This is the LO I made for the Scrap Tag last week. I used Crate Paper "Prudence" papers, alpha and rub-ons with buttons from stash.
I was second to last and it's amazing how the sketch developed from the original.
Same photo as for my Father's Day LO - this one is for my brother.
With regard to my last post and comments left....
Joanna, as far as I'm aware I won't be getting the Glastonbury washing (thank goodness). We're not expecting DS home until his b'day mid-July - by which time he'll have been to another festival in Serbia.
The last para. of the post is a bit dodgy!lol
And Gill..I'll email you. :)
It is still Friday, so I'm not "really" late with this post...I do have a good reason though...I was waiting to try s'thing and report back (and please get your minds out of the gutter, it was nothing like that!!).
And so....
First this week is the Goddess that is Delia Smith. Her strawberry pavlova has been a family favourite for over 30 years.It gets made between Christmas and New Year, using the egg whites left over from the custard in her trifle.
She's only gone and improved the recipe!!
A recipe card idly picked up in Waitrose, all the ingredients handily in one place...and we had it for dessert tonight. It's now a strawberry and vanilla pavlova with mascarpone and creme fraiche instead of double cream and strawberry puree dribbled over the top. OMG - it was orgasmic. And there's more for tomorrow. :)
Note here that I did try Heston's lemon tart and I liked it but it was waaay too big for two people - def. one for when DS and his friends are home.
Next is the joy that comes from hearing from DS five times in as many days. Two were phone calls wishing David Happy Father's Day and Happy Birthday.
One was a phone call telling me not to expect any phone calls 'cos he was off to Glastonbury (very last minute). Next came a phone call asking to "borrow" some money (chances of us seeing it again - nil) as he was running low after paying for Glastonbury and still had the weekend to get through. Finally came a text message thanking me for said money and his battery was low so I wouldn't hear from him until next week. I've heard from him, I'm happy, he's only young once and he's having fun (plus I remember my Uni days :)).
Then we have the surprise parcels in the post that shouldn't be surprises. I have certain authors that are more than favourites - I buy all their books - so as soon as I hear of a new one (often months in advance) I pre-order on Amazon. This week I received my fallen angels book "Passion" as expected and was all set to abandon Kindle and read it (before sending it up to Scotland and Gill) but I'd got another book the day before "Smokin' Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich and couldn't decide which to read...so, I'm back on Kindle for the moment.:)
I'd completely forgotten about this one (probably ordered sometime last year) but I love the whole series. Would you be surprised to learn that this is book 17 in the series? No? What gave it away?
Love all Janet's work - very funny and with characters you care about plus a sarcastic streak that appeals to me.
Next is the joy that comes from no longer having any grey hair, even it is only temporary. Had highlights done today in three shades of blonde and feel brighter in myself - sad that I didn't get my red streak but it was going to cause too much fuss and waste time. Why, oh why, is it that you no sooner find a hairdresser who cuts it just how you like and knows all about its' quirks, than they up and leave and you've got to "train" another one.
I've even managed to do some scrapping but can't show it yet as it was for a scrap tag and I've got to wait for the reveal.
My final grateful is an example of "you don't know what you've got until it's gone" - in this case pain inhibitors. Amongst the cocktail of meds I have to take every day is one that I've never been sure about, I've never really understood what it does...until I ran out last week. I now know that it inhibits pain. I do my prescription renewals online so timed the latest one for collection on Tuesday when I'd be at the health centre for my blood tests. That left me without said tablet for four days. Never again as I really noticed the difference. :( I'm grateful that I now have a supply of them. :0
Hope all my fellow rocker and rockettes have had a good week and I leave you with a message for Virginia and Carmen.
I've been studying the subject we talked about by visiting websites and blogs (purely in the interests of research you understand) and have come to the conclusion I'm not what I thought I was. I think I'm a switch (at the softer end of the spectrum). :)
Many thanks to Valerie in Germany for posting this and making me laugh.:)
A Florida senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he floored it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
"Amazing!" he thought as he flew down I-75, pushing the pedal to the metal even more. Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw the highway patrol behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. "I can get away from him. No problem!" thought the elderly gent as he floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120 mph.
Suddenly, he thought, "What on earth am I doing? I'm too old for this nonsense and pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the trooper to catch up.
Pulling in behind him, the trooper walked up to the driver's side of
the Corvette, looked at his watch and said, "Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a good reason why you were speeding that I've never heard before, I'll let you go."
The man, looking very seriously at the trooper, said, "Years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back."
"Have a good day, sir," said the Trooper and left.
These two projects took me all weekend but I did at least manage some crafting.
The first is a birthday card for David - he was 21 and a bit (quite a big bit!) yesterday:
Card and papers from stash. I used my new TH embossing folders and Nestie Labels 16. The image is from Crafty Individuals. Most of his cards were car related - wonder why?
The next is for a challenge on WeScrap. We had to use only black and white for the background.
This was a bittersweet LO to do. It was the first Father's Day without my Dad and I thought this was a fitting tribute.
Photo is of him in his 40's and the journalling will be attached to the back in the form of a letter to him, bringing him up to date and telling him how much and why I miss him.
Papers and rub-ons by Daisy Bucket "Little Black Dress", flowers by Making Memories "Sweets", heart button from stash.
I'm listening to music on my laptop at the moment - have discovered the shuffle button so it's a weird and wonderful selection. So far we've had JLo, Snoop Dogg, Russell Watson, Chicago,Foreigner,Elgar,Rumer,Take That , Satie and currently Carl Orff, "O Fortuna".
A slightly more "highbrow" selection than MTV. :0)
Sorry for the lateness of this - I'm not quite sure what happened to today, it sort of got away from me. Oh well, it is still Friday so on with the list...
#1 has to be DS for passing his second year exams - pleased and proud Mum here. :)
#2 MTV again. I must try and limit my viewing of this. Whilst the various chart shows do provide good background music they're having a bad effect on me.. I've found myself singing "I want to make you Sweat" on more than one occasion this week and joining in the arm waving on the "Beautiful People" video. Since Snoop Dogg and Chris Brown are not people I think of as role models (and the arm waving unsettles Max) I fear I may be losing it. Some would say I've lost it already.
#3 Good books that have kept me occupied during the rainy weather. This week I have been reading about vampires, fairies and shapeshifters. I can recommend "Black Swan Rising" (and many thanks to Gill for sending it to me) and can't wait for the follow up in August. Can also recommend the "Triple Trouble" series by Tymber Dalton - identical shapeshifting wolf triplets - yum!!
Next week it's fallen angels....
#4 Friends who left me some lovely supportive comments on my last post - I'm not looking forward to Sunday and they did help. Thank you all.
#5 the writers of Bones. I know the last episode of the current series went out last week but we only watched it tonight and what an ending! All nicely set up for the next series...I had to laugh though, David had totally missed the sleeping together bit of the previous episode (how, I can't imagine as he watched it with me) and was therefore totally flabbergasted.
Same must be said for the writers of NCIS too. Can't wait for series 9
I think that's it for this week.
Hope you all have a good weekend.
No crafting to show you - I did make the two new home cards I needed but forgot to take pics before I sent them. :(
Weds evening 23:15
listening: to my Amazon MP3 downloads - everything from Adele to Chicago to JLo to Snoop Dogg
eating: nothing
drinking: gin and orange (purely for the vitamin C of course!)
wearing: black leggings and black "hanky hem" top and pink fluffy slippers - spoil the look but I have cold feet!
feeling: sad but energised (first Father's Day without a father)
wanting: to dance
needing: a weekend away to really relax and have "me" time thinking: how proud I am of DS (he passed his Second Year exams and passed them well)
enjoying: the music and being alone in the computer room
learning: to pace myself and not feel guilty if things don't get done
wondering: when my mojo will come back
procrastinating: clearing the "i*****g" mountain
loving: MTV and TV5 Europe
anticipating: new neighbours next door (after 16 years)
Some crafting has been done and it feels wonderful!
Scrap Club was great fun yesterday at A Maze of Memories...a lovely sketch to work from and fun photos of Nick, friends to chat with and show off my red, sparkly trainers to, a yummy lunch taken home from the farm shop.....an almost perfect Saturday (no football to watch, hence the "almost").
Sorry about the glare but it's so dark here (and wet and miserable) that the camera automatically used flash. I'm sure I must have done, but I don't remember doing a LO before with no patterned paper.
The next LO is one I've been working on for a couple of days. This one is for my brother as it's the football team from his final year at Junior school. He's on the left (in "real life") of the Captain and my Dad is the teacher at the centre of the back row.
I used the Adorn It "Soccer Collection" again and added ribbon from my stash.
I was going to go to AMOM again today as Pat is working up there but I slept late (still not dressed) and it's still raining. I have some cards to make today so will snuggle at home instead.
Great motor racing weekend...the Le Mans 24 Hour race is almost over, we've had a double-header from the IRL and there's a F1 race this evening. David is a big fan, esp. of F1. I spent my year in France in Le Mans and have actually been to three races - spectacular at night. We used to go to Silverstone for the British GP but it became way too expensive....like most sporting events in the UK.
I really need to do some food shopping but can't face the thought of Waitrose today......might raid the freezer and see what I can come up with..probably not a lot as I'm running it down to defrost and clean it. Could be beans on toast for Sunday dinner.
I hope you're all having lovely,crafty weekends.
Hugs xx
