Rocking my world Friday

So you already know most of what rocked my world this week from my previous posts so I won't go on too long. This is scheduled as I am at work so I hope it does actually publish!
1) My family - for being so cool, spoiling me on my birthday and generally being there - Love you all.
2) Sis Amy - as an extra for making me the best birthday cake ever!
3) My pals - for sharing my birthday, being chauffeurs and making me laugh.
4)Work??? for giving me the day off - I would have hated to be at work on my birthday!
5) My oven! What I hear you ask??? Well the fruit cakes were made on Tuesday for that certain young mans wedding a 10, 12 and 14 inch cake - boy am I glad my oven works so well.
So just a quickie this week but lots of rockin :0) I have not been able to link to Virginias post as I am scheduling but do hop on over to The Celtic house and visit the rest of the Rockettes. Maybe you would like to become one? What are you waiting for??

Who was a lucky gal?

Well yesterday was a wonderful day filled with the most gorgeous people I know. First we met at 10am with Michelle, Glynis, Elaine, Bee, Dee, Mum and Sis Amy for a wetherspoons breakfast we chatted and laughed and I opened the most gorgeous pressies and being from crafters there were some fabulous home made gifts too I loved them!
At 12 we set off to Kanban in Shipley where I stocked up on card and card blanks then we had a cuppa in the waiting room - they are sooo friendly there.
After that we went to the Range in Bradford I had never been so did not know what to expect but I loved wandering and browsing not particularly the craft bits but I did buy some alterables from the gifty area.
Then we went back to Elaines house for coffee and choccy biscuits (this was not a healthy eating day!). Then as I arrived home my Bro, his wife and my Nephew and Niece arrived to sing happy birthday and I was presented with the cake by my Sis Amy. Our Amy has downs syndrome, she came to live with us at 3 weeks old, a tiny crap of a thing, but we fell in love with her so she was adopted into our family when she was 8. Amy had turned down a night out at a disco to be with me on my birthday - she has a strong sense of family- and she made this cake for me. How cool is that? It was gorgeous too so light and fluffy.
Then at 8pm we all sat down to a chinese banquet - It was gorgeous but far too much it will feed another 4 LOL and 2 bottles of red wine. I had a wonderful day - the people who shared it with me are very special to me - Thank you folks x
I also received some gorgeous work via internet buddies so thanks to crafty Vonx, Meggymay, Julye, Mels, Ali, Emma, Sally, Zoe, and Sue. Hubby is picking up a parcel from the PO later from the gorgeous Bobs so I have another surprise yet to come x Huge thanks for thinking of me I am so touched x
Janet

Tuesday Taggers - a litle ray of sunshine :0)

My crafty Pal Michelle has chosen this weeks theme - I think she thought we would be basking in the rays of the glorious August sunshine not dodging the raindrops or cowering under canapy's whilst the heavy showers pass!

Still as always the team come up with an ar"ray" of ideas which are stunning check them out here.

Mine is very simple - a small tag with a frame stamped and coloured with promarkers. The wording is taken from a few stamps then the sunshine stamp is a craft stamper freebie, coloured with promarkers and a button added to the centre. Ribbon from stash and its all complete. Wonder if I am finally getting the whole less is more thing???

Now I have had an incredibly busy weekend I worked fri, sat, sun and mon and some of you know I work with children with learning difficulties - well I needed 3 weetabix and 3 shredded wheat to get through this weekend thats for sure.
However on Saturday look what appeared at the door

Some yummy fresh rhubarb which today will become a crumble for my ever hungry lot! Do you have a rhubarb fairy? Mine makes me giggle and is called Rita :0) Thanks chuck its brilliant!

And what else is on todays agenda? Hmmm let me see could that be 3 wedding cakes for a certain young Man getting married in September? A tricky task as I am combining 2 family recipes one from my family and one from hubbys so hope they turn out ok - Lisa you did say you could work miracles with the icing didnt you????? No?????? better be ultra careful them LOL
And tomorrow I will be a year older yep birthday Number 44 so today is my last day at 43! The festivities will begin at 10am with breakfast at Weatherspoons with my crafty pals then we will decide a crafty adventure for the day. I know the best folks for crafty adventures so I am really looking forward to it. I already know one of my pressies is a workshop at The Stampman on Saturday some folks know me all too well! The evening will be spent having a chinese takeaway banquet and a few bottles of veno collapso - though not too much as I am working again on Thursday afternoon lol.

Hope you are having a brilliant week x Janet

Tag You're It! Monogram

Challenges are great for pushing you out of your comfort zone - I have seen some fabulous collage work around blogland and so thought I would have a go this week with the theme Monogram. I began with the letter J as my name begins with it but its actually going to be for someone else whose name begins with J.
The colours came from the the letter so I grabbed what was to hand and took it to craft club on Thursday to have a fiddle. The Music sheet is some I got from freecycle a while ago and its great for this sort of thing.
The flower is a freebie stamp from craft stamper, the leaf stamp is from a papermania build a rose set. The paper is from DCWV , the ribbons and buttons from stash and the gorgeous diamante buckle is from Bits and bats. Teamed with a miniature doily I think it looks ok for my first efforts at this style. Hope J likes it!
Do stop by the Tag You're it blog and check out everyone elses mongram projects - My teamies are sooo talented x
I am also entering this into Hels Sunday Stamper challenge
Which this week must include music and stamping - my flowers and leaves are stamped and of course I have used original music score sheet on my tag x

Whats rockin your world Friday!

Well folks here we are at Friday again - can you believe week 2 of the holidays has gone so fast???

I am again joining Virginias recruits over at The Celtic house So whats been rocking my world this week?

1) The biggest success of the week has to be the Parent and Young Person Art Journalling class Michelle and I have hosted for the last 2 weeks. The folks attending have literally run away with the concept and produced the most stunning of pages. Last week we did painting, this week we did inky backgrounds and used lots of stamps as well as doodling it was fabulous to see them throwing themselves into the creativity. I received a text from one of the Mums later in the day to say they had both felt so inspired - Her daughter had rushed home to do some more pages and she was planning to do the same all evening what better compliment could we have? We have been buzzing all week - its a tremendous feeling inspiring someone to go away and play :0)

2) My middle son made me brunch yesterday - egg, bacon and beans on toast - it was delicious and so unexpected!

3) Rita at my craft club - boy she made us giggle last night - Rita I love your sense of humour and your clever wit - thanks for the giggles xx

4) My DT buddies - Now I play along with some of the best crafty people with the blogs I am part of - every week these ladies make the most stunning works of art - I dont always have time to visit them and let them know how much I love their work and being part of the design team with them . I want them all to know they give me a huge buzz every week so thank you Tuesday Taggers team, Tag You're It team, Winter Wonderland team and The Stampman team YOU ARE FABULOUS!

5) Now where would I be without my family and friends? Without a doubt they get me through each week in one piece and relatively sane - so they do rock every minute of my life not just my Fridays xxx

So on to a bit of crafting

My Bro asked me to make a card for a relative of his wife's who has come over from Australia to get married at Gretna Green. Now I am not sure they like the card (Bro and wife) as the noises were oh thats nice - in an un convincing voice but there again they didnt give me any clue about what they wanted so I ran with the whole Scotland theme (they are an older couple too). I have a set of Scotland stamps I bought last year - I had to have them - couldnt live another minute without them and this is the first stamping i have done with them LOL. The paper is by Basic Grey, cant remember the stamp company but the thistle, stag and flag are from the set. I have just tied 2 rings together with ribbon and added to the flag as I thought that was quite representative of what they are doing. Before I gave it to him I did add the bride and grooms names and congratulations and I dont know if I dare admit it but it was using peel offs (she whispers).
Now after all my positives I will go hide until you stop laughing............

J x

Tuesday Taggers - Lots of lovely black!

Well our Teamie Lyn threw a real challenge our way this week to use lots of lovely black in our projects. At the Claxby weekend I really had fun playing with these Alice in Wonderland papers which I bought from Art from the Heart.

So I made this gatefold card which I think will be for my Sister in Laws birthday next month.

There is not one bit of stamping on here as I've used the papers for every element just inked the edges with peeled paint distress ink. I've never really been a fan of the Alice in wonderland story its all a bit weird but I think I've mellowed a bit and so have really enjoyed playing with The Alice theme.

Seriously I must insist you visit the Tuesday Taggers blog this week as My Teamies have pulled out all the stops some truely stunning pieces on there all with lots of lovely black!

Have a really Happy Tuesday x Janet

The Stampman Atc Swap - Time

The first atc swap was brilliantly successful - I cant wait to get those swaps sorted but that will have to wait until later in the week LOL. The box is overflowing at The Stampman full of your lovely miniature works of art.

The swap theme for August is "Time" which celebrates perfectly Jills gorgeous project in the Craft Stamper! This first atc I have used adirondack inks lettuce and denim, paperartsy stamps and a clock charm available at The Stampman.

For the second atc I have used the same inks but this time used a script stamp by seven gypsies, some wings from crafty individuals and a clock face wax seal again by seven gypsies.

This third atc is also using stamps from the same sets as before - I love how the layering works by using the colours of the background with the stamps I want in the background too.

So there you have it - theme number 2! Your Wings atcs should be winging their way to you by the end of next week and dont forget to check out the Stampmans atc blog to find out who is the winner! It could be YOU!