Motorbikes & Hot Air Balloons

Yesterday we went to the Burnley Hot air balloon festival. We took loads of Photo's, both of the balloons & a motorbike show. The bike ones were taken Mid jump. they were landing on a ramp on a big van, so were high up. they also did a somersault on one of the jumps.

What is it ?

These are for a forum Photo challenge. The challenge was to take somehting crafty from a diferent angle.

It's Prom Time!

Tonight is my Eldests school leavers prom. i can't believe my little lad has now grown up :).

Morecambe Kite Festival.

Today we all had a lovely day out at Morecambe Kite Festival. We nearly didn't go as the weather was awful & very wet when we set off from home. We had a lovely day out.
Here are some Photo's I took. As you can see there was some fantastic kites there. I have also entered them for the Extreme Photo comp. on UKS.

Camelot Photo's

As you can see it was a wet weekend, But we still had plenty of Fun :)
Photo's taken on the rides, were taken with me also on them, so taken while moving.

Photo's on BBC/Lancashire Website.

I thought I would add the photo's I took at our local reservoir. I took them earlier this year. within 1/2 hour the weather changed totally, the contrast in the 2 photo's shows this. I was so pleased with them i sent them to BBC Lancashire website & they are still on there in the photo section. I can't add a link at the moment as they change it as photo's get added, so all the numbers for the photo's change.

Busy ole me

Been busy again what with one thing or another. Took the lads camping along with my youngest's sister. at the weekend, got very wet, but i rested to & we all had a lot of Fun :) Collected a cabin bed for my youngest son yesterday ( well Wednesday , this will show as Friday ). Must finish assembling it tomorrow, Or should that be today now ). Me & Ste collected a powerchair today for me, so I can get on bus's & have more fun with my lads & generally life my life as much as i can to the best of my health. tomorrow i am hoping to collect some long ramps for the car.
I took some photo's this weekend at Camelot Theme park.
I also took some for a photo challenge of come rain or shine. I took some very wet & dark cloudy ones at the weekend, but was lucky to get some good rainbow pics a couple of days ago at home, so have now entered that 1. I must add them onto here to. i also must get round of adding a couple of photo's that I took a while ago
that are on the bbc/lancashire photo section of their website.

The Eggs!!

Double Yolks.

3 eggs =... 3yolks, No!, not in this case... 3 eggs = 6 yolks. a new box of 10 eggs, the I bought yesterday, opened the box & used 3 today & all of them were doubles. I don't think I have ever even had 1 egg with a double before. I wonder if there is any more like that in the box :lol: as you can see the rest of the box looks the same & perfectly normal.

UKS photo comp.

This months competition is above/below. it is for photo's take from above or below, not the usual eye-level pics. I took this lying down on the floor in front of the swing as my middle lad swung high.

Made a card this evening...

I made this this evening. The bottom half is from the DCWV Glitter stack that I bought this evening. I nearly bought it yesterday, but bought a load of other things then, so decided not to. I had to call back into the range this evening for another padlock, so decided I just had to have it. I am so glad I did, it's gorgeous :). The butterfly is a unmounted stamp I bought ages ago. It says the serenity prayer on it. The top pink card I embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder ( that came in the post today ). The ribbon is form the little silver hat ribbon kit I buy every month & the greeting trimmed down from a large set I bought from QVC. The card is square, I know it looks slightly squint in the photo it's because I had to just catch the bottom corner under the blind to keep it closed. As well as the Cuttlebug embossing folders ( I got 2, D'vine swirls which I used for the card & a script one ), I also got my melt pot & spare pan delivered today.

Been Spending......

Well It was time for another Spend.... My Mouse wandered over Here.
Last night I ordered myself a Melt-Pot, a spare pan to go inside & couple of Cuttlebug embossing folders. Well the Melt Pot was in the sale & I had some points that needed using up as I had bought my Silhouette from them a while ago. Fancied a Melt-pot for ages, also needed to get the free P & P.
Then this evening after dropping my youngest off at Scout I decided to nip to The Range, well the car was already warm, so was a shame not to go anywhere :lol:
I bought a few items :lol:
namely Several stamp sets, a set of shimmer chalks, a pack of 180 DCWV 12 x 12 papers & a couple of sets of 6 x 6 papers, one was Dovecraft Kids designer set & the other was MM Boho Chic set.
I also made a card this morning, sorry didn't scan it, for my dad as hadn't seen them for a while as they had been on holiday. I also gave my Mum her birthday card. They liked them. I had also bought them a few small presents & bought them a subscription to the National Trust. they were both over the moon with that, hopefully they will be able to make good use of it all year round, especially as they are now both retired & go away so much more now :)

I'm still around :)

OK Sorry I have been neglecting this Blog a little to much. I have just been busy with one thing or another, Eldest son has now left school is just doing his Gcse exams at the moment. As for what crafty stuff I have been doing, well not a lot really, but have re-tidied the craft room today :lol: I did make a card last week for my next door neighbour who has just had a baby girl. here it is :). I was honoured to be able to use a GSD. file from a lady who had made it on UKS so I used my Silhouette to cut it all out.
Me & my Youngest also went away for the weekend camping again. its the 1st time this year, bought a new tent/awning for the car On Sat. ( although it came into Barron's caravans on Friday afternoon, by the time we had managed to get over the place had been shut for about 5-10 Min's ) Still we manged to have a nice time in local country park, so all was not lost, saw some little ducklings to :) Didn't have my camera for the park, just my mobile so took a few photo's on that. Youngest took a few photo's camping, we were blessed by the weather, it was lovely & hot. Had a very enjoyable time :) I have just been on the local camping site & they have also loaded some of the Photo's we took in a separate folder so Here they are.

The rest of the craft stuff

It was challange week on CBC last week. I didn't end up doing much was busy with things, but this is a card I made. the challenge was to use the same stamp 3 or more times :)

OK these are Old photos, but all this is still in the lounge, apart from the sets of purple & blue drawers obviously :lol: ( although there is still a blue set of drawers plus other stuff i have accumulated since that photo was taken. Just ignore the last photo's it was just a test type album.


My Craft Stuff & test bits

Inside My Drawers

OOh la laaa, though you might want to see in some of my drawers to :lol:

Craftroom

Thursday saw the new carpet being fitted, So here are a few Pics of the Craftroom :)

Photo's of the Giraffe Unicycle

Here is a few Photographs to show both Danny on the Unicycle & also the size of it.

My Middle lad & a Unicycle

Thought you might like to see my Son on a giraffe unicycle, he has had a standard one for a couple of years & loves it. yesterday while at circus workshops he had the opportunity to go on a giraffe one, he cracked it in less than 5 mins :shock: :).

Ooh Ribbons

My Ribbon monthly kit came the other day, must post a piccy later, its Goooooorgous :)

Inkpad heaven

Oooh the postie has just been. I am in Ink-pad heaven. I bought a load from a lovely seller on eBay. This is her shop if anybody wants any. I even got a freebie which I certainly wasn't expecting. I am definitely buying all my ink-pads now from this lady. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Cheyennes-Corner

UKS CyberCrop Sunday

A Mini Perry bottle filled with layers of coloured Gravel ( I saw this a couple of weeks ago, though I will never use That! :lol: ) I had had the gravel for ages. Blooms attached to ribbon from Little Silver Hat monthly Kit.
Chipboard cut with Sizzix painted with purple Acrylic paint. Both with added Glitter Glue. Dragonfly with a bead & wire antenna added. Butterfly with iridescent pink paper wings.