Anniversary Card

Recently I celebrated a 5yr anniversary so I made this anniversary card. Using Digi Stamp Boutique Louie with Little Hearts

The hearts I applied spica clear pen and added Dimensional Magic, which I also applied to his nose.

working on my shed

This is standing at one end looking down. On the left of the photo are two small windows.

This is at the other end looking back. You can see the windows in this picture.

 

 

My shed is 10m by 3m and as you can see it is insulated and will be plastered, painted and decorated.



Its been ages

Sorry for the MIA. Life is more busier now than ever. On top of that I've had computer problems again and again. It seems my mother's computer got hacked and it went through her contact list and hit me not once but twice. Then there was a Federal Police scam that got around and when I put the computer into be fixed they had such a back log of computers hit with the same scam. So I'm back hopefully this time for a more regular appearance.
I'm in my shed and besides a few more funiture addtions it is complete. Ive made several cards which I will post over the next few posts.

The new baby

This is one of the extra lenses that came with my camera. Each lens has it's own sun hood lens cap and lens cover for the back. They also each come with a bag to keep it in. The bottom of the bag is reinforced to help absorb a knock if it gets one. The other camera I looked at had all these covers and such as extra charges.

 My camera is a Nikon D5100 and I love it. At the moment with everything happening it is staying in auto mode until I can go and explore and play.

Long time no see

It's been awhile since I last posted. Unfortunately I recieved an email from my mother and even though I didn't open it ( it looked suss) my computer still got hacked and my email sent lots of funny messages to lots of people, so I had my computer in to be fixed.
As my craft stuff is packed up, today I am scanning my negatives onto a hard drive so I'll have a copy just in case, of all my photos. Needless to say its a boring job, each neg roll takes a min of 25 mins to scan. Then its given a neg number and name. For example neg 1 is Bailey w' chicken pox June/July 2004. Neg 7 is CWCC Christmas party Dec 2004. Then its all put into a excel program. I'm nothing if not an organiser.
Good news is I found my external hard drive with some photos of my old shed and new one in the process of been finalised so later tonight I will publish some photos.
My next great news is that I brought myself a new SLR Digital Camera. Got a great deal on one that came with three lenses so I'll post some of that too.
That leads me to the news that soon there will be no more ever scanning of negs, my butt will be thankful.
Will be back to post photos later
Linda

Its all happening again (long post)

Over here in Oz we have a reno show on TV at the moment and ads for it have the the contestants catch phrases made into a little jingle. The opening line is "It's all happening again". That's what is going on in my place at the moment.
I'm having my workspace plastered and the electricity connected and a split system installed so all my gear needs to be packed up for the next month or so.
Because I can see the end of the tunnel this pack up isn't troubling me as much but it does bring back mixed emotions.
Jan 3rd 2008 I came home my ex started to threaten me with death and the two youngest children. I stood there taking it when I had that lightbulb moment. I'm out of here. Unfortunately I couldn't safely get the kids out but I promised to bring the police back with me. That went badly because they weren't in immediate physical danger they couldn't do anything.
So there I was homeless childless with only the clothes on my back. Go foward 16 months to Mother's Day 2009 and I'm allowed 4 hrs to get my belongings out of the house. 34 years and 3 kids and I get 4 hrs to remove all my stuff. Well it didn't happen and what was left he threw into the skip.
So all my craft stuff got packed up.
March 2010 we move into a rental and was assured we had at least a 5 year lease so we make it home I slowly start to bring some craft stuff out of storage when in Nov 2010 we get told we need to move out.
Karma has really been good to me as we are trying to find somewhere to rent the sale of my former home goes through and enables us to purchase a home. Dec 23rd 2010 we move into our home.
Over the next year we build a big barn type shed which is divided into 3rds and I have my own space noone can take away from me, but with money tight electricity wasn't affordable now again karma comes into play and the business sells allowing my space to be finished at last.
So I've packed it all up again. The lounge is full of gear the play room is full of gear the bedrooms are full of gear. My house is so untidy looking and will be for awhile but I'm not worried I'm almost at the end and LIFE IS GOOD.
So later I will post pics of my empty shed but none of the mess around my house.
Thanks for reading till the end.
Linda

Forever Friend Bear - Baby Card

I'm entering this into the Forever Friends fortnightly challenge. The theme is "Ribbon or Lace"

 

 

This stamp set was brought back in Nov and ever since I got it the baby cards have been churning out. Two little girl cousins were the recievers. The little angels were born within days of each other. The photos of those are still on my phone I'll have to see about transferring them to my computer