at least, peace and quiet.

We have brick dust in places you wouldn't dream of................

Cleaned the living room up but couldn't face the front room, so thats a job for tomorrow, plus the plaster is not quite dry yet so can't move the furniture back.....

then there's upstairs to do......

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

so the crafting hasn't gone exactly to plan, the gas men/installers turned up yesterday (and today) to convert our house onto gas central heating from coal. Which means everything is everywhere, furniture, ornaments, rooms etc. And today the coal boiler isbeing ripped from the chimney in the living room. along with the fireplaces in both rooms so ( Read more... )

So this last week saw me start back to work with all new optimism and shiny hope. Sadly that illusion was shattered about 10 minutes into my first shift. Honestly I should have known better! We're really feeling the economic squeeze again, nobody is buying anything, including me! Next week I am working a total of 11 hours, which roughly equates to ( Read more... )

Last week we had a few days in the caravan near York, took the 2 doggies (we had to have Dax put to sleep the other week as she jsut got too old). Had a lovely time, not too cold and we even went on Scarborough beach and had an ice cream. The doggies loved it. Spoent a day at York, went to the National Railway Musuem in the morning then had a walk ( Read more... )

As its coming upto V-day next week, I made 3 atc's for a swap on one of my groups and because I must get back into blogging, I'm going to torment you guys with them *mad giggles*


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okay. I'm still here. Still manic. Still moaning and raving about non-important stuff. Still crafting. Still taking the little white pills.

but missing my lovely friends on here

*smooch*

There is life Jim, but not as we know it......

 in the Big Chicken household......

Pip and Gert have now become Pip and BERT.

For Gert is not a hen.
Oh no.
For Gert is a cockerel.
Oh yes.

on googling White Collar, it threw this kink up (honest to God that was a typo I just did):

67.23.2.53/wiki/White_Collar

which was fine and dandy till I got to this little gem of a sentence

"It is possible that some fans are developing kink goggles in the way some fans have slash goggles" which linked to this:

"Slash Goggles: The metaphorical effect of ( Read more... )

Made a new card today, and got messy with the stamping (and a tad carried away *g*)

the swap theme is gems/flurishes/swirls with a peel off. So I used a bow stamp, black then bronze then black ink, 4 lickle white gems and a greeting peel off.

Not sure if I like it, maybe it'll grow on me - but I did have fun making it! (think it would look better if ( Read more... )