Day - BEDTIME

Saturday night, my room mate took several of me going to bed!! This is the one I am allowing to be published with a fuzz effect, thanks to Picasa!

Day 83 - CLOCK

Leaving home for my long journey to Wiltshire to my scrapping weekend.

The weekend

Just to say that I have just found out that there probably isn't Wifi at the property we are going to. So if I am not around, Iam fine and enjoying myself.
Weather forecast for the weekend is fantastic so just got out my walking boots and throwing in the case T shirt and crops too :D

Day 82 - CALM

It has been a lovely sunny and warm Spring day today. This morning I went for a pedicure before my retreat weekend. Whilst In was there I spied all these massage oils and thought they would make a good photo for CALM. I personally hate massages and yoga and they definitely do not calm me!
I got home and found Simon decorating a wall in my craftroom. He should have finished yesterday but we have employed him to the end of the week to do odd jobs in the upstairs rooms. He is now doing our bathroom and ceilings. Tomorrow he will do some of the doors on the otherside of the ones he has already painted, then we say goodbye to him. He seems to have become part of the family in the last 3 weeks!!
As I said I am off to Wiltshire tomorrow on a scrapping retreat with The Crumblies SG on UKS. All 10 of us are going from Friday - Monday. Here is the car partly packed with tools...Big Shot, Big Bite, BIA, lamp, extension leads, diecuts, punches, alphas etc. (all but the kitchen sink )LOL!!

I am so excited but dreading the journey alone and really hate motorway driving. It will be about a 4hr drive. We don't have a satnav but I am borrowing one from DStepD
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Tonight I need to pack some clothes, and sort out some kits too! Will be posting from Wiltshire tomorrow evening!

Day 81 - AN EVERYDAY SIGHT!

Today's prompt made me think of so many routine sights especially in the morning. The first was the first morning cup of tea for DH and myself and the VitC and echinacea tablet that I am taking to try and stop me having DH's stinking cold LOL!!
Then I took the tea upstairs to our bedroom and realised that everyday I take 6 tablets together for thyroid, BP, knee and neck pain !! Here is my weekly container and please note, I forgot to take my tabs yesterday (Tuesday!!)

Then of course the everyday sight since 6th February has been dehumidifiers trying to dry out the water which was in the walls and skirting (the skirting was removed 2 weeks ago).

The 2 industrial dehumidifiers from Chem Dry have finally gone this morning and we have switched the other 2 off now as they seem to be sucking up moisture from under the concrete floors. Thank goodness as they were so noisy and I am about to find out what the cost has been for electricity!!

Day 80 - QUIET

This was a hard one as our house is very noisy with 3 dehumidifiers still going 24/7! Then Xanthe found 'dolly' and kept sshing me as dolly was asleep. Here she is going ssh to me to be QUIET in her car seat as we went to collect her brother from school!

Day 79 - PLAY

Sorry I went AWOL on Monday . I was playing hard getting things ready for a SG retreat on Friday! I cannot show you what I was scrapping as it is a surprise for Friday, we are doing a jigsaw swap!!
So for my PLAY photo I took one today (Tuesday) of DGD Xanthe who just loves drawing, we had to try and keep her in her high chair whilst we were at home as the decorator was painting the radiators!!

Mothering Sunday

Here is a collage of some of the photos we took on our afternoon out with my youngest DS and his family. We went to Ightham Mote a NT north of Tonbridge. None of us had been here before. We really enjoyed the house and the gardens and hope to visit again soon.

Day 78 - HOBBY

Yoday's word was HOBBY which of course is scrapping!! I did this all day yesterday but today although it is our special day as a Mum, I won't be scrapping today as family are popping in am then late am we are going out to meet my younger son and family [Zac and Xanthe] at a NT property Igtham Mote that we have never been to before.
Here is a photo of some stash. Cannot show you what I was doing on some jigsaw pieces yesterday as they are a secret for a swap at a retreat next weekend!
Hope to upload photos from today when we get home tonight.
Have a lovely day everyone and hope the sun is shining as it is here at the moment!!

Montana Rose Band '' She's Got You''

Found some there was plenty of choice but couldn't get it onto my last post!!

Day 77- MUSIC

My DH is the real music lover in our household. he has always been a great Counrty and Western lover especially Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard etc more male singers than female but Eva Cassidy and Celine Dion are often played too! In later years I notice he has become a fan of groups and choirs too.
Tonight we should have been going to an open air FREE concert with the Fishermen's Friends playing for the opening weekend of the new Jerwood Gallery in Hastings.
I am [laying the music on my laptop at the moment as it is pouring with rain and I don't think we will be going, very disappointed!
I am not really an auditory listener and much prefer visual, therefore a TV lover or cinema and theatre but when we were in Montana several years ago we saw this group and I still like playing it occasionally and think about the several visits to The Big Sky country. We are hoping for another visit this year but have made no plans yet!

I am going to try and find some of their music on You tube now!

Day 76 - BLISS

When I worked my holidays were bliss to relax with a good book in warm sunshine away from planning, marking and reports!! Now I have retired things have changed! It is still bliss to sit in warm sunshine - which we had yesterday LOL!! But today I am scrapping all day in my craft room with no interruptions except to chat occasionally with Simon our decorator who is now papering the hall! Now this is what I call BLISS!!

Anita's class LO - March

Here is yesterday's class LO finished this morning, I am unhappy about the top RH edge of bling but on trying to take them off the photo started to tear!!
The papers Anita chose for the class are My Mind's Eye - Lost and Found and next month's class we shall be using more MME papers which are so yummy!!

Day 75 - WILD

What a lovely day it has been weather wise, we finally had the warm sunshine once the sea mists burnt off in some areas around us.
My friend Carol and I went to our monthly scrapping class which lovely Anita M runs at Cardinal Colours. After our class we went out for lunch and wanted to sit in some sunshine so found our favourite garden centre near where we crop. We would have gone to Eastbourne Marina but nr the coast still looked very misty! Today would have been carol's late DH's 80th birthday!! She was brilliant and very cheerful. We managed to part with some money at the garden centre and then visited Jill at Cardinal Clours for more stash shopping, I bought the Bo Bunny Barfefoot and Bliss collection - some yummy beach style papers for 2012 :)
Here we are after a leisurely lunch.
On our way to Eastbourne and back home we brainstormed the word 'WILD' I had my camera with me and thought about looking for overgrown vegetation, then Carol wanted me to look for wild animals, we saw a rabbit but he disappeared before I got my camera on! Then I decided to think about wild flowers but of course I have loads of photos of wild alpine and flowers in the USA and NZ but didn't want to look in my archives. Then we came across lots of primroses growing WILD on the road side, so here is todays photo!

Anne now has me looking at trees after seeing all the wonderful photos from her 'park' LOL

So here is the 'wild' tree I found today!!

I have tried hard not to mention our decorating but today I had to take a photo of our decorator's paint can!! It is a plastic milk container cut away and I think it makes a really good container!!
Can you see there is wallpaper on the walls and it has been painted too:)

Day 74 - Unusual camera angle

Yesterday was the day I have Xanthe and then pick up Zac from school and take him home where he gets ready for Beavers. He wanted me to take some photos of all the badges he has got since he started over a year ago!
Today we were out all day so just knew I would forget about this shot, so took this photo as we were going out at 10am! Not very inspirational I know, sorry!!