All too quickly, and its Friday once again....and this week...we are dreaming of a WHITE (and splash of pink Christmas!) I would love you to design a card which includes white mostly (ie: snow, snowmen etc ) and also a little splash of pink somewhere on the card. :)
Here is a little 'Show Off Sunday' pic of the frozen seed heads of cow parsley that I took this morning. 
Here is my DH and our kitty-cat Jenny. When she was a kitten she was very flighty and it is only in the last couple of years (she is 16 now!) that she will jump on your knee and sometimes, as you can see, even onto your shoulder!
Yes! The stove is lit and no disgusting oil smoke flooding into the rooom. DH is nothing if not tenacious and couldn't leave it alone, we were peering up the flue pipe with a mirror and a torch trying to see if we could see the blockage and yes, there is was 'A BIG BIRDS NEST'.
I thought I'd turn the cherry picking events into a scrapbook page, so here it is. Papers and elements are freebies from the Sunshine Studio Scraps & Scrap Orchard Halloween Blogtrain, Amanda Laborde, Sine, Amy Sumrall, Kami Leonard of Ziggle Designs and Shauna Burke-Smith of Pineapple Plantation Desgins.
The weather is getting colder and when we tried to light our oil stove, it belched smoke into the house, so DH has hired a cherry-picker to see if he can dislodge whatever is blocking the chimney. Here he is starting the engine, he actually managed to get stuck up there while I was at the optician's and phoned me to say that the power had failed, I wasn't quite sure what he expected me to do about this when I was 12 miles away! Anyway, he managed to get down again using the battery power, scary moment though.
Another scary moment, suspended in mid-air.
Unfortunately, despite all the poking and prodding, the chimney is still blocked, so we will have to try something else.
This side of the house hasn't been painted for a long time, due to the difficulty in reaching it, you can see that there is a lean-to attached to the wall, so to get the most value out of the hire, DH painted the wall. He was still up there in the dark at 4.30pm, I had to go out and put all the yard lights on, of course, they didn't shine in the right place! When he brought the arm of the cherry-picker down I had to go out with a torch to help him guide it onto it's rest. Anyway at least that job is completed.
I feel very honoured to have been chosen by Joanne (Angelnorth) to receive this award! Joanne is one of the most inspirational card makers and bloggers that I know, so I really appreciate this award.
Here is Tracey testing the bed in the hotel.
Karen and Tracey in the hotel lobby before we set off round the Lake to the Exhibition Centre.
I'm a bit late getting this posted, but better late than never. These are digital papers called Chrsitmas Felt by Becky Alexander for Digital Craft Cottage.
A little reminder of spring on a horrible, grey, wet day. This is my SOS for Her Space, My Space, His Space.
It's ages since I did a Her Space: My Space photo and when I went back to look it had changed to Her Space: My Space: His Space with a new blog! It's Self-Portrait Saturday, I liked last weeks SPS with a twist which was about showing old photos of yourself. As I have just posted about my current cats, I thought this pic, of me aged around 8 years old, with the cat I grew up with was very appropriate. So here it is Janice and Jasper.
I totally forgot to say that I used Kathy Black's sketch for the LOs of the cats. Thank you Kathy XXX.
All the digital papers and elements are from the Scrap Orchard November Mystery Mega.
TraceyR wanted to see the holly I was talking about on Bubblyfunk Forum. We have lots of berries this year and as the birds will start to eat them now that the weather has got a lot colder, I thought I'd better take some pictures now before they have all gone.
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