BOXES!!!

Well hello there and good whatever time of day it is where you are.
Have started packing up the house , we sill have 7 weeks to go but it flys by , We had 16 weeks before we moved when we found out and it has flown past. I am now starting to feel like I am living in cardboard box city!! I packed my craft stuff up over the Easter weekend, Marcus and Callum went to grandma's and my mum came down to give me a hand. It took 8 hours to get it sorted and packed!!
I can not believe how much i have amassed over the past 5 years.
When we moved here in June 2004 I had a little crisp box and a carrier bag which was my sum total of craft bits... Now I have a room full of boxes!!!

Have googled our new address and looked on google maps, and WOW what a HUGE garden we have got. Good excuse for Ian to get the new lawn mower he has been eyeing up since last year, and again we have got a detached house, which if you are a parent of boys (especially teenagers and nearly teens) you will understand why I received this news with great Joy. They do not know how to walk quietly down the stairs. I swear they turn into baby elephants as soon as they put their foot on the stairs.

No pics to Post I'm afraid, all card stuff is packed away but have made a few jewellery bits which i will post when i have finished them off.

hugs and thanks for stopping by

nicci
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Chill out

I made this card for my mum. She has got a busy stressy time ahead at work in the next few weeks, so i shall send it to her at work.
The backing papers are basic grey can't remember which pad though.
The lion is roary from www.funkykits.co.uk and is coloured with prisma pencils and H2O's
The letters are cut using the hippy chic alphabet using chip board and painte with H2O's.

thanks for looking
hugs
nicci
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Water Babes

Thought I would show you a picture of the boys. The other weekend we went to sherwood centre parcs for the day , with grandma and aunty Ann and Uncle David. Great time was had by all. Didn't see much of Nathan and callum as they were off riding the flumes etc, Marcus spent 5 hours in the pool only coming out for about 15 mins to have something to eat. Everybody slept well that night.

hugs

nicci

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P.S

Forgot to mention we are on the move again at the end of June. We are moving to bedfordshire, which means Ian should be home a lot more than he is here and I can go to Stamparama in August as we aren't to far from Stevenage :)

hugs
nicci
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mothers day cards

think the title is self explanatory. Made these for mothers day. The template was from uk scrappers and cut on the robo, and the rubber stamps were from the Whiff of Joy stamps that my mum got me for my birthday

thanks for stopping by
nicci
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I got one

HI
I finally took the plunge and got my craft robo. It arrived last Wednesday and apart from doing a test cut on Wednesday night I haven't had chance to play with it. When i took saffi to the vets on Thursday i had to lift her into the car and managed to hurt my back and rip a tendon in my ankle! So I haven't been able to sit at a chair long enough to have a play, but today my back is feeling fine although my ankle is still very sore.Ian is back home tomorrow so I can rest my foot and hopefully soon will be able to post a robo card...
I am so glad I didn't buy tickets for the craft fair in advance for this weekend as i wouldn't have been able to go :( So instead I am going to have a crafty weekend with my mum as she is coming up for the weekend as it is my birthday on Sunday and I can't Waite as she has bought me the Whiff of Joy spring set :)
take care and thanks for stopping by

hugs
nicci
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A great Loss

Say Cheese


(marcus, nathan and saffi)

(my brother with Marcus and Saffi)

Well this past week has been the most horrid I can remember in a long time. Last Thursday I had to send our beautiful girl to the Rainbow Bridge. It was the last thing I could do for her as she had a stroke in the morning, and could hardly walk and was in a lot of pain. Everything happened so fast and the boys never got to say goodbye to her, and neither did Ian as he was teaching down in cornwall. I think we all went in to a state of shock for 24 hrs. It is still really hard to walk into the house and not see her there wagging her tail when you come in. The amount of scraps i have gone to chuck in her bowl and have ended on the floor because her bowls aren't there anymore is amazing. The silly little things that you do without thinking.

She is at peace and out of pain now, although it was the best and kindest thing we could do for her it still hurts.

RIP Saffie you were greatly loved and sadly missed

nicci

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