Disney Does Brighton

June 6th - One of the girl's at work is getting married on 20th June and on the 6th we all went out for her hen night. It had a disney/kids character theme and we all had to dress up. We had Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Dorothy, Cruella D'Ville, Captain Hook, a couple of Minnie Mouses and me I went as the wicked Witch.

We had the boogie bus which was fun and stopped us at 4 different night spots around town. There was plenty of drinking, plenty of dancing and plenty of laughter going on. It was a great night.

The Girls Hit Florida!!

April 30th - Florida here we come.... Gary & Fel (Cyd's hubby) always go down to Devon for a week playing golf. Cyd & I normally have a week in the sun, i.e Tenerife or Spain. This year we decided to go to Cyd's house ion Florida for 2 weeks of sun & relaxation. My mate Hevs deceided she wanted to come along as well as it's her 50th birthday this year.

We had a fab time and all we did was soak up the sun, do a bit of shopping and relax. As this was Hev's first time in Florida we asked her where she would like to go and she said SeaWorld which was fine by us. So on the last but one day we trotted off to SeaWorld and had a great day.

Later that day I experienced my first full blown Floridian thunderstorm. Wow it was amazing, fork lightening the lot......the only problem was that we were sitting in a metal stadium on metal seats surrounded by water (we were in the Shamu Stadium)!!

It was a great 2 weeks , got my tan & made me feel 100% better. Roll on October when we are over there again.. however this time it's with the boys!!!!!!!!

Oh dear, I have been neglecting...........

............my blog. Wow I didn't realise it had been that long since I had last posting. I have a lot to catch up, so much has happened over the last month or so so I will gradually bring it up to date, and then hopefully keep it up to date.

Firstly - 17th June - I spent the day with my mate Pam. We spent the morning up at the Craft Barn doing a bit of craft shopping. We then had a spot of lunch which was very nice. For the afternoon we drove to the Glitterpot for a craft lesson with Jane Gill. The class was to learn how to do gold leafing. I loved the card that we madebut I must say, gold leafing is not for me. :

Craft Craft Class on Friday

Went to a craft class on Friday at The Glitterpot near Haywards Heath with my friend Pam. We had a great day making cards with Julie Hickey from Craftwork Cards. We used their 'Yummy Scrummy paper range which is beautiful. The first 2 cards were made with the 'Coffee & Cream' range.

The card on the left has an acetate butterfly that has been stamped using Stazon Opaque white ink. Now being a very novice & I mean novice stamper I was surprised how easy it was to stamp and how effective it looked.

In the afternoon we used the Marshmellow & Cappuccino range which I thought was a wired combination to start with but looked stunning together.

The first one we did was supposed to be put together to make concetina book but I have decided to keep mine separated and make 3 cards. The second card was made by cutting up 9 squares and adding some embellishments. I would never have thought of doing a card like this as it's a little fussy to what I normally do but I really liked it. The centres of the flowers are called Card Candy which are fab! and at only £1 a bag, is a bargain as well!!

When we had finished these cards Jane set us a challenge to make a small card using some of the papers and embellishments. This is the card I made. If you go onto Julie's blog at http://cardsbyjulie.blogspot.com/ you can see all the other's. Although we all had the same items to make the card, everyone is different.

Julie is doing another class on 15th May using their Black & White papers. Unfortunately I can't go as I will be arriving back from holiday on that day so probably won't be awake enough to do it.

It was a great day with great company, thanks Pam, looking forward to the next one now!!!

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Have made another 2....

Yep I have made another 2 cards over the weekend. One is a wedding card and the other will go into my spare box!!

The wedding card is made from a white pearlescent 5" x 7" card. The top 3/4's of the card was run through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots embossing folder. An embellishment of champagne glassed on a printed matt was put in the middle of the card. A silver peeloff 'Congratulations' was put on the bottom and 3 glass gems stuck underneath.

The second card is also a 5" x 7" white pearlescent card, the top half has been put through the cuttlebug using the swiss dots embossing folder. Patterned paper was used to cover the bottom of the card with the join covered by yellow sticky ribbon. A piece of yellow organza ribbon was put down the center side. The dufex decoupage flower fairy was stuck on a piece of creamy yellow card and mounted in the centre of the card. A few gold peeloffs were put around the fairy. Not sure what or who will get this one yet so have left the greeting off at the moment.

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Devon - March 2009

Well I have survived my first day back at work following my gret holiday down in Devon. We stayed in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere and I mean nowhere. Nearest shop was 6 miles away! We were between Bideford and Barnstable. The road that the campsite was in was called 'The Road'. It was so peaceful.

The site was lovely set in the middle of a copse, in the area that we were in there were only 4 cabins. This is our one 'Foxglove'. As you can see it had a hot tub also which was lovely.

Hubby and I haven't been down to Devon for years and it was lovely being down there again. This was the first time that we had stayed in North Devon though as we normally stayed down near Dartmoor.

The weather was good on the Saturday and Sunday. On the Monday it was a bit cold but we went down to Morwellum Quey which is down near Tavistock. It's an old mining village which has been restored and normally in the summer, people of the village would walk around in Victorian costume. However as this was out of season they weren't dressed up as they were getting it ready for the tourist season. It was still good to go back there. We had fun in dressing up in the costumes.

On the Tuesday the heavons opened and it rained all day. This was the day we decided to go to Lynton and Lynmouth. What beautiful villages. We had a ride up the Cliff train from Lynmouth up to Lynton. As you can see from the picture we all had to wrap up against the elements.

On Wednesday we woke up to a light dusting of snow which looked beautiful but had melted by the time we went out. However on Wednesday evening it snowed quite heavily. I managed to get some photos of it and then on Thursday morning we woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland.

The hot tub was fun in the snow. Felt like we were in the snowy mountains.

On the way home on Saturday we drove through the New Forest which is another of my favourite places!.

Back to reality now and countdown to my next holiday. Only 7 weeks to go!!!!

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What a week....

Well it all started last Saturday. Gary & I went down to Portsmouth to the wedding of my cousin David's daughter Marisa. I had always been close to david as a youngster. He was like a father figure to me when I was growing up. Unfortunately due to different circumstances I hadn't seen him or his family in a few years apart from the odd phone call to his wife over the years.

We got in contact with Marisa last year on a chnace meeting, she was working at Specsavers in Brighton and Gary went in there to get some new glasses and she served him and it went from there.

She told us that she was getting married and wanted us there so we went. I was excited to be seeing David and Magdaline again after all this time. The last time I had spoken to Magdaline, about a year ago, she said that he was acting strange, loosing his memory and that maybe had onset dementia. Well i wasn't prepared for the shock I got when I saw him walk Marisa down the aisle. He looked so old and it really upset me. I suppose it's the old thing that you never think people get old, they are always as you remember them. After the service I spoke to him and he seemed really strange. He knew who we were but he just seemed very distant. He was always one to make jokes, be full of fun etc, but he seemed subdues. He just kept walking around and smiling at people with a stupid grin. I spoke to magdaline and she said that she wanted to let me know before we went down there but what woth the wedding etc she forgot. She said that he has no idea what is happening to him, just thinks that he is forgetting more and more.

Although the wedding was lovely and it ws lovely to see all the family is still upset me to think of him like that.

Heres a picture of Magdaline, James and Marisa and David.

Then today Gary had to go into hospital to have a op on a a lump on his ear. Last summer her had a scab opn the edge of his ear that wouldn't heal up. It kept bleeding, scabbing over. We didn't think anything of it but then it went hard. In October it started getting a bit bigger so he went to the doctors and they said that it looked like a cyst but to keep an eye on ot. She told him that it's if it scabs over and keep bleeding that you have to be worry about - silly sod didn't tell her it had already gone through that stage!!. Anyway we went on holiday and whilst away my friend and I noticed that it was getting bigger and looking quite angrey. i told him that he needed to get it checked out again and when we got back from holiday in December he went back to the doctors. She looked at it and immediately said she would refer him to the hospital to get it checked.

he had the appointment come through quite quickly and when he went up there the consultant confirmed that it was skin cancer and the lump would have to be removed. However it did say that it was non spreadable cancer!! When he told me I freaked out a bit, I hate that word.. I have lost both my parents to it!. The letter for hios operation came through quite quickly, it was for 17th February. They would be removing the lumpo under local aneasetic. However the Friday before his op, he got a letter to re schedule the op for today. He was upset as he hadn't been sleeping and getting himself worked up. Over the last week, the lump has grown and has started bleeding and looking really angry. This afternoon he had the op. The surgeon told him he hadn't seen a lump that angry adn it took quite some time to cut it out. He came out and it looks like he has had his ear cut in half and then sewn up! They are sending the lump away for analysis and he has to go back in 6 weeks for a check up but at least it is done. he was told that his ears will never look the same now and you can see that the one that he had the op on is smaller, but as I said to him, that he can live with that. His work cap may be wonky when he puts it on...lol (he's a police inspector).

After this week I am pleased to be going away on Saturday. We are off to Devon for a week.!

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