Here is a picture of part of my work desk - what I want to know is how come I always end up working in a small 18 inch square of space when I have a desktop that is 6ft long and 2ft wide!!!!!

Well here we are another year older. My birthday was a beautiful day the sun shone all day and we had a lovely day out in the Yorkshire Dales. It was fantastic. We ended up in the Highwayman at Burrow for tea and it was delicious.

I got some new crafting goodies for my birthday including some Tim Holtz Dies for my Sizzix and I am looking forward to playing with them but at the moment I have a few ATCs to make and post out as I have received what feels like hundreds of booklets(from UKSN the ATC Group I belong to) to add to. I dread the postman coming just in case he brings anymore. I have told myself I have to clear my desk of them.....

 

Here are a few of the booklets I have to complete - I will get them all out by the end of the week.:-)

 

And finally this is the one I made as an entry to the Craft Stamper Swap - Wings and Things. I wounder what Max would do if he could fly i have visions of him bombading all the local bird' nest - a one cat airbourne destruction missile Not an A bomb but a C bomb.lol

 
 
 
 

And here are a few more

 
 
 

Just to show I have not been idle during my absence from my blog here are a few of the ATCs I have been making for UKSN ATC swap

Where has the time gone!

Where did Easter weekend go? I was so busy that I didn't have time to blog.

We had visitors from a small island not too far away and they took over the house (in the nicest way). But it was like living in a Hurricane zone - there was stuff all over and it was a losing battle trying to keep on top of it so I'm afraid I just sank and let it go on around me. It was lovely to see them but lovelier to see them go home. LOL

Linda came round on Sunday afternoon and we had a really good gossip and tried to bind(with my Bind it all) some of Linda's beautiful books that she has put together. We manage quite well once we got the back and the front of the books sorted out - I should have taken photos of the finished items but I didn't I forgot - what am I like - useless at this blogging lark. Unfortunately we spoiled one book front I do hope Linda managed to make another one when she got home. I made 25 mini booklets to send out to this ATC Swap I have just joined at UKSN - only got to make 25 ATC's to add to them and then we are sound!

Monday we went to Whitby for a day out - it is a really lovely place to go but boy was it busy. Well it was a bank holiday I suppose! The Abbey on top of the cliffs is really brooding and gothic. Very atmospheric I can see what attracted Dracula. :-)

Back to the ironing now might get some ATCs made later if so I will take photos and post.

 

It was Jocks' birthday last week and he's finally made it to the big 65 - as you can guess he hails from over the border and is very proud of his Scottish heritage so I had to make him a card that reflected that. The tartan cardstock was perfect and I used the trusty Sizzix to cut out the numbers from holographic card - Barry composed a rude poem which seem quite appropriate and which Jock found really funny. Can't repeat it as Jock would not find that funny!!!