Penny for the Guy

For the past week anytime i go near to a shop i get kids saying "Penny for the Guy". I won't give them anything until after Halloween. Is it just me that thinks this is to early? I am not against them doing it but not this early. Do they not know about Guy Fawkes? I'm not old but fine some of things that kids get up to these days just wrong.

Please tell me that I'm not getting old before my time.

Torchwood

This started on BBC3 last night and i thought it was fab. It really is a programme for adults. John Barrowman was and is fab as Captain Jack Harkness. The other lead characters are just right. I'm looking forward to seeing the series develop. Roll on sunday. If you don't have BBC3 it's on BBC2 on wednesday at 9pm.

No computer

I spent the day yesterday without my computer as it decided to be temperamental. I had to turn it off and then it wouldn't turn back on. Dom was upset as he is a member of an Internet club for kids that is good fun and he couldn't go on there and play. He's made up for it today as been hogging the computer since 7am. I've sent him to his room so i can be on here.

As I'm on my own most of the time i have this as a lifeline and fine it important form of contact to the outside world. Most days if it wasn't for Dom and needing to go to the shop every now and then I'd never leave the house. I'm not agoraphobic (well not all the time) but over the past couple of years i find myself in that situation every now and then. I now where it comes from as i started having panic attacks about two years ago. Even thou i haven't have one for a while i still think about it and try not to myself in any situation where it might happen. This sometimes means just not leaving the house or even seeing anyone.

I feel safe online as i know that i can control what i need to.
What would i do if i didn't have this?

Photoshow

I've a couple of these lately so i thought i'd have a go a one. This is of the book that was taught by Kirsty a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy

Been playing

I found that i have an animation programme on my computer so I've been playing with it. This is what i have done so far. Not bad is it? I'll play more another day.

Sunday Bloggers #6

Late but it's being done

1: Do you have any middle names? Yes but i'm not telling
2: Whats under your bed right now? Nothing, well maybe a cat
3: Last time you laughed so much you cried? Can't remember
4: What age were you when you first drank alcohol? I think i was about 6 or 7
5: Whats your porn star name? (first pets name and mothers maiden name) Gizmo Robertson
6: Whats your desk top photo on your pc? My cats as kittens
7: What did you have for breakfast? Nothing
8: Music or Tv? TV, it's always on for company
9: Worst out fit you have ever worn? Too many to pick just one
10: Where do you feel most at peace? In bed

Sunday bloggers #5

Finally

PET HATES..

if you had to list the top 5 pet hates.. the things that physically make you go "UGH"
what would they be? what peeves you? What can make you leave a room!? Have a think and show us all your top five!

1) People that cycle on the pavement. Why do they have to do it? If they can't ride on the road then they should be out. They come right at you and make you get out of their way. I just won't do it any more.

2) Taxi drivers that won't help carry your shopping to the door. You have a lot of shopping and need a bit of help and all they do is take the bags out of the boot and put them on the pavement and then drive off.

3) Shops that charge a fortune for bread, milk or cereal when you can get it for a lot less somewhere else.

4) ATM's that charge you to withdraw your own money. These all say that their link machines so anyone can use them and then it flashes up on the screen that you'll be charged. Why don't they just say on them before you start to use it.

5) Lettuce in lots of sandwiches. I don't like the stuff and find that it's always in the best looking sandwiches in the shops. I know i could take it out but it takes so long to make sure I've got it all, i can't leave even a tiny bit. Can they please make a yummy sandwich without it just for once.

These aren't really my top five as their all that came to mind at the moment.

Haven't had some for a while

You Are Chocolate Ice Cream

Dramatic. Powerful. Flirty.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

Bad blogger

I'm a bad blogger as i haven't blogged in a week.
There isn't really much for me to tell you so that could be the reason i haven't blogged.
I keep reading other peoples blogs and they always seem to do so much more or maybe it just seems that way.

One thing i have done is to sign up for a course in Getting more from your Digital camera. It's for 6 hours beginning next week, 3 hours on the 17th and another 3 on the 31st. It's being run in my local community centre by one of the colleges. If i enjoy this i may just sign up for something else as i don't have to pay.

I have decided that I'd like to get a group together for a monthly crop. This one would be different as i'd like it to be during the day on a week day. I know that this is a good idea but I'm just trying to get the information to the right people. I put a thread on UKS but only a couple of people have responded, I don't know what else to do. Hopefully people will love the idea and want to come and the group will start in the new year or sooner if wanted. Wish me luck.

Emily and Kirsty

What a fab day. Kirsty Wiseman who is such a warm loving, caring and extremely talented woman organized a scraping workshop with classes taught by herself and Emily Falconbridge. Emily is great and i love her, she gives off this energy that just makes you want to try something new. I'm so glad i went and got to meet such amazing women.
Here are a couple of photos

Kirsty and Me

Kirsty and Emily

Emily and Me

I'd like to say thanks to Helen who drove me there she is brilliant company

Hello to all the girls and Rena your cupcakes were fab. There are girls that i wish i could have chatted to longer. Kirsty's hugs are fab by the way, if you get to have one you are very lucky.
Thank you so much for a really amazing day. When I've finished the books i will take photos and upload them.

New LO

I thought it was about time i scrapped this. If you read my blog you'll have read this a few days ago on the patchwork quilt post. This is done very simply and i quite like it, maybe there's something missing I'm not sure.
This was also done as a speshal dare #20 it's a week late.

Sunday bloggers #4

So many of us rush through our days - Not letting the little things that usually mean so much to us get a look in, we fill our time doing things for other people, and putting so many people before us.

If you could spend a day, doing everything for yourself, with no indulgence spared -

what would you do.... 24 solid self centred beautiful hours!

My perfect dream day would start by waking up in a four poster bed in a really posh hotel by the beach on a tropical island. Breakfast would be served on the balcony that had steps down onto the sand. For breakfast there would be lots of choice, fruit, yogurts, meats, breads, eggs and salmon. The first thing to do would be a shopping trip for new clothes and everything i looked at would fit perfectly. After shopping time for a massage and a hair cut with a top stylist.
For lunch it would be to a penthouse room in a top hotel in New York, lunch would be Lobster served with pasta cooked by a top chef.
In the afternoon it's a scrapbook class in the penthouse with close friends and top celebrity scrappers like Kirsty Wiseman, Jakey, Emily Falconbridge, Elsie Flannigan, Donna Downey and Celine Navarro and a few others. It would just bit a fun get together with no one teaching. There would be lots of chat chocolate, cakes and everything else a scrapper needs to eat when scrapping.
In the evening it would be time to dress up and go for cocktails and then to see a Broadway Show, hopefully an opening night. After the show to a top new york restaurant for dinner. Not sure what the food would be but it would be amazing. To end a wonderful day a carriage ride through Central Park and then to a house in the Hampton's were my son is tucked up fast asleep in bed. I'd kiss him goodnight as he slept and go to my bedroom with a nice mug of coffee and sit on the balcony with a good book. When the coffee is finished I'd get into bed and fall into a blissful peaceful sleep and dream about the day i had just had.

What a day that would be.

Some people make me angry

I did these LO's to remember what happened on that dreadful day. We all saw the images on our televisions. I know that not everyone wants to be reminded of them.
I did these after the London bombings last year to keep it for future generations and for my son as he was too little to remember it.

Today i noticed a nasty comment had been left on my gallery on UKS saying that they were sick. I think that it is out of order to say that. This may not be to alot of peoples taste but you don't have to say anything.
I'm angry about this as i spent so many hours crying out that day and the people who died needlessly.

I am a scrapbooker and i don't scrap just the good things in my life i scrap the bad. I still have some of these pages to do but i will do them.
I will scrap my life and everything that involves no matter what anyone says. I want my son to know me, his children and so on.

I implore you to document the bad as well as the good it makes us the people we are today.

World Trade Centre Film

I know that there is alot of talk about this film at the moment.
A thread was put on UKS today asking if the subject is to sensitive.
A few people have said oh it's too soon for this to be made, it should be kept to a documentary, Hollywood shouldn't be allowed to distort the facts.
Now i know that this is a strong subject and i understand that people can find it very upsetting. I know for a fact that when i see it I'll be in floods of tears.

This film World Trade Centre made by award winning director Oliver Stone will be very powerful.

The fact that it has only been 5 years since it happened makes people talk but how long should they wait? Lots of films have been made about horrific events, but along time after as we didn't know had happened. Look at films about the first world war, second world war and even Titanic. The reason that these were made so long after the events is that they were unable to make the films. There have been films and programmes about Bosnia and the Gulf war in the early 90's. No one batted an eyelid. Is it because it wasn't about westerners dying that we don't care. The programme ER did a storyline about Darfur and what was said about that?

We live in the 21st century where everything is public access, we live in the information age. We have radios, TV and the Internet. We get to hear about all sorts of things now that we wouldn't have done before. Times have changed so much in the last 100 years. If you just look at what we now have compared to what our grandparents had.

At the end of the day this is a film and it's not hurting anyone so what does it matter. Films will be made and people will watch them.

UKS blog prompt

If you were to build a patchwork quilt to represent your life -- one in which each square would represent a milestone or a quality that, when taken as a whole quilt, would capture the essence of who you are for your family and friends when you are gone -- what would it look like, what would you include? Describe a few of the patchwork pieces.

Well my quilt would be at least king size and I'm not yet 30. There are so many things that have happened in my life that make up the person i am.
OK then here are a couple of pieces

1) This piece is about my sister Abi. She was my best friend and worst enemy rolled into one. We fought like cat and dog but we had some great times too. Abi died in 1990 26 days after her 16th birthday. It was a brain tumour that killed her and she was ill for about six months.
Her death was really tough on the whole family and you never get over it. It didn't really hit me until i was 16 and got older than she ever did. It felt wrong to be doing the things that i was doing and alot of the time i felt that it should have been her not me. I miss her so much at times that it hurts. I have learned to live without her and i don't carry the same feelings any more.
This piece would have a shine to it and be black and purple in the style of Madonna in the 80's.

2)Another sad piece. In 1996 i found out that i was pregnant by my then boyfriend Richard who i was living with at the time. I was in two minds as what to do about it. We talked alot and in the end the decision was made to go ahead. We started to tell people our news and we had different reactions mostly good. Then one day i started to bleed so i went to the hospital and within 12 hours i was told that i had suffered a miscarriage. I then had to have a D & C which is the worst thing in the world.
I took this really badly and got very depressed. I was angry that choice i had made had been taken away from me. Why hadn't it happened before i made the choice. Why did i have to chose.
Time is a great healer and things are clearer now, well it hurts less and less all the time but the feelings are still there.
One thing i did do was name the baby, I called it Toni. I don't know if it was a boy or girl.
This piece would be pale yellow with rocking horses on it.

3) This is my son Dominic James. He is my surprise baby and i love him so much. I had a very short pregnancy, well i should say that i knew about. I found out that i was pregnant 4 weeks before he was born.
I had joined weight watchers and was doing well. I had lost 2 stone and was trying to lose more. My periods did stop but i put that down to the fact that i had started to use the contraceptive injection.
One day my mum said that it looked as if i was getting a little plump round the tummy and could i be pregnant. I told her about the injection and the losing weight so we both agreed that it was highly unlikely. Anyway we talked and thought it would be a good idea for me to go and see the Dr in case it could be something else and best to be on the safe side and check. So i made an appointment to see the Dr and got to see one the same day. When i got to see him i asked for a pregnancy test and he started to fill out the form and then ask me to lie on the bed so that he could feel my tummy. He felt it and said well your definitely pregnant so we don't this *ripping up the form*. He said that i was anything between 30 - 38 weeks. Luckily the midwife was in clinic so he managed to grab her and get her to see me straight away. She was really nice and she examined me as well and said 34-38 weeks and listened to the heart beat. I was booked in for a scan the next day. That was brill seeing him for the first time. I had to have consultant appointments every week to see what was happening. Only a couple of weeks after my scan i had to go back for another one. This one reckoned that i was 42 weeks so two weeks overdue. But the girl did say that you can't really date after 28 weeks. My consultant appointment was the next day. I was examined and told that my blood pressure was very high and what with the dates i had to into hospital that day to be induced. That was Wednesday and Dom was born on the Friday after a 6 & 1/2 hours in labour (birth story another time). At 14 hours old he was taken into the baby unit as he was being sick. He was in there for a couple of days and i was told he could be discharged. So one week after i was admitted i went home with my little boy.
This piece would bright lime green with a cartoon Dino on it as this is the first real outfit he ever wore.

That's just part of my quilt. It's not all doom and gloom honest.