Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Reopened

Due to the fact that this blog has now served it's full potential, I have decided to re-open it. Until such a time I have all the info off here it shall be open to anyone to peruse. However, sometime in the next few weeks it will be deleted forever!

My new blog is now up and running, most of the readers here (and I didn't realise just how many ''followers'' I had!) are over to the new one. The new blog is much better and caters for the kind of things I wanted so the stalkers and offenders I had here done me a favour, so a big thank you to them cos I dont think I would have made the move for a while yet.

So, if you dont have my new blog addy and you want it, just email me and we'll work it out! :)

Debsx

Monday, 12 May 2008

The day goes like this....

The alarm goes off and I bury my head under the duvet, I was so not ready for waking up! Charley was up and down all night, he has a rash that looks like it could be chicken pox, he was hot and thirsty so he got a cool shower and a couple of drinks. I didn't bother looking at the clock when I finally settled down, I think I woulda cried! Lol
So getting up I did, read a chapter in the Book of Mormon and said my prayer which was constantly interupted by the dog wanting to play with my toes! Kirsten went to school on her bike with her friend so I got a few jobs done till Charley woke up. He has a doctors appointment later today to see if he does have chicken pox or if its just the heat so we'll see. He's as happy as tappy now though, playing on the trampoline and in his ball pool, must take some pictures before I forget. I eventually got the prompt up on my craft blog, later than planned due to one of my blonde moments but I got there eventually! Doh Go check it out and have some fun with it...its all just for fun but will get your imagination working wonders :)
Poor Chris (**waves**) text me in a bit of a flutter thinking my blogs have been spammed as i'd totally changed the course of the blog content when I added those good deals I found...bless him I think I totally confused him cos I hadn't previously mentioned I was going to do that and he's used to reading my waffle!! Lol Oh how he giggled!! :)
Its back to the grindstone for me today, I have classes to write up and 3 meetings to prepare for and tomorrow's prompt to fit in...oh I think i'd better feed the kids too!! Lol So this is short and sweet for now.
Hope you're enjoying the lovely sunshine again :)
Debsx

Friday, 2 May 2008

Stash 4 Sale & Design Team Call

I'm not even gonna bother to try and catch up, nor am I going to explain where I been...but I will say I have been NON STOP doing some pretty exciting stuff!

One of the things i've been doing is sorting out ALL my craft stash...and I mean ALL of it, which consists of approximately 30+ boxes larger than the Walkers crisps ones! Wowser!! Tomorrow (Saturday 3rd May) I shall be doing a so-called Mini Shop at Sonia's (**waves**) crop in Gloucester (if you are interested in Sonia's crop, email me and i'll give Sonia your email address to contact you). So far I have a ton of stuff that needs new homes, the prices are so low you will most definitely bag a bargain and after tomorow there is going to be yet MORE stuff at following crops! If I get time to do photos and lists on here I will do so, though to me a bargain is not a bargain if the postage kills it...but if thats ok with you, its ok with me! :)

Another thing I have been doing is working alongside a fellow crafter friend, Sharron, to set up a blog/craft Design Team. We are still working on sponsorships right now but we are also taking emails for anyone that is interested in joining us. What we are looking for:

An all rounder blogger - this does not mean you have to blog/comment every day but regularly as possible
A crafter - this includes scrapbooking, altered items, cards, knitting, patchworking...in fact anything that you can display, share and inspire with and for others
An online gallery - this can be on uks, docrafts, trimcraft, two peas, scrapbook.com etc

In your email please tell us:

Your full name
Location
How and when you got into your crafts
Your blog and gallery links
Why you want to join us and why you'd like to join us

ALL emails for the DT is to go to studio@sparkle-the-imagination.co.uk

We have not decided on a deadline date for this yet but we're looking for it to be around 14th May. As I mentioned we are still in talks for sponsorship so when that is completed we will then move on!

So come on and join us!

Debsx

Thursday, 3 April 2008

The ultimate load of waffle! :)

Well, I want to waffle....not sure what about yet...all I know is I want to waffle! :)

So here goes:

Err...err......ah I know...blogs. My favourite subject :D (I really, really want to be able to do proper smilies on here!!!) Blogs, yeah, I have just added my team mates blogs way to the right there....because I think they are worth looking at, they are a very talented bunch and i'm grateful they let me into their team (on uk scrappers) cos you see, I am the crappest person in the world for keeping things up to date...and the only reason this blog is up to date (of sorts) is because if I don't keep an account of certain things I forget what i've told my family and what I haven't, plus it stops me having to repeat myself...unless is Elaine (**waves**) of course, who will read this blog then call me to talk about it! Gotta luv her though, she's so cool!! :D I browse so many blogs that I literally have a list of them in a notebook, to date there are over 300 of them so forgive me for being totally scatty and not keeping up with them, I wish I could though, I LOVE BLOGS!!

What else can I waffle about? I love this waffle, just goes to show that since I decided to take some day off from working my brain goes to mush :) No comments please! :P Did you know that people who waffle are considered more intelligent? NO I DID NOT JUST MAKE THAT UP!!! Lmao Apparently waffle (though the article I read referred to it as 'Idle chit chat' but i'm not that well etiquetted {see!!}) is a gateway to a persons inner thoughts and emotional stability. Slam and blast is what I say, listen to the waffle and you get the total IQ rating in 10 seconds flat...THAT's why I am Billy No Mates eh?!! :D :D :D Well it was a good article, but I do think it was written by some guy who was new at reporting and hadn't a clue what women were all about, much less his job in the first place which then poses the question of what is he doing working there in the first place?!! :D Doh

We had a great (but short) Family Home Evening, I found a good talk about the creation of the world from the Primary section of the Lds site, some great ways to explain to kids about how the world started then my two nephews throw me sideways and ask: 'Aunty Deb, why did all the dinosaurs die?' I was kinda just gutted! I do not know the answer!! I have never known the answer, and I probably never will cos I never remember to ask it or research it!! So I thought I was pretty clever when I said: 'well, maybe they just ran out of dinosaurs to fight with and got bored to death?'. Ok it wasn't the smartest thing to say, especially when a 6 year old pipes up 'you can't really die of being bored cos I would already be dead now'. Yep I cracked at that statement, said with such honesty and conviction! Incidentally, I am also hacking my brain to see if he meant he was bored here too!! Go figure!! Charley decided today that he didn't want to have a wash after eating my Cola Cubes which Chris (**waves**) had sent me (or i'm assuming they were for me, they were in the box of goodies he sent for Kirsten and as there was 3 bags of sweets....well go figure!!) his hands were sticky and I wanted to do a run to Tesco, he immediately put on the face tears, scrunched up his face and declare that he doesn't like a wash. I looked at him, and tried ever so gently to explain that he will have everything stick to him if we dont clean him up. At which point the dog came walking into the room, strutting his stuff as he does, and began licking Charley's hand clean. I sat there watching him thinking 'right definitely no compromises here, he really has to get washed up. Before I could lead him to the bathroom he piped up ' Done it mum! Jakes cleaned me!' I chuckled, as you do but still fought on with a face cloth and a bottle of Kandoo face wash.......!!!

The kids done some more baking today whilst I played domestic goddess...they trashed the kitchen while I cleaned beds, floors and windows...such a good balance going on there!! :) The chocolate cake was the deciding factor of the length of their repentance...one bite and they were redeemed of all wrong doing! :) Cheap? Heck yeah! :) When we were out shopping I bought more stuff, cos tomorrow they will do it again, and I will forgive them all for a slice of chocoalte cake!! Luvin kids that cook! :)

Charley had a 'grown up' garden collection today. In Tesco they have a gorgeous range of fun gardening pots, trowels etc so I got a bit of all sorts for the lil dude. Sitting at the table later on I chucked as he wore his gardening hat, apron and gloves to eat his pizza! He said he was ready to 'get going'! I don't think so son, not at 9pm!! :) Yeah we ate late, we had too much going on and the boys (Ty and Kian) wanted to go 'late night shopping' but as I wasn't prepared to go at 2am I convinced them that 8pm (their normal bedtime) is just as good!! :) If it works use it right? :D They go home tomorrow, Mum and Angie are coming up at some point and will swing by and visit me (which i'm wondering if they'd do if I didn't have her kids?! Go figure!!) so i'm looking forward to seeing them both. :)

I am being scripture challenged...have been working through the book of Alma in The Book of Mormon with JD, sharing scriptures is one of the best ways I learn them and find ways to incorporate them in my life, well, so long as one of us dont get off track and end up in fits of giggles! Did I SAY it was me!!!!! :D So tomorrow I am challenged to read the whole of the 5th chapter, which is extremely inspiring and to the point. If anyone wants to read it click here, its a very good read and whether you are a Mormon, Christian, other faith or none at all it will inspire you and definitely give you some good understanding of how to improve things in our daily lives.

I had a lady who recently decide to challenge me, as an athiest she felt she had all the answers for everyone (I feel everyone has the free choice to look for answers if they want to or no look if they dont) anyway, after about 30 minutes of hearing all the scientific reasons why the Mormon church is not true (and many internal feelings I can tell you!) I was suddenly inspired to simply reply back 'I'm sorry you feel that God is punishing you, I hope one day you will look at how he loves you instead'. She went quiet and I stood there, not quite sure what to say next cos I really didn't want to offend her (or get my head swiped off!) after a few seconds she stood up straight and said 'Do you think i'm negative?'. I was very reluctant to answer this because its pretty much a judgement on her personality which I didn't want to do, so I asked 'what do you think?' she looked at me, at Charley then said 'I dont know, maybe I am'. I still didn't know what to say, I was feeling frustrated that I didnt feel the spirit to guide me so I done what I knew best, I hugged her and just said, 'the best person to ask about who and what you are is your Father in Heaven'. I don't know how she felt at that moment, or afterwards even but I know I felt like I could have said more, but somehow I also felt it wasn't the right time. I have since heard that this lady has been investigating all the faiths out there in search of one answer 'Am I negative'. To the most of us that is a pretty straight forward question, but this lady is looking for a deeper meaning, a deeper understanding inside herself. I can relate to that because I am a deep person, I have to analyse my thoughts and feelings, opinions and actions which can all too often leave me feeling like i'm negative because I dont recognise my strengths or talents. When I do though, I then run the risk of it being slammed because the world apparently doesn't like hearing someone talk of their good points. In my humble opinion, if we talked MORE of our own good points and less of someone elses so called bad, each and every one of us could make a difference.

Wow! It's been a long time since I got that deep on a blog!! I felt inspired to write it though, so whoever reads this, I hope you take something from it, cos when all is said and done, we all share the basics...a body, a heart, a mind and a soul...as well as free agency. Put the lot together we are what we want to be...not a template for the next person to follow us from. Go figure.

Right time for my bed, its silly o'clock again and Kirsten has another GP appointment in the morning. Update on the bullying will follow soon as the school have concluded their investigation. I've had a few msn/yahoo IM's regarding that so I know there are some out there who are interested.

Happy Friday :D
Debsx

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Now for my REAL waffle! :)

Just as you thought i'd shut up!! :D Oh how i'm giggling to myself here! Ok so I need a life...BITE ME!! :D
I've wondered round quite aimlessly today, the kids have had a couple of moments of total hysteria, madness and calm, it's been great having them here and only once have I looked into any new law changes on murder! Not bad eh?!! (Incidentally, no, the law has not changed, you still cannot commit murder in the UK!!). I have chocolate mousse's in the fridge and everytime they want one they do a job for me first...lmao...now this started a few days ago when I asked them to move their plates from the table then they could help themselves, since then its become a habit!! It tickles me but when I have been released from hoovering, polishing, emptying the bin, washing up etc, I am not going to speak up too fast am I? LMAO Gotta luv my nephews!!!
Ty comes downstairs just to ask me if i'm ok! He is my dude. Ever since he was small he and I have had some kind of connection, though I am close with all of them there's something else going on with Ty. He looks at me like i'm the most important person in the world and it makes my heart melt, he lubs his auntie debs!!
I'm feeling guilty now that I dont talk about my family on here!!! I wouldn't mind but they are a really good lot... ok so they're not as smart, funny, intelligent, gorgeous etc as me but hey....:D LMAO Just kidding! I AM!!! :D
So, back to today, I haven't really achieved much other than a sheer blitz of fairy chores, which I actually enjoyed doing. I'm wading through washloads after being a total lazy bugg*r the last few days in the vain hope the radiators will dry it sooner rather than later! Logic? Nope, should there be?!!
I've seen some ATC's on another blog that I really, really like. That is a first for me cos 1. I dont like small and 2. I have never been interested till I saw these. I'll link the blog up.....here ya go! I cant remember the ladies name who it belongs to but I know she is very talented!! Have a browse through her stuff, its just totally gorgeous!!
Its drizzled with rain here all day, even the dog wont go outside! Stupid mutt will soon go rushing in the shower with us though!!! :D Dogs are like men aren't they? A little on the misunderstood side!! :D :D :D Oh I thought that was funny!!! Hehehe
Ok, time to take a break, the cyber waves are getting me!! :D
In fact, i'm off to fiddle with some lettering for this Tag Book, I want to get it finished and written up tonight so I can put it on my site tomorrow and have the book ready to hand over to my lil man when he comes home tomorrow afternoon! Oooh I cant wait to see him!!!! :D
OH I have seen a blog...hosted by blogspot...that has proper smilies on it AND colour in the side panel letters...HOW DO I DO THAT? PLEASE have mercy on me and tell me. TELL ME!! :D
Ok, i'm calm!

Debsx