Camera..action!!

OOh had a great afternoon this afternoon faffing about with a free photoshop action I downloaded here Addicted to designs.. it's just fantastic for my New York shots.. really makes my naff photos look fab.. well I love the effect anyway..



OK really should have done some housework today but am soooo knackered.. think I'll stay on the couch.. might have a crack at making/decorating my album for the All My Own Work Challenge... but still can't decide what to use.. might wait till first journalling/page point and see where it sways me

Is this soo conincidental or what!!

Just had to post.. after my wallowings of self pity about work.. lookie here All My own work.. weekly challenges based on a work theme... perhaps the perfect project at the mo.. LOL.. now for some time off work to play along!!!

Hellooooooooo

Well.. can't believe it's been so long since I posted... been working like tons, which means I can't get my groove back on.. house is a tip, hardlys see the boys at the mo...and scrapping, what the heck is that..Can't wait till this uncertain time is over and I can start easing into one of the new shift patterns ( I have my fingers crossed that I'm not in the permanent days category) and get on track with life again..

Shouldn't we work to live.. not live to work.. ugh

Anyway am toying with the idea of maybe going to a local crop on Saturday.. would be my first real life crop ( apart from Center Parcs and Scrappers paradise, but they were weekendy things)...think it might be the only way I get some scrapping done.. remove myself from the house so don't feel guilty about not doing hw...will have to check whether Mr B can take me.. I dunno.. I'll probably change my mind at the last moment.. so haven't contacted the organiser.. may just nip in as a late runner! LOL.. Toodle ooh for now.. break is over, best get back before the whip is out!

You In't seen me right!!!!!

This is my incentive..My ScrapRoom Kit.. This arrived Tuesday and am dying to play...but must get this house semi blasted before I can.. It's an odd lil quirk of mine.. and probably the reason I get not too much scrapping done. I can't relax and play while there's stuff to be done.. someone tell me how I break this horrid cycle ( cos there's ALWAYS something to be done...)
Anyhoo..sneakin on quick , now that I know peeps are reading (Hello to all!!!) suppose I best make an effort to post LOL!!!! am mid bedroom cupboard cleanout..the BIG CLEAN isn't going as quickly as planned!
Although that may be due to the fact have taken the opportunity to get some catching up done too.. Tuesday popped over to see one of my bestest pals.. and my gowgeous goddaughter... ( Hmm nearly posted a pic there and then realised had forgotten to ask permission.. oops!) had a some lunch and lovely catch up, it was the first time I had seen Thompa since she announced she's preggers!! Still no bump yet, but says she knackered..She thinks that's cos she's a bit older than when she had Grace.. Yikes.. that scare mes!! I was knackered at 19 with Zac.. how the heck am I gonna cope this time (well when it happens!?!)
Then last night went to see my matey chum Lindy Lous new house..Hurrumph! That's the sound of me leaving in digust at the bloody loveliness of it.. it's a fab homely home..absolutely hu-flippin-mungously huge.. but cosy at the same time.. Nee food in the cupboards like, so we had to pop out for tea (LOL!!) Me, Lind and Suzy Wong.. I really enjoy a catch up with these gals... proper good mates who I miss horribly at work.. If I have to go back to dayshift without them I'm not sure how I'll cope!

OK back to the clean....

This is it...

This week I am vowing to get back in the groove.. Lately everything seems to have slipped... the dull boring housework, the even duller washing & ironing..my exercise classes and swimming ( gym visits are are far too distant memory!!).. I seem to be frittering money away on snacks & eating crap at work cos my meal planning & shopping isn't getting done.....even niceties like popping to see matey chums and scrapping seem to be on the back burner..
Sooooooo I've hit that point ( I get to it once in a while!) and it's time to get busy....I'm on rest week from work ( possibly my last... eeeek!) so I'm gonna make the most of it and get my groove on...I know I can fit it all in if I just make an effort/time... and once all the dull stuff is outta the way I can play.. Hoorah!!!

From the land of nightshift....

I hate this week at work... 7 looooooong nights, no time to play, no time for hw...I feel like all I do is sleep, go to work, sleep, go to work... I hardly see Mr B or The Boy.. or anyone other than me shift partners....Boo hoo me!! Can you tell I'm feeling really sorry for myself?!?!

Well my plan was to have a lil play with digi scrappin.. ( no time to hawk everything out and tidy up, plus thought I may be able to sneak a lil in perhaps in my lunch break!?) .. But alas has not happened... Life, work and all sorts of truly dull stuff just gets in the way.. bah!!!!! Might not be a prob for too much longer as there's big changes at work afoot... keep thinking positive thoughts for me chicks, am trying but you know me ever the 'half empty' gal...

Anyway dull boring life chat over.. Back to digi scrapping.. now I'm never gonna get to the level of Kate Hadfield.. ( have you seen her stuff.. wowsers..a-m-a-z-i-n!!!)... but wanna have a lil dabble in the digi darkside so I can play without getting me hands drty iykwim!.. so here was my first attempt at digi with a most Gorg-eous kit from the ooober talented Kirsty and Katie ( Check out Kirsty's link there..she has 'mazingly gorgeous freebies that really must get around to having a play with soon).. I actually had this play months ago, but I think it's not quite right.. so that was my mission for this week... but alas dull stuff in the way.. twas not to be... maybe sometime soon.. anyway must scoot , get ready for work.. grrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Back to Bed.. Back to Reality..

Le Weekend is over...Ho hum.. back to hum drum normality..

Have had a lovely weekend gone.. Sat went out for belated birthday day with ma gals... went to El Torero for yumilicious tapas ( Check out the El Rio selection menu.. DIVINE Darlings!!)then chilled by the river with a few drinky poos.. was sad to find an old fave bar of mine, Stereo was now dingy & horrid.. and didn't make it to Apartment for one of my fave Raspberry Mojitos.. but had a great day playing at ladies ( erm in the loosest sense of the word.. OMG that sounds terrible, we're not loose women.. Oh gawd I'll just shurrup..) who lunch... We toasted some fab news, had nawty conversations, drank some more, gossiped some & planned a break to Puerto Banus later in the year.. hoorah! Haven't been away with the gals for years....Crazy lay-dees loose in Mar-bell-aaah..best pack me white stillies and my lurex boob tubes and warn the rest o the world LOL!!.. Can't wait! But after a brief stop off at Lou's we were home and tucked up in PJ's by 11pm... On a Sat Night ShoCK HorRoR!! Well we are all twenty thirteen now...

Had a yummy sunday too.nice lay in, and then sunday lunch big styleee at the toby carvery.. was nice just to spend time with me boys after saturdays girly overload!! Topped it all off with a Sunday afternoon doze on the couch... life doesn't get much better than that!

And then there's night shift week..... Grrrrreat!............ nuff said!

So scrap wise...Am feeling all inspired to create at the mo...am signed up for Anita Mundt's workshop The Secret and have been browsing the LO's posted on UKS and on the blog ..some faberoonies LO's on there... Why is it that when I have no time to play I'm bursting with ideas then when I sit down to scrap I'm like..' D'uh sharp thing what do I do with this!!' can't wait for next week so I can play....no fair!!!

Real live Scrappers.. in captivity!!!

If you had told me a couple of years ago that I'd be spending a day off work cutting and sticking and chatting to some randoms on that there t'interweb.. I'd have thought you were maaaad!!!!!
But yesterday I spent a day cutting and sticking and chatting to me lovely mates the Chatterbox Chicks online! Fab fun day, we set ourselves a couple o' challenges.. not that I stuck to them like! and chitter chatter over the marvellous t'interweb machine!


We all had some pics of our lovely lil Kimberlah ( She hates me calling her that!?) being a lil kid on the swings... I loved this LO, then managed to splodge me paint everywhere, when putting the title on... bahhhh!!!!!
We had also all chosen a word to scrap or be inspired by.. I chose CHANGE.. and had wanted to scrap a pic of Mr B's decks all packed up, but had camera issues (:rolleyes:).. so I thought no stress move onto another challenge.. Huge acheivement for me, normally I go doolally tap if things don't go as planned.. hey hey, perhaps this is grownupdom sneakin up on me!Anyhoo.. I digress (?!?)


Clare had challenged me to scrap a place name, so started off, thinking I would just title this LO Lanzarote ( Cop out.. who me!!?) but then realised I wanted to scrap memories of this pic, and had a title in mind.. LO is about our ahem.. lovely honeymoon suite.. above the hotel kitchen doors and looking over wasteland!! Romantic not!!!!.. after a lil foot stomping though we were moved to another room with a gorgeous view over the bay to Fuerteventura.. ah bliss sitting sipping G & T's watching the lights come on of an evening... oops sorry lost meself there.. sooo decided not to do the scrap the place name challenge...but have just realised... That I actually have scrapped CHANGE as we changed rooms!!! Hurrah, completing challenges without even realising, clever lil thing I am!!!!