Dear Beth

I apologise profusely for not attaching your name to the Fiskars "Im not here" post, and I feel terrible for any grief I may have inadvertantly caused.
However, I have been considering dear ol david's "special" movie, and I am relying on you to make the decision as to whether hes EXTRA special or just normal or rather pathetic. Please advice me on this matter for fear it shall ruin any future series of Bones.

Lots of love,
Danice

I cant be bothered doing my Favourites

SOOOO I'm hoping that everyone will read this post and comment with their respective blog address's so I can readd everyone.. thank you!!!!

Oh My!!!!!!!!!!

I have a new pc, I'm absolutely OVER the moon! I have been keeping my eyes open, but a new pc for me is one of those things that has never really taken priority over other things, until I saw one on Trademe and liked the specs - its a home build with the UGLIEST case in the world, but its SO fast! I dare say I will see how this month goes on data usage but I think I will end up getting a higher allowance now!
It's taken me hours and hours and I hardly did anything, gotta say thanks a bunch to Chris for spending the time to get it sorted the way I wanted it!!!
So I shall be playing alot this week with Youtube- Yay for Benny Lava!

danice 3 - Mice 0.

nuff said.
I went out this evening to catch up with some friends, ended up at pak n save at 10pm doing the shopping.... OOPS. Why is it that you rarely buy baking powder, and when you do, it always ends up being baking Soda that you need???? or is that just me? I now have two full containers of baking powder and about one teaspoon of baking soda... and guess what I need to use in my modified lumberjack cake? yup I need baking SODA. which means I will have to revisit the supermarket and thats really dangerous, I never feel bad about spending money in a supermarket so I need to go in with a LIST and actually only buy whats ON the list. not things that take my fancy because they are in pretty tins or its a flavour of something that I think smells nice which of course ends up smelling absolutely crap and I never use it.
but on the upside- its Friday tomorrow! yippeeeeeeee I am in the throes of organising myself to go to Whitianga to visit my sister, but I think I'll go down on Saturday rather than Friday, too tired to consider leaving straight after work! and because I know myself pretty well, I imagine that I shall sleep in too late on Saturday morning, decide not to go down til "later" and end up not going at all. I am SO good at knowing myself :D! Thank you for your comments on my felt cards, the cat recipient loved his, said something about "ohhh you should do this stuff, cos isnt it similar to that scrapbooking you do......." after just one look at him he said "Ohhh I guess you did do it cos of that aye" and thats from someone whom I would consider to be very intelligent on any other day! but he liked it and I even got an extra hug for it! go me!!!
and now me go to bed, its beginning to rain again and it will be warm and cosy! I hope everyone has a great Friday!

LOL this is so much fun!!

Cant you tell!?? and it just happens that when I finish one card, someone else's birthday pops into my mind, this is a boy card, for a friend who loves cats!

and another one

This is for my girlfriend, I got to use hearts for once!

Felt thingies

I adore Niella's felt creations, and today I *stumbled* into spotlight and *stumbled* out with a pile of felt sheets, and with lovely time on my hands I made this for one of the girls at work... I'm so impressed I shall be making more thingies right away! perhaps after a wee nana nap.

NZ Dares challenge 51

I got my USA photos reprinted the other week when Hardly Normal did the .10c photo deal ( you know the 6am-8am one- when it was Pouring down with rain and hail, a morning MUCH better suited to staying warm and snuggly in bed!)

so anyway, I reprinted (cos I *ahem* misplaced the last lot) all the photos from my trip - unfortunately not that many cos I only had the camera on the second trip, which was the shorter trip of 2 months so yeah not too many pics, but I still have enough to remember some great times!

Anyway, heres my take on the challenge- to use a repeated pattern, i stamped triangles along the end of the ribbon border - enjoy!

******* EDITED to add- holy heck, I did this other layout too (so now its a double!!!!!!!!!!!)

and I did this other one in less than 30 minutes- fastest layout I've ever done.... ok ok not the most creative but it kinda matches !!!!!!! Yeahh umm the scanning and cropping wasnt so great, but I'm not a miracle worker!!!

blog hopping

To anyone that is "bored" and needs a break from scrapbooking, I suggest you read Alison's bloggie, she has recently had an article published about Autism that *I* think is brilliant, in the article she explains what life can be like living with a son with Autism. Highly readable and really interesting for those that have had no experience whatsoever with this syndrome.
Also Trina and Nic both have Stampin up giveaways to celebrate the release of the new Stampin Up catalogue- and as of last week when I received my stampin up goodies, I'm a convert!!!
Rachel is still in the Project Scrap Away comp- woohoo!!!!!! go the kiwi!!!!!! (its sad but I'm more interested in Rachel in the Project Scrap Away comp than the rugby) so keep your eyes on that blog!
Thats all I have to report right now, I am struggling with a 3 photo layout... I have decided i will never ever again take sets of 3 photos. either 1,2 or 4 only- NO odd numbers!!! and I must use more portrait pics because I'm getting sick of landscape!

have a great Sunday afternoon and no doubt I shall report later on my hideous lo!

Baby cutesy stuff

My friend Eve had a little girl last week, and needed to send thank you cards for all the gifts and well wishes, so I made these up for her, using mostly Kaiser Craft stuff, I did these in a couple of days, ** edited- i HAVE done the inside stuff and they ARE be finished! (Yay!) All Eve needs to do is circle the date on the stamped calendar and send them out!


For those that cant quite read it, heres the inside writing:

A Baby Lives Here Now
in the corner of the spare room,
there's a little cradle now:
and the day-to-day routine
Has gotten busier somehow.
there's a bib among the towels--
and a talcumy perfume
Drifts around the little toys
that lie about the room.
the little teddy bear stands guard
With his round and rolly eyes
When all the house is still
But for the sounds of lullabies.
yet even without all these things,
it's still obvious somehow
From the happiness that fills the air--

A baby lives here now