tea...potty..

handpainted bookmark.. made some at the weekend that need to be laminated ..

off to sleep...

xmas papers being used later.

yesterdays cards.need finishing off..

manuscripts for decoration..

went into living room at 4pm with this lot, rattled, rustled and tipped out..
you can find things when trying to declutter you didnt know you had its like having new all over again...the papers are invoices for 1739..manuscripts..

i noticed in the pic words, dreams under, so i opened it out..i have spread my dreams under your feet.. tread softly because you tread on my dreams.,by yeats..
must have bought these years ago to put onto .. anywhere really..drawers.. lamps..tables.chairs..the distressed look.. music sheet is beethoven..he really was one of the true masters.. deaf too i think..or partially..man after my own heart as i sit quiet..ive ruined my own ears ..well i didnt help....had bother as a child same as gran..was bought a walkman must be 17 years ago..played tapes much too loud...that didnt help..

made these this afternoon.. cardmaking is such a nice uplifting hobby.

thinking about pirates and how they plundered and such... got me thinking as ive thought before some of the most important people in history...long long ago...kings queens ect only got to where they were by...head rolling..... basically... not nice..
and came upon land by rape and pillage..then it got passed down over the generations...

god must have looked down over the centuries and.... despaired really...what must he think..? poor misguided souls cos he still has compassion....jesus went to the cross for it.....this is one main reason i chose a long time ago to cut myself off....it would take some pretty special person or people to prise me out of it...that mode of thinking.....they must tick all boxes cos otherwise its not worth it............can you trust anyone with your life? upto this very second, i have,nt met one..

printed some pirates treasure chests skull n cross bones..parrots and whisky barrels.. or rum whatever it is pirates drink..

geranium.. forced...spindly.. im not good with plants..once had a yucca plant... tiny when i bought it.. lasted eons it was massive... had to put it out, sadly it perished.

signing out.. work....watching a video later..this after.. new release.. should be good..cardmake while i go.... trying to change each day from groundhog day...
hunting the stamps out....

tara the sprocker..may do some stamping over the weekend its something ive not tried.. try anything once..

gone on the wrong post..no idea what kind of bush..i love nature.. but just to look at.. i,m not up on it...i was always too busy enjoying nature to be studying up what was what.. if it was bonny that would do for me..

meg didnt howl for england...
although i woke to find her beside the bed...she is a beautiful pet..
i remember the day she arrived i was feeling at my worst yet had carried on shame-ful until they allowed me to have her.. if i set my mind to some thing they know that eventually they,d have to give in..
i wanted to give her away to a good home.. a farm where she had freedom to run in fields like a dog should...i spent months worrying.. yet persevered and she brought so much love with her.. she lay by the bed every day or sat on the pillow looking out of the window... not one ounce of bother...she,s had love and cuddles showered on her and she is happy...

supposed to be a close-up..

turning in... found a nice book, angel quilt blocks ive things not even looked at which is sad so ive gotta rectify....taking jane asher with me..tipped the computer tower upside down.. jiggled it about.. no luck.. ive broken the front..so its worse really..ive said.... i,ll just have to have new .. please.

son on computer..so i went into the living room watched corrie..amid rustling of crisp packet.... slurped shredded wheat....now i,m barred..

meg the collie is having another phantom pregnancy..thinks she,s had pups.. can,t leave her alone or the cushions are dismantled in disarray she,s under the dining table.. looking out one eye on taz.. the other on a small hippopotamus.. which she now thinks is her pup....
no doubt at 4am she,ll be howling..for england..

I remember last time.. i got up at 4am let her out the back while i internet shopped.. thought... she,s been out a long time.. very quiet too... looked out she,d vanished...pushed the gate open.. i stood on the pavement front of house looking down to browney... thinking,. shes headed for the fields probably looking for a badger.. perish the thought..and i,m not chasing her in me nightie...so i just came back in ... an hour later she slinked back in... looking very sheepish.. right im doggo off to bed,

remembered too.. first time meg had a phantom.. i was waiting for the practice nurse .. she had everything out from under the bed.. books, needlework all sorts, meg not the nurse..

forgot.. and im bonkers... but life is short...
and i,ll say thankyou very much lord... for no dream visitations......they drive me round the bend..ive had my antibiotics so maybe i won,t have fevers..

this post should have been on another but everythings higgle de piggledy but ive got to have order.. im cutting back, reshuffling, to just necessity,

craft mags need to be sorted then recycled some from 05.. never opened..
more upstairs.. piles....they breed..dark pics.. a failing of mine ... dark pics..

dont like the big letters but dont know how to make them small.

my friend dropped me a off a box of buttons months ago this is just a fraction of them i need to sort them out some are priced 6d

spending weekend cardmaking..i,ve pretty decoupage sheets, gardens, summer flowers..... animals, a multitude of xmas papers need to be used up before buying new.. bring out the painting kits..
so many books i,ll never read them... not in this life time....

planted chives parsley and mint in the garden boxes..slugs ate all my french marigolds..the gnomes and rabbits in the rockery are all facing the kitchen window looking straight ahead... fixed grimaces...
the gnomes look quite menacing up close...

computers gotta cd broken inside the tower......might take it all to bits have a dekko inside....

thinking what i could have achieved in the last 6 months if id set my mind to it. been well.. travelled the world backpacking.....bought and sold another house... moved house.. built another.....built another me which was my wish..
just simple stuff.. nothing complicated or anything that bothered another human being.....

xmas gran..grand daughter..

decoupage is a fave but it takes ages.... i can snip and cut while tv,s on in background..i seem to always choose the most difficult..

xmas comes early...wish it was here.. half a year gone pooff just like that...

hummel picture.. hand painted rose.. side order of angels.. flower power..

little girl .. teddy.. bear flower seller. dogs..

painted angel......

xmas teddy, football, girl with teddy..

handpainted roses.. ive got kits for loads of different images... straw bonnets.. ribbons.. .. trompe loile ect..yet i still come back to roses...

made these while catching the sun yesterday..pic taken on mobile ... not so good..

fairies and flowers..decoupage . i print the papers then cut out the images...

layer upon layer..tried pressing some flowers i,d picked, wild flowers it hasn,t worked..

fairies and flowers..decoupage . i print the papers then cut out the images...
layer upon layer..to give a sense of depth...

fairies..

blue bell fairy.. bluebells are a protected plant now. ive some in the garden. deep violet color. been here years..

victorian seaside decoupage.....

fairies.. trying to make ribbon bows with new bowmaker.. need lots of practice..

angel child...decoupage..

making cards in the garden.. then i can let all the paper bits just float off on the wind..

computers going to have to go into the clinic again....

just come back in, 8pm, nice out, warm, birds whistling, gentle breeze..think i,m rushing things but thats what being fed up does for you, determination. I always had plenty determination.
fairy card handpainted roses. handbag, childs rocking horse.
gnome planter from the pound shop in Durham, a pound, beautiful, there sits one of my geraniums ive grown from seed.

printed off some really pretty papers.baby ducks party balloons.

haven,t made these today ive actually done nothing. it,s also too nice a day to be in.. but here i am....might get out later....seems like everyones gone to the moon... thats how it feels...really need my new mobile..
things i need most are always late in arriving,..

sunflowers, daffodills.

christmas comes early.

hats and roses.

very warm and humid. days like these are like middle of summer..

spring. rabbit, swans.