Circle of Friends

The lovely Sian has given me this award today. Thank you so much for that Sian.

Here's the all important rules:

1) Make reference to the award blog and publish it on your blog

2) Share 5 things you like to do

3) Share with 10 blogs .. or as many as you wish to!

4) Notify those you choose

So, (in no particular order) I like to :

1) listen to music

2) take photographs

3) have a laugh

4) scrapbook

5) shop for craft supplies

As I can pass this on to as many people as I wish, if you're reading this, please take the award with my love and blessings.

Award from Vicki

The lovely Vicki has given me a blog award today. Thank you Vicki

So, what are the rules?

1) Copy the award and post it on your blog

2) Link it back to the person you received it from

3) List 10 things you love about blogging

4) Pass it along to 10 blog pals

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Here's my 10 things I love about blogging (in no particular order):

1) I've made loads of really lovely friends

2) I've learnt lots of different techniques and stuff

3) It and the lovely peeps out there, have given me the confidence to show off my (good and bad) work to the world

4) I've been brave enough to try out for design teams and be successful in some cases

5) I love getting comments from you all. It's encouraging that you take the time to look, read and reply.

6) I love seeing what others have done ~ crafty and non-crafty

7) Seeing your photos has helped me to broaden my horizons when I take my camera out.

8) I can ramble on here and I can't hear you telling me to shut-up or see you yawning!! LOL

9) I love being able to send you all hugs and love during your happy and sad times. It makes me realise that the world is full of nice people

10) I love blogging because of people like you

So, who am I tagging? Which 10 do I pick? Well, randomly picked, here's my victims:

1) Tee

2) Ruth

3) Honora

4) Brenda

5) Lea

6) Donna

7) Nicola

8) Debz

9) Sammi

10) Sammie

I hope you all accept this from me.

Award from Maddie

My friend and UKS teamie Maddie, gave me this award on Saturday. Sorry I've only just got round to displaying it. Here's what she says:

There are a few rules to observe when accepting this award and are as follows:-

1. Link the person who tagged you.

2. Write six random things about yourself.

3. Tag six people at the end of your post and link them.

4. Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog

5. Let the blogger know when your entry is up.

So, 6 random things about me. That's a toughie but here goes:

1)  I'm vegetarian and lactose intolerant

2)  Despite being vegetarian, I'm not a huge animal lover

3)  I have 2 sisters, 2 nephews and 1 niece

4)  I'm not a hoarder except with craft stash

5)  I'm not good at saving money

6)  I drink mostly water

Here's the friends I'm tagging (in no official order):

Tee, Ruth, Debbie, Lea, Mellie, Sian

Love you all, including those of you I haven't been able to tag xoxoxo

Thanks Leanne

My new blogging friend and fellow UKScrapper Leanne has given me an award today. Thank you so much for that and I display it with pride.

That was the easy bit. Now to choose 10 of my friends to pass it on to. Sorry if your name's not on the list, but I can only choose 10 of you :(

Tee

Sian

Ruth

Maddy (and Calvin Mouse)

Maddie

Lea

Donna

Debz

Calvin (and Rotty)

Adele

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Thank you to Debz and Tee

It's award time again and I've been blessed with not one, but two awards from my friends Debz and Tee.

Debz gave me this one which I am to share with 10 of my lovely pals who are:

Tee, Ruth, Maddy, Lou, Karen, Juliet, Emma, Donna, Calvin and Adele

Here's my award from Tee and this is what she says:

The award comes with the following sentiment:-This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind blogger's aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight blogger's who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award. I would like to pass this to:

Well, for a start, how do I choose eight of the ten I chose before? Tee gave this to me, so that leaves nine and I refuse to leave one of them out, so I'm cheating I'm afraid and giving it to:

Ruth, Maddy, Lou, Karen, Juliet, Emma, Donna, Calvin and Adele

Thank You once again Debz and Tee. I'm highly honoured.

Take care all of you

Love and hugs

Awarded by Debz

Thank you Debz for this lovely award. The words are fantastic and so true.

Here are the RULES for presenting this, hopefully soon sought after award:

Pick 5 bloggers that you consider as your best blogging buddies and deserves this award for their contribution towards the blogging community, no matter what language.

State the name of the author of each blog as well as a link to each one's blogs.

Each blogger (upon acceptance) of this award should do a post and show the award on their blog and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award.

It's so hard to choose 5 as I don't want to offend anyone, but after thinking long and hard I've decided to award this to:

Lou
Adele
Ruth
Calvin
Sian

Take care all of you

Love and hugs

Thank you Juliet

Juliet's awarded me today. Thank you so much. And here's the award proudly displayed

I know some of you already have this, so I'm passing it on to

Tee

Gina

Ana

Emma

Late Award Post

Lea, I can't appologise enough as I've just realised I never posted this award you gave me at the beginning of September and after you'd said some lovely words about me too!




Rules for the JAVABLU AWARD:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 5 other blogs.
4.Before listing the nominees give a brief reason why you chose them
5. Put links of those blogs on yours.
6. Leave a message on the blogs you have nominated

It says to nominate at least 5 other blogs, so if you're one of my friends reading this please take the award and display it proudly. You are all an inspiration to me and I love visiting your blogs to see what you've been up to. Thank you for the time you take to visit me too. I know you're all busy ladies and I appreciate each and evey comment you leave me. Thank you.

Love and hugs,

xxx

I'm So Lucky

Lea, my wonderful friend from Charmed and blogland and someone I'm getting to meet in September, has given me this award. Thank you so much.



The rules are:
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated.
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So, I've had a think about this and hopefully found 7 of you who haven't yet received this. Please don't be offended if your name's not here. I'm trying to leave some of you for others to give this to.

Tee my friend, I'm giving you this for your photo blog. I love it and you take some marvellous photos.

Maddie, I love your crafting, you've been a great source of inspiration to me and a brilliant friend since I joined your team on UKS.

Wendy, I need to add you to my blog roll and pay you a visit. I love seeing your work and like Maddie, you too have been a great source of inspiration and a brilliant friend.

Juliet what can I say? You are a brilliant friend and a talented crafter. I am so looking forward to seeing you in September.

Karen, your blog, your forum and you rock. You are the best.

Mellie, you might take ages to update your blog, but it's well worth the wait. Love seeing what you've done and chatting to you on 3C's.

Ruth, hope you're enjoying your camping trip. I love seeing your cards and your idea for paper stumps is fantastic. Keep up the great work.

Shelley, you're my number 8 as I know you've already got this, but you have shown me that it is possible to conquer all if you try. Plus your crafting is fab, fab, fab. I just wanted to let the crafty blog world know about you and your art.

I'm Back !!!!

Well, I'm finally back in the land of blogging. I missed you guys and did a huge blog hop yesterday. I so hope I never missed any of you, but if I did please feel free to remind me you're there.

While I was away, Ruth very kindly gave me the Wylde Women Award. Thank you so much Ruth. It means a lot to get these awards. I've been lucky enough to have been award it in July too and am awarding it to everyone who's kind enough to stop by my blog.

You may notice a couple of changes to my blog, but that's because I tried out a different background yesterday and everything went crazy!!! I've lost my slideshow for one :( Oh well, at least I'm here to tell the tale :)

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I've been busy crafting while I've been away. Here's some of the things I've done:

My mum and youngest sister getting on the coach after a day out quite a few years ago! I've used very little to make this: 2 sheets of paper from a Papermania paper pack, 1 sheet of white Bazzill, Ellison Tag-A-Long, Alpha-in-a-box die-cut alphabet, 2 sunglass buttons, blackpen.

This one was for a challenge on UKS. Brief was:

* Something hidden = 5pts ~ journalling behind the photo

* 4 and 2 of something = 5pts ~ 4 different papers and 4 photo corners / 2 photos of the scores and 2 brads

* circles = 10pts ~ a circle tag on the bottom right

* sport/activity photo = 10pts ~ mum and I playing air hockey on holiday

This one was for the next challenge on UKS. The brief this time was:

* Use Becky Fleck round page map sketch pictured here - 10pts ~ yep, but upside down
* Use 5 of something - 5pts ~ 5 different papers/card (red bazzill card for the base / pale green paper / striped paper (free with a mag) / circley card (WeRMemoryKeepers) / dark red card for the journalling)
* Scrap a celebration or a achievement - 5pts ~ photo was taken Sunday at Ian's 21st party
* Include pink - 5pts ~ on the stripe paper
* Use glitter and / or bling - 5pts ~ bling on the ribbon down the centre

Journalling on the red card says "How many lads does it really take to put up a". Leading to the title "Swingball" on the PP.


I have done 2 more LOs. One was using a large photo of Joshua which won't be on here as if I cover him up it will lose the look of the LO and the other is for the house challenge on UKS which I'm leaving unveiled to you all until nearer the end of the uploading time for it. You've only until the end of next week, so that's not long. I'm not showing you as it's so different to my usual style and it means I can tweak it if I feel the need to.

I've done a box for a challenge on 3C's set by my friend and blogging pal Tee. She said:

My Second Challange is for you to decorate an item to make it your own..whether it be a ready made wooden or cardboard item or even an old food container..re-vamp it to use it!

The extra bits for this challange are as follows:

1. Use paint...Acrylic or any other you want to use. ~ black acrylic paint for the inside of my box

2. Use something recycled on your item. ~ I've triple heat-embossed some mesh (gold and black) that David uses to do some repairs on his car

3. Use something metal on your item also ~ the coin on top is metal

I'm using it to hold the things I need to pick-up before I leave the hose and often forget ~ ear-rings and memory stick with my music on for in the car.

Last, but not least here's the cards I made to take with me on Sunday. Appologies for the bad photos.

I hadn't realised how long this post would be when I started, so thank you if you managed to get to the end without falling asleep LOL

Awarded

I have been given an award by the talented Ana. Thank you. I had also been given it the other day, so here's the link for any of you who are reading this. Please take the award for yourself with my love as you are all kind enough to visit my blog

Celebrating The Wonderful Women In My Life

Thank you Debbie for this really sweet award.

1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you. Make sure you link to their site in your post.

2. Link back to this blogsite so Tammy can go visit all these wonderful women

Remember the Purpose of the Award: To send love and acknowledgment to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy.

So many of you brighten my day with your comments on here and on forums. So, I'm handing this award to:

ALL of you who are kind enough to take time to visit my blog and leave me comments. If you're here now, please take this award and put it on your blog with my love.

Gold Card

Thank you so much Juliet for this award.



The rules are:

1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

Quite simple really it is a way of saying thankyou to those who take time out for wonderful comments to boost your day.

I'm giving this to:

Ana
Nicola
Lea
Sian
And I know she's been awarded already, but I'm awarding her too 'cos I can ~ Tee

Brilliant Weblog

My friend Donna has awarded me this:

I feel highly honoured. Thank you xxx

I'm passing it on to the following people. It's hard to choose just a few, so if I haven't mentioned you, please don't be offended. I'm hoping someone else will pass it on as you all inspire me and have fantastic blogs.

Tee, Dottie, Lou, Juliet, Lea, Emma

Edited to add that Sian has also awarded me this. Thank you my friend xxx

An award, a job, holidays and a catch up

Thank you to everyone who is kind enough to visit me and leave me comments. You are all so lovely. I've also been lucky enough to receive some wonderful awards from some of you. They can all be seen lower down on the right. Here's the latest award I've received from my blogging and forum friend Emma. We're all asked to pass it on to 3 fellow bloggers, so after deliberating for ages, I'm passing it on to Tee, Juliet and Shell.

I hadn't realised how long it had been since I blogged. My life changed overnight almost 2 weeks ago. I saw a job advertised on the JobCentre website at lunchtime one day and applied. In just over an hour I was in an interview and half an hour later, I had the job which started the following morning. Was great, but so quick. From being someone who didn't work and could choose how I spent my days, I became a full-time working lady with no spare time at all! What's my job? Well, I'm employed by an agency and at the moment am a customer services administration assistant. It's ok and should last until the end of June after which, I'm hoping that the agency will be able to find me something else.

Went away at the end of my first week working. My youngest sister's in Birmingham studying and invited me to stay with her for the Bank Holiday week-end. We had such a fantastic time. I went to my first all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet followed by a waltzer ride at the fair. I do have a few photos of that week-end (not many as the weather was mostly dull and rainy and I was too busy enjoying myself to keep snapping away!). Some of these piccies will be on my photo blog in the next couple of days. I got home Monday evening very tired and sad to have had to leave as I was having a great time.

I really want to do some blog hopping, but I'm too tired for that tonight and must do some crafting tomorrow. I will visit you all soon I promise. I'm so looking forward to next Monday (9th) as I'm off to Tee's for 3 days.

Hope you're all keeping well. See you here again soon
xxx

Nicola's Awarded Me

Thank you Nicola for this award and for the wonderful words on your blog. I don't really know what I do to deserve or warrant these awards because I'm just me being me. I gave up trying to be who I'm not a short while ago. Your blog and words are fantastic and you are such a wonderful person.

I'm so honoured to have such an amazing group of ever growing friends. I'm meant to pass this on to 5 of you, but I know some of you have this already. All of you who visit my blog regularly, inspire me in life and craft. So, if you don't have this award, consider it yours. You deserve it.

Thank You

Thank you so much Debz for my award. It means so much to me. I'm so pleased that my ramblings can bring joy to people. When I first started this blog, I didn't think I'd have much to say or much crafting to show you. For anyone else thinking the same about themselves, have a go. You may surprise yourself with the goings on in your life and with your crafting or other hobby. People love to hear about other people. Take a look at the shelves in the newsagents at all the magazines devoted to reader's and celebrity's stories if you don't believe me!

So, thanks again for my award Debz. I'm pleased and proud to put it on my blog and to pass it on to those I've named next to it. I love to visit these blogs and they haven't already got one of these and should. You all give me so much inspiration for my own crafting :-)

Tee - Love to visit your blog to see what you've done. You're very clever and artistic and inspire me in all walks of life. Love our chats too.
Joani - Love all the different styles in your crafting. I never know what I'm going to see next!
Mellie - Your blog's fab. You really should blog more often though as you have so much talent to show us all.
Lisa - Love everything about your blog. You are so talented.
Juliet - What can I say, but WOW. You are one very talented lady and should get your work published. You are amazing and not just in your crafting, but in life too. (I just went to let you know and you've been tagged by Lou, but not put the award on your blog, so I tag you anyway cos I think you're amazing too!)
Lea - You sure have made a great start to your blog. I love the autumn picture and wish I was there right now.