Birthday List Swap

Hi

This was one of the cards I've done for the Joanna Sheen's Birthday List Swap on her Forum that I do each month. It is of course one of her House Mouse Rubber Stamps and coloured in with Copics. I just love the House Mouse range it's one of my favourites.

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Jenny x

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Here's another card I've made recently. It was for my Father-in-law's birthday. He has his own building business so I thought the builder image from Crafter's Companion's Occupation Male CD Rom.

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Jenny x

Nanna's Card

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Just thought I'd better start adding my cards that I've been busy making. This one is Paul's Nanna Johnson's Birthday Card.

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Jenny x

Hi everyone

As promised here are a couple of photo's of my brother's party:-

This is my brother on the right with his wife Angie in the blue of 25 years. The rest of the gang is there kids and partners etc.






The second photo is my dad, mum brother, myself and my husband Paul.

The third photo I love and at some point will be going in my family tree album when I get round to doing one. It's my dad, brother, his eldest son from his first marriage Daniel, then there's Ben and Tom so 3 generations.

So I'll leave it at that for now.

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Jenny x

Hello

Hi

Hope your all okay and keeping well.

I'm sorry I've been a bad blogger. I don't know were times goes, I can't believe it's been May since I last posted on here.

Well what's been going on here. We've been to my Brother's 25th Wedding Anniversary Party which was a fantastic weekend, we went over to South Cave near Hull and all stayed the night in the Hotel it was in. Paul took the photo's for them for the evening and I've done a Scrapbook of the event as a present for them. I love Chris and Angie to bits and their family we had a lovely weekend with them all and it was great to see some of their friends who I've not seen for nearly 12 years + and couldn't believe how much their kids have all grown up. How time flies.

Then we had a Family Christening on Paul's side of the family his brother Mark and wife Clair had a little boy they've called Harley. They already have two other boys Joshua and Callum who are fantastic children. It was a hard day as Paul's mum died 3 years ago today and things have been tough to say the least with his Step Dad who was meant to be treating the boys the same and he's not been doing a very good job and Nanna Bailey and Paul's Mum's Sisters haven't spoken to Paul's Step Dad for a long time. It's a long story as these things usually are so I won't go on about it. But it all went off okay and Harley never cried (bless him) and it was nice to see everyone on Paul's side of the family.

A few weeks after that we had a family Wedding on Paul's side of the family this time it was just on his Mum's side of the family and we were really looking forward to it. We stayed at Paul's Auntie Eileens for the night and took the dogs with us, so Paul could have a drink for a change!!!. We had a lovely day and the wedding went along lovely. It was one of Paul's Cousin's (Becky) who was getting married she looked stunning. When I get the chance I will post some photo's of it.

We haven't had a proper holiday for about 5 or 6 years now as we live away from family with Paul been in the RAF we usually end up visiting family for our holiday. Paul's mum bless her had a 5 year struggle with cancer and as I've mentioned she died 3 years ago today, and we used to try to visit her or my family when we could. My brother (I have 3 older brothers) who's Anniversary we went to owns his own appartment in Spain. I haven't flown in about 20 years and and between my Mum, Paul and my brother tried to persuade me to go.

To cut another long story straight we went recently and had a fantastic hoilday it was just what we needed. We haven't enjoyed a holiday so much as long as I can remember. The area, appartment and weather was fantastic. It did my back and skin the power of good.

Paul's been busy at work and has been away with work and is going away for 3 weeks.

So there you go along with crafting and card making I've been trying to do inbetween all this which I will get round to putting on my blog now things seem to be calming down a bit.

Talk again soon.

Hugs

Jenny x

Broken Laptop

Hi all

Sorry I've not been around for awhile my laptop broke and it had to be sent away to be looked at (thank goodness I took out a warranty on it). I've only just got it back, something to do with the motherboard needing replacing (not good with computer parts).

So now I'm trying to catch up on things emails, blog, everyone else's blogs, cards I've made and taken photo's of to be put onto the computer etc. You don't realise how much you use a laptop until you've not got one. It was horrible not been able to do what your used to doing. I also use my laptop for CD Crafting too so that's been hard having find other things to use.

Hope everyone's okay and been busy making lots of lovely crafty goodies.

Hugs

Jenny x

More Cards

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Here's some more cards I've been doing recently.

Jenny x

Easter Cards

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Thought I'd better add my Easter cards to show you all while I think about it.

Jenny x

Easter Weekend & Hospital App

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A Happy Belated Easter everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend. We had a busy one. On Friday we stayed local and just did a bit of shopping in Downham Market. On Saturday we went to Baytree Nursery's which I love and they have opened a new craft shop there so we had to have a look of course. We we're impressed they sell a bit of everything and they do classes which is good.

Paul has a friend who he hasn't seen for a long time so we'd been invited to see him so we went onto there next then we'd been invited to Paul's Aunties for tea and so had Paul's brother and family, it was lovely to see them and play with the kids. I can't believe how much the baby has grown he's 4 1/2 months now and smilling away he's gorgeous. So we had a lovely day.

On Sunday we went to Blickling Hall, Norwich. They had a Bead Fair there and a couple of weekends ago the National Trust had a free weekend and we went along to two halls near us on the Saturday and the Sunday they had a special offer to join were you got 2 months free and for the two of us it cost us £66.00 for the year and you can then get in any of the National Trust properties, well there is quite a few of them near us and we love looking round them and they have different events going all through the year. So I got a few things for my jewellery things. I could have gone mad. The hall was lovely and we're going back as we didn't get to see it all.

On Monday we went to Heacham to see Paul's Nan and Grandad Johnson who have a static caravan there. We went early and went to Hunstanton (which I love) and had a lovely walk along the front. So we had a lovely weekend.

Sorry for the long post seem to have lots to tell today. Yesterday I went to the Back Clinic at Kings Lynn hospital, Paul took me bless him he took the day off. It went okay he's a very nice man and you can talk to him which is good. So I told him how I'd been that I'd felt tired come middle of the afternoon and that was me not feeling like doing anything for the rest of the day and since he changed my tablets in December that I've not been sleeping as well and felt worse first thing in the morning. So he's told me to adjust my tablets and we've got a few things to try. He's put me on the waiting list for physio, were they put the needles in you (sorry forgot the name of it) and a Pain Management Group were you sit and chat and it's help you come to terms with your pain etc so it's quite good. I see him again in about 3-4 months.

Hugs

Jenny x

Hi

Here's a few more cards I've done recently:-

The floral one is from an My Craft Studio Cd Rom and was for a Card Swap I belong to on a Forum.

The lady is a rubber stamp from Dimensional Forth coloured in with Promarkers and Copic pens.

The third one is a lovely image from a Joanna Sheen cd I just love her cds.

Jenny x

Hi

Kay Carley has some fab blog candy to give away, unfortunatley it runs out today. I've not been on line for a few days so here are her rules:-

1) You need to be a follower of this blog.
2) For those of you with blogs you will need to show a picture of my candy on your sidebar with a link back to my blog and leave me a comment below this post.
3) For those of you without blogs you will need to leave a comment below this post including your full name - anonymous entries will not be accepted.
4) Candy is open to everyone and will run as from 2 weeks today finishing on 23rd March 2010.les for the candy

Thanks for the chance to win the stamps Kay

Jenny x

New Cards

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Happy Mothers Day

Hope your all having a lovely day. I live to far away to see my Mum today and unfortunatley Paul's mum died a couple of years ago to Cancer bless her. Anyway my Mum and Dad are going to one of my Brothers so at least she will be seeing one of us today. I spoke to her this morning and she loved her presents and card which is good.

These are a couple of cards I've been working on recently been a busy bee. It's a lovely day here today in Norfolk the sun is out for a change. Not that we're going out today Hubby is watching the Grand Prix rubbish lol.

Yesterday we had a lovely afternoon and went to Sir Stampalot's Demo day with Chris and Lou well done ladies your cards were stunning as usual.

Jenny

It's a crafters companion design team call

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It's a crafters companion challenge blog has a design team call which is open until today at 8.00 pm.

I just love Crafters Companion products and have most of the cds and other products. The ultimate pro I think I use on nearly every card.

It would be an honour to be on your design team. I'm quite new to blogging but have become addicted. I am on the Crafters Companion Forum and am a member of the Crafters Companion Member. The Peter Rabbit cd set is amazing I can't stop using it at the moment. Can't wait to see what Sara comes up with next. I hope you consider me to be part of your team. Look forward to hearing from you.

Jenny

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Challenge 5

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Magnolia Stamp Lovers have got a new Challenge which is Challenge 5 - Pink and Chocolate. So I just had to enter my little card I did it was as it was ment to be. The stamp was from my Winter Collection from Magnolia. I've coloured the stamp in with copics. The brown card stock is Colour Core Cardstock from papermania and I've used distress ink on the edges of all the papers. I have punched two hearts out of the same card stock and distressed them and added pink flowers as embellishments.

Jenny x

Blog Candy over at the Stamp Man's Blog

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Just wanted to let you know that The Stamp Man's Blog they are giving away 12 of the new distress pads from Tim Holtz which is amazing. The candy goes up to Midday on Sunday March the 14th. So use my link and pop over and have a go.

(Jill I tried to copy the image but it won't let me put it on my post it says it's corrupt)


Jenny x

Crafy Caz Design Team Compatition

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Well from joining Crafty TV's forum I've found this blog pjayscraftblog.blogspot.com from Pamela who is running a competition for a Desing Team so I thought I'd have a go at joining in as I'm new to all this. So here's my two cards.

I hope you like them.

Jenny x

Auntie's 70th Birthday card and gift

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It was my Auntie Val's 70th birthday on Saturday and her sons organised a suprise party for her. Her husband died just over a year and a half a go and she still gets upset over it and has found it hard this winter as it would have been his birthday in January.

We went up on friday and got there about 7.00 p.m. and stayed at one of my cousins as it's a good 3-4 hours away. It was only a little party at my cousins house and one of their friend's did the food which was fantastic. The cake was amazing. So to say she was suprised when she walked in and saw her 2 sisters and brother, us and a couple of her friends and obviously her 2 sons and their families. I'm amazed we managed to keep it a seceret.

I was happy as well as I got to see my Mum and Dad who I've not seen since just before Christmas.

For special birthdays etc I always do a cross stitch and even though I've done card making for ages now they still expect a cross stitch card/gift.

I then managed to find the same flower and colourfor the card so it matched the cross stitch. We all remembered to post her cards as normal otherwise she would have wondered why we hadn't bothered. She really like the cross stitch and card I'm please to say

Auntie Val was quite shocked that we had all gone there for her and we all had a really good time as we haven't seen each other for a while now. So she wasn't on her own after the party we went back and stayed with her on Saturday night and came back home today and left about 11.30 a.m. We made our way to the kennels and picked our dogs up who were very pleased to see us to say the least.

Jenny x

2 new forum cards

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Two more new cards. The tilda one is for a birthday list I'm on, on the Joanna Sheene Forum and the purple one is for a card swap that I'm on, on the same forum. It's fun joining in and seeing what other people do to and you get to meet lovely people.

Jenny x

Blog candy to celebrate Vivi's design team position

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Here's some more blog candy from Handmade by Vivi to celebrate her news to join Magnolia's Stamp Lovers Blog which closes on the 31st January have a look on her blog here, congratulations Vivi.

Jenny x

A Special Challenge and Blog Hop

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Over on Brenda's blog, one the 1st February there will be a very special ‘One Off Challenge’………with some rather special candy as the main prize. No ordinary candy I can tell you, but a really serious piece of equipment that all of us would love to have in our craft rooms.

Brenda will be sharing some sneak peeks of the prizes on offer over the next three weeks........yes ‘prizes’ because as well as the main challenge prize, there will be runners up prizes and a Blog Hop with prizes to be won at each stopping point. And she will also be sharing details of the wonderful sponsors of this challenge and some exciting news about them as well.

But she needz you all to help spread the word and make this as much fun as possible for everyone ........and there is even a prize for doing that. Does this all sound fun or what ? I just know you will all want to get involved and join in so here’s what you need to do now:

1) Give the challenge a plug on your own blog.

2) Add the logo above to your sidebar with a link back here .

3) Link up and leave me a comment on this post to tell me you have done that so I can enter you into the prize draw for this first part of the challenge.......the winner of that prize will be drawn by Random Org on 31st January.

Jenny x

New Card & Necklace

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Another card and necklace.

Jenny x

New Cards

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These are some cards I've been busy doing and another necklace.

Jenny x

Hi

Here are some jewellery projects I've been working on. I hope you like them.

Jenny x