A busy weekend ahead.

Nothing to show you as I've been busy and still am making Christmas Cards and other cards as I'm doing a Christmas Craft Fair on Saturday 23rd November. It's at our local hall Lorraine Victory Hall Bramford Ipswich 1-4pm. Come along if you are in the area.
It's my weekend in at work, so I'm working tonight and Sunday night. No sleep for me tomorrow as I'm off to Tina's craft day at Bulmer Nr Sudbury, which I am looking forward to. I hope to get more cards made. In the evening Andy and I are out for a meal with his work collegues as one of them has now retired. Sunday I'm hoping number one son calls round......well he needs to drop off his car. He's off to Cyprus to work for the winter as his Thomson work has now finished until March, so I will have his car until he returns.
Next Saturday it's the monthly Papermaze crop. The Bramford December/Christmas crop is on Saturday 14th December, a week later than normal. 9am-6pm.............should be a good day, prizes to be won all day too.
I've started my Christmas shopping, got a few pressies anyway. Just trying to decide when we go to Lakeside to do the main shop.
Did you see Lou Collins on Create & Craft? Didn't she do well, I emailed in and had my email read out on yesterday mornings 9am show.!


Well have a good weekend.


                 Janina xx

A wet start to the week!

Ugh, rain, rain and more rain! It stopped long enough yesterday for me to get some washing dry and then the heavens opened.
Saturday I went to Karen Curd's monthly craft day. Karen does Stampin Up and started the monthly craft day where peeps would have a selection of Karen's lovely card designs to make. I go to scrap as it's somewhere I actually get things done and on Saturday I did 3 layouts! Whoop, whoop. So here is what I did.

The first layouts is made out of all scraps I had in my stash. I do try and use up scraps for layouts. The photo is Emily when we visited the Harry Potter Studio Tour last year and so is the second layout. The third layout is of me when we visited Rhodes during our cruise. Rhodes Old Town is stunning, well worth a visit but if you can't stand the heat don't go in August as it was scorching hot!
Last Wednesday I went to a workshop at Papermaze run by Lou......if you ever get the chance to take part in one of Lou's workshops you'll love it. I'm booked on her Christmas card workshop in November, check out www.papermaze.co.uk for details of their workshops there's allsorts going on over the next 3 months including Carol running one making a Tando advent calender.
The BIG prize for the Bramford Christmas crop has just arrived! The crop will be on Saturday 14th December running from 9am-6pm.......prizes to be won throughout the day.
Forgot here's the layout I did at Lou's workshop.

Well, must go get the hoovering done and then I intend making some cards.....probably Christmas ones.

Have a good week.

           Janina xx

My Creative Sketches September Sketch Challenge

I often take a peek over at www.mycreativesketches.bolgspot.co.uk and decided to enter the September sketch challenge, just hoping I've managed to link it up properly........I'm not computer savy so it's hit n miss.
The photo is of Andy when we visited Rhodes Old Town recently, he was trying to escape the heat!


                     Janina xx

A busy weekend......

Last weekend was a busy one. Friday Andy and I went to the wedding of Andrew and Sandra, the youngest son of Ann and Kevin who Andy stayed with the days he worked in Peterborough......was meant to be a short term arrangement but it lasted nearly 15yrs in the end! The Wedding was lovely from start to finish and as Kevin is a vicar he actually married the couple.

We got home around midnight and Saturday was going to be an early start as it was Ally Pally day.......
I picked Liz up at 6.30am and then Beryl. It was a hastle free journey down to London and after our normal toilet stop at the Enfield Sainsburys we arrived at AP around 9am. We had a lovely day, spent lots between us came away exhausted but very happy with our purchases. Here's what I bought......

Lots of cardstock from Limetree Crafts, some gorgeous stamps from Inkylicious and House of Zandra plus odds n ends.
I also watched Leonie demoing, she's very talented, darft as a brush but lovely and so down to earth.

Got home around 9.45pm, shattered. Sunday was a full on day too as we had Andy's mum and dad, his Aunt Janet who was over from USA, Aunt Maureen and Tim's girlfriend Fran coming for roast dinner, then Andy's other Aunt Rosie and Uncle Clarry coming for tea. I was so pleased the huge piece of beef I bought cooked lovely and was so tender! So Monday was a house work and chill out day for me!
Here's a couple of layouts I've done in the past week, the first is a crop kit for the Bramford monthly crop.

This is when Andy and I visited Jerusalem, we're at the Western Wall on our recent cruise holiday.

This photo is of Emily and Hannah when we visited Harry Potter Tour last year.
Well I've to go finish off my ironing, then I'm going to do a bit of crafting. It's my weekend in at work so I'll be off at 7pm, might take the Christmas cards I started to make yesterday with me to finish off. I made about 20 over a month ago and for the life of me I don't know where I've put them!!!! LOL My craft room needs abit of a sort out, the floor is covered with bits n pieces......does it sound familiar?
Anyway, next Saturday is the monthly Bramford crop 9am-5pm all welcome.

Have a great weekend.

                    Janina xx

I'm back.........just wish we had booked for two weeks!

Got home early hours Tuesday morning after spending a fantastic week on board Thomson Celebration Cruise ship. You could not fault anything. Cabins were cleaned 3 times a day, choccies left on your pillow at night( the kids liked them when we brought them home), food on tap 24 hours a day and lovely it was too. Crew on board could not do enough for you and the entertainment team were very good. As I said it was meant to be a cruise to Egypt and the Holyland, sadly the Egypt part was cancelled and we docked in Rhodes instead, which I might add was very lovely. We got off ship and spent the morning wandering round the Old Town....very pretty. Wednesday we were at sea all day and I got sunburnt....ouch! It hurt! It was soooo hot you couldn't sit in it for long, so we would sit along the side decks as they were more shaded. Thursday we docked in Ashdod Israel and went on an all day excursion to Jerusalem, beautiful place to visit so clean.

Andy standing at Mount of Olives and looking over Jerusalem. We also visited the Western Wall and placed prayers in the wall itself.

The wall itself was not very wide but very tall, a serene place to visit. Next we went to Bethlehem, which is divided from Jerusalem by the wall of Palestine.

It has check points and boarder guards too. Bethlehem we visited the old town and the church of The Nativity.

Doesn't look much from the outside but is stunningly beautiful inside, the photo was taken from Manger Square.
Saturday we visited Larnaca Cyprus, very hot and we stayed for a couple of hours in the morning because by lunch time it was far too hot to be walking about, the sweat just dripped off you.
Sunday our next port of call was Alanya Turkey were it is said the castle in the port was a gift from Mark Anthony to Cleopatra. The view was again stunning. We had an excursion to Side and saw the temple of Apollo and it was then onto the waterfall of Manavgat.

Monday we docked back in Marmaris Turkey were we left the ship at 12noon to get our flight home. We had a jam packed week where we travelled over 1000 nautical miles and visited 4 different countries, took over 400 photos and have some lovely memories. Just wish we had booked for two weeks not one, I can see now why people get hooked on cruises. Ok so we didn't get to do the Nile cruise we originally booked(maybe next year !), but we are so glad we did this cruise.

Well I think I've let you all into a sneak peek of our holiday, just to say if you want holiday ideas try Thomson Cruises, they know how to do it.


                    Janina xx

Today's the day......

I'm almost packed , as we are off on our long awaited holiday today. We catch the 1.43pm train to London and then onto Gatwick where were are booked into a hotel for tonight, as our flight is at 8.45am tomorrow....didn't want to get up at some un earthly time in the morning to travel down to Gatwick, just realised we'll still need to be up around 5am to get the shuttle bus to airport!!!!! It'll be a lonnng day.
The Egypt part of the holiday has been cancelled and we will now be going to Rhodes and then staying two days in Israel instead of one day. What ever I'm looking forward to it and all those wonderful photo ops.
It'll be a packed week of sight seeing and photo taking.LOL

Well until next week.

             Janina xx

ps Had a lovely day at the Papermaze crop yesterday.

Nelly has gone....!!!!

Nelly being my car! Infact all our cars have been called Nelly mine was Nelly 6, a Vauxhall Astra which we bought in 2002 when she was a year old. When hubby bought a new car in 2007, I kept Nelly so that all the 3 children could learn to drive, well the last Emily has just passed her test (first time too) so Nelly has now gone onto pastures new.....well one of DS friends infact as she still has life in the old girl and is a pleasure to drive. It'll take a bit of getting used to going back to juggling one car but the cost of running two cars has got silly. I've told hubby I need it for Ally Pally twice a year and to go to my monthly crops.
Well two weeks today and we'll be cruising from Turkey to Alexandria in Egypt....I'm so excited now, 3 more nights to work and then nearly 3 weeks off, heaven! Ordered our spending money today.
Bramford monthly crop was on Saturday, another good turnout of ladies scrapping and card making. Septembers crop is Saturday 7th 9am-5pm. All welcome. I've finished the October crop kit today, we'll be using Glitz 'Sunshine in my Soul' papers. Novembers kit we'll be using Teresa Collins papers which is a brand we have'nt used before.

This is a recent layout I did using the freebie papers from Scrapbook  Magazine issue 73 I think. A really cheap LO and one I was pleased with. It's a photo of Emily when she got her GCSE results.
Well DS 2 will be in soon from work wanting his tea.

                        Janina xx