How lovely to be awarded the You Make Me Smile Award by Sam at Incywincy Togs. Sam introduced me to Tuggle a great co-operative craft sales website to help crafters work together to get better marketing for their goods. She sells lovely children's clothes, not much good to me as mine are too old to be children and not old enough to have children of their own - at least I hope not!!!!

Most of the people who make me smile have got this award already 'cos they are lovely smiley people but I might just have to give them it again! So here goes: Hazel - you are such a dedicated crafter and a constant inspiration, Rosie(Freycob) lovely lady makes me laugh so much on Bubblyfunk that my DH thinks I have gone mad, Tracey - doesn't have a blog but makes me laugh a lot too, Beth - OMG what can I say, this woman looks at things in a way that has me rolling about with laughter, Lythan - I know you have had this before, but your blog makes me smile every time I read it...you know I could go on and on. There are some great people out there in the blog land and I love to read about your lives. As Bruce would say (if he was a blogger) Keeep blogging.

HS:MS - SPS

This is me, this morning before I had my hair cut. I was going to take another pic after my haircut, but I was so tired that I thought I would look wrecked. If you look closely in my eye (the one on the left of the picture - which is my right eye IYSWIM) you will see the little brown bit I was talking about in my seven random facts.

Seven Random Facts

This must be the tagging season as I have been tagged by Caroline of Bubblyfunk, thank you Caroline. These are the rules:1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs. Here are seven random facts about me.

1. I have greeny blue eyes with a funny little brown bit in one of them (you will see this is Blogger ever lets me upload my HS:MS Self-Portrait for today).
2. I travelled from London to Zeebrugge by train and ferry on my own when I was 15.
3. I am 5ft 6in tall.
4. I love to dance
5. My favourite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
6. My first cat was called Jasper.
7. I've been married (to the same man) for 26 years.

Okay, so now who to tag? Hazel,(just been on your blog and see someone beat me to it) Sam (Incywincy), Andrea, Paula, Dollydimp, Rosie (Bakes a Peace of Cake) and Carolyn. I'll come back later and add the rest of the links, but I'd better go and make the tea now.

Tagged

I've just been visiting Hazel's blog and see that I've been tagged. So here goes:

1. If you could have £100 worth of scrapbook paper or assorted embellishments, which would you choose? I think I would go for the embellishments, I have quite a lot of paper and although I know you can never have enough, somehow I never get around to buying all those fabby embellishments and then I am scrabbling around trying to find just the right thing to finish a card and get frustrated, so a big pile of stuff would be great.
2. If you had to choose between using only stamps or rubons, which would you choose? That's easy, Stamps every time, you can use them again and again. I haven't really got into rub ons at all but I love my stamps.
3. If you knew how to do both awesome cards and layouts but could only do one for a whole year...which would you do? I haven't quite got going on scrapping yet, I am teetering on the verge of doing a scrapbook for my DS1s 21st bday in January (I know I need to get on with it) it might be interesting to spend a year working on LOs to build up techniques so I will go for that.
4. Would you rather own a scrapbooking store or have your own scrapping room at home...(can't have both he he he) This is really hard, I'd love my own craft shop, but probably not exclusively for papercrafts, those who have read this blog before will know that I love textiles too. However, I really need my own room for all my stuff, so as long as my sewing machine, embellisher and all my boxes of fibres and fabric could be accommodated as well as all my paper, stamps, glue, and tools for papercrafting - then I think I would go for a dedicated craft room.
5. And last but not least, what is your CURRENT cardmaking or scrapping style. I think this is the hardest question of all. Stamping and embossing is quite prevalent, but also painting my stamped images with H2os and gel pens, bit of watercolouring too. Overall my style is one of bold simple images and not too much fuss, which pretty much sums up my fashion style, my interior decoration style and my personality - not that I'm saying I'm simple! Maybe I should have said classic - too late now, I can see my bubblyfunk friends rolling about and laughing at me ROLF.

Okay so there doesn't seem to be a requisite number of people to tag, so I will go for Kate(Craftlife) and Rosie (Freycob)

DCM Little Extra Recipe

Recipe: 4 brads, 3 circles, 2 rectangles and lots of ribbon.

I stamped and embossed these golden baubles some weeks ago when I got my new Elusive Images Klimt stylee stamps from Graphicus but hadn't got them on a card. The rectangles are the two matting layers and there are three brads holding the baubles to the ribbon and one in dot of the J for Joy. The ribbon, quite appropriately, is off last year's Christmas cake!

HS:MS Drawer

Show us your favourite drawer - well it had to be my stamp drawer. It is rather messy, I'm always tidying it up, but as soon as I am looking for a stamp, it's messed up again. Probably not the best way to store my stamps, but hey ho - it will have to do just now.

It's here!

It's arrived!!! My embellisher machine is here - will be going off to unpack it and have a play in a little while.