Its been a while

I keep meaning to blog but things keep stopping me.
One of the major things that is happening here is that my mum is dying.
Three years ago she was diagnosed with Renal cancer and it had spread to her lungs. They removed the kidney and tumor which was huge. She was then OK up until recently. In July she got what we thought was Gout but later turned out to be bone cancer. In September after a CT scan we were told that the cancer had spread to her Bones, Liver and Breast. Since then she has really gone down hill.
She is now in a hospice and her kidney is failing so we have been told that we will lose her in the next week or so.
On Saturday we told Dom that she's dying and so far he has taken it really well. I am leaving it up to him as to whether or not he wants to see her and so far he does. So tomorrow he's having the day off school so we can go to see her (it's more important).
I'm sort out support for him so that there are people he can talk to and things we can do to remember her in a positive way. One thing we are going to do is a memory box as i think that will help him in the long term.

It's a dreadful time of year but we must get on with it

Well what can i say

Its been one of those weeks.
Last week i signed up for a Top Designer competition over at Bad Girls and each week if get through there is a class and you have to do project for it. Week 1 was colour theory and this is what i did.

This is a LO of My DS (Dominic) age 8 wearing with pride a handmade bead he got for his birthday called Dominoe
I think he looks so grown up that i wanted this to have a feel of sophistication and pride.
I hope that it comes across that way.

I chose these dream street papers because i felt that they matched the colour of my sons shirt and while still being boy they come across as more grown up.

I uploaded this last night and now i have to wait and see if i got through to week 2. I have at least 4 hours to wait so wish me luck.

Well it was fun and games here Wednesday. Dom came home early from school as he was ill (they never send a child home unless they think something is really wrong). About 7pm he starts complaining that all his joints ache, tummy ache, headache, feels really warm to the touch and then complains that the light hurts his eyes. So I 999 ambulance comes and he's taken into the children's assessment ward at the local hospital. When they take his temp it is 39.1 and is given paracetamol and by the time he is seen by a doctor is fine and back to normal.
We were there about 3 hours as he was admitted at 7.50 and we were home by midnight.
He has got some sort of infection but not sure what at the moment. He has two spots on his tonsils that could turn into something but who knows.

He's gone to school today and they haven't phoned me to go and get him so he should be OK. He'll be home in about an hour now so I'll see how he is then.
Looks like it was just a 24 hour thing.

I took these photos of him the other day when he was on the phone to his best mate Ben. He looks so cute. I just wonder what he will be like when he's a teenager as they were on the phone for about an hour then. He is watching TV at the same time as being on the phone and Ben was at the other end (it was the same programme).

Guest Designer

Today A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE uploaded their Design Team Gallery and i'm in it. I'm one of the two guest designers for this month. This is what i did with what they sent me.



Please tell me what you think. I am not used to doing LO's any more. These are the
first ones i've done in ages.

Summer Holidays are over

Its true as Dom went back to school this morning. He is now in Year 4 with the same teacher Mr W Stallard. Its good for him to have a male teacher as he doesn't have many male role figures in his life. Anyway he went of happy so that makes me pleased.

Last week we had another day out and this time we stayed close to home. For a cheap day out we went to Charles Dickens Birthplace, The Natural History museum and Southsea Castle. We also went to the funfair and went on the waltzers and the dodgems. After the funfair we went to the pub for dinner.

Our first stop was Charles Dickens Birthplace as it is so close to home and cheap to get in. Dom found it interesting witch was good and took the information that they called the sitting room THE PARLOR back to school.

Next came the Natural History museum as it was free. He loved the fact that they had dinosaurs and a bit about the Portsmouth from the Ice age to now. There is a butterfly house there and we only saw a few butterflies as its the end of the season. We will go back in season so we can see lots of them.

Then we walked along the beach to southsea Castle. It cost £3.50 for me but free for Dom. There were lots of cannons and of course they had to be climbed on. One bit did scare the hell out of him and that was the time tunnel. This was a kind of play telling the history of the castle using a recording, dummys and lots of flashing lights.
We also went down in the tunnels but they didn't take us too far. I want to go back and do the ghost walks but kids have to be 12 so we'll have to wait a while for that.











We then didn't know what to do so we carried on walking along the sea front to the pier where the fun fair is. so we got some tokens went on a couple of rides. Dom wasn't too sure about the Waltzers as it went faster than it had the last time he went on it. As we didn't have enough tokens to have a dodgem each i let him drive and hes so funny doing it. I also have a bruise on my leg from his driving.

So it came time for dinner and we went to Weatherspoons as its cheap. Dom had sausage, mash and beans and i had a curry. For pudding we had Mint Chocolate Bombes and they were lovely. I also had a Raspberry Sambuca Spritzer that was like aniseed and candy floss.






We had a good day and i think we'll do it again now i know it doesn't have to cost a fortune to have a good day out with my son.

Just a quicky

I just want to ge these up here quickly for a change.
Today was my crop and my class was to make a little house. I saw this idea on the Stampington & Company website. Its such a lovely little house so why not have a go yourself.

and the winner is

Picked out of the hat (well tin) the winner is

SUE

I had tried fancy ways of posting this but none of them worked.
Congrats and it will be winging its way to you soon

Bed of Roses

This is here because of someone close.
I just love Bon jovi

My giveaway

I am about to put the names in the hat so i will announce the winner tomorrow.
Good Luck everyone

We've been simpsonized

I was blog hopping and came across this website. Don't you think we look good?

Art journal cards

I've been catching up with these so here they are.

Quiet

No Regrets

Count Your Blessings

Get some one else to contribute

Surprise

Right Now

Junk Mail

I still have lots to do but i don't care as i'll get there in the end.

Don't forget about my give away HERE

Elvis

Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Death of Elvis Presley.
He was the king of Rock and Roll and the biggest legend of all time. All i know about this man is what i hear. I have seen some of his films but it doesn't really mean anything to me. The reason for that is that when he died i was only 4 months old. This was a huge loss in my lifetime that i will never remember because i was too young. I really don't know how i should fell about that. Its just one of those things.
RIP Elvis

My 200th post

I know its taken well over a year to get this far but who cares.

Anyway as this is my 200th post I'm going to give something away.
To be in for the chance of winning your very own canvas like these (note it will be slightly different and colours may vary) please leave a comment before midnight on Sunday.

good luck

I'm Inspired

Valleygirl is truly fabulous. Her stuff is so inspiring and just makes you want to do something. She is doing a daily card project, thats one card every day for 52 days and shes on her second deck already. You must go and have a look.

Its given me an idea so watch this space.

Blogging with out obligation

I just came across this Fab Idea while blog hopping and i think its great.

The idea is as follows

• Because you shouldn't have to look at your blog like it is a treadmill.

• Because its okay to just say what you have to say. If that makes for a long post, fine. Short post, fine. Frequent post, fine. Infrequent post, fine.

• Because its okay to not always be enthralled with the sound of your own typing.

• Because sometimes less is more.

• Because only blogging when you feel truly inspired keeps up the integrity of your blog.

• Because they are probably not going to inscribe your stat, link and comment numbers on your tombstone.

• Because for most of us blogging is just a hobby. A way to express yourself and connect with others. You should not have to apologize for lapses in posts. Just take a step back and enjoy life, not everything you do has to be "bloggable".

• Because if you blog without obligation you will naturally keep your blog around longer, because it won't be a chore. Plus, just think you will be doing your part to eradicate post pollution. One post at a time. . .

So will you join them and me?
To see more just click on the on logo and you can always get yourself one while you're there.

So from now on i blog without obligation
I blog because i want to