Bunches!

Here's another of the pages I did for Sarah's Card's April Kit.

The journalling reads:

I learned today that you need to have a PhD in physics; a degree in material sciences; an idea of the space/time continuum; various certificates in manual handling AND violence and aggression; a large bag of chocolate buttons and approximately four hours to spare in order to put a two year olds’ hair into Bunches. I am clearly under qualified. 3.4.09

I'd printed the photo onto some canvas, so that was cool to try for a change. Must admit, I'm living rediscovering my dusty old sizzix machine again! The mini date tag, the bookplate, and the flowers were all cut from patterned paper using it.
Other news.......
I handed in my last assignment for this academic year this morning!!! Whoop whoop! Exams in a week and a half and then that's year of my degree over - just one year left until I'm a qualified teacher!
I have been a Chook Mamma for eight days now, and loving it! We have four girlies - one brown who is about a year old, and three black ones who are about three months. They came at a lovely time really, as although we are still heart broken about Rocky, the girls have given us something positive to focus on.
We thought we'd let Ellie name the brown one as she'd be able to recognise that hen easily. When I first asked her she what she'd like to call her, she sang "toodle-loodle-loo-loo-loo-loo-loo-" whilst rubbing her fingers together like you would to call a cat! So I asked her again through tears of laughter, and she just said "looloo", so we decided to go with Loulou while the going was good!
Because the other three are all black, we wanted similar names for them, so we went for Dotty (because she has some brown speckles on her wings), Dora (as in Dora the NON-explorer, because in the first couple of days while everyone else was exploring their new home, she was happy just sitting on her branch!), and finally Dolly, as she is teeny tiny compared to the others and so cute!

They are settling in nicely and the brown one has been kind to us and we've had a few lovely eggs to eat this week. However........we think today that Dora may have come in to lay - fingers crossed!
We are learning lots - certainly getting up first thing in the morning to feed the birds, let them out and poo pick has been an eye opener haha, but no more than I expected! Poo picking in the rain is certainly not fun either - the weather this week has been so horrendous. The coop/run we purchased is too small really, I've since found out that everyone who purchases these models find they are too small, so plans are already underway to extend the area around the coop for the girlies - and it will have a roof and a light out there so at least when I have to go out on dark, cold and wet winter mornings (or Summer mornings at this rate!) I'll have a roof over my head and will be able to see what I'm doing as I poo pick!!!!!!!!!!
Lovely :)
Anyway, 'nuff bout chooks for now!
Hope you are well, catch up soon xxxx

:(

Sad times in this family.

Rocky passed away last Wednesday, bless his doggie cotton socks. The old boy had had very good innings and was very loved by many many people, and will be very sadly missed by both mine and Lee's families.

I have to make a photostory video as part of my IT assignment due in next week, so as I was sorting out pictures and captions of Rocky for Lee's sister, I thought I may as well use them for that. I hope nobody thinks that's morbid.

The video brings tears to my eyes (I think it's the song really, it's so emotional), so please don't watch it if you're a big wuss like me lol! However I've tried to celebrate his comedic and quirky character - and I think the last slide really shows what a star he was lol ;)

Love you Rocky boy xxxx

Latest Sarah's Cards kit

I do believe the subscribers have started receiving and getting busy with their latest kits from Sarah's Cards, so I can start to share my DT stuff I did with it here :)

The papers were gorgeous, and the kit had lots of little fun things like decorative pins and white overlays.
Chooks are hopefully coming very soon, just waiting on confirmation of our adopting them :)
I've signed up for an online PS class with Amber Ulmer over at SIS, looking forward to it but they've already changed the date and not confirmed when it's going to be, so I hope it's going to be good! I like her photography/editing style so I'm sure I'll benefit from it when it does run.
Catch you soon xxx