MOTHER'S DAY CARD AND ENGAGEMENT CARD

Hi ... Well its been a very hectic last few days here ..My daughter Ruth had her engagement party Friday evening which was fantastic but i'm still feeling drained from it and the days leading up to it ...I have to realise i cant do things like i used to ! ..Never mind though i did enjoy it !

I made a card for my mum for Mother's day .  Its the first time that i have made a card using spellbinders and i really pleased with the result .  Hope you like it .

Also made the engagement card for daughter Ruth and her Partner ..I used the spellbinders again ..

Hope you like this one also !

This is me with 2 of my daughters , Rachel in the off the shoulder top and Ruth the other side , these photos were taken at Ruth's engagement party .

This one is me with all my daughters , the one on the end is Rebecca my eldest daughter ...I love these girls so much , so very proud at the women they have become and the wonderful, loving and caring mother's that they are ! .

My son David with one of his mates ..Although he is one of twins , he is my 1st born . He had cancer nearly 5 yrs ago , and it was quite bad , he had to have extensive chemo and radiotherapy , it was a very worrying time for all of us ..thanks be to God he is with us today and hopefully he will get the all clear later this year .. In the background is one of my grand-daughters Courtney , doesnt she look beautiful !!

This is me with my granddaughter Lauren Courtney's elder sister , another stunner !!

This is my grand-son Drew , Lauren and Courtney's baby brother , isnt he just adorable , look at those curls !! , he looks like a cherub !!!

This is my other son Daniel , David's twin brother , with Lauren . These are just a few of the photos that i took that evening , hoped you enjoyed a small look into a very wonderful evening ....

Well that is for now , take care and God bless ...love Nana Meme  xx

Well here we ae again ... I have been trying to start my decorating but it is a slow progress for me at the moment as i am having a terrible lot of pain in my right arm .. and yes i am right-handed .... i just hate letting my fibromyalgia stopping me from doing things , so , i am trying to push through it .. not doing too much as that would mean i paid for it big time and would be unable to do anything .. but i keep in mind the story of the 'Hare and the Tortoise ' !

Anyway apart from the decorating i have managed to do 2 cards .. one for my daughter Rebecca's birthday and one for her son , my darling grandson Joshua .  I have to get a card done for my mum as it is Mother's Day here this Sunday ..I have in mind what i want to do , so i'm hoping it will go to plan without too many hiccups !! ..Then i have to make a card for my youngest daughter Ruth and her partner Andrew as they are getting engaged the following week ...we are having a big family get together ..she has made some beautiful things for the party .  I also have a couple of ideas for keepsakes and i am so hoping that what i have in mind i can do as i have never attempted to do one before !!

This is the card i made for my Daughter's birthday ..Took me awhile as i didnt like the original and i ended up taking apart and changing it ..never mind i was happy with the finished result and Beckie loved it and that's what counts !!
Now for my Grandsons card .

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VALENTINE'S DAY

Well i'm a couple of days late but here are the Valentine's Day cards i made . 

The first one is the one i made to give to my partner .  The second i made for my daughter to give to her partner .  I am quite pleased with the way they have turned out .  I've been playing with my new cuttlebug , love this machine !  Yesterday i ordered some spellbinders to use with it , so looking forward to trying them out when they arrive . 

I havent been so good for the last 3 weeks now , i cant seem to get rid of this cold , and i must admit it is dragging me down at the moment , roll on the warmer weathter . 

I have decided to give my crafting room a good go through and and get some new items .  The desk i have isnt too good , so thats one thing i shall be getting and i've seen some nice racks to hold your ink pads and glitter glues etc and racks to hold your ribbons and they are quite reasonable priced ..Mmmmmm should look rather nice when finished .  Well not much more to say really , havent done much else because of my health at the moment , but i feel a baking spell coming up !! ... Cornish Heavy Cake and some tasty muffins ..yummy , mouth is watering already ! ...Well thats all for now , take care ...Nana Meme xx

SOME MORE CARDS

Just getting over a lovely cold so have been resting a lot . I have managed to get a couple of cards done though . Bought my 'cuttlebug' , well it had to be done !! ..After watching 'Sheena Douglas' on C&C channel with the 'spellbinders' and 'cuttlebug' i was totaly hooked . Now have to get some of the 'Spellbinders' thought i might get the heart shapes first for the Valentines cards .

 

This is one of the cards that i have done  , just decided to play around with some black card , i layered it with  grey striped paper .  I then stamped out a image of roses three times , embossed then coloured them with 'cosmic shimmer mica pigments which i made into paints , i then cut out two full images and one of the roses and layered them . Stamped and embossed a flourish on some white card , also did this with the sentiment , edged it with a coloured ink pad added a couple of gems and a ribbon , i love ribbons , cant help adding them to my cards ! I'm quite pleased with the finished result .

I have found a some what helpful blog giving advice on blogs and how to tips so i'm hoping i can find out how to do some of the things i am having problems with , time will tell .

 

This is the 'Flower Fairy' card that i made for my grand-daughter's 3rd birthday this week also used the insert from the same CD .  Really pleased with this one and Kerhys loved it !!

Well thats all for now ...speak to you soon .  Take care , love and hugs NanaMeme

NEED HELP AND ADVICE

Firstly HI and thanks for dropping by ! ..I haven't been making cards for long , hence not many on here , also have been quite poorly with my Fibromyalgia before Christmas so didnt get around to doing too much . I am going to my first card-making workshop this Saturday , and i cant wait !! So looking forward to it and learning as much as i can . Right i need help PLEASE ...where do i find good easy to understand info on how to use / manage your blog ??!!! I dont know how to use my blog apart from adding a new post , adding a photo and a couple of other easy things , but i dont know how to add awards , how to link my blog with another and to pass awards onto others , well i think you have the jist by now , i dont know a lot LOL !!! ..But i would oh so love to be able to join in more in blogging land !! ..I have tried searching for info on-line but didnt find much that helped , so please if anyone drops by and reads this could you just leave a message with info on how to find out more ..Many thanks for that !!

Before i go , has anybody been watching 'Sheena Douglas' on Create and Craft and the 'Spellbinders ? !!! I seriously have to get myself a cuttlebug and some 'Spellbinders '!!!....

Well thats all for now saying goodbye and take care Nannie MeMe

MY THOUGHTS AND PLANS

This will just be a short up-date .  I have decided that i seem to be getting no-where fast , so , i have made enquires and found that a craft shop in the next town runs work-shops once a month and , i have signed up for some classes .  I have all this crafting stuff sitting in my crafting room and all these ideas but i just cant seem to get them on the paper , so to speak !  Hopefully once i start to learn how to use different items and tecniques i can then start putting them into practice !!! I have come across some really wonderful blogs on here ! There are a lot of very talented people out there ! ..I would love to combine stamping ( which i have come to love ) with quotes , ( which i love to collect ) and make some beautiful cards which can then be kept as  keepsakes for my family .  I have finished work now , i have been accepted for full ' ill health retirement ' and i want to do something with the free time i will now have , sitting doing nothing is not how i want to be spending the rest of my life thanks ! Another thing that i would love to do this year is to learn how to drive , but i think i have to do one thing at a time .  I think that is one of my problems , i cant just do one thing at time and i end up not completing anything and that ends up with me stressing out .  This i think is to do with work and my illness and knowing that i had to get everything done on my days off because on my work days i would come home completly exhausted and had to lie down , i just cant seem to get myself out of that mode of thinking and behaving , everything i do is in a rush !  Perhaps i should join a group that teaches meditation or something like that lol !! Did i say this was going to be a short update lol !! thats just like me lol !!! ..Anyway i think thats all for now .

" IF YOUR NOSE IS CLOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE
AND YOU HOLD IT THERE LONG ENOUGH 
IN TIME YOU'LL SAY
THERE'S NO SUCH THING
AS BROOKS THAT BABBLE AND BIRDS THAT SING.
THESE THREE WILL ALL YOUR WORLD COMPOSE
JUST YOU , THE STONE AND YOUR POOR OLD NOSE . "

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Take care everyone , until the next time Nana MeMe

Late but still here !!

Hello All
Well i should have done this posting along time ago , but with one thing and another and Christmas i never seemed to have the time to sit and do this ...

The weather has been cold and we had some snow but not as bad as the rest of the country ! and now they are warning of floods because of the thaw out !  Why is it that life seems to revolve around the weather , is it a 'English' thing ? !!!

I had a brilliant Christmas although hectic and i did manage to make Family cards .  It took me a while and a lot of work as i have only made about 6 cards before but i was so pleased with how they turned out that it was worth all the time they took .  One thing's for sure i will be starting much earlier with my preparations for Christmas 2010 !

I have now finished work as i have been awarded full 'ill health retirement'  and i am so happy as i just couldnt cope any longer with work and my illness .  Maybe now i can spend some time doing the things that i have wanted to do for so long but just didnt have the energy , i'm looking at this as a New Beginning , A new adventure !!

The top card is one i made for a friend and the verse i encluded , the next cards are the ones that i made for my close family, 11 altogether .

The bottom  card i made for my brother who lives in Australia , i was too worried that the card would be damaged in the post to him so i scaled it down and changed it in some ways .

You can tell i know how to lay my blog out cant you LOL my pictures seem to be going anywhere !!

The start of making the mince pies , i did 9 doz altogether , not all for me i might add LOL ! i make them for my mum , brother and my children and their families as well...also made pickles and pickled eggs for us all as well !
I had to include the last photo ...it think it says it all ..Murphy my 'little man' is thinking about tucking in i think LOL ...Oh what memories ...something no amount of money can buy or ever take away !!!

I wish you all a belated HAPPY NEW YEAR !! Take care thats all for now xx