Saturated Canary–90’s Girl

I am getting quite a collection of Saturated Canary Digi’s now, this one I love it’s Pink Punkette, cool or what?

Coloured with FlexMarkers by Letraset (love those pens) and teamed with Nitwit Collections Berry designer papers. I even decoupaged the little mouse.

Such a sweet thing isn’t she?

I added some Glossy Accents by Tim Holtz to the letters to make them pop. It makes them look like expensive embellishments, well worth having in your craft stash.

Also a little detail added to the corner, button, ribbon, lace and gems. I added a bit of love to finish the card.

Jack in the Box

You know when you have days that just get you down, I have the perfect remedy for those such days, they say that laughter is a healer and this kid just totally cracks me up, not only is he as cute as cute could be but he is witty and smart to boot, ten minutes with him and he has you grinning from ear to ear.

Jack in the Box.

see what I mean?

Little Walker

Oh how I remember those first steps, just how wobbly they are and more often than enough then land on their bums, thanks heavens for nappy padding. Before long they are like whippets and you need to be as fast as Linford Christie to catch them ha ha!

The Digital stamp is Walker by Mo’s Digital Pencil 

I used Papertrey Ink designer paper, a piece of lace and papertrey Ink ribbon, some block letters that I picked up at the early learning center a couple of paper flowers and a pretty pink button.

Image coloured with Copic Sketch Markers.

Just a little update on Natalie, she is continuing to get better and she still hasn’t had a cigarette, I’m so proud of her.

Flash, Bang, Wallop

'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture What a picture, what a photograph Poor old soul, blimey, what a joke Hat blown off in a cloud of smoke Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet Bangin' on the big bass drum What a picture, what a picture Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum Stick it in your fam'ly album.

Gosh I love that film, I think Half a Sixpence with tommy Steel should be way up there with the best feel good films.

I know many of you are giving the digi scrapbooking a whirl so here is my next 2 pages.

New for my digital scrapbook album this week.

This is from when we went to the Castle Howard Proms, if you’ve never been I can highly recommend it.

and this is one of those unique moments where we got Jack to stay still lol!

Good news, our neighbour Joyce is out of hospital, I popped the card in for her but didn’t want to disturb them as she had just got home.

I use My Memories Suite to digi scrap and it is an amazingly easy program to work with.

If you would like to get started and be able to make wonderful gifts and keepsakes this is definitely in my opinion the program to be using.

Don’t forget by using my code you can get $10 off the My Memories Suite software and also an extra $10 coupon off any purchases made. That's a big $20 saving.

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Needs Mummy–Get well card

I thought I should set to and make a card for my wonderful neighbour who is currently in hospital. I.m hoping that they get her sorted out real quick.

I decided on Needs Mummy by Mo’s Digital Pencil and carried the patterned paper through to the inside of the card and also added a little bow in there too.

Finishing with a few flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and some ribbon from Ribbon Carousel 

Spring Floral

I have a new free set of Background Sheets for you to download this time 6 Spring Floral themed 12 x 12 sheets I figured you’ll be ready to get into something less chilly with your card making.

We had another drama last night, our neighbour was took into hospital, I love my neighbours they are the best you could find, and elderly couple who in 25 years that we have lived here there has never ever been a cross word and that is a rarity in this day and age, say a prayer for Joyce for a speedy recovery please, I spoke to George this morning and he is quite upset as they have never been apart.

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Just a Boy

Morning all, well my sleeping pattern is getting no better, I’m in bed early now, mostly before 10pm that is actually very early for me as I used to struggle to be in bed before 2am, I am waking a number of times during the night and normally wide awake and bushy tailed by 3am and having to force myself back to sleep until around 5.30am, I am absolutely bushed to say the least, it is like walking through a fog.

This morning the whole household was up and having a cuppa by 6.30 and Natalie although still in a lot of pain is looking much better, she is presently as sound as a baby laying on the sofa.

I have started to pack up the Christmas decorations but need his nibs to get it all into the loft for me.

My card today is made using a digi stamp from Spesch stamps

Coloured with Copic sketch markers then teamed with Stampin Up designer papers and the lucious ribbon is from Ribbon Carousel  lurve… her ribbons, most are from Maya Art.

I’m hoping to pop to the local garden centre today as I have had my eyes on a beautiful wire Christmas tree that I’m hoping will now be in the sales, I bought a little pottery nativity from there just before Christmas which I love. So I’ll take Natalie along if she is well enough and we’ll have a coffee while we are there.

A Journey Best Forgotten

Well we had a very sober celebration which is fine by me a a half bottle of larger and I’m a bit sqiuffy. Hope you lot did it in style.

Natalie continues to get better and I took her for a bit of fresh air in the car, ha ha. To see out Lauren as she was missing Jack and then to my Mams, we didn’t stay long as i knew it would take it out of her but she was climbing our walls and needed a change of scene.

She did end up spending the rest of the day laying on the sofa but at least she had a good morning.

What I didn’t tell you all is that Natalie is a smoker and has now gone 5 days without one, in her words she is clamming for one but I have tried to advise her in the fact if she does have one it is putting poison back into her mouth and we really can’t chance the risk of her face being re-infected. I know how hard it is to give up but she is doing amazing and I’m so proud of her doing without.

I Figured whats happened to her should be Scrapbooked so I did a page layout using My Memories Suite 

And as we visited Jack this morning I made a page layout of him too.

Make it your New Years resolution to get those photographs out and do some scrapbooking, My Memories Suite makes it so so easy. If you would like to get started and be able to make wonderful gifts and keepsakes this is definitely in my opinion the program to be using.

Don’t forget by using my code you can get $10 off the My Memories Suite software and also an extra $10 coupon off any purchases made. That's a big $20 saving.

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

Happy New Year

Wishing you all the very best that 2012 could possibly bring for you but most of all I wish you the very best of health.

I couldn’t even begin to thank you all for the support you have shown to me over the last year, many who have become good friends through my blog and I always feel so blessed to have such wonderful caring people dropping by each day and some of you leaving a comment to warm my heart.

I couldn’t bring in the New Year without a card so I chose Date by Mo’s Digital Pencil to start 2012 after all The new Year signifies New Beginnings.

I used the Tim Holtz clock face die and spritzed it with Glimmer mist and coloured the image with FlexMarkers by Letraset, Cuttlebug alphabet dies for the 2012 a Bo Bunny background paper and a pretty satin gold ribbon.

Happy New Year from myself, Chris, Natalie, Lauren and Grandson Jack.

Bless her Heart

Just look at what those gorgeous girls of mine organised for me. While I escaped to do a quick shop for more Natalie supplies, she called Lauren.

This is what she called her for, I think I have two very beautiful daughters, inside and out.

Aren’t they gorgeous? it was to thank me for taking care of her, totally no need for her to do this but I love them.

Natalie is a little dis-heartened as her face has puffed up this afternoon but I’m sure it is just part of the process to getting better.

On the Eve

A new morning has dawned and we awoke at 6am, Natalie had a reasonable night but was very ready for her meds this morning, the swelling in he face continues to reduce and all is well in the Heath household.

just to give you a visual comparison.

The first picture is just before her procedure

and the 2nd picture is this morning.

 

Still a little way to go but my God what a difference.

Chris is working all weekend so we won’t be awake to see the New Year in this year, I think we will be having an early night.

Natalie Update

I have got Natalie home again, she’s far from well but is on the right track again, at present she is sleeping sound on the sofa.

I managed to get her to eat a little ham broth and she enjoyed it and said she would have more later.

She is still not really ready for visitors as we found out earlier, her face is still very swollen and is still in considerable pain so if you feel the need to visit her over the next few days please be aware that you mustn't stay long as it is too much for her, she is very weak and has great difficulty in trying to talk.

On the other side of things it is wonderful to have her home.

Thank you for all the comments, she has been reading them.

Looking Better–Natalie

Well what a day we had yesterday, I got a call from the hospital asking me to come in as Natalie was in a right state, I had to call Chris from work as he had the car so we both set off for the hospital together.

When we got there bless her she was in a state, both sides of her face puffed up and swollen and it turned out that they were going to have to remove a tooth as this was the reason behind the infection, it was at the root of the tooth she had had work on a year ago. Unfortunately they couldn’t put her to sleep and she was terrified. It wasn’t the thought of them taking out the tooth but the thought of them touching her face as it was so very painful.

They asked me if I would go with her but I declined and very nicely volunteered her Dad. I can’t bare to see my girls go though stuff like that and couldn’t even go with them for baby vaccines Chris always had to do it.

They tried to inject and freeze the area which left Natalie crying out with the pain, they left it a little while and it did freeze, they had to cut around the tooth then they managed to extract it, her Dad said the only way to describe it was by saying it was like popping the cork out of a champagne bottle as the poison in her face just poured out from where the tooth had been and it just kept on coming out. So some of the swelling has gone down.

Natalie came back from having it removed with the doctor but not her Dad, he went quite queasy and considering he is a fireman and deals with some of the most gruesome of events it was unusual but he said it was a total different kettle of fish when it’s your own daughter your dealing with.

We left Natalie to get home and grab some rest before returning for the evening visit. When we got back to the hospital her friend was there and we could see that Natalie was unwell, she had been vomiting and she said that she felt very lethargic and very weak.

The smell of all the nastiness coming out of her is gross to say the least. We managed to get her lay down and back off to sleep before we came away.

We are praying she gets a good nights sleep and is much betting in the morning.

Get Well Natalie

Just nipping in with a quick get well card for Natalie, I’ve loads to tell you about today but will do that later as we are heading back to the hospital.

Image is After The Fall by Mo’s Digital Pencil and I thought it was very apt for Natalie.

Image coloured with copics.

Hoping–Natalie

Last night when we went in to visit Natalie we found her asleep, this sleep was well needed as she has been in so much pain she has had very little of it these past few days, they have upped her pain relief and they seemed to have knocked her out. We hadn’t been there long before she awoke and the tears started falling. They have put her on Tramadol, something that both myself and my Mam already take for our pain and although they are very good they can knock you sideways so to speak.

Natalie is feeling a little sickly and dizzy from the new meds but if they can take away the pain she has got then it could be worth it. She managed to eat some dinner, a cheese omelette and said it was quite tasty so that was a bonus as normally hospital food is quite bland.

She also had a facial X-ray after we left yesterday afternoon so hopefully they will find the cause of what is happening with Natalie.

Natalie is very upset, worrying that her face will stay like it is at present but we have tried to reassure her that once the infection is under control she will start to see an improvement, sometimes things have to get worse to get better and that seems to be what is happening at the moment, the swelling looks as if it is going to the other side of her face but not as excessive.

I have everything crossed that she has had a good nights rest and when I get in to see her this afternoon I will see some improvement.

Thank you for all your thoughts and well wishes for Natalie.

Another update–Natalie is Worse

Please keep Natalie in your thoughts, poor love is quite poorly, State of play when we went in to visit her was that she hadn’t been seen by a doctor, I went to the desk and asked when the doctor would be there and they said they would chase it up, after 2 more request and a couple of hours the one that arrived was full of apologies, they had missed her when they did the rounds.

It seems that she should have been getting drops and hadn’t and he seems to have now took her under his wing to sort out her pain relief and get some scan of her face done.

Anyway I’ll let you judge for yourself how she is looking.

 

As you can see, it is worse.

Daughter Update

Poor Natalie got steadily worse last night and we ended up going through to A&E as the swelling increased as did the pain.

The have admitted Natalie into hospital as the area that is of concern is the Danger Area for the Face, they have mentioned Facial Cellulitis, she has been put on a drip for antibiotics and pain relief.

Poor Daughter

Well what a to do, my daughter Natalie took bad on Christmas day with pains in her face she took the usual pain killers thinking she had a bad tooth and needing a dentist, it seemed to get a little better by the evening but on boxing day got even worse and started to swell.

We called the doctors helpline and were given a number for an emergency dentist to call today we couldn’t get her looked at until 5.30 pm and had to go to the University Hospital, to be honest I thought it was an abscess but it turns out that there is nothing wrong with her teeth it seems to be an infection in her face, poor soul looks like she has gone 10 rounds in the boxing ring, I’ll let you see for yourself.

 

  

So after a couple of hours we got home with antibiotics and pain killers in hand and a frozen bag of peas as a compress, she is due back in work tomorrow but if this is no better I won’t be letting her go.

Sharing the Memories

I think by now most of you know that I am loving creating Digital Scrapbook layouts, I thought it would be lovely to make a printed book for my Mam with the pages I had made. So I did so using Photobox and here it is.

 

Now mam has something to keep and also to show to her friends, yes we had a few tears but all in all the perfect gift.

I really can’t rave enough about the program that I used, My Memories Suite makes it so so easy. if you would like to get started and be able to make wonderful gifts and keepsakes this is definitely in my opinion the program to be using.

Don’t forget by using my code you can get $10 off the My Memories Suite software and also an extra $10 coupon off any purchases made. That's a big $20 saving.

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

Winning Commenter

Morning everyone, I hope the red suited fat man was good to you all. We had a wonderful day here and bless my hubby Chris for taking over the kitchen and doing the bulk of the work, not only is he an amazing cook but he’s a pretty amazing dish washer too.

We had tropical temperatures in our home as the heating has decided to do it’s own thing for Christmas and just fires up went it feels like it, the control downstairs had new batteries installed and now doesn’t want to talk to the boiler, out to get yet more batteries today just in case the ones we have are duds, on the plus side we have to keep running up stairs to shut the boiler down so we are working off our Christmas indulgencies.

You remember my daughters card?

We promised to choose a winner from those that commented to win a little prize from us.

The winner is.

Daisychain said...

You have certainly inherited your mum's talent that's for sure! You have coloured the image beautifully and you have made it into a stunning card. Well done! Hugs Christine x

19 December 2011 09:57

Christine if you could drop me an email and title it Natalie’s Winner I have a lovely embellishment pack waiting here to send to you.

Thank you everyone for leaving a message on Natalie's card she was thrilled.

Wishing you

Wherever you are and how ever you are celebrating Christmas I would like to wish you Joy & Peace this Christmastime.