Birthday Blues

Well some kind of sickness bug seemed to have swept through the house yesterday. I put Emily being sick on Saturday night down to overindulgence at her cousins birthday party, however from the moment i woke up yesterday i felt rough.

By the time emily finished nursery in the morning, i had been sick and by the afternoon it was natasha too! Not a great way to spend your birthday.....running to the bathroom and trying to contain the ever growing mountain of sick bedding and towels and scrubbing carpets and mattresses!


I did ring Pete to wish him a happy birthday and he opened all his cards. I hate not being able to share it with him when he's not here.


This morning seems far more peaceful and although i don't have the stomach back to normal at the moment and can feel things not being the best at least i'm up and about. I'm going to try to have a look through the OU photography course bits and bobs this afternoon and then this evening i have my good friend Liam coming around to try and fix the kids PC which is refusing to turn on...instead just flashing an angry red blinking light at me as if to see naaaah naaaah and pulling faces at me....that's what happens four months after your warranty finishes....it does it on purpose you know.


I'm having a real want to scrap as i've done nothing now for two weeks. It's finding the time that's hard though. I have a load of personal bits to do before i go to scrapcamp plus i want to tear open all the bits i got from Bad Girls and then I also have the new Scrap Studio kit being shipped tomorrow so all the bits are there for a fabby weekend of scrapping! The Scrap Studio kit this month is full of Daisy D's papers and bits....not used this range before so i'll see how i get on with it.


I was over the moon to get my subscription for the Bad girls kit after being on the waiting list for what seemed like forever (exaggeration, see i have no patience when it comes to things i want...i just have to have them yesterday!). So i'll be getting the October kit when it comes out but in the meantime aswell as the bits i ordered last month and recieved i've also ordered the September project kit which looks amazing! I can't wait to get to grips with it.



Just look at all those goodies! I have noticed my taste in papers changing, which i guess is a given after almost 12 months scrapping...but the kind of things i thought were twee back then are the kind of things i'm going 'aahhhh' at now. Are you like that......did you hate using something and now love it?





I also want to say a big thanks to Debby for such a lush card that arrived this morning. Thanks so much for all the little goodies in the envelope too, i'm certainly going to make use of it all once i get to grips with a few other things this week. Luckily after today the rest of the week should be a bit quieter.




As for award for top birthday card...it has to go to my dad for this amazing effort! When i told Pete about it on the phone and explained that it sang 'Glory Glory' everytime you opened it he said he was glad he wasn't home as the girls would keep opening it!



Note how my dad still refuses to call me 'Terrie' even though it is LEGALLY my bloody name! And why he's signed it from Barry instead of Dad (which he added as an after thought obviously just incase i didn't know it was from him!!!)?





So the HSMS prompt today is sponge and unfortuantely i can't seem to find any of your typical sponges as i use loofahs and stuff, nothing like rubbing your skin so hard it almost bleeds eh?! So here is one of the other types of 'sponges' i have in the house. Natasha. She is just like a sponge and absorbs everything she can. When Freya is practicing her keyboard, Natasha wants to get involved too (usually to Freya's annoyance). So here is my smallest sponge having a boogie and play whilst Freya slipped out of the room, don't you just dig her DJ hat! There was so little light in the room when i took this but i love that the blur is her dancing, shows what a nutjob she really is!