Have been faffing about creating a "slide" for 2 days now, and everytime I try to publish it on blogger it wont show up! Bloody thing!

It was my day off today so I have spent the day doing absolutely nothing of any importance, British Gas came to service the boiler this morning (with 25 minutes notice can I just say, so had to run round like a total loonie having a shower and getting dressed while giving the bathroom a quick clean, making the bed, and generally tidying up!) and then I went to the physios this afternoon for my back, which is a lot better than it was thank goodness!


Was thinking about going to an excercise class with some of the girls from work, Body Combat, sort of a kick boxing to music type of thing, but I asked the physio today and she didn't think it was a good idea just yet. Of course, they will all think I am just trying to get out of it when I tell them at work!

I did manage to complete a layout, I'll see if Blogger will let me post it!

I also read some of my book that I have on the go at the moment - "A piece of cake" by Cupcake Brown. I only bought it cos it was half price in WHSmiths, but it's actually really good. I go through books that quickly that I'm not really fussy what I buy, just so long as it is half price I'm happy! Probably should join the library really!

Fingers crossed, there should be a piccy of my LO for you to look at......

....this layout cos I am really happy with how it turned out!

Well, I am a very happy girl cos yesterday I was the lucky winner of a compamatition on Kirsty Wisemans blog! Kirsty has been blogging for a year now, and generously offered a giveaway to someone who posted a comment, and yippee!! I won!

Obviously, that got me thinking that perhaps I might make a bit more of an effort with my blog, and here we are....

Oh, and to the lovely ladies who posted comments on here yesterday - I have deleted the post by accident (d'oh!) cos I double posted and deleted the wrong one, but thankyou for coming and blowing the dust off my bloggy!

Today I have been mostly working - then tonight we had chinese takeaway and watched X Factor and Ant and Dec. I was also introduced to a new website today, You Tube (you'll have to google it, I'm not clever enough to work out html linkys at this time of night), and the wonders of Tickle Me Elmo. Seriously, if you have never seen one of these little guys in action, it was so funny I had tears running down my face. I'm sure it would get a bit annoying after a while, but it was deffo very funny for 10 minutes! Lots of other funny video clips on there, you could spend some serious time trawling that site!

And just to finish off, here is the piccy of the beach in Albefuira Old Town that I promised you...

26th August! That was the last time I updated my blog! Thats just laziness, that is! Although in my defence, I have been on holiday for, er, well, a week! (OK, so I have no excuse really!)

We had a lovely week in Albefuira, but it was sooooo hot, I was melting for most of the day! Was nice on the beach at about 4.30 in the afternoon, paddling in the sea, but apart from that I think it was a bit too hot for me, especially as the room didn't have air conditioning. At least in the Florida heat you can guarantee your hotel room will be chilly when you get back after a long day in the parks!
Still, it was just nice to have a week away, but I don't think I would have managed 2 weeks, not enough to do!

Back to work now, we have had a lovely new wooden floor fitted in the shop instead of the grotty old carpet - it looks much brighter. Coming up to the mid season sale in a couple of weeks, it doesn't seem like 5 minutes since the last one!

I will leave you with a nice piccy of the beach at Albefuira Old Town....(or I would do if Blogger would let me upload it! Maybe later...)

I can't imagine that anyone actually reads my blog (except for my mum, and she's on holiday), but just in case you do, and you are wondering where I have been for the last few weeks, here I am, and I haven't been anywhere. Just too lazy to actually type up a blog entry I'm afraid. Sorry about that.

Oh yes, and here's a nice digital layout for your enjoyment....I like Photoshop I do....

Here's my little project from today - an altered canvas with a particularly apt phrase I read on the 2peas website earlier today!
Had a horribly busy week at work, I am soooo sick of the bloomin sale now, and I think I will have to put up with it for another week till I can launch full price stock back out onto the shopfloor. At least we can start picking new uniform this week, I am so sick of the clothes I have at the moment. I also need to make an appointment to get my hair cut cos it is far too long at the minute, and I need to buy an outfit for the flippin product training jolly I have to go on with work (don't they know, I don't do socialising!) So busy week for me then!
Thats it for now - I don't know how you all keep up with my incredibly busy and exciting lifestyle......

Another layout of my beloved in Florida - I love this pic, he thinks he looks like a doofus! Used some Urban Lily paper and loads of stickers, also played around with the pic in photoshop, added a border and other stuff.

This is my first post from my lovely new laptop, much faster than my last one, fabby big widescreen (all the better for viewing UKScrappers on!) and all silver and shiny too!

It was the first day of the sale at work yesterday - I was up at 4am and was absolutely flippin exhausted by the end of the day! Felt like I hadn't slept more than about 6 hours in two nights, thank goodness I can start trying to get back to normal now!

Had quite a productive day today! Spent the morning playing with some new techniques in photoshop, then went down to Tesco and printed out a load of photos. Came back home and did a LO with one of the photos - I'm happy with how it turned out!

See John, I do update my blog! And with a piccy of you no less!

Have finally managed to complete a layout today - it's just a simple one using white cardstock, doodling and a bit of watercolour paint. I'm quite happy with it, simple but effective!

Went and met one of the girls I used to work with for lunch today - we went to the pub and sat outside, it was lovely. The rain has started coming down now though, hopefully it will cool things down a bit.

Must try and get down to some serious scrap booking, there's a couple of design teams I want to apply for, and it feels like ages since I got any LO's done!

Gosh, I really should get round to doing this more often!

Been incredibly warm here today, even though the heavens opened about 3pm accompanied by lots of thunder and lightening which went on till about 7.30pm. I just can't be bothered to do anything when it's this warm, so have mainly been faffing around on the laptop, trying a couple of new things out in Photoshop, surfing the net, eating rubbish and drinking strawberry milkshakes. Of course, now it's 11pm, I feel slightly sick and can't help but think that I have wasted another Sunday. Oh well.

Not had a terribly exciting week either - had to go to my first area meeting (yawn), a day and a half of sitting in a room with 14 other people talking about the end of season sale mostly. All that does for me is instill panic - you really would not believe the preparation that goes into it and frankly I'm a bit worried that I don't really know what I am doing, and I am only going to be able to blag my way through it up to a point. Never mind, I can always become a professional scrapbooker if I get the sack, I just need to find somebody daft enough to pay me for it!

Also went bowling with the other managers - felt like I was back at school when they picked teams and I was picked last. I realise they don't know me but I think that was a bit off to be honest. Still, got my own back when I got a strike with my first bowl and turned round saying "Ha! Won't pick me last next time, will you?!"

Did you watch the match yesterday? I missed most of it cos I was at work, but got home in time to see the extra time and penalties. Such a shame, still there's always Euro 2008!

Well, I am just about returning to the land of the living, I've been off work sick since Thursday, have felt pretty awful for a few days, and now that I am just about getting back on top of it I seem to have passed it on to my poor hubby. I still feel like I could sleep for a week but at least the dizzyness and the blocked up nose and the sore throat have pretty much gone!

Just watched the match - yay us! Thank God we won, it would have been sooooo embarassing to get knocked out straight away!

You like my new pink banner?

...it has been 17 days since I last blogged (or so my hubby has just informed me) Bad girl! The trouble is, when your life is as exciting as mine it's hard to find the time to sit down at the PC.....oh OK, I'm joking, I'm just lazy and frankly haven't done anything interesting for ooh, lets see, probably about 17 days!


Managed to do something a bit interesting yesterday though, when I joined 59,999 other people at the City of Manchester Stadium to see Take That. What an amazing show!

Started off with Beverley Knight doing a few numbers (I'm not a big Beverley Knight fan, but she can carry a tune :-)) then the Sugababes, who were great, then the boys came on stage at about 9pm and rocked the stadium for two hours! It was fab, they did all the greatest hits, a brilliant Beatles medley, a fantastic "Tango" version of "It Only Takes A Minute" complete with all the tango moves and loads more. Lulu was there for "Relight My Fire", and despite all the rumours Robbie didn't turn up (probably cos he was at his own gig in Paris). The concert was finished off nicely with "Never Forget" and a firework display.
Only took us an hour (an hour!) to get off the car park, I think they could have organised that a bit better, especially as we paid a tenner for the priveledge of parking there. Finally got in at about 1am after a stop at the chippy on the way home, and then I watched Doctor Who, so it was about 2am before I got to bed, I think thats the latest I've been up in months!

Wasn't Peter Kay fantastic as the alien in Doctor Who? An alien with a Bolton accent no less! Mark Warren was great as Elton too (and quite scrummy)

So just one last thing - Happy Fathers Day Dad! Hope you have had a nice day!

.......since I last posted! How bad's that? (said in a Peter Kay type voice)

Anyhoo, here we are, it's my day off today so I have finally got time to sit down at the PC. Have done almost no scrapping this week, but I did make a little altered book / mini album on Sunday with some pics that I took of the gang on my last day at work. I bought a cheapy kids chipboard book (99p! Bargain!) covered it with some lovely Basic Grey Hang 10 papers, added photos and a few embellies / stamps / doodling and hey presto! Instant album!

We had a bit of a day out (well, evening!) in Blackpool on Bank Holiday Monday, took the camera and got some great shots of the pleasure beach and the golden mile. On the way home it started to absolutely chuck it down so we parked on a motorway bridge and got a few shots from there, then went the scenic route home and got some lovely landscape pics. I want to have a play with some of them in Photoshop but I will try and remember to post some later.

Back to work as normal on Tuesday, it's half term so the shop is full of kids (small, screaming, adolescent, shoplifting, you name it) can't wait till they go back to school!

Oh yes, nearly forgot, we actually cut the grass last Sunday! I know, astounding isn't it! Cut the grass front and back, we had to go through it with the strimmer first cos the mower was having none of it, cleaned all the UPVC at the front, door, windows, and cleaned the steps. We were joking that the neighbours will think we are putting the house up for sale! Meant to take some before and after shots but sadly we remembered a bit too late. If only the grass would just stop growing now that would be great, but unfortunately I know we will have to do it all again in a couple of weeks. I wonder how much astroturf costs........

Just a little something I whipped up earlier with a piccie of some of the stash I got at You Can Make It this weekend.

Have been busy clearing out the office at work today, was finding paperwork from 8 years ago, pretty sure I don't need to keep it that long! I'm aiming for a minimilist look, particularly as the office is about the size of a stamp, two people and it's crowded!

Tomorrow I'm going to start on the noticeboards....

I'm back! Feeling much better, getting a decent nights sleep definately helps, as does some serious stash shopping! Had a great 2 days at You Can Make It at the Reebok, got lots of lovely new stash to stroke including Blonde Moments, Sassafrass Lass and Rob and Bob papers, lots of yummy Bazzil blossoms, Queen and Co brads, 7gypsies stickers and lots of other scrummy stuff! Frankly I was quite restrained in my spending, there were so many things I could have bought, like pretty much everything at the Art from the Heart and Scrap Revolution stands. Same time next year then, as my Mum said on the way out......

Do you like my piccy? I went all clever and arty and took a pic of myself taking a pic in the mirror, then got even more arty with it in photoshop. Quite pleased with the finished effect if I do say so myself.

Later, dudes................

Too tired to post much! Need more sleep, and to not wake up at 5am for the third day in a row...

So anyway, as I said earlier it was my last day at Ashton yesterday, so we had a night out at the Sheldon Arms, lots of drink was taken (some people more than others, Jackie you should be ashamed of yourself!!).

Earlier in the day they had given me some lovely pressies at work, a bunch of flowers the likes of which I have never seen, a gorgoeus Fossil ring that I have been lusting over for months, £50 of Hobbycraft vouchers (gonna do some serious damage with those!), a HUGE box of Thorntons Continental and a bottle of bubbly! So thankyou thankyou thankyou to everybody there!


Oh yes, they also presented me with two disposable cameras, apparently one has pics of peoples faces and the other one is objects that they match up with. Can't wait to see what is on there!

I start my new job tomorrow (Store Manager no less!) and am excited and apprehensive in equal parts at the moment. Everytime I start I new job I wonder why I do this to myself! Still, it will be fantastic not to have to go on the motorway to get to work, it's gonna save me loads of time and petrol money too. It will be great to actually be "the boss" too, I hope I am a good one!

Just got back from lunch with my family to celebrate Jessica's 12th birthday, it was all very nice and scrummy and lovely to see everyone (especially as I don't see them all that often!) Georgina has had her first proper hair cut and looks absolutely beautiful, I appreciate I am biased on that one though! Jess and Joe get more and more grown up by the minute, I know it's a cliche but where does the time go? Seriously, anybody know?!

By the way, hope you're feeling better Mum, not poorly sick anymore!

But only slightly! Had a lovely day yesterday, got some fab pressies! Will post more later (with pics!)