From Manchester to Dominican Republic

Well I'm sitting here trying to get tired enough to go to sleep, we booked into the hotel on the airport, Etrop Grange and it is lovely, very plush, Chris is already fast asleep as we have to be up and at the airport by 06:15 am, hopefully no-one will talk to me until I'm awake.

It's a long flight eight hours so I,m planning once seat belts can be took off to try to move around a little to stop me from seizing up. I'll report back in once we land and are settled.

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In Flight

We're on our way, we may look bright eyed and bushy tailed but its all show.

Fluffy white clouds and dirty windows, it was fun watching the ice crystals form on the windows in pretty patterns then melt away and start all over again into another pretty pattern

Dominican Republic

Oh my word, stepping off the plane into a wall of heat, I'm normally a cold bum, I sat with my coat on for most of the flight but the minute we stepped off the plane I/we, needed to get into swimwear.

On arriving at our hotel we were handed a fruity slush drink, heavens we needed that ice, first impressions is/was paradise, our room is amazing, it's enormous, the towel on the bed folded into a swan with tropical flowers adorning it, everything you need in the bathroom included in our stay, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, body lotion, flannels, shower caps, hair dryer etc etc etc.

As you can see I am relaxing.

As you can see above today's towel was left in the form of a cobra, isn't it fun.

 

Living space has a mini bar fridge packed to the gills with bottled and canned drinks and a coffee filter for those all important wake up drinks, the bed is so big that we lost each other in it and we both lay like star fish all night ha,ha.

We had a brilliant nights sleep although we were both wide awake at 03:45 due to the time change.

We got up and got the coffee straight on and sat and chattered in our robes and slippers again provided by the hotel, by 06:00 there was a tropical shower outside which was quite refreshing and hopefully will clear the way to some tropical sun.

And the view outside our balcony at 06:30

Ok time for a meet and greet and to sort out some wifi so I can get this post made.

Be good

Jak & Chris from Paradise xxx

 

Perfect Angel–not

Oh isn’t technology wonderful, I was able to schedule this post before i went on holiday and here you are now reading it whilst I am lay in Paradise getting sunned up.

This is Perfect Angel by Mo’s Digital Pencil just look at that expression on his face, butter wouldn’t melt.

Coloured with Copic markers and prisma pencils some leaves coloured with pan pastels in Fall shades and a gorgeous button from Dainty Paperie  tied together with twine from Ribbon Carousel 

No Longer Obese

As most of you know both Chris and I have been choosing healthier options in our eating and yes we have had the occasional treat too as life would be pretty grim and food pretty boring if you didn’t.

We have been measuring our progress on the Wii Fit although for me it was purely measuring and none of the fit bit as my back just wouldn’t let me, Chris however has become an avid cyclist, he is up to 10 mile rides now and he loves it.

So before I leave for my holidays I just had to tell you all that according to the Wii Fit we are no longer obese, in fact our little profile characters have gone from being very embarrassing little fat chubby dudes to a new slimmer look !yay!

However we do have the little set back of an all inclusive holiday and Chris being Chris just cannot walk past a buffet without sampling everything on the table, I think we will be doing lots of swimming while we are there, I really do not want to come home and get on that Wii Fit for the slimmer profile dudes to explode.

Be good.

Promarker Winter Limited Edition Blog Candy

I can’t think of a nice give away than a Limited Edition of promarkers by Letraset 

I wanted to show you how wonderful these colours are, this image needed soft pastel shades and these colours were perfect for it.

The image used is Micheal by Mo’s Digital Pencil 

They brought out the fluffiest clouds using the Polar Blue, Icicles, Eggnog and Pink Mittens

Packed in a plastic blister pack keeps them handy for you.

Gorgeous Colours

Leave me a comment below and I will choose a lucky winner and give them a set of the Limited Edition Winter Promarkers. Leave a comment on the Letraset Blog too and you will have 2 chances to win them.

Ladies Only

I have beat our artist into submission at Just Inklined and nailed him down to drawing something for the ladies, after the popular demand of Charlotte and Abigail I knew that I wanted more. Jim cried in the corner for a while until I told him after he gave me what I wanted I would grant his wish to drawing something of his choice (Halloween, he has a naughty side)

So if you loved these.

Charlotte and Abigail digital stamps

Then the Elizabeth digital stamp will just blow you away.

3 days to go.

I’m now in countdown stage for my holidays and would you believe my back is worse than ever, the spasm in the scan on Monday has sent it into melt down mode.

I’m taking heat patches to the Dominican Republic how crazy is that?

I have a few posts scheduled in ready so I won’t leave you high and dry and I will try to do a post or two from my holidays. I’m super busy today at work, tidying all the loose ends up with it being my last day for 3 whole weeks.

I’m going to show you some pages that I made of Kevin Renz my gorgeous friend Katie's husband from his last road trip, Man It looks good.

I love this one with the ice road cutting through the hills in the background.

Arriving at Alaska

I think if I came across this character I’d for run to the hills.

Then back home to the boys and a trip to the beach.

Hello Sailor

I think there is just something special about little boys in sailor suits, Grandson Jack had a sailor type Christening gown and he looked as cute as cute can be.

This is one of the Sailor Boys from a set of three from Mo’s Digital Pencil I think it’s one of my favourite all time of Mo’s sets.

I found a little yacht charm in my stash to compliment the image. Ribbon Carousel 5/8" Solid Color Plaid Ribbon

Also Gems from Mei Flower 

This is the rest of the set, it is totally a must have.

Glad it's over.

Well Contrary to belief I'm not attracting metal objects, so far so good as in nothing has stuck to me.

The MRI scan is now complete, not the worst thing I've had done but also not the nicest. I was in around 45 minutes not the 30 that the letter said. I had big problems lying down on my back but the nice nurse stuffed some wedges under my knees to relieve the pressure on my back.

I was also given some funky earplugs to wear, I couldn't keep them in but I needn't of worried because they sandwiched my head with foam pads to stop it moving.

So in the machine I went, it was quite a snug fit and that was ok as I'm not claustrophobic. I was very pleased of the padding when the machine started jeeps it is so noisey.

There was no fear of snoring thankfully and the nice nurse would let me know each time it was going to start through a speaker that was with in the machine.

Half way through things started to hurt, laying rigid just wasn't easy when you are in pain and need to ease it. Then things started to spasm and get very unbearable and just when I thought I was going to have to scream at them to stop instead of the pitiful whimpering that I was doing, the nice nurse told me it was all done "yay".

So they eased me back into the open room and that's when I realised that I couldn't get up, what a wus, my back had seized, eventually after a bit of coaxing and a few yelps I got onto my feet.

So that's it all done thank goodness, I hope I get the results soon.

Just thought you would like the update.