually got around to buying any new Christmas stash yet...

Am off to have a browse around the net for new Christmas stash!!!!

Hope you are well and happy... thank you for stopping by!

Hugs

Kim

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Hopefully I'm back!!!

Hi,
Just thought I would put a post in to say that I am hoping to get some time to craft tomorrow and over the weekend. Life has been both hard and hectic!

My Aunt died mid-July. We were all devastated and still are. She was such a fighter, my Auntie Kath, she had fought it off before and she so wanted to live to see her Grandchildren grow up. She kept saying she didn't want to die because she wasn't done yet! Her daughters are both devastated of course, and poor Andrea seems so lost as she was still living at home with her mum so was taking care of her. It's a horrible horrible thing. Having said that my Auntie Kath was a lovely woman with a heart of gold. She would do anything for anyone and really didn't deserve to suffer the way she did. I am left feeling like someone has stollen something from me and as it is when we lose people we love, I don't think I will ever be quite the same again.

On a brighter note.... my mum and I took the children away for a week (we both needed it I can tell you) to Sussex and we had a relaxing, lovely time and the weather was so good to us... apparently at home it rained nearly all week!

I am hoping to do some crafting, sort my photo's out.... maybe even do some scrapbooking, you never know!!! So hopefully over the next couple of days I will post a pic!

Hope you are having a lovely summer and are happy and well!
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday....

Hi,
Just when you think I've disappeared forever... I'm back! Inspiration came from Mojo Monday #146... what a great sketch! This is for a friend of mine who loves cake... I mean she LOVES cake!!! She is worse than a kid if she doesn't get a birthday cake... she always buys one herself to make sure she gets one!!!

Suddenly lately I miss decorating cakes... I used to decorate all kinds of special occasion cakes when I worked in a cake shop... Am going to be making my son a cake for Friday... my baby is 8 on friday!!!! I honestly don't know where the time goes... one minute it's January and all of a sudden we've done Easter, then I'm shopping for holiday clothes... I had a meeting about my daughters high school last week... I know she is 9 but it only seems like a couple of years ago we were starting in Reception!!! Suddenly I feel old!!!!!

I'm going to have a nice cup of tea... and do some crafting!!! Think I'm going to be naughty, run the hoover over the living room and leave the ironing til later.... do some crafting instead!!!!

Hope the sun is shining where you are... it's very dark here, think we are in for a storm!!!!!

Hugs

Kim

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Where does the time go?!!!

Hi,
I haven't had any time to craft just lately... I don't know where the time goes! I was determined to get up early so that I could make some time this morning... my cards are getting extremely low and I have a load of birthdays coming up all at once so I really need to find some time.

Here is the card I have made this morning... my inspiration came from Friday Sketchers # 109. What a great sketch... all that paper eh?!

Unfortunately my Aunt is not well at all, the chemo is really knocking her about this time and she is in hospital at the moment! I am all of a dither about going down for a visit tomorrow to see her... it's so awkward being so far away. I have no one I can leave the kids with here so I have to take them with me and although they are always pretty good, hospital visits and kids just don't go especially after a 2 hour car drive!!!!

OH has a bug... so of course he is dying... the kids have had it but of course his is much worse!!!! Honestly! My 9 year old daughter said yesterday that daddy was 'such a child'... I think she was selling herself short there because after one day off school, she was back doing her usual stuff and getting on with life... after two days daddy is still dying!!!! Bet he's recovered by Friday... he's off to France fishing!!!!

The children and I are off to Sussex with my mum in a few weeks... lets hope the weather holds out, eh!!!! Hope it's gorgeous where you are too....

Hope you have a great weekend.

Hugs

Kim

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