Blue Pixie, Pink Pixie...

...a bee, a snowman (Sebastian) & a dog!! Great description huh! (It's one of those days..)

The little Pixies are from Bizzy Becs & they are sooooooo cute! The snowman's head (he does have a body!) is from a very tall stamp I've had for a few years. I stamped his hat on some red fuzzy felt stuff, cut it out & stuck it to the whit card. Looked better this way & gave him some 'charm'! Think the bee stamp is Darcies. The words under the snowman are from House Mouse. Most of these cards have Kindy Glitz & Dimesional Magic on them somewhere! Thanks for dropping in, see you again soon! Have a great weekend:-)

Take A Moment To Think...

As some of you will know, I lost my mum very suddenly recently. We were very close & I miss her dearly. I am not really coping very well, yes I AM still making my cards but I am also still grieving for her.

I would just like to share this little poem/verse with you in case YOU know someone who is grieving & don't know what, or what not, to say. Thanks.

PLEASE - don't ask me if I'm over it yet?

I'll never be "over it".

PLEASE - don't tell me that she's in a better place.

She isn't here.

PLEASE - don't tell me you know how I feel.

Unless you have lost a parent, child, grand- parent, friend.

PLEASE - don't tell me to get on with my life.

I'm doing the best I can in case you hadn't noticed.

PLEASE - don't tell me "At least you had her into your adult life".

Would you chose for someone you love to die?

PLEASE - don't tell me I'll feel better with time.

Bereavement isn't a condition that just clears up after awhile.

PLEASE - don't tell me "At least you still have other family".

I live with the empty space in my heart every second of every day.

PLEASE - know that sometimes there is nothing that will help but a hug.

PLEASE - don't try to say words of wisdom when there probably aren't any.

PLEASE - just say you are sorry.

PLEASE - just say you remember the good & bad times with her.

PLEASE - just let me talk as much as I want to, when I want to, not when you want me to.

PLEASE - don't rush me, grief is a process not an event.

PLEASE - keep contact with me.

Don't avoid me.

Thanks. Y

Have you heard...

the "cat-flap" joke yet??! Here it is ...if my eyes are the windows of my soul, does that make my back-side the cat-flap??! Ok, now that I have that out of the way, here is the story..it's quite true!

There I was sitting on my cat-flap having a quiet cup of tea. (They never talk to me these cups of tea...)

Anyway, "Ro-Ro" (That cute black & white fur-child of mine) comes running out of the bathroom with this MOUSE in his mouth, tossing it up in the air & generally having a blast with it! Me?? I'm screaming like a banshee (words too obscene to print - use your imagination!) "Ro-Ro" put it down!!

Well, he did, right beside my left foot! Cup of tea went flying into outer space, cup fell on floor - no saucer was injured in this experiment! By now I am sitting cross-legged on the sofa still yelling un-printable expletives at "Ro-Ro" who by now had left the 'mouse' (it was dead) at my feet & wandered off...for a snack of cat biscuits!! (Another expletive!) How was I going to get this dead mouse out of the house?? My neighbour usually does it for me but SHE is in Rarotonga on holiday & I sincerely doubted that she was gonna jump on the next plane home to save me from a ...dead mouse??!!

"Ro-Ro had completely lost interest in the mouse but WAS fascinated by MY antics - he thought I was waving down a plane or something, arms going every which way all at once! Yeah, guess I musta looked funny!

Anyhow, I managed to calm down a wee bit, only a wee bit mind you & I VERY carefully had slightly closer look at the mouse just to make absolutely sure it WAS dead...it was...in fact, on a MUCH closer inspection I discovered it was actually my MAKE-UP sponge he had killed, not a mouse after all!!!!!!!!

Geez Louis that cat gets me going! He just LOVES that make-up sponge, it's one of those little sea-sponges I think & is the size & shape of a (dead) mouse! The sponge was slightly wet too so it had a bit of weight when he was tossing it round which made it appear more like a dead mouse!

He couldn't figure out what the fuss was about was there a party going on & no-one told him??!!

Yes, I DO need stronger glasses...thank you "Ro-Ro"!

This has been added on 19th August 2009. To the smart-arse who left advertising on my comments form...put it where the sun don't shine mate. Keep your rubbish advertisements OFF MY BLOG!! As you will have noticed, if you are intelligent enough, you will see it has been deleted. Get a REAL job you loser. And leave other peoples blogs alone too. May the flea's of a thousand camels infest your underwear in peak hour traffic you snotty nosed little whip-dick in designer jeans!!

Another busy weekend...

..and here are the latest cards I have made! They have been sitting on the computer just waiting tobe blogged! To see them bigger size just click on them. I made this cat card last night, I cased it from Jennifer Loves blog so please go & check it out, she has some awesome cards there! Very talented lady! Oh yeah, the tee shirt card has some 'interesting' touchy-feely paper on the background! The big blue & green spots feel fuzzy like suede! It just matched the tee shirt perfectly! As usual I used all kinds of 'stuff' on my cards, paper flowers, kindy glitz, buttons, beads blah blah...you get the gist!

Thanks for checking out my blog, hope you had a great time! Take care & see ya later!

I have...

been busy but have only JUST got around to uploading today - just haven't felt like it:-(

Anyhow, I hope you like what I have done! The mini cupcakes were a sort of 'experiment', wasn't sure if they were gonna work or not! As you can see, some of the cards have been cuttlebugged. Thank you so much for dropping by, see you again soon! Have a great weekend!

It's a CUP-CAKE!!

Oh WOW!! I made a cup-cake!! It's a polystyrene ball which I covered with glue & then sprinkled hot pink glitter over it! Then I hot glued it to the paper cup & added a red glittered bead to the top to make it look like a cherry! Oh yeah, I glued a string of bead thingies around the edge of the cup-cake too.

I cut out a scallop circle (nesties again) to sit the cc on! I got this idea from Montarga http://www.montarga.co.nz/ at SENZ last Sunday. They had them hanging all around their stall - no wonder they won a prize for the best display there! I just LOOOOVE these:-) Have a great weekend & thank you for visiting, I hope you leave inspired!

A Mixture of Cards!

The cupcake stamp is by Montarga - check out their gallery of cards, it's awesome! www.montarga.co.nz I used the "jac" paper & micro-fine glitter for the cupcakes. I used my nesties for the square shapes. (I'm sure you figured that out by yourself!) The owl (isn't she cute!) is a Hero Arts stamp, I glued a gemstone to the center of each flower & a bit of kindy glitz to the owl. The frog stamp is also from Montarga - they really do have some cute stamps - besides cup-cake ones! The words are from a Stampin' Up stamp set. The Japanese lady is also a Hero Arts stamp, I just love her, too! The pink dots on the white strip of card is some dimensional paint that I have not used much before:-( I 'found' it while rummaging through my art drawers looking for something else. The 'something else' never did get found & I have forgotten what it was now! Oh well, there's always next time...