Bigmouth Strikes Again

Wotcha!!! Have you missed me?

2010-02-21T06:27:00.000-08:00

Hmm, well it's only been about a year since I blogged! What're you moaning about? ;-)
well, I've gone and got one of those iPhone jobbys so blogging should now be a breeze! I reckon I could start to blog as often as, once a MONTH!!!!
So yeah, I've been dead ill! Flu, then pneumonia, bronchitis, labarynthitis (I can never spell that and not can the iPhone!), I've been off work since 9th December!! Well I went back for a few days but got signed off again! Tomorrow, however? I'm going back properly! Well for 2 days anyway! After that i'm off to see lovely Sam for a few days. As long as it stops snowing!
Anyway? Just wanted to say Hi again. I shall blog some "creations" once I've made some!

Proper blog post!

2009-01-20T04:30:00.000-08:00

Alright?
How're you doing then? me? not that good actually, I've had sinusitis and an ear infection for over a fortnight and now my right ear is all yucky and infected, but I'm on yet more antibiotics, and hopefully matters will start to improve.
Anyway, I'm going to try to make this blog less of a 'health chronicle' than the last one - you watch though, it'll soon just degenerate into me whingeing about my ailments!
Give it a few years and I'll be one of those old girls at bus stops who tell you about their bunions and operations!
So yeah, apart from being not well, I haven't done much, Christmas was quiet, very quiet :) I bought Mark 'Guitar Hero' for the Wii that we've owned for over a year and have only just got out of the box, I surprised myself be being not that bad it at, although it does make your arms ache!
Here's Mark, strutting his stuff

Bless him, he gets really into it :)
Mark bought me a pair of walking boots for Christmas and we've been on a few walks in local woods and also Hatfield Forest, I've now decided that we definitely need a dog! I've wanted a Westie for ages, but I think it might be the final straw from Muppet Pig, she already has to put up with Blue Pig bullying her, I think she'd pack her suitcase and leave if we got a dog too!
Ooh wasn't it cold just after Christmas? I was bloomin freezing on our walk around the forest, hence the deeply unflattering hat I wore - I like this pic but do think that both Mark and I look very old! Still, we are getting on a bit.

Well, seeing as I claim that this is a craft blog, here's a bit of craft - firstly, a card I made for my lovely friends Ian and Steph,

They are friends of mine from University, we first met about 15 years ago! They met up again a couple of years ago, got together, and have now left London to live in Devon - lucky sods! I shall miss them a lot. Anyway, I made them this card. I saw the Paperartsy stamp set in a local shop quite a while and thought that the quote was so apt for this occasion - Ian and Steph never realised that by meeting up for a quick drink after years of not seeing each other, they'd end up together. (A quick drink arranged by me! just call me Cupid!)
The 'tag' comes out of that pocket, Steph said she'll use it as a bookmark :)
And the quote - well that says "In life there are no ordinary moments. Most of us never really recognise the most significant moments when they are happening" - pretty apt eh? well, I think so.

I had a fanciful notion about making all my Christmas cards last year, of course, that never happened, I think I actually made about 6! Including this one, Mark's Christmas card, I quite like it :)

I also made this, very similar card, as a thank you for the lady at work who organised our Secret Santa - I don't think she realised it was handmade, not sure if that's a compliment or not!

And this one was for my mate Pauline, it's a new job card, and yes, the background paper IS upside down! (that was very sweary when i discovered what I'd done!)

And finally - a scrapbook LO, I hadn't scrapped for ages, I mean months until I made this the other day - I've used this photo loads of times, as my Facebook profile pic, my UKScrappers avatar, my Blogger profile pic, I thought it was about time I scrapped it. I actually took it myself, to check if I'd straightened the back of my hair properly, but I didn't realise that I had the zoom on the camera, so it came out as a close up - therefore you cant see my triple chins, for some reason my skin looks half decent in it, and because you can only really see one eye, the fact that I have one eye bigger than the other can't be seen - in all, a great result!

I printed the pic on watercolour paper in B&W and then watercoloured a bit of colour back in. The papers are all from the Sonoma range by Scenic Route.
Sadly though, after that brief flurry of activity, I think it'll be several months again before I do any more scrapping, for some reason my heart just isn't in it - I'm going on a retreat in April with lovely Sam, hopefully I'll have a bit more enthusiasm by then!
Anyway, I expect I've bored you enough by now - I shall attempt to blog again soon, although I'm not doing anything blog-worthy! I could rattle on about my poorly ear, but I fear that would be very dull.
Oh well, until next time - Bye!

Hello!

2009-01-17T01:06:00.000-08:00

Well, blog number 2.
I had to remove blog no 1 as I had said a couple of things on there that offended someone and it all blew up into a huge row. Of course I didn't mean to hurt or upset anyone but a couple of things were said in the heat of the moment, and now, months and months later, it's all come back to bite me on the arse.
Much of what I said was taken out of context and unforunately I have not been able to put 'my side'. So I felt it best to password protect the blog to stop anyone else becoming offended by it.
If anyone would like an invitation to view my previous blog, please feel free to email me, or leave a comment and I'll get back to you.
it's a shame really, I liked that blog, it was useful to have somewhere to showcase (!) my 'creations' and post photos and generally have a bit of a moan!
So this blog - shall be the same, craft stuff, pics, my life. Just nothing that could possibly offend. Cos i do offend, even when I dont mean to! My friends know me, know that I'm a sarky bugger and to take most of what I say with a huge pinch of salt.
So I'll apologise now, in advance to anyone I might slightly piss off with my way of talking, my turn of phrase. I dont mean to upset - thats just the way I am. OK? No offence meant.
Anyway, this blog is obviously very much a work in progress, I shall try to blog more often than I did before, but dont hold your breath!
I shall try to make it look a bit more pretty too, we'll get there!
So yeah, welcome to Bigmouth Strikes Again - could there BE a more apt name? I think not!